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Frank Verboven

Frank Verboven

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
34
Citations
8232
World Ranking
3032
National Ranking
33

Frank Verboven publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Frank Verboven sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 178 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Frank Verboven D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Frank Verboven sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

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

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

    Pinelopi K. Goldberg;Frank Verboven;Frank Verboven

  • The diffusion of mobile telecommunications services in the European Union

    Harald Gruber;Frank Verboven

  • International price discrimination in the European car market

    Frank Verboven

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

    Harald Gruber;Frank Verboven

  • Efficiency Gains from Mergers

    Lars-Hendrik Röller;Johan Stennek;Frank Verboven

  • Quantifying the effects from horizontal mergers in European competition policy

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

  • Access regulation, competition, and broadband penetration: An international study

    Jan Bouckaert;Theon van Dijk;Frank Verboven

  • LIBERALIZING A DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM: THE EUROPEAN CAR MARKET

    Randy Brenkers;Frank Verboven

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

    Laura Grigolon;Mathias Reynaert;Frank Verboven

  • Intra-and Interformat Competition Among Discounters and Supermarkets

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

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

    Olivier De Groote;Frank Verboven

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

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

  • Heterogeneity in the adoption of photovoltaic systems in Flanders

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

  • UNBUNDLING THE INCUMBENT: EVIDENCE FROM UK BROADBAND

    Mattia Nardotto;Tommaso Valletti;Frank Verboven

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

    Frank Verboven

  • Does Merger Simulation Work? Evidence from the Swedish Analgesics Market

    Jonas Björnerstedt;Frank Verboven

  • Evaluating market consolidation in mobile communications

    Christos Genakos;Tommaso M. Valletti;Frank Verboven

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

    Frank Verboven

  • Entry and regulation: evidence from health care professions

    Catherine Schaumans;Frank Verboven

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

    Laura Grigolon;Frank Verboven

Frequent Co-Authors

Tommaso M. Valletti
Tommaso M. Valletti Imperial College London
Uri Gneezy
Uri Gneezy University of California, San Diego
Hans Degryse
Hans Degryse KU Leuven
Chaim Fershtman
Chaim Fershtman Tel Aviv University
Lars-Hendrik Röller
Lars-Hendrik Röller European School of Management and Technology
Werner Güth
Werner Güth Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Giancarlo Spagnolo
Giancarlo Spagnolo University of Rome Tor Vergata
Eric van Damme
Eric van Damme Tilburg University
Paul Seabright
Paul Seabright Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

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