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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
co-organized.
Recent publications:
 “Semi-Nonparametric Estimation of Consumer Search Costs” (with Zsolt Sandor
and Matthijs Wildenbeest), Journal
of Applied Econometrics, to appear. (PDF)
“Comparison Sites,” (with M. Wildenbeest), Handbook of the Digital Economy, to appear. (PDF)
“Competing for Attention in a Consumer Search
Model” (with M. Haan), The Economic Journal, 2011. (PDF)
(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:
“Search Costs, Demand-Side Economies and the
Incentives to Merge under Bertrand Competition,” (with V. Petrikaite), (PDF)
“Heterogeneous Price Information and the Effect of
Competition,” (with S. Lach),
(PDF)
“Consumer Search Costs and the Incentives to Merge
under Bertrand Competition,” (with V. Petrikaite). (PDF)
“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)
“ Do Firms Sell Forward for
Strategic Reasons? An Application to the Market for Natural Gas” (with R. van Eijkel), (paper)
"On Mergers in
Consumer Search Markets” (with Maarten Janssen), Tinbergen Institute
Discussion Paper # 2007-054/1, The Netherlands, 2007. (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.
“Anti-Dumping, Intra-industry Trade and Quality
Reversals” (with Jean-Marie Viaene), Tinbergen Institute DP#
2004-124/2, The Netherlands, November 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 Price in the Automobile Market” (with Zsolt Sandor
and Matthijs Wildenbeest)
“Transportation
Pricing and Market Power in the Natural Gas Industry” (with R. van
Eijkel and M. Haan).
To see earlier publications, follow this link.
 jose.l.moraga@gmail.com
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