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45
Citations
12357
World Ranking
1732
National Ranking
1023

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Steven Tadelis is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on economics, econometrics, finance, and social sciences. Within these broad fields, their work spans several subfields, including economics and econometrics, management science and operations research, public administration, safety research, and strategy and management.

Tadelis's research interests include topics such as merger and competition analysis, auction theory and applications, labor movements and unions, law, economics, and judicial systems, experimental behavioral economics studies, consumer market behavior and pricing, and digital platforms and economics.

They have published extensively, with frequent contributions appearing in venues such as Harvard Dataverse, the SSRN Electronic Journal, the Journal of Political Economy, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, and The RAND Journal of Economics.

Notable recent papers include:

  • People Management Skills, Employee Attrition, and Manager Rewards: An Empirical Analysis (2020, Journal of Political Economy)
  • Sequential Bargaining in the Field: Evidence from Millions of Online Bargaining Interactions (2020, The Quarterly Journal of Economics)
  • Buying Reputation as a Signal of Quality: Evidence from an Online Marketplace (2020, The RAND Journal of Economics)
  • Price Salience and Product Choice (2021, Marketing Science)
  • The Response of Consumer Spending to Changes in Gasoline Prices (2023, American Economic Journal Macroeconomics)

Throughout their career, Tadelis has collaborated frequently with several coauthors. The most frequent coauthors include Thomas Blake, Matthew Backus, Brad Larsen, Utsav Manjeer, and Daniel Deisenroth.

In recognition of their contributions to the field of economics, Steven Tadelis was named a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Incentives versus transaction costs: a theory of procurement contracts

    Patrick Bajari;Steven Tadelis

  • Solutions manual for Microeconomic theory : Mas-Colell, Whinston and Green

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  • Auctions Versus Negotiations in Procurement: An Empirical Analysis

    Patrick Bajari;Robert S McMillan;Steve Tadelis

  • TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS

    Steven Tadelis;Oliver Williamson

  • What's in a Name? Reputation as a Tradeable Asset

    Steven Tadelis

  • CONTRACTING FOR GOVERNMENT SERVICES: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM U.S. CITIES*

    Jonathan Levin;Steven Tadelis

  • Reputation and Feedback Systems in Online Platform Markets

    Steven Tadelis;Steven Tadelis;Steven Tadelis

  • Bidding for Incomplete Contracts: An Empirical Analysis of Adaptation Costs

    Patrick Bajari;Stephanie Houghton;Steven Tadelis

  • CONTRACTING FOR GOVERNMENT SERVICES: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM U.S. CITIES*: GOVERNMENT SERVICES CONTRACTS: EVIDENCE OF U.S. CITIES

    Jonathan Levin;Jonathan Levin;Steven Tadelis;Steven Tadelis;Steven Tadelis

  • Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness: A Large Scale Field Experiment

    Thomas Blake;Chris Nosko;Chris Nosko;Steven Tadelis;Steven Tadelis;Steven Tadelis

  • Game theory : an introduction

    Steven Tadelis

  • The Market for Reputations as an Incentive Mechanism

    Steven Tadelis

  • Incentives versus Transaction Costs: A Theory of Procurement Contracts

    Steven Tadelis;Steven Tadelis;Steven Tadelis;Patrick Bajari;Patrick Bajari

  • The Limits of Reputation in Platform Markets: An Empirical Analysis and Field Experiment

    Chris Nosko;Steven Tadelis

  • The Limits of Reputation in Platform Markets: An Empirical Analysis and Field Experiment

    Chris Nosko;Steven Tadelis

  • Profit Sharing and the Role of Professional Partnerships

    Jonathan Levin;Steven Tadelis

  • Public procurement design: Lessons from the private sector ☆

    Steven Tadelis

  • Complexity, Flexibility, and the Make-or-Buy Decision

    Steven Tadelis

  • Bidding for Incomplete Contracts: An Empirical Analysis

    Patrick Bajari;Stephanie Houghton;Steve Tadelis

  • Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness: A Large-Scale Field Experiment: Paid Search Effectiveness

    Thomas Blake;Chris Nosko;Chris Nosko;Steven Tadelis;Steven Tadelis;Steven Tadelis

  • Harnessing naturally occurring data to measure the response of spending to income

    Michael Gelman;Shachar Kariv;Matthew D. Shapiro;Matthew D. Shapiro;Daniel Silverman;Daniel Silverman

  • People Management Skills, Employee Attrition, and Manager Rewards: An Empirical Analysis

    Mitchell Hoffman;Steven Tadelis

  • 4. Transaction Cost Economics

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  • The Power of Shame and the Rationality of Trust

    Steven Tadelis

  • Information Disclosure as a Matching Mechanism: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment †

    Steven Tadelis;Florian Zettelmeyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Bajari
Patrick Bajari University of Washington
Matthew D. Shapiro
Matthew D. Shapiro University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jonathan Levin
Jonathan Levin Stanford University
Avner Greif
Avner Greif Stanford University
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Yuriy Gorodnichenko University of California, Berkeley
Paul Milgrom
Paul Milgrom Stanford University
Oliver E. Williamson
Oliver E. Williamson University of California, Berkeley
Giancarlo Spagnolo
Giancarlo Spagnolo University of Rome Tor Vergata

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