Simon Martin, PhD

Educational Background
2014 - 2019	PhD. in Economics, Vienna Graduate School of Economics
2013 - 2014	Mag. in Economics (equiv. M.Sc.), University of Vienna
2006 - 2009	B.Sc. in Business, Economics and Social Sciences, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration

Positions
since 10/2019	Post-Doc, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf
01/2017 - 05/2017	Research visit at UC Berkeley (Haas School of Business)
2014	Research Assistant, Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Vienna, Austria

Representative Publications
Market Transparency and Consumer Search - Evidence from the German Retail Gasoline Market, Accepted in RAND Underpromise and overdeliver? - Online product reviews and firm pricing, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 79, December 2021, 102775 Split it up to Create Incentives: Investment, Public Goods and Crossing the River, Journal of Economic Theory 189 (2020): 105092, with Karl Schlag

Representative Publications

Recent Research
Algorithmic Cooperation (with Bernhard Kasberger, Hans-Theo Normann and Tobias Werner) Collusive Compensation Schemes Aided by Algorithms (with Wolfgang Benedikt Schmal) Collusion by algorithm: The role of unobserved actions (with Alexander Rasch) Dynamic Soft Monitoring (with Karl Schlag) Proliferation in the ETF industry (with André Romahn) Memory Length in Algorithmic Collusion (with Bernhard Kasberger, Hans-Theo Normann and Tobias Werner) The Differential Impact of Entry on Prices and Consumer Welfare (with Kai Fischer and Philipp Schmidt-Dengler) Demand cycles, traffic flows and regulation of retail gasoline markets (with Kai Fischer and Philipp Schmidt-Dengler) The de-chainification of Italian gasoline stations (with Marcella Nicolini and Andrea Pozzi) Nutrition labels and consumer welfare (with Matthias Frühwirth, Emmanuel Paroissien and Joel Stiebale)

Recent Research

Algorithmic Cooperation (with Bernhard Kasberger, Hans-Theo Normann and Tobias Werner)
Collusive Compensation Schemes Aided by Algorithms (with Wolfgang Benedikt Schmal)
Collusion by algorithm: The role of unobserved actions (with Alexander Rasch)
Dynamic Soft Monitoring (with Karl Schlag)
Proliferation in the ETF industry (with André Romahn)
Memory Length in Algorithmic Collusion (with Bernhard Kasberger, Hans-Theo Normann and Tobias Werner)
The Differential Impact of Entry on Prices and Consumer Welfare (with Kai Fischer and Philipp Schmidt-Dengler)
Demand cycles, traffic flows and regulation of retail gasoline markets (with Kai Fischer and Philipp Schmidt-Dengler)
The de-chainification of Italian gasoline stations (with Marcella Nicolini and Andrea Pozzi)
Nutrition labels and consumer welfare (with Matthias Frühwirth, Emmanuel Paroissien and Joel Stiebale)

Teaching and Research Interests
(Empirical) Industrial Organization Game Theory