My publications

• “How Do Start-up Acquisitions Affect the Direction of Innovation?” (with Esmée Dijk and Evgenia Motchenkova), Journal of Industrial Economics, 72-1, pp. 118-156, 2024.

• “Consumer Search and Prices in the Automobile Market”(with Zsolt Sandor and Matthijs Wildenbeest). Review of Economic Studies, 90-3, pp. 1394–1440, 2023. (Paper)

• “Product Quality and Consumer Search”(with Yajie Sun). American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 15-1, pp. 117-141, 2023. (Paper)

• "Mergers and Innovation Portfolios" (with Evgenia Motchenkova and Saish Nevrekar). Rand Journal of Economics 53-4, pp. 641-677, 2022. (Paper). 

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• “Simultaneous Search for Differentiated Products: the Impact of Search Costs and Firm Prominence” (with Zsolt Sandor and Matthijs Wildenbeest), The Economic Journal,  131, pp. 1308-1330, 2021. (Paper) (Working paper) 

• “A Model of Directed Consumer Search” (with Marco Haan and Vaiva Petrikaite), International Journal of Industrial Organization 61, pp. 223-255, 2018. (Paper)

• “Search Intensity, Wage Dispersion and the Minimum Wage” (with Pieter Gautier), Labour Economics, 50, pp. 80-86, 2018. 

• “Asymmetric Price Effects of Competition” (with Saul Lach), The Journal of Industrial Economics, 65-4, pp. 767-803, 2017.

• “Non-sequential Search Equilibrium with Search Cost Heterogeneity” (with Zsolt Sandor and Matthijs Wildenbeest), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 50, pp. 392-414, 2017. (Paper)

• “Prices and Heterogeneous Search Costs” (with Zsolt Sandor and Matthijs Wildenbeest), The RAND Journal of Economics, 48-1, pp. 125-146, 2017. (Paper) (OnlineAppendix)

• “Do Firms Sell Forward for Strategic Reasons? An Application to the Market for Natural Gas” (with R. van Eijkel and G. Kuper), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 49, pp. 1-35, 2016. 

• “Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-employed Workers Search Enough?” (with P. Gautier and R. Wolthoff), European Economic Review, 84, pp. 123-139, 2016.

• “Anti-Dumping, Intra-industry Trade and Quality Reversals” (with Jean-Marie Viaene), International Economic Review, 56-3, 777-803, 2015.

• “Search Costs, Demand-Side Economies and the Incentives to Merge under Bertrand Competition” (with V. Petrikaite), The RAND Journal of Economics 44-3, pp. 391-424, 2013. (Paper)

• “Semi-Nonparametric Estimation of Consumer Search Costs” (with Z. Sandor and M. Wildenbeest), Journal of Applied Econometrics 28, pp. 1205-1223, 2013. 

• “Competing for Attention in a Consumer Search Model” (with M. Haan), The Economic Journal 121, pp. 552-579, 2011. (Paper) (OnlineAppendix)

• "Platform Intermediation in a Market for Differentiated Products," (joint with A. Galeotti), European Economic Review 53, pp. 417-428, 2009. (Paper)

• “Hybrid R&D,” (joint with S. Goyal and A. Konovalov), Journal of the European Economic Association, 6-6, pp. 1309-1338, 2008. (Download)

• “Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Search Costs,” (joint with M. Wildenbeest), European Economic Review 52, pp. 820-848, 2008. (Paper)

• “Advertising, Segmentation and Prices” (joint with A. Galeotti), International Journal of Industrial Organization 26, pp. 1106-1119, 2008. (Paper)

• “Economics: An Emerging Small World" (joint with Sanjeev Goyal and Marco van der Leij), Journal of Political Economy 114-2, pp. 403-412, 2006. 

• "Customer Directed Advertising and Product Quality" (joint with Lola Esteban and Jose Hernandez), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 15-4, pp. 943-968, 2006.

• "Dumping in a Global World: Why Product Quality Matters" (joint with Jean Marie Viaene), The World Economy 28-5, pp. 669-682, 2005.

• “Truly Costly Sequential Search and Oligopolistic Pricing,” (joint with M. Janssen and M. Wildenbeest, International Journal of Industrial Organization 23, pp. 451-466, 2005.

• "Trade Policy and Quality Leadership in Transition Economies" (joint with Jean Marie Viaene), European Economic Review 49, pp. 359-385, 2005.

• "Strategic Pricing, Consumer Search and the Number of Firms" (joint with Maarten Janssen), Review of Economic Studies, 71, pp. 1089-1118, 2004.

• “Firms, Networks and Markets: A survey of Recent Research” (joint with Sanjeev Goyal), Revue d’Economie Industrielle 103, pp. 207-230, 2003.

• "We sold one million copies": The Role of Advertising Past-Sales (joint with Paulo K. Monteiro), Revista Brasileira de Economia 57 (2), pp. 401-419, 2003.

• "Environmental Policy in Green Markets" (joint with Noemi Padr_n), Environmental and Resource Economics 22, pp. 419-447, 2002.

• "R&D Networks" (joint with Sanjeev Goyal), The RAND Journal of Economics 32-4, pp. 686-707, 2001.

• "Quality Uncertainty and Informative Advertising", International Journal of Industrial Organization 18-4, pp. 615-640, 2000.

• "Coupon-Advertising under Imperfect Price Information" (joint with Emmanuel Petrakis), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 8-4, pp. 523-544, 1999. 

• “Consumer Search in Digital Markets”, in: J.-J. Ganuza and G. Llobet (Eds.): Economic Analysis of the Digital Revolution, Funcas Social and Economic Studies 5, Funcas, Madrid, Spain, 2018, Ch. 6, pp. 181-208, 2018. (Paper)

• "Comparison Sites,” (joint with Matthijs Wildenbeest), in: Martin Peitz and Joel Waldfogel (Eds.): Handbook of the Digital Economy, Oxford University Press, 224-253, 2012. (Paper)

• “Economic Implications of Forward Contracting” (joint with Remco van Eijkel), in: Catrinus J. Jepma (Ed.): Gas Market Trading, Energy Delta Institute, Drukkerij van Denderen B.V., Groningen, The Netherlands, 2009, Ch. 4, pp. 124-65. (ISBN: 978-90-814387-1-1.) 

• "Consumer Search and Pricing Behavior in Internet Markets" (joint with Maarten Janssen and Matthijs Wildenbeest), in: Eric Brousseau and Nicholas Curien (Eds.): The Economics of the Internet, Cambridge University Press, Ch. 16, 460-483, 2007.

• “Outlook for a Dutch hydrogen market” (joint with Machiel Mulder and Peter Perey), Centre for Energy Economics Research (CEER), University of Groningen, 2019.

• “Electrification of heating and transport: consequences for the electricity and gas sectors, CO2 emissions and social costs” (joint with Machiel Mulder), extract from the CERRE project “Gas and the electrification of heating & transport: scenarios for 2050.” (Paper)

• “Energy security and sustainability: what role for gas in the Energy Union?” (joint with Natalia Fabra), CERRE_Policy Paper150423, 2015. 

• “Climate Change Regulation: Energy Efficiency in Buildings in Europe” (joint with S. Curet), Reports of the Public-Private Sector Research Center 7, IESE Business School, 2011.