Simon Martin
I am a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), University of Düsseldorf and also affiliated with CESifo and CEPR. I completed my PhD at the Vienna Graduate School of Economics in 2019. My main research areas are (empirical) Industrial Organization and Game Theory.
Email: simon.martin@dice.hhu.de
Publications
Demand forecasting, signal precision, and collusion with hidden actions (with Alexander Rasch), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2024
Market Transparency and Consumer Search - Evidence from the German Retail Gasoline Market (Accepted in RAND, Online Appendix)
Underpromise and overdeliver? - Online product reviews and firm pricing (with Sandro Shelegia), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2021.
Split it up to Create Incentives: Investment, Public Goods and Crossing the River (with Karl Schlag), Journal of Economic Theory, 2020.
Working Papers
The Heterogeneous Effects of Entry on Prices (with Kai Fischer and Philipp Schmidt-Dengler), Revise and Resubmit in Journal of the European Economic Association
Algorithmic Cooperation (with Bernhard Kasberger, Hans-Theo Normann and Tobias Werner)
Collusive Compensation Schemes Aided by Algorithms (with Wolfgang Benedikt Schmal)
Work In Progress
Information and heterogeneous tax pass-through: An application to retail fuel markets (with Kai Fischer and Philipp Schmidt-Dengler)
Unbranded Competition (with Marcella Nicolini and Andrea Pozzi)
Nutrition labels and consumer welfare (with Johannes Kandelhardt, Emmanuel Paroissien and Joel Stiebale)
Dynamic Soft Monitoring (with Karl Schlag)
Proliferation in the ETF industry (with André Romahn)
Older Projects
Dancing before Midnight – The Role of Commitment in Finite Horizon Games with Uncertain Timing of Moves (with John Morgan)
Non-all-inclusive cartels (with Alexander Rasch)