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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