Matthijs R. Wildenbeest
Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Economics, Indiana University
Email: mwildenb@indiana.edu. Phone: +1-812-856-5067. Fax: +1-812-855-3354. Address: 1309 E 10th St. Bloomington, IN 47405. Room: BU-448.
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Papers under Review and Working Papers

“Search with learning” (with Babur De los Santos and Ali Hortaçsu), 2012. Revise and resubmit, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics. [Working paper]

“Estimation of search frictions in the British electricity market” (with Monica Giulietti and Michael Waterson), 2013. Revised and resubmitted, Journal of Industrial Economics. [Working paper]

“What's in a name? Measuring prominence, and its impact on organic traffic from search engines” (with Mike Baye and Babur De los Santos), 2012. Submitted. [Working paper]

“Search and prices in the Medigap insurance market” (with Haizhen Lin), 2012. Submitted. [Working paper]

“Nonsequential search equilibrium with search cost heterogeneity” (with José Luis Moraga-González and Zsolt Sándor), 2010 [Working paper]

“On the identification of the costs of simultaneous search” (with José Luis Moraga-González and Zsolt Sándor), 2011. [Working paper]

“Consumer search and prices in the automobile market” (with José Luis Moraga-González and Zsolt Sándor), 2011. [Paper]

Journal Articles

“Semi-nonparametric estimation of consumer search costs” (with José Luis Moraga-González and Zsolt Sándor), forthcoming Journal of Applied Econometrics. [Article] [Working paper] [Supplemental appendix]

“Testing models of consumer search using data on web browsing and purchasing behavior” (with Babur De los Santos and Ali Hortaçsu), American Economic Review 102, 2955-80, 2012. [Article] [Working paper]

“An empirical model of search with vertically differentiated products”, RAND Journal of Economics 42, 729-57, 2011. [Article] [Working paper]

“Maximum likelihood estimation of search costs” (with José Luis Moraga-González), European Economic Review 52, 820-48, 2008. [Article] [Working paper] [Matlab code]

“Truly costly sequential search and oligopolistic pricing” (with Maarten Janssen and José Luis Moraga-González), International Journal of Industrial Organization 23, 451-66, 2005. [Article] [Working paper]

Other Publications

“The evolution of product search” (with Mike Baye and Babur De los Santos), forthcoming The Journal of Law, Economics & Policy. [Working paper]

“Comparison sites” (with José Luis Moraga-González), in Martin Peitz and Joel Waldfogel (editors), Handbook of the Digital Economy, Oxford University Press, 224-53, 2012. [Book] [Working paper]

“Consumer search and pricing behavior in Internet markets” (with Maarten Janssen and José Luis Moraga-González), in Eric Brousseau and Nicolas Curien (editors), Internet and Digital Economics, Cambridge University Press, 460-83, 2007. [Book] [Working paper]

Work in Progress

“Search costs and employment status” (with Greg Kaplan and Guido Menzio), 2012.

Last updated: April 10, 2013