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Jose L. Moraga-Gonzalez
Welcome to my homepage! I am Professor of Microeconomics at the VU
University Amsterdam (4 days/week) and Professor of Industrial Organization
at the University
of Groningen (1
day/week).
I am also research fellow of the Tinbergen Institute, CEPR, CESifo, SOM and the Private-Public Sector Research Center
(PPSRC) of the IESE
Business School.
I teach Regulation and
Competition Policy at the Amsterdam
University College,
and Industrial Organization at the
Tinbergen Institute.
Below you find a list of recent research papers with links to updated
versions, as well as list of recent research activities I have organized.
Recent publications:
“Search Costs, Demand-Side Economies and the
Incentives to Merge under Bertrand Competition” (with V. Petrikaite), The
Rand Journal of Economics, to appear. (Paper) (Long version)

“Semi-Nonparametric Estimation of Consumer Search Costs” (with Zsolt Sandor and Matthijs Wildenbeest), Journal of Applied Econometrics,
to appear. (Paper)
“Comparison Sites,” (with M. Wildenbeest), Handbook of the
Digital Economy, 2012. (Paper)
“Competing for Attention in a Consumer Search
Model” (with M. Haan), The Economic
Journal, 2011. (Paper) (Long-appendix)
”Platform
Intermediation in a Market for Differentiated Products" (with A. Galeotti), European Economic Review, 2009.
(Paper)
“Hybrid R&D” (with S.Goyal & A. Konovalov), Journal of the
European Economic Association, 2008. (Paper)
“Maximum Likelihood Estimation of
Search Costs” (with M. Wildenbeest), European Economic
Review, 2008. (Paper)
“Advertising,
Segmentation and Prices” (with A. Galeotti),
International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2008. (Paper)
Recent writings and
working papers:
“ Do
Firms Sell Forward for Strategic Reasons? An Application to the Market for
Natural Gas” (with R. van Eijkel), Tinbergen Institute Discussion
Paper # TI 2010-058/1, The Netherlands,
June 2010. (Revised
2012, Paper)
“Anti-Dumping, Intra-industry Trade and Quality
Reversals” (with Jean-Marie Viaene),
Tinbergen Institute DP# 2004-124/2, The Netherlands, November 2004. (Revised
2012, Paper)
“Heterogeneous Price Information and the Effect of
Competition” (with S. Lach), CEPR Discussion Paper 7319, June
2009. (Revised 2012, Paper)
“Consumer Search Costs and the Incentives to Merge under
Bertrand Competition” (with
V. Petrikaite), Tinbergen Institute Discussion
Paper # TI 2011-099/1, The Netherlands,
July 2011. (Paper)
“On the
Identification of the Costs of Simultaneous Search,” (with Zsolt Sandor and Matthijs Wildenbeest),
Tinbergen Institute DP# 2010-066/1, The Netherlands, 2010. (Paper)
“Structural Estimation of Search
Intensity: Do Non-employed Workers Search Enough?” (joint with P. Gautier and R. Wolthoff),
Tinbergen Institute DP# 2007-071/3, The Netherlands, 2007. (Paper)
“Strategic Wage Setting and
Coordination Frictions with Multiple Applications” (with Pieter
Gautier), Tinbergen
Institute DP# 2004-063/1, The Netherlands,
June 2004.
Events:
“2nd Workshop on Search and Switching
Costs,” May 23-24, 2011, University
of Groningen. (Program)
“3rd Conference on the Economics of
Advertising and Marketing,” June 11, 12, 2010, IESE Business
School. (Program)
Research in progress:
“Consumer Search and Prices in the Automobile Market” (with Zsolt Sandor and Matthijs Wildenbeest) (Paper)
“Transportation
Pricing and Market Power in the Natural Gas Industry” (with R. van Eijkel and M. Haan).
To see earlier publications, follow this link.
j.l.moragagonzalez@vu.nl
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