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July
2022
Alexander Cowles White
|
Tsinghua
University School of
Economics & Management Weilun Building,
Room 229 Beijing
100084, China |
清华大学 经管学院伟伦楼229室 中国北京, 邮政编码:100084 |
Fields of Interest
Industrial Organization, Microeconomic
Theory, Economics of the Internet
Primary Employment
2019 – present: Associate Professor, Department of Economics,
School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
2014 – present: Director, Competition Policy Program, National
Institute for Fiscal Studies, Tsinghua University
2011 – 2018:
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, School of Economics and
Management, Tsinghua University
2010 – 2011: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of
Economics, Harvard University
Visiting Positions
2021.6 –
present: Visiting Scholar, Department
of Economics, Boston College
2019.8 –
2020.2: Visiting Scholar, Harvard
Business School
2017.7 –
2021.6: Visiting Researcher,
Department of Economics, Boston University
Education
Ph.D.
in Economics (with highest distinction), Toulouse School of Economics, February
2011
Dissertation Title: “Essays on the
Economics of the Internet”
M.A. in
Economics, Toulouse School of Economics, July 2006
B.A. in Economics (with honors),
Columbia University, February 2005
Diplôme du programme international, Sciences Po Paris, July 2003
Research
Publications
“Platform
Economics: Recent Findings and Further Questions”. CPI Antitrust
Chronicle, June (vol. 2), 2022.
“Vertical
Agreements and User Access” (with Germain Gaudin). American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 328-371, 2021.
“Outsiders,
Insiders and Interventions in the Housing Market” (with Xiaokuai Shao). Journal of Comparative Economics, vol.
49, no. 1, pp. 110-134, March 2021.
“Multidimensional Platform Design” (with Andre Veiga and Glen Weyl). American
Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), vol. 107, no. 5, May 2017.
“Let the Right ‘One’ Win: Policy Lessons
from the New Economics of Platforms” (with Glen Weyl). Competition Policy International, vol. 10, no. 2, Autumn 2014, p.
29-51. Published in Chinese as 让最好的一方赢–平台产业新经济学的政策含义,比较, vol. 76, no. 1, 2015,
p. 41-64.
“Search Engines: Left Side Quality
versus Right Side Profits”. International Journal of
Industrial Organization, vol. 31, no. 6, November 2013, p. 690-701. (Won
2014 IJIO Best Paper Award)
“Walrasian Equilibrium in Large, Quasilinear Economies”
(with Eduardo Azevedo and Glen Weyl). Theoretical
Economics, vol. 8, no. 2, May 2013, p. 281-290.
“Economics of Online Platforms”,
in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Online Edition. Eds. Steven
N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
Working
Papers
“Platform
Competition and Interoperability: The Net Fee Model” (with Mehmet Ekmekci and Lingxuan Wu)
“Double
Marginalization and Misplacement in Online Advertising” (with Kamal Jain,
Shota Ichihashi and Byung-Cheol Kim)
“Optional
Intermediaries and Pricing Restraints” (with Chang Liu and Fengshi Niu)
“Insulated Platform Competition”
(with Glen Weyl)
“On the Antitrust Economics of the Electronic Books Industry”
(with Germain Gaudin)
“Unit versus Ad Valorem Taxation Under Revenue Maximization”
(with Germain Gaudin)
“Half-Hearted Cooperation and the Evolution of Altruism”
Policy
Report
“Platform Economics and Tech
Giants: Competition in the Market and for the Market and
Implications for Regulation and Merger Policy” (with Baiyun Jing). Report prepared for the Beijing Cairncross Economic Research Foundation study on Competition
Policy for China’s Digital Economy: Some International Perspectives, 2022.
Business
Case
“Steemit: A New Social
Media?” (with Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and
Karen Elterman). Harvard
Business School Publishing. Case# 9-720-428, 2019.
