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D-Index
52
Citations
11295
World Ranking
1260
National Ranking
762

Joel Waldfogel 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 Joel Waldfogel sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 208 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Joel Waldfogel 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 Joel Waldfogel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Joel Waldfogel is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Business, Management and Accounting with a focus on several subfields including Marketing, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, and Accounting.

The key topics explored in Joel Waldfogel's work include Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing, Digital Platforms and Economics, Copyright and Intellectual Property, Media Influence and Politics, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Art History and Market Analysis, and Digital Marketing and Social Media.

The scientist has contributed research papers to multiple publication venues, with a notable presence in the SSRN Electronic Journal. Other frequent venues include the Strategic Management Journal, American Economic Review, Journal of Industrial Economics, and International Journal of Industrial Organization.

  • Changing the channel: Digitization and the rise of "middle tail" strategies (2020, Strategic Management Journal)
  • Digitization and Pre-Purchase Information: The Causal and Welfare Impacts of Reviews and Crowd Ratings (2021, American Economic Review)
  • Platforms, Power, and Promotion: Evidence from Spotify Playlists* (2021, Journal of Industrial Economics)
  • Playlisting favorites: Measuring platform bias in the music industry (2021, International Journal of Industrial Organization)
  • Gdpr and the Lost Generation of Innovative Apps (2022, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Joel Waldfogel has collaborated frequently with several co-authors across their publications. These include Imke Reimers and Luis Aguiar, each with five joint works, Adam B. Jaffe with four, Gaétan de Rassenfosse with three, and Sarah Waldfogel with two.

Best Publications

  • Piracy on the High C’s: Music Downloading, Sales Displacement, and Social Welfare in a Sample of College Students*

    Rafael Rob;Joel Waldfogel

  • Free Entry and Social Inefficiency in Radio Broadcasting

    Steven T. Berry;Joel Waldfogel

  • The Deadweight Loss of Christmas

    Joel Waldfogel

  • Do Mergers Increase Product Variety? Evidence from Radio Broadcasting

    Steven T. Berry;Joel Waldfogel

  • PRODUCT QUALITY AND MARKET SIZE

    Steven Berry;Joel Waldfogel

  • The Selection Hypothesis and the Relationship between Trial and Plaintiff Victory

    Joel Waldfogel

  • Reconciling Asymmetric Information and Divergent Expectations Theories of Litigation

    Joel Waldfogel

  • A Market Test for Race Discrimination in Bail Setting

    Ian Ayres;Joel Waldfogel

  • The New York Times and the Market for Local Newspapers

    Lisa M. George;Joel Waldfogel

  • As streaming reaches flood stage, does it stimulate or depress music sales?

    Luis Aguiar;Joel Waldfogel

  • Media markets and localism: Does local news en español boost hispanic voter turnout?

    Felix Oberholzer-Gee;Joel Waldfogel

  • Close to you? Bias and precision in patent-based measures of technological proximity

    Mary Benner;Joel Waldfogel

  • The Effect of Criminal Conviction on Income and the Trust "Reposed in the Workmen"

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  • Who Affects Whom in Daily Newspaper Markets

    Lisa George;Joel Waldfogel

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy

    Martin Peitz;Joel Waldfogel

  • The effects of criminality and conviction on the labor market status of young British offenders

    Daniel Nagin;Joel Waldfogel

  • The Effect of Price Advertising on Prices: Evidence in the Wake of 44 Liquormart

    Jeffrey Milyo;Joel Waldfogel

  • Preference externalities: An empirical study of who benefits whom in differentiated-product markets

    Joel Waldfogel

  • Do low-income housing subsidies increase the occupied housing stock?

    Todd Sinai;Joel Waldfogel

  • Toward a Taxonomy of Disputes: New Evidence Through the Prism of the Priest/Klein Model

    Peter Siegelman;Joel Waldfogel

  • Music file sharing and sales displacement in the iTunes era

    Joel Waldfogel

  • How digitization has created a golden age of music, movies, books, and television

    Joel Waldfogel

  • Piracy on the High C'S: Music Downloading, Sales Displacement, and Social Welfare in a Sample of College Students

    Rafael Rob;Joel Waldfogel;Joel Waldfogel

  • Handbook of Media Economics

    Simon P. Anderson;David Strömberg;Joel Waldfogel

  • The Effect of Criminal Conviction on Income and the Trust

    Joel Waldfogel

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven Berry
Steven Berry Yale University
Frank R. Lichtenberg
Frank R. Lichtenberg Columbia University
Rafael Rob
Rafael Rob University of Pennsylvania
Jeffrey Milyo
Jeffrey Milyo University of Missouri
Joseph S. Tracy
Joseph S. Tracy American Enterprise Institute
Daniel S. Nagin
Daniel S. Nagin Carnegie Mellon University
Simon P. Anderson
Simon P. Anderson University of Virginia
Martin Peitz
Martin Peitz University of Mannheim
Shane Greenstein
Shane Greenstein Harvard University

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