Welcome! This website provides links to my research papers in the fields of industrial organization, organizational economics, and marketing. Please feel free to contact me with any comments you may have at jeaninethal@gmail.com.
Articles
Buyer Power and Intrabrand Coordination (with Patrick Rey and Thibaud Vergé), Journal of the European Economic Association (2010)
We analyse the competitive effects of various contractual provisions in a situation where rival retailers...
Optimal Collusion under Cost Asmmetry, Economic Theory (2010)
Cost asymmetry is generally thought to hinder collusion because a more efficient firm has both...
Vertical Relations (with Patrick Rey and Thibaud Verge), International Journal of Industrial Oganization (Proceedings of the 2009 EARIE meeting) (2010)
The paper presents recent advances in the analysis of successive oligopolies characterized by interlocking relationships,...
Delivered Pricing and the Impact of Spatial Differentiation on Cartel Stability, International Journal of Industrial Organization (2008)
This paper analyzes the impact of spatial differentiation on the sustainability of collusion on delivered...
Unpublished Papers
Linking Reputations through Umbrella Branding (2009)
This paper develops a theory of umbrella branding as a means to link the reputations...
Nomination Contests: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Professional Soccer (with Hannes Ullrich) (2009)
Revised version coming soon!
The Value of Recommendations (with Heiner Schumacher) (2009)
We analyze a for-profit monitoring firm selling recommendation about the actions of a long-lived seller...
Optimal Collusion under Cost Asymmetry (2008)
Cost asymmetry is generally thought to hinder collusion because a more effcient firm has both...