Research Interests
- Industrial organization, empirical microeconomics, economics of online markets, consumer search, antitrust and competition policy
Research Publications
- Testing Models of Consumer Search Using Data on Web Browsing and Purchasing Behavior (with Ali Hortaçsu and Matthijs Wildenbeest). American Economic Review, 102(6): 2955-80, 2012.
- Search Engine Optimization: What Drives Organic Traffic to Retail Sites? (with Michael R. Baye and Matthijs Wildenbeest). Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 25(1): 6-31, Spring 2016. Lead article.
- Search with Learning for Differentiated Products: Evidence from E-Commerce (with Ali Hortaçsu and Matthijs Wildenbeest). Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 35(4): 626-641, 2017.
- Optimizing Click-through in Online Rankings with Endogenous Search Refinement (with Sergei Koulayev). Marketing Science, 36(4): 542-564 2017.
- E-book Pricing and Vertical Restraints (with Matthijs R. Wildenbeest), Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 15(2): 85-122, 2017.
- What's in a Name? Measuring Prominence and Its Impact on Organic Traffic from Search Engines (with Michael R. Baye and and Matthijs R. Wildenbeest). Information Economics and Policy, 34: 44-57, 2016.
- Searching for Physical and Digital Media: The Evolution of Platforms for Finding Books (with Michael R. Baye and Matthijs R. Wildenbeest) in NBER's Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy, ed. by S. Greenstein, A. Goldfarb, and C. Tucker. University of Chicago Press, May 2015.
- Consumer Search on the Internet. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 58: 66-105, May 2018.
- Do MSRPs Decrease Prices? (with In Kyung Kim and Dmitry Lubensky). International Journal of Industrial Organization, 59: 429-457, July 2018.
