Simon Anderson

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, media economics, Industrial Organization

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

• Advertising Themes
  • Project Sponsored By: U.S. Nsf - Directorate Soc., Behav. & Eco. Science
  • 06/01/2008 - 05/31/2012
  • Award Amount: $116,016.00

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

Advertising: the Persuasion Game

• Advertising: the Persuasion Game (.pdf)
• The Advertising Mix for a Search Good (.pdf)(Newest Version)

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

• Media Mergers and Media Bias with Rational Consumers (.pdf)
  • Figures (.pdf) or Figures: long version (.pdf)
• Media Mergers and Media Bias with Rational Consumers: Extended version (.pdf)
  • Figures (.pdf)

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)
  • New figures (.pdf)
  • Newest Document (.pdf)

Entry on Product Differentiation for New Palgrave Dictionary

• Entry on Product Differentiation for New Palgrave Dictionary (.doc)
  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)
  • Figures (.pdf)

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

• March 2004 Paper (.pdf)
  • Figures (.pdf)
• January 2005 Paper (.pdf)
  • Figures (.pdf)
  Market Provision of Public Goods: The Case of Broadcasting; (.pdf)with Stephen Coate (Earlier Version)

Participation Games: Market Entry, Coordination, and the Beautiful Blonde

• Participation Games: Market Entry, Coordination, and the Beautiful Blonde (.pdf); with Maxim Engers, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 63/1, 120-137, May 2007

The Economics of Pricing Parking

• 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); with Andre de Palma, Papers in Regional Science, 2007, 86, (4), 621-632

Efficiency and Surplus Bounds in Cournot Competition

• Efficiency and Surplus Bounds in Cournot Competition;with Regis Renault, Journal of Economic Theory, 113, (2), 253-264, Dec 2003;
  • short version (.pdf)
  • long version-with figures (.pdf)

Price Dispersion and Consumer Reservation Prices

• Price Dispersion and Consumer Reservation Prices, (.pdf) with Andre de Palma, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 14,(1), 61-92, Spring 2005
  • figures (.pdf)
  • extra figures (.pdf);

Advertising Content

• Advertising Content (.pdf); with Regis Renault, American Economic Review,96,(1),93-113, March 2006

Price discrimination in transportation

• Price discrimination in transportation (.pdf) (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.
  • figures (.doc)
• Price Discrimination (.pdf) with Regis Renault, forthcoming in Handbook in Transport Economics, Edward Elgar; De Palma, A.; R. Lindsey, E. Quinet and R. Vickerman (eds.)
  • figures (.doc)

International Pricing with Costly Consumer Arbitrage

• International Pricing with Costly Consumer Arbitrage (.pdf); 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

• Noisy Directional Learning and the Logit Equilibrium (.pdf) , 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

• Regulation of television advertising (.pdf) in The Economic Regulation of Broadcasting Markets Evolving Technology and Challenges for Policy, edited by Paul Seabright and Jorgen von Hagen, Cambridge University Press, May 2007 http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521874052

The Media and Advertising: a Tale of Two-Sided Markets

• The Media and Advertising: a tale of two-sided markets (.pdf) with Jean J. Gabszewicz, Handbook of Cultural Economics; eds. Victor Ginsburgh and David Throsby, Elsevier Science, November 2006
  • tables (.pdf)

Consumer Surplus and Producer Surplus

• Consumer Surplus (.doc)
• Producer Surplus (.doc)

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

• Platform Siphoning (.pdf) with Joshua Gans
• Platform Siphoning: Ad-Avoidance and Media Content : (.pdf)Final Version, forthcoming American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Spatial Modeling in Transportation

• Spatial Modeling in Transportation (.pdf); 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

• Comparative Advertising: Disclosing Horizontal Match Information (.pdf); with Régis Renaut, RAND Journal of Economics, 40,(3), 558-581 2009
  • figures (.doc)

A Dominant Firm Model of Pricing Transportation Over Space

• A Dominant Firm Model of Pricing Transportation Over Space (.pdf); with Wesley W. Wilson
  • Figures (.pdf)

Differentiated Products, International Trade and Simple General Equilibrium Effects

• Differentiated Products, International Trade and Simple General Equilibrium Effects (.pdf); with Nicolas Schmitt

Competition for Attention in the Information (Overload) Age

• Competition for attention in the information (overload) age (.pdf), with Andre de Palma; forthcoming RAND Journal
• (Previous Version) Competition for attention in the information (overload) age (.pdf),

The ABC of Complementary Products Mergers

• The ABC of complementary products mergers (.pdf), with Simon Loertscher and Yves Schneider

Information Content of Advertising: Theory and Empirical Evidence

• Information Content of Advertising: Theory and Empirical Evidence (.pdf), with Federico Ciliberto and Jura Liaukonyte
  
  
• (Previous Version) Getting into Your Head(ache): Advertising Content for OTC Analgesics (.pdf)

Shouting to be heard in advertising

• Shouting to be heard in advertising (.pdf), with Andre DePalma

Advertising and the Internet

• Advertising and the Internet (.pdf)

Oligopoly and Luce’s Choice Axiom (A Tribute to Jacques Thisse); forthcoming, Regional Science and Urban Economics

• Oligopoly and Luce’s Choice Axiom (.pdf)

Choosing a Champion: Party Membership and Policy Platform

• Choosing a Champion: Party Membership and Policy Platform (.pdf), with Kieron J. Meagher

Media market concentration, advertising levels, and ad prices

• Media market concentration, advertising levels, and ad prices (.pdf), with Øystein Foros , Hans Jarle Kind , Martin Peitz

Push-Me Pull-You: Comparative Advertising in the OTC Analgesics Industry

• Push-Me Pull-You: Comparative Advertising in the OTC Analgesics Industry (.pdf) with Federico Cilibertoz, Jura Liaukonytex, Regis Renault

Product Quality, Competition, and Multi-Purchasing

• Product Quality, Competition, and Multi-Purchasing (.pdf) with Øystein Foros and Hans Jarle Kind