Staff profile
Dr Cole Williams
Assistant Professor
| Affiliation |
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| Assistant Professor in the Business School |
Biography
Cole Williams is an economist working in the fields of Industrial Organization and Political Economy.
His work studies the digital economy, with a focus on the welfare implications of steering and tracking consumers. Additionally, he explores issues surrounding social cohesion, particularly in relation to identity and belief formation via social learning.
He previously held a postdoctoral research position at the University of Vienna and received his PhD in Economics at the University of California, Irvine.
Research Interests
Industrial Organization, Political Economy
Publications
Journal Article
- Carvalho, J.-P., Pradelski, B. R. S., & Williams, C. (online). Intersectionality: Affirmative Action with Multidimensional Identities. Management Science, https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.03839
- Janssen, M. C. W., & Williams, C. (online). Influencing Search. The RAND Journal of Economics, https://doi.org/10.1111/1756-2171.12475
- Janssen, M., & Williams, C. (2024). Consumer Search and Product Returns in E-Commerce. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 16(2), 387-419. https://doi.org/10.1257/mic.20230040
- Carvalho, J.-P., Koyama, M., & Williams, C. (2024). Resisting Education. Journal of the European Economic Association, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvae008
- Williams, C. (2024). Echo Chambers: Social Learning under Unobserved Heterogeneity. The Economic Journal, 134(658), 837–855. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uead081
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