Recent work
New working papers and research in progress:
NEW! "An Empirical Model of Consideration through Search," with Zsolt Sandor and Matthijs Wildenbeest.
NEW! “The Agency and Wholesale Models When a Platform Can Charge Entry Fees” with Marie-Laure Allain and Marc Bourreau.
NEW! “Mergers and R&D Investment: A Unified Approach” with Evgenia Motchenkova.
"Bertrand Competition with Inspection Goods," with Angel Hernando-Veciana, Martin Obradovits and Giuseppe Pignataro.
“Price Competition with Selling Constraints,” with Makoto Watanabe.
"Consumer Search Costs and the Provision of Service Quality," with Yajie Sun. (Paper)
“On the Identification of the Costs of Simultaneous Search,”with Zsolt Sandor and Matthijs Wildenbeest. (Paper).
Recently published and accepted articles:
“Start-up Acquisitions, Strategic R&D, and the Entrant's and Incumbent's Direction of Innovation,” with Esmée Dijk and Evgenia Motchenkova. Accepted for publication at the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy.
“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)
For the long version of the paper containing additional details and extended proofs, click here.
“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, 2020. (Paper) (Working paper)
“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)
“A Model of Directed Consumer Search” (with Marco Haan and Vaiva Petrikaite), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 61, pp. 223-255, 2018. (Paper)
Previous versions:
“Price and Match-Value Advertising with Directed Consumer Search” (2015).
“Consumer Search with Observable and Hidden Characteristics” (2011).