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World Ranking
2281
National Ranking
74

Overview

Roman Inderst is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany and has a substantial body of research in the fields of economics, econometrics, and finance, as well as business, management, and accounting. Their work spans several subfields including economics and econometrics, strategy and management, marketing, general decision sciences, and finance.

The scientist's research interests focus on topics such as merger and competition analysis, economic and environmental valuation, consumer market behavior and pricing, climate change policy and economics, digital platforms and economics, decision-making and behavioral economics, and environmental sustainability in business.

Roman Inderst has published extensively in multiple academic journals and venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Competition Law & Economics
  • Journal of European Competition Law & Practice
  • Management Science
  • Zeitschrift für Wettbewerbsrecht

The scientist has collaborated with several colleagues, with notable frequent coauthors being:

  • Stefan Thomas
  • Marcus M. Opp
  • Martin Obradovits
  • Florian Hoffmann
  • Marco Ottaviani

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Roman Inderst are:

  • "Sustainable finance versus environmental policy: Does greenwashing justify a taxonomy for sustainable investments?", 2024, Journal of Financial Economics
  • "Loss leading with salient thinkers", 2020, The RAND Journal of Economics
  • "Persuasion Through Selective Disclosure: Implications for Marketing, Campaigning, and Privacy Regulation", 2020, Management Science (authored by Florian Hoffmann, with apparent collaboration)
  • "Only Time Will Tell: A Theory of Deferred Compensation", 2020, The Review of Economic Studies (authored by Florian Hoffmann, related collaboration)
  • "A Corporate Finance Perspective on Environmental Policy", 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal (authored by Florian Heider, related collaboration)

The range of topics addressed in these publications reflect an interest in how financial and economic policies intersect with environmental sustainability, marketing strategies, and corporate finance theory. Their research also touches on behavioral economics aspects such as consumer market behavior and decision-making processes.

Best Publications

  • Buyer power and supplier incentives

    Roman Inderst;Christian Wey;Christian Wey;Christian Wey

  • Misselling through Agents

    Roman Inderst;Marco Ottaviani

  • The effect of capital market characteristics on the value of start-up firms

    Roman Inderst;Roman Inderst;Holger M. Müller;Holger M. Müller

  • Competition through commissions and kickbacks

    Roman Inderst;Marco Ottaviani

  • Bargaining, mergers and technology choice in bilaterally oligopolistic industries

    Roman Inderst;Christian Wey

  • How (not) to pay for advice: A framework for consumer financial protection ☆

    Roman Inderst;Roman Inderst;Marco Ottaviani;Marco Ottaviani

  • Retail Mergers, Buyer Power and Product Variety*

    Roman Inderst;Greg Shaffer

  • A LENDER-BASED THEORY OF COLLATERAL

    Roman Inderst;Roman Inderst;Holger M. Mueller;Holger M. Mueller

  • Countervailing power and dynamic efficiency

    Roman Inderst;Christian Wey

  • Financial Advice and Stock Market Participation

    Dimitris Georgarakos;Roman Inderst

  • Financial Literacy and Savings Account Returns

    Florian Deuflhard;Dimitris Georgarakos;Roman Inderst

  • Incentives in Internal Capital Markets: Capital Constraints, Competition, and Investment Opportunities

    Roman Inderst;Christian Laux

  • BUYER POWER AND THE ‘WATERBED EFFECT’*

    Roman Inderst;Tommaso M. Valletti

  • Price discrimination in input markets

    Roman Inderst;Tommaso Valletti

  • Multi-issue Bargaining with Endogenous Agenda

    Roman Inderst

  • Internal versus External Financing: An Optimal Contracting Approach

    Roman Inderst;Holger M. Müller

  • Market Power, Price Discrimination, and Allocative Efficiency in Intermediate-Goods Markets

    Roman Inderst;Greg Shaffer

  • CEO Replacement under Private Information

    Roman Inderst;Holger M. Mueller

  • Trading on Advice

    Andreas Hackethal;Roman Inderst;Steffen Meyer

  • Informed Lending and Security Design

    Roman Inderst;Holger M. Mueller

  • The Effect of Capital Market Characteristics on the Value of Start-Up Firms

    Holger M. Mueller;Roman Inderst

  • A Lender-Based Theory of Collateral

    Holger M. Mueller;Roman Inderst

  • Bargaining Theory with Applications

    Roman Inderst

Frequent Co-Authors

Tommaso M. Valletti
Tommaso M. Valletti Imperial College London
Martin Peitz
Martin Peitz University of Mannheim
Greg Shaffer
Greg Shaffer University of Rochester
Anastasios Xepapadeas
Anastasios Xepapadeas Athens University of Economics and Business
Joshua S. Gans
Joshua S. Gans University of Toronto
Axel Ockenfels
Axel Ockenfels University of Cologne

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