Research
Working papers and work in progress
NEW! "Hybrid All-Pay and Winner-Pay Contests" March 2018. [pdf]
"Strategic Gains from Discrimination". April 2018. [pdf]
"Bertrand under Uncertainty: Private and Common Costs". November 2016. [pdf] (under revision for a journal)
"Does Cost Uncertainty in the Bertrand Model Soften Competition?" December 2013. [pdf]
"Facilitating Consumer Learning in Insurance Markets--What Are the Welfare Effects?" (With Christoph Schottmüller.) Forthcoming in the Scandinavian Journal of Economics. September 2016. [pdf]
"Monopoly Insurance and Endogenous Information" (With Christoph Schottmüller.) Forthcoming in the International Economic Review. September 2016. [pdf]
"Surfing Incognito: On the Welfare Effects of Anonymizing Technologies" (Paper not yet available.)
"Behavior-Based Pricing and Consumer Education" (Paper not yet available.)
Publications
Under construction...
NEW! "Hybrid All-Pay and Winner-Pay Contests" March 2018. [pdf]
- Supplementary material here.
- Slides DICE (Düsseldorf), June 5, 2018: here, and for presentation here.
"Strategic Gains from Discrimination". April 2018. [pdf]
- Supplementary material here.
"Bertrand under Uncertainty: Private and Common Costs". November 2016. [pdf] (under revision for a journal)
- Supplementary material here: pdf.
- Note: This paper has developed out of my previous paper "Does Cost Uncertainty in the Bertrand Model Soften Competition?" from 2013 (available below). The 2013 paper covered only the case where the firms' costs are drawn independently and where the demand function is linear. On the other hand, the 2013 paper also studied an asymmetric model (using numerical methods). For these reasons I think of "Bertrand under Uncertainty: Private and Common Costs" as a completely new paper. However, I will now bury the 2013 paper. That is, I will not submit it or try to publish it anywhere, although (for the time being anyway) I will keep it available on this website.
"Does Cost Uncertainty in the Bertrand Model Soften Competition?" December 2013. [pdf]
- Supplementary material here; Matlab code (as pdf) here and (as m-file) here.
- For an explanation of the relationship between this paper and "Bertrand under Uncertainty: Private and Common Costs", see above.
"Facilitating Consumer Learning in Insurance Markets--What Are the Welfare Effects?" (With Christoph Schottmüller.) Forthcoming in the Scandinavian Journal of Economics. September 2016. [pdf]
"Monopoly Insurance and Endogenous Information" (With Christoph Schottmüller.) Forthcoming in the International Economic Review. September 2016. [pdf]
- Supplementary material here; The Python code is available on Christoph's website.
"Surfing Incognito: On the Welfare Effects of Anonymizing Technologies" (Paper not yet available.)
"Behavior-Based Pricing and Consumer Education" (Paper not yet available.)
Publications
Under construction...