Simon Anderson

Commonwealth Professor of Economics

E-mail:
Phone: 434-924-3861
Personal Website

Address:
PO Box 400182
Department of Economics
Monroe Hall
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4182

Research Interests

Advertising, search and information, price dispersion, bounded rationality

Education

Bachelor of Science (BS), University of Southampton
Master of Arts (MA), Queen's University at Kingston
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Queen's University at Kingston

Research Projects

Research

Discrete Choice Theory of Product Differentiation, (with A. de Palma and J.F.Thisse), MIT Press, 1992;
"Oligopolistic Competition and the Optimal Provision of Products," (with A. de Palma and Y. Nesterov), Econometrica, 63(6), 1281–1301, 1995;
"Rent Seeking with Bounded Rationality: An Analysis of the All-Pay Auction," (with J. Goeree and C. Holt), Journal of Political Economy, 106(4), 828–853, 1998;
"Market Provision of Broadcasting: A Welfare Analysis" (with Stephen Coate), Review of Economic Studies, 72(4), 947–972, 2005;
"Advertising Content" (with Regis Renault), American Economic Review, 96(1), 93–113, 2006

Downloadable Papers

Media Mergers and Media Bias with Rational Consumers; with John McLaren

Media Mergers and Media Bias with Rational Consumers (.pdf, 9.1MB)
- Figures (.pdf, 8.4MB) or Figures: long version (.pdf, 23.0MB)
Media Mergers and Media Bias with Rational Consumers: Extended version (.pdf, 406KB)
- Figures (.pdf, 25.4MB)

Information Congestion: open access in a two-sided market; with Andre de Palma, April 2007

Information Congestion: open access in a two-sided market (.pdf, 516KB)
- New figures (.pdf, 82KB)
- Newest Document (.pdf, 430KB)

Entry on Product Differentiation for New Palgrave Dictionary

Entry on Product Differentiation for New Palgrave Dictionary (.doc, 43KB)
Comments welcome. Thanks to Emily Blanchard, Maxim Engers, Sanjay Jain, and Cat Tyler for their comments.

Market Performance with Multiproduct Firms; with Andre de Palma, Journal of Industrial Economics, 54, (1), 95–124, March 2006

Market Performance with Multiproduct Firms (.pdf, 349KB)
- Figures (.pdf, 10KB)

Market Provision of Broadcasting: A Welfare Analysis; with Stephen Coate; Review of Economic Studies, 72, (4), 947–972, October 2005

March 2004 Paper (.pdf, 389KB)
- Figures (.pdf, 52KB)
January 2005 Paper (.pdf, 389KB)
- Figures (.pdf, 36KB)

Market Provision of Public Goods: The Case of Broadcasting (.pdf, 442KB); with Stephen Coate (Earlier Version)
Participation Games: Market Entry, Coordination, and the Beautiful Blonde (.pdf, 278KB); with Maxim Engers, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 63/1, 120-137, May 2007
The Economics of Pricing Parking; with Andre de Palma, Journal of Urban Economics, 55, (1), 1-20, Jan 2004
Parking in the City (New: 10/5/06) (.pdf, 168KB); with Andre de Palma, Annals of Regional Science, forthcoming
Efficiency and Surplus Bounds in Cournot Competition;with Regis Renault,Journal of Economic Theory, 113, (2), 253-264, Dec 2003; short version (.pdf, 176KB)or long version-with figures (.pdf, 275KB)
Price Dispersion and Consumer Reservation Prices, (.pdf, 319KB) ( figures (.pdf, 156KB) and extra figures (.pdf, 130KB)); with Andre de Palma, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 14,(1), 61-92, Spring 2005
Advertising Content (.pdf, 383KB); with Regis Renault, American Economic Review,96,(1),93-113, March 2006
Price discrimination in transportation (.pdf, 377KB) ( figures (.doc, 227KB)) (in French); with Regis Renault; "Tarification Discriminante" in La Tarification des Transports: enjeux et defies, Ch.5, 107-151, Eds. A. de Palma and E. Quinet, Economica, Paris.
Price Discrimination (.pdf, 365KB) ( figures (.doc, 268KB)); with Regis Renault, forthcoming in Handbook in Transport EconomicsEdward Elgar,De Palma, A., R. Lindsey, E. Quinet and R. Vickerman (eds.)
International Pricing with Costly Consumer Arbitrage (.pdf, 1.9MB); with Victor A. Ginsburgh; A study of parallel imports and gray markets, Review of International Economics, 7, (1), 126-139, February 1999
Noisy Directional Learning and the Logit Equilibrium (.pdf, 224KB) , with Jacob Goeree and Charles Holt, Scandinavian Journal of Economics Special Issue in Honor of Reinhard Selten, 106,(3),581-602, September 2004
Regulation of television advertising (.pdf, 276KB) in The Economic Regulation of Broadcasting Markets Evolving Technology and Challenges for Policy, Edited by Paul Seabright and Jorgen von Hagen, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521874052
The Media and Advertising: a tale of two-sided markets (.pdf, 839KB) ( tables (.pdf, 103KB)); with Jean J. Gabszewicz, Handbook of Cultural Economics; eds. Victor Ginsburgh and David Throsby, Elsevier Science, forthcoming
Consumer Surplus (.doc, 22KB) and Producer Surplus (.doc, 22KB) with Maxim Engers, Articles for International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Ed. We thank for comments our colleagues: Emily Blanchard, Federico Ciliberto, Sanjay Jain, Bill Johnson, Ed Olsen, and John Whitaker
Platform Siphoning (.doc, 982KB) with Joshua Gans
Spatial Modeling in Transportation (.pdf, 369KB); with Wesley W. Wilson, Handbook of Transportation Policy and Administration, Ed. Jeremy F. Plant, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, PA
Comparative Advertising: Disclosing Horizontal Match Information (.pdf, 420KB)-long version( figures (.doc, 37KB)); with Régis Renaut, forthcoming, RAND Journal of Economics
A Dominant Firm Model of Pricing Transportation Over Space (.pdf, 302KB)- ( Figures (.pdf, 79KB)); with Wesley W. Wilson
Differentiated Products, International Trade and Simple General Equilibrium Effects (.pdf, 257KB); with Nicolas Schmitt
Competition for attention in the information (overload) age (.pdf, 404KB), with Andre DePalma
The ABC of complementary products mergers (.pdf, 284KB), with Simon Loertscher and Yves Schneider
Getting into Your Head(ache): Advertising Content for OTC Analgesics (.pdf, 248KB), with Federico Ciliberto and Jura Liaukonyte