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D-Index
50
Citations
14905
World Ranking
1362
National Ranking
825

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2013 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 2006 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Ali Hortacsu is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research spans several fields, primarily focused on economics, econometrics, finance, business, management, and accounting.

Their scholarly output includes work concentrated in the following fields of study:

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Business, Management and Accounting

More specifically, their subfields of study cover:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Marketing
  • Finance
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Infectious Diseases

The main topics within their research portfolio include:

  • Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
  • Merger and Competition Analysis
  • Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Economic Growth and Productivity

Among their recent papers are:

  • Financial fragility in the COVID-19 crisis: The case of investment funds in corporate bond markets (2021), published in the Journal of Monetary Economics
  • The Production Relocation and Price Effects of US Trade Policy: The Case of Washing Machines (2020), published in the American Economic Review
  • Fire-Sale Spillovers in Debt Markets (2021), published in The Journal of Finance
  • Prices and promotions in U.S. retail markets (2021), published in Quantitative Marketing and Economics
  • Estimating the fraction of unreported infections in epidemics with a known epicenter: An application to COVID-19 (2020), published in the Journal of Econometrics

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Timothy Schwieg
  • Joonhwi Joo
  • Kevin Williams
  • Olivia Natan
  • Hayden Parsley

Their research has been disseminated in several venues, notably:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Journal of Monetary Economics
  • American Economic Review
  • The Journal of Finance

Ali Hortacsu has also authored books published by Princeton University Press, including two editions of Structural Econometric Modeling in Industrial Organization and Quantitative Marketing published in 2023.

The scientist has been recognized with the following awards:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016)
  • Fellows of the Econometric Society (2013)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2006)

Best Publications

  • The Winner's Curse, Reserve Prices and Endogenous Entry: Empirical Insights From eBay Auctions.

    Patrick L. Bajari;Ali Hortaçsu

  • Matching and Sorting in Online Dating

    Gunter J. Hitsch;Ali Hortaçsu;Dan Ariely

  • Product Differentiation, Search Costs, and Competition in the Mutual Fund Industry: A Case Study of S&P 500 Index Funds

    Ali Hortaçsu;Chad Syverson

  • THE DYNAMICS OF SELLER REPUTATION: EVIDENCE FROM EBAY*

    Luís Cabral;Ali Hortaçsu

  • Economic Insights from Internet Auctions

    Patrick Bajari;Ali Hortaçsu

  • What makes you click?—Mate preferences in online dating

    Günter J. Hitsch;Ali Hortaçsu;Dan Ariely

  • Testing Models of Consumer Search using Data on Web Browsing and Purchasing Behavior

    Babur De los Santos;Ali Hortacsu;Matthijs R. Wildenbeest

  • Winner's Curse, Reserve Prices and Endogenous Entry: Empirical Insights from eBay Auctions

    Patrick Bajari;Ali Hortacsu

  • Understanding strategic bidding in multi‐unit auctions: a case study of the Texas electricity spot market

    Ali Hortaçsu;Steven L. Puller

  • Deposit Competition and Financial Fragility: Evidence from the US Banking Sector

    Mark Egan;Ali Hortaçsu;Gregor Matvos

  • Power to Choose? An Analysis of Consumer Inertia in the Residential Electricity Market

    Ali Hortaçsu;Seyed Ali Madanizadeh;Steven L Puller

  • Testing Models of Consumer Search Using Data on Web Browsing and Purchasing Behavior

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  • Winner's Curse, Reserve Prices and Endogenous Entry: Empirical Insights from eBay Auctions

    Patrick Bajari;Patrick Bajari;Ali Hortacsu;Ali Hortacsu

  • Mechanism Choice and Strategic Bidding in Divisible Good Auctions: An Empirical Analysis of the Turkish Treasury Auction Market

    Ali Hortaçsu;David McAdams

  • Cementing Relationships: Vertical Integration, Foreclosure, Productivity, and Prices

    Ali Hortacsu;Chad Syverson

  • Cementing Relationships: Vertical Integration, Foreclosure, Productivity, and Prices

    Ali Hortaçsu;Chad Syverson

  • On the Empirical Content of Quantal Response Equilibrium

    Philip A. Haile;Ali Hortaçsu;Grigory Kosenok

  • The Geography of Trade in Online Transactions: Evidence from eBay and MercadoLibre

    Ali Hortaçsu;F. Asís Martínez-Jerez;Jason Douglas

  • Are Structural Estimates of Auction Models Reasonable? Evidence from Experimental Data

    Patrick Bajari;Ali Hortacsu

  • The Production Relocation and Price Effects of U.S. Trade Policy: The Case of Washing Machines

    Aaron B Flaaen;Ali Hortaçsu;Felix Tintelnot

  • E‐Commerce and the Market Structure of Retail Industries*

    Maris Goldmanis;Ali Hortacsu;Chad Syverson;Onsel Emre

  • Network structure of production

    Enghin Atalay;Ali Hortaçsu;James Roberts;Chad Syverson

  • Vertical Integration and Input Flows

    Enghin Atalay;Ali Hortaçsu;Chad Syverson

  • Financial fragility in the COVID-19 crisis: The case of investment funds in corporate bond markets

    Antonio Falato;Itay Goldstein;Ali Hortaçsu

Frequent Co-Authors

Chad Syverson
Chad Syverson University of Chicago
Patrick Bajari
Patrick Bajari University of Washington
John A. List
John A. List University of Chicago
Jean-Pierre Dubé
Jean-Pierre Dubé University of Chicago
Luis M. B. Cabral
Luis M. B. Cabral New York University
Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely Duke University
Justine S. Hastings
Justine S. Hastings University of Washington
John R. Birge
John R. Birge University of Chicago
Amit Seru
Amit Seru Stanford University
Howard C. Nusbaum
Howard C. Nusbaum University of Chicago

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