Departmental Seminar with Shoshana Vasserman (Stanford)

Shoshana Vasserman is Associate Professor of Economics at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. She is also completing three years as a Visiting Researcher at Google Research. She is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR).

Her research applies Industrial Organisation principles to examine market frictions including risk sharing, congestion and information asymmetries across policy settings including urban development, insurance and online news. Her work has been published in the top-tier economic journals such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, The Review of Economic Studies, and was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2026-27.

Shoshana Vasserman's website

She will present a paper, joint with Andrey Simonov and Greg Martin, at the next Departmental Seminar on the topic:

Agenda Setting and Market Power in Online News (abstract to follow)

Our next Departmental Seminar will host Jessie Handbury (Wharton University of Pennsylvania) on October 12th.