Simon Martin

Publications

Market Transparency and Consumer Search - Evidence from the German Retail Gasoline Market, RAND, 2024 (Online Appendix)

Demand forecasting, signal precision, and collusion with hidden actions (with Alexander Rasch),  International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2024

Underpromise and overdeliver? - Online product reviews and firm pricing  (with Sandro Shelegia), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2021.

Split it up to Create Incentives: Investment, Public Goods and Crossing the River (with Karl Schlag), Journal of Economic Theory, 2020.

Working Papers

The Heterogeneous Effects of Entry on Prices (with Kai Fischer and Philipp Schmidt-Dengler), Conditionally Accepted in Journal of the European Economic Association (Online Appendix) 

Algorithmic Cooperation (with Bernhard Kasberger, Hans-Theo Normann and Tobias Werner), Revise & Resubmit in Games and Economic Behaviour 

Indirect taxation in consumer search markets: The case of retail fuel (with Kai Fischer and Philipp Schmidt-Dengler)

The Spoils of Algorithmic Collusion: Profit Allocation Among Asymmetric Firms (with Hans-Theo Normann, Paul Püplichhuisen and Tobias Werner)

Collusive Compensation Schemes Aided by Algorithms (with Wolfgang Benedikt Schmal)

Work In Progress

Unbranded Competition (with Marcella Nicolini and Andrea Pozzi)

Do price ceilings enable tacit coordination? A study in retail gasoline (with Frank Verboven)

Search Cost Estimation and Search without Priors (with Adrian Düll, Heiko Karle and Heiner Schumacher)

Nutrition labels and consumer welfare (with Johannes Kandelhardt, Emmanuel Paroissien and Joel Stiebale)

Dynamic Soft Monitoring (with Karl Schlag)

Proliferation in the ETF industry (with André Romahn)

Older Projects

Dancing before Midnight – The Role of Commitment in Finite Horizon Games with Uncertain Timing of Moves (with John Morgan)

Non-all-inclusive cartels (with Alexander Rasch)