Simon P. Anderson
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Commonwealth Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
PO Box 400182
Department of Economics
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4182
Phone:434-924-3861
Fax:434-982-2904
Education and Experiences:
(BS) University of Southampton
(MA) Queen's University at Kingston
(PhD) Queen's University at Kingston
Interests:
Advertising, search and
information, price dispersion, bounded rationality
Selected Projects:
Advertising Themes
The intellectual contribution of the proposal is to broaden the base of economic models of advertising in three directions (described below). The broader impact is in closer integration between the ...
Equilibrium with Bounded Rationality in Economic Games
This project uses a generalization of the Nash concept to generate theoretical predictions for a variety of economic games. The generalization involves introducing bounded rationality into an equilibrium ...
Marketing Characteristics
Most previous work on advertising in economics has not addressed what information ads impart or congestion of the advertising channel used by firms to reach prospective consumers. The intellectual contribution ...
Product Characteristics and Price Advertising with Consumer Search
This three-year award in support of U.S.-France collaborative research in economics involves Simon P. Anderson of the University of Virginia and Regis Renault at the Universite de Toulouse (Universite ...
The Informational Content of Advertising
A substantial literature in marketing is devoted to measuring the informative content in advertising, and loosely confirms that messages contain limited information. However, the economics literature ...
U.S.-France Cooperative Research: Advertising Content
This three-year award supports US-France collaboration in economics between Simon Anderson of the University of Virginia and Regis Renault of the University of Caen. The objective of their research is ...
Selected Publications:
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
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