Katja Seim Faculty Profile

Katja Seim
Assistant Professor of Business and Public Policy

PhD, Yale University, 2001; BA, Franklin & Marshall College, 1995

Research Areas
Applied microeconomics; industrial organization, entry; nonlinear pricing; information goods

Current Projects
Analysis of firms’ decisions to introduce and place new products relative to competition, research on the effect of entry and consolidation among wireless service providers on pricing strategies in the industry, study on price discrimination and consumer choice.

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 2006-present. Previous appointment: Stanford Graduate School of Business. Visiting appointment: The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Other Positions
Economic Analyst, Lexecon Limited, London, United Kingdom, 1999; Research Fellow. Center for European Economic Research, Mannheim, Germany 1998; Research Assistant, National Economic Research Associates, White Plains, NY, 1995–96

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Fletcher Jones Faculty Scholar, 2005; NET Institute Research Grant, 2006, 2003

Representative Publications
“An Empirical Model of Firm Entry with Endogenous Product-Type Choices.” RAND Journal of Economics 37(3) (2006).

(with Anja Lambrecht and Bernd Skiera)
“Does Uncertainty Matter? Consumer Behavior under Three-Part Tariffs.” Marketing Science (Forthcoming 2007).

(with V. Brian Viard)
“The Effect of Entry and Market Structure on Cellular Technology Adpotion and Pricing.” Stanford Graduate School of Business Working Paper No. 1876R, 2006.