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Duncan Simester

Duncan Simester

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
42
Citations
9978
World Ranking
4653
National Ranking
2213

Overview

Duncan Simester is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has a research focus primarily in the field of Business, Management, and Accounting. Their work covers several subfields including Marketing, Management Science and Operations Research, Statistics and Probability, Economics and Econometrics, and Accounting.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
  • Auction Theory and Applications
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Housing Market and Economics
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
  • Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials

Simester's frequent co-authors include Jonathan A. Parker, Antoinette Schoar, Artem Timoshenko, Spyros I. Zoumpoulis, and Yuting Zhu. These collaborations reflect ongoing work across the topics and fields previously mentioned.

Regarding publication venues, Simester has contributed to:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Marketing Science
  • The Journal of Finance
  • Management Science
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Some recent papers co-authored or authored by Simester include:

  • Efficiently Evaluating Targeting Policies: Improving on Champion vs. Challenger Experiments (2020), published in Management Science
  • Belief Disagreement and Portfolio Choice (2022), published in The Journal of Finance (authored by Maarten Meeuwis with citation relation)
  • Introduction to the Special Issue on Marketing Science and Field Experiments (2020), published in Marketing Science (authored by Leif D. Nelson)
  • Household Portfolios and Retirement Saving Over the Life Cycle (2022), published in SSRN Electronic Journal (authored by Jonathan A. Parker)
  • Price Frictions and the Success of New Products (2022), published in Marketing Science (authored by Diego Aparicio)

This research output demonstrates involvement in various topics related to portfolio choice, marketing experiments, retirement saving behavior, and product pricing within reputable academic journals.

Best Publications

  • Goodbye Pareto Principle, Hello Long Tail: The Effect of Search Costs on the Concentration of Product Sales

    Erik Brynjolfsson;Yu (Jeffrey) Hu;Duncan Simester

  • Always Leave Home Without It: A Further Investigation of the Credit-Card Effect on Willingness to Pay

    Drazen Prelec;Duncan Simester

  • Customer Satisfaction Incentives

    John R. Hauser;Duncan I. Simester;Birger Wernerfelt

  • Firm‐Wide Incentives and Mutual Monitoring at Continental Airlines

    Marc Knez;Duncan Simester

  • The Scope of Alliances

    Eric T. Anderson;Duncan I. Simester;Tarun Khanna

  • Measuring and Mitigating the Costs of Stockouts

    Eric T. Anderson;Gavan J. Fitzsimons;Duncan Simester

  • Effects of $9 Price Endings on Retail Sales: Evidence from Field Experiments

    Eric T. Anderson;Duncan I. Simester

  • Reviews Without a Purchase: Low Ratings, Loyal Customers, and Deception

    Eric T. Anderson;Duncan I. Simester

  • The Option Value of Returns: Theory and Empirical Evidence

    Eric T. Anderson;Karsten Hansen;Duncan Simester

  • Polyhedral Methods for Adaptive Choice-Based Conjoint Analysis

    Olivier Toubia;John R. Hauser;Duncan I. Simester

  • Long-Run Effects of Promotion Depth on New Versus Established Customers: Three Field Studies

    Eric T. Anderson;Duncan I. Simester

  • Fast Polyhedral Adaptive Conjoint Estimation

    Olivier Toubia;Duncan I. Simester;John R. Hauser;Ely Dahan

  • Price Stickiness and Customer Antagonism

    Eric T. Anderson;Duncan I. Simester

  • Signalling Price Image Using Advertised Prices

    Duncan Simester

  • Internal Customers and Internal Suppliers

    John R. Hauser;Duncan I. Simester;Birger Wernerfelt

  • Bias and Variance Approximation in Value Function Estimates

    Shie Mannor;Duncan Simester;Peng Sun;John N. Tsitsiklis

  • Optimizing Product Line Designs: Efficient Methods and Comparisons

    Alexandre Belloni;Robert Freund;Matthew Selove;Duncan Simester

  • Research Note---Does Demand Fall When Customers Perceive That Prices Are Unfair? The Case of Premium Pricing for Large Sizes

    Eric T. Anderson;Duncan I. Simester

  • Belief Disagreement and Portfolio Choice

    Maarten Meeuwis;Jonathan Parker;Antoinette Schoar;Duncan I. Simester

  • How Sales Taxes Affect Customer and Firm Behavior: The Role of Search on the Internet

    Eric T. Anderson;Nathan Minsheng Fong;Duncan Simester;Catherine Elizabeth Tucker

  • Dynamic Catalog Mailing Policies

    Duncan I. Simester;Peng Sun;John N. Tsitsiklis

  • Firm-Wide Incentives and Mutual Monitoring at Continental Airlines

    Duncan Simester;Marc Knez

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay Hauser
Jay Hauser University of California, Los Angeles
Erik Brynjolfsson
Erik Brynjolfsson Stanford University
Gavan J. Fitzsimons
Gavan J. Fitzsimons Duke University
Michael I. Norton
Michael I. Norton Harvard University
Leif D. Nelson
Leif D. Nelson University of California, Berkeley
John Roberts
John Roberts Rice University

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