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Research Interests:
Fields: Applied Econometrics, Digitization and Internet Markets, Industrial Organization, ML, Causal Inference.
Topics: Social Networks, Information Technologies, Online Pricing Strategies and Consumer Behavior.
Current Position:
[2018--present:]
Assistant Prof. in the School of Economics at the University of East Anglia (in Norwich, UK)
[2015--2019:]
Assistant Prof. in the School of Economics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
[2015--present:]
Research Associate at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Department for the Economics of ICT, Mannheim, Germany
Education:
09/2009–09/2014
Economics: PhD - Candidate at U. Mannheim (CDSE) and Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW; Dept. for Economics of ICT)
10/2006–07/2007
Economics: Master 2 Recherche: Economie mathematique et´ econometrie at Toulouse School of Economics
10/2000–06/2005
Economics: Magister-degree at University of Vienna
Research Experience:
Since 09/2014-07/2015:
Postdoctoral Researcher at ZEW in Mannheim, Germany (Department for Economics of Information and Communication Technologies); Field of Investigation: Empirical Analysis of Price Comparison Sites, Content Networks and Social Media. (employment since 2009, Postdoctoral Researcher since 2014)
09/2009-09/2014
Predoctoral Researcher at ZEW in Mannheim, Germany (Department for Economics of Information and Communication Technologies); Field of Investigation: Empirical Analysis of Price Comparison Sites, Content Networks and Social Media.
10/2007–08/2009
Researcher: at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria: Field of Investigation: Empirical Analysis of Market Structure, Entry and Competitive Behavior in Online Markets
Research Grants
2014
SEEK-Project: Side Effects of Economic Crises in Europe and the Provision of Online Public Goods.(Partners: M. Hinnosaar (Col. Carlo Alberto), T. Hinnosaar (Col.Carlo Alberto), O. Slivko (ZEW), M. X. Zhang (HKUST), P. Gloor (MIT)) - awarded: EUR 199,000
2010
SEEK-Project: Firm Behavior over the Product Life Cycle. Entry, Exit and Pricing Strategies on Online Price-Comparison Sites (Partners: F. Hackl (U. Linz), R. Winter-Ebmer (U. Linz & IHS, Vienna) and C. Zulehner (U. Vienna)) - awarded: EUR 92,000
2008
NET Institute Summer Grant for a paper on Firm Entry in E-Commerce Industries (Partners: M. Kasy (U. Berkeley)
Research and Publications:
cf. section on research and publications
Teaching:
Conferences:
[2016:]
38th NBER Summer Inst., Boston (Digitization), Munich Summer Institute (Munich), Digital Information Policy Scholar's Conference (George Mason University)
[2015:]
11th Econometric Society World Congress, Montréal, Canada; 38th NBER Summer Inst., Boston (Digitization, Poster) IIOC, Boston, SEEK-Workshop on the Digital Economy, Moncalieri, Italy; 13th Conf. on the Economics of ICT at ZEW, Mannheim; 6th Conf. on Internet Search and Innovation, SEARLE, Chicago;
[2014:]
WISE, Auckland; 37th NBER Summer Inst., Boston (Digitization, Poster); EEA-ESEM, Toulouse; 5th Conf. on Internet Search and Innovation, SEARLE, Chicago; IIOC, Chicago; 7th ICT ParisTech %6th Workshop "Natural Experiments and Controlled Field Studies", Ohlstadt
[2013:]
IIIrd Conference on ICT, Munich; 11th Workshop on Media Economics, Tel Aviv; IIOC, Boston - Rising Star Sessions; 11th ZEW Conf. on Econ. of ICT, Mannheim; EARIE, Évora, MaCCI IO Day (Mannheim); Sunbelt, Hamburg; SEEK Workshop on Social Network Formation and Peer Effects (Mannheim); 3rd SEEK - Conference, Mannheim;
[2009--2012:]
EARIE (2010, 2011, 2012), EEA (2010), German Econ. Assoc. (2010); ICT ParisTech, 2009