Welcome to the website of
Maarten Janssen, Professor of
Microeconomics at the
University of Vienna
Welcome to the website of Maarten Janssen, Professor of Microeconomics at the University of Vienna
I am a fellow of the CEPR (London), a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, a research associate at ZEW (Mannheim) and an academic affiliate at CEG Europe.
My research focusses on consumer search, auctions and markets with asymmetric information. Below you can read about recent developments regarding my research and under “research” you can read older articles. Please click for other information on the relevant links.
LATEST WORK
What’s new?
The paper studies how consumer search affects pricing when consumers observe the baseline price
of their current provider and decide whether or not to search for an alternative tariff at an online platform.
The paper is now accepted for publication at Journal of Political Economy: Micro.
The paper shows that in search markets an influencer who recommends a product to her followers improves consumer surplus and total welfare despite the firm paying for her recommendation.
The paper is now accepted for publication at Rand Journal of Economics.
New June 2022: We analyze markets, such as those for airline tickets and hotel accommodations, where firms sell time-dated products and have private information about unsold capacities. We show that firms have less market power as under complete information. The paper is now accepted for publication at Management Science.
New April 2022: The paper shows that in consumer search markets discriminatory trade promotions create more profits for manufacturers than uniform pricing. The paper is now accepted for publication at Marketing Science.
The paper shows that asymmetric information about product quality can create incentives for a privately informed manufacturer to sell to uninformed consumers through a retailer and to maintain secrecy of upstream pricing.
The paper studies how consumer search affects pricing when consumers observe the baseline price
of their current provider and decide whether or not to search for an alternative tariff at an online platform.
The paper is now accepted for publication at Journal of Political Economy: Micro.
The paper shows that in search markets an influencer who recommends a product to her followers improves consumer surplus and total welfare despite the firm paying for her recommendation.
The paper is now accepted for publication at Rand Journal of Economics.
New June 2022: We analyze markets, such as those for airline tickets and hotel accommodations, where firms sell time-dated products and have private information about unsold capacities. We show that firms have less market power as under complete information. The paper is now accepted for publication at Management Science.
New April 2022: The paper shows that in consumer search markets discriminatory trade promotions create more profits for manufacturers than uniform pricing. The paper is now accepted for publication at Marketing Science.
The paper shows that asymmetric information about product quality can create incentives for a privately informed manufacturer to sell to uninformed consumers through a retailer and to maintain secrecy of upstream pricing.
