2026 Frank Verboven: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	34	3032	2750	33	30	178	8232

Overview

Frank Verboven is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with significant contributions in Business, Management and Accounting. Within these broader areas, they have concentrated on subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, Strategy and Management, General Decision Sciences, and Accounting.

Verboven's work covers a range of topics, including:

Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
Merger and Competition Analysis
Digital Platforms and Economics
Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Firm Innovation and Growth
ICT Impact and Policies
Auction Theory and Applications

They have published in several academic venues, with recurring contributions to:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Lirias (KU Leuven)
American Economic Journal Microeconomics
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
American Economic Review

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Frank Verboven include:

Market Entry, Fighting Brands, and Tacit Collusion: Evidence from the French Mobile Telecommunications Market (2021), published in American Economic Review
Common-Ownership Versus Cross-Ownership: Evidence from the Automobile Industry (2024), published in Journal of Industrial Economics
Estimating Substitution Patterns and Demand Curvature in Discrete-Choice Models of Product Differentiation (2024), published in The Review of Economics and Statistics
The Political Economy of Financing Climate Policy -- Evidence from the Solar Pv Subsidy Programs (2022), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
Common-Ownership vs. Cross-Ownership: Evidence from the Automobile Industry (2022), published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Verboven include:

Lukasz Grzybowski
Heiko Karle
Heiner Schumacher
André Romahn
Néstor Duch-Brown

Best Publications

The Evolution of Price Dispersion in the European Car Market

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg;Frank Verboven

1075
Citations
Market integration and convergence to the Law of One Price: evidence from the European car market

Pinelopi K. Goldberg;Frank Verboven;Frank Verboven

617
Citations
The diffusion of mobile telecommunications services in the European Union

Harald Gruber;Frank Verboven

560
Citations
International price discrimination in the European car market

Frank Verboven

499
Citations
The evolution of markets under entry and standards regulation — the case of global mobile telecommunications

Harald Gruber;Frank Verboven

421
Citations
Efficiency Gains from Mergers

Lars-Hendrik Röller;Johan Stennek;Frank Verboven

398
Citations
Quantifying the effects from horizontal mergers in European competition policy

Marc Ivaldi;Marc Ivaldi;Marc Ivaldi;Frank Verboven;Frank Verboven

320
Citations
Access regulation, competition, and broadband penetration: An international study

Jan Bouckaert;Theon van Dijk;Frank Verboven

248
Citations
LIBERALIZING A DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM: THE EUROPEAN CAR MARKET

Randy Brenkers;Frank Verboven

220
Citations
Consumer Valuation of Fuel Costs and Tax Policy: Evidence from the European Car Market

Laura Grigolon;Mathias Reynaert;Frank Verboven

203
Citations
Intra-and Interformat Competition Among Discounters and Supermarkets

Kathleen Cleeren;Frank Verboven;Marnik G. Dekimpe;Katrijn Gielens

201
Citations
Subsidies and Time Discounting in New Technology Adoption: Evidence from Solar Photovoltaic Systems

Olivier De Groote;Frank Verboven

192
Citations
Improving the performance of random coefficients demand models: The role of optimal instruments

Mathias Reynaert;Mathias Reynaert;Mathias Reynaert;Frank Verboven;Frank Verboven

190
Citations
Heterogeneity in the adoption of photovoltaic systems in Flanders

Olivier De Groote;Olivier De Groote;Guido Pepermans;Frank Verboven;Frank Verboven

175
Citations
UNBUNDLING THE INCUMBENT: EVIDENCE FROM UK BROADBAND

Mattia Nardotto;Tommaso Valletti;Frank Verboven

170
Citations
Product line rivalry and market segmentation with an application to automobile optional engine pricing

Frank Verboven

165
Citations
Does Merger Simulation Work? Evidence from the Swedish Analgesics Market

Jonas Björnerstedt;Frank Verboven

165
Citations
Evaluating market consolidation in mobile communications

Christos Genakos;Tommaso M. Valletti;Frank Verboven

155
Citations
Quality-based price discrimination and tax incidence - The market for gasoline and diesel cars in Europe

Frank Verboven

149
Citations
Entry and regulation: evidence from health care professions

Catherine Schaumans;Frank Verboven

144
Citations
Nested logit or random coefficients logit? A comparison of alternative discrete choice models of product differentiation

Laura Grigolon;Frank Verboven

141
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg Yale University

Tommaso M. Valletti Imperial College London

Uri Gneezy University of California, San Diego

Hans Degryse KU Leuven

Chaim Fershtman Tel Aviv University

Lars-Hendrik Röller European School of Management and Technology

Werner Güth Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Giancarlo Spagnolo University of Rome Tor Vergata

Eric van Damme Tilburg University

Paul Seabright Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

External Links

Personal website of Frank Verboven Google Scholar page

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