Sarit Markovich Arison School of Business The Interdisciplinary Center Hertzliya Israel Email:  s-markovich@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Research interests:  Industrial Organization, Strategy, Economics of Networks
Curriculum Vitae
CV

Some published papers:

• "Estimating the Effect of Tax Reform in Differentiated Product Oligopolistic Markets," 1999, with Neil Gandal and Chaim Fershtman, Journal of Public Economics, 74:151-170
• "Advertising Dynamics and Competitive Advantage," with Ulrich Doraszelski, 2007, Rand Journal of Economics, 38(3): 1-36
• "Snowball: a Dynamic Oligopoly Model with Indirect Network Effects", 2008, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, 32:909-938
• "Generic Vertical Strategies: The Case of Enterprise System Providers", with Lior Fink, 2008, Journal of Information Technology, 23:281-296
• "Winning while Losing: Competition Dynamics in the presence of Indirect Network Effects," with Joahnnes Moenius, 2009, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 27:346-357 (Winner of the 2010 IJIO Paul Geroski Award)
• "Patents, Imitation, and Licensing in an Asymmetric Dynamic R&D Race", with Chaim Fershtman, 2010, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 28: 113-126
• “Creating Value with Homogenous Technology: Electronic Business Service Providers,” with Shane Greenstein, International Journal of the Economics of Business, forthcoming.

Recent working papers:

• “Ain’t it Suite?Strategic Bundling in the PC Office Software Market,” with Neil Gandal and Michael Riordan, 2012.
• “The Competitive Effect of Multimarket Contact,” with Guy Arie and Mauricio Varela, 2012
• “To Hunt or to Scavenge: Optimal Investment Strategies in the Presence of Indirect Network Effects,” 2009, with Joahnnes Moenius, Mimeo, Northwestern University
• “The Leader Curse in the Airline Industry,” with Guy Arie and Mauricio Varela, Northwestern University, 2010.
• "The Value of Information: The Case of Soccer Players", mimeo 2008, Northwestern University.
• "The Dynamics of Price and Quality Competition in the Presence of Network Externalities", with Johannes Moenius, Mimeo, Northwestern University.
• "Patents and R&D Race: A Dynamic Percpectives", with Chaim Fershtman, Mimeo, Tel-Aviv University.
• "Pricing a Product Line of Upgradeable Contracts: Theory and Application on the eBusiness Service Providers", with Shane Greenstein, mimeo, Northwestern University.
• "Asset Pricing Implications of Network Externalities: a Dynamic Analysis", with Massimo Guidolin and Johannes Moenius, mimeo, University of Virginia.
• "The Effect of Information on Risk Taking: The Case of Soccer Players", mimeo, Tel-Aviv University.
• "Estimating a model with Vertical and Horizontal Differentiation: The eBusiness Service Providers”, with Shane Greenstein, Northwestern University.

Teaching material:

• Northwestern University Blackboard

Last updated: Wednesday, October 6, 2006