Joel Waldfogel
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Joel Waldfogel
@jwaldfog.bsky.social
I had a lot of fun discussing the growth of female authorship on the Today, Explained podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/2XGc...
All the sad young literary men
Today, Explained · Episode
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May 30, 2025 at 10:40 AM
With differentiated products and heterogeneous consumers, it may be hard for choices to deliver maximal welfare. We might regret choices we make, and we might miss out on products we would have enjoyed. @imkereimers.bsky.social, Christoph Riedl, and I explore this www.nber.org/papers/w33401
Information and the Welfare Benefits from Differentiated Products
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January 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The EU's Digital Markets Act has outlawed self-preferencing by big platforms. Shortly after Amazon's designation as a "gatekeeper" in 9/23, the search rank advantage for Amazon-brand products fell a bunch. Working paper: www.nber.org/papers/w32299
April 8, 2024 at 5:14 PM