• Graduate program
  • Research
  • News
  • Events
    • Summer School
      • Climate Change
      • Gender in Society
      • Inequalities in Health and Healthcare
      • Business Data Science Summer School Program
      • Receive updates
    • Events Calendar
    • Events Archive
    • Tinbergen Institute Lectures
    • Conference: Consumer Search and Markets
    • Annual Tinbergen Institute Conference
  • Summer School
    • Climate Change
    • Gender in Society
    • Inequalities in Health and Healthcare
    • Business Data Science Summer School Program
    • Receive updates
  • Alumni
  • Magazine
Home | Events Archive | Consumer Search and Quality
PhD Defense

Consumer Search and Quality


  • Series
  • Candidate
    Yajie Sun (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Field
    Organizations and Markets
  • Location
    Aula, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
    Amsterdam
  • Date and time

    October 25, 2019
    09:45 - 11:15

This dissertation contains three essays in consumer search. The first essay provides a framework for studying quality provision in a search market. It characterises the existence and uniqueness of a symmetric equilibrium in pure strategies. The second essay studies the provision of quality and welfare in a competitive search market for services. The third essay investigates a search market in which the quality of the product is improved over time. It is motivated by the fact that the expectation of future quality improvements may have an impact on consumers’ current purchase choices.

Yajie

Sun (1990) obtained a Bachelor in Economics from Shanghai university of Finance

and Economics in 2012. She completed her MPhil study at Tinbergen Institute in

2014. Afterwards, she joined the department of Economics at Vrije Universiteit

Amsterdam as a PhD student. She has worked as a quantitative analyst at ING

bank from 2017.