Professional and Academic Activities
Tsinghua University
· Economics
Department Recruiting Committee Member, 2012 – present
· Co-Organizer of
annual Tsinghua BEAT Conference on microeconomics, 2017 – present
· Organizer of
Economics Department Weekly Seminar, 2012 – 2014
· Organizer of “Workshop
on Industrial Organization and Management Strategy”, December
2013
· Co-Organizer
(with Simon Anderson) of “Fifth
Workshop on the Economics of Advertising and Marketing”, June 2012
Beijing Cairncross
Economic Research Foundation
·
Contributing author to “Competition Policy for China’s Digital
Economy: An International Perspective”, a project scheduled for completion in
2021
Microsoft Research
· Week-long
visits at New England Lab, 2010, 2014, 2015
· Intern, Theory
Group, Redmond Lab, June – August 2008
· Visitor, Theory
Group, Redmond Lab, March, 2008
Télécom ParisTech
·
Organizer of conference on “Search and Web Advertising Strategies and Their
Impacts on Consumers”, Paris, September 2010
Fellowships and Awards
International Journal of
Industrial Organization Best Paper Award, 2014
National Natural Science Foundation of China Research Grant (joint with
Ming Gao, Glen Weyl and Jie Zheng), 2013 – 2015
Tsinghua University Research Grant (joint with Ming Gao), 2012 – 2014
Tsinghua SEM Outstanding Faculty Award, 2013
NET Institute Summer Grant, 2010
Chair Orange fellowship from Télécom ParisTech and France Télécom, 2009 – 2010
Allocataire de recherche (three-year fellowship awarded by
French government), 2006 – 2009
Courses Taught
Industrial
Organization (undergrad and Ph.D.) at Tsinghua, since 2011
Economics
of Online Platforms and the Sharing Economy (freshman seminar), since 2019
Enterprise
Organization and Analysis (MBA strategy elective with focus on platform business
models in China) at Tsinghua, 2014-2017
Professional Service
Editorial Board Member: Review
of Network Economics, March 2016 – present
Referee: American
Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Review, B.E. Journal of
Economic Analysis & Policy, Communications
& Strategies, Econometrica,
Economic Journal, Economics Letters,
European Economic Review, Frontiers of Business Research in China,
Games and Economic Behavior, Information
Systems Research, INFORMS Journal on
Computing, International Conference on Information Systems 2008, International Economic Review, International
Journal of Industrial Organization (Won Excellence in Reviewing Award,
2013), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economics & Management
Strategy, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Political
Economy, Journal of Regulatory
Economics, Management Science, Mathematical Social Sciences, Oxford Economic Papers, Quarterly Journal of Economics, RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Industrial Organization, Review of Network Economics, Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Transactions on Economics and Computation
Program Committee Member for: 13th
ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, Valencia, Spain, 2012; 7th
Workshop on Ad Auctions, San Jose, CA, 2011
Conference and Seminar Presentations
2023: American Economic Association Winter Meeting, New Orleans (planned)
2022: Platform
Research Symposium, Boston U.
(discussant)
2021: Boston
U., Department of Economics; Platform Research Symposium, Boston U., Questrom
School of Business; TSE Economics Platform Seminar
2020: 13th
Digital Economics Conference (discussant), Toulouse; TSE Economics Platform
Seminar (discussant)
2019: Conference on
Industrial Economics, Zhejiang U.; Compass Lexicon, Boston; School of
Management, Fudan U.; Institute of Economics and Business, Beihang
U.; Workshop on Industrial Organization and Competition Policy, U. of
International Business and Economics, Beijing
2018: University of
Miami, Department of Economics; Boston U., Department of Economics; Platform
Research Symposium, Boston U., Questrom School of Business (discussant); Workshop
on Industrial Organization and Competition Policy, University of International
Business and Economics, Beijing; Boston U., Department of Economics
2017: National School
of Development, Peking University; Georgetown U., Department of Economics; US
Federal Communications Commission; BEAT Conference, Tsinghua University;
National School of Development, Peking University; Workshop on Industrial
Organization and Competition Policy, University of International Business and
Economics, Beijing
2016: Conference on
Industrial Economics, Zhejiang University; TSE Conference in Honor of Jacques Crémer, Toulouse (discussant); Shanghai University of
Finance and Economics, Antitrust Economics and Policy Workshop; Department of
Economics, Lingnan U., Hong Kong
2015: Sixth Annual
Conference on Internet Search and Innovation, Northwestern University Law
School; TSE-IDEI Software and Internet Conference, Toulouse
2014: Caixin Summit,
Beijing; Workshop on Industrial Organization, Korea University, Seoul;
LACEA-LAMES Annual Meeting, Sao Paulo; Department of Economics, Hong Kong
University of Sciences and Technology; Conference on Industrial Economics,
Zhejiang University; Conference on Mechanism Design and Industrial Organization
in Honor of Jean-Jacques Laffont, Nanchang, China;
SSK International Conference on Competition and Information Economy, Yonsei
University, Seoul; IDEI Conference on E-commerce, Digital Economy and Delivery
Services, Toulouse; University of Miami, Department of Economics
2013: Workshop on
Multi-Sided Platforms, National University of Singapore; Research Center for
Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica,
Taipei; Department of Economics, University of Tokyo; Wang Yanan
Institute for Studies in Economics, Xiamen University; Summer School on
Digitization and its Impacts on Society, Dresden (keynote); Fourth Annual
Conference on Internet Search and Innovation, Northwestern University Law
School (discussant); University of Virginia, Department of Economics
2012: Asian Meeting
of the Econometric Society, Delhi; Peking University HSBC Business School,
Shenzhen; Zhejiang University, Dept. of Economics; Beijing Theory Workshop;
Shanghai Workshop on Industrial Organization and Competition Policy; Shanghai
Microeconomics Workshop; Toulouse School of Economics IP&IT Workshop;
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, School of Economics
2011: IOSM Workshop,
Peking University; Ninth Workshop on Media Economics, New Economic School,
Moscow; Bates White Antitrust Conference, Washington D.C.; CEPR-JIE Conference
on Applied Industrial Organization, Tel Aviv; International Industrial
Organization Conference, Boston; Tsinghua University, School of Economics and
Management; US Department of Justice; US Federal Trade Commission; US Federal
Communications Commission; Indiana University, Kelley School of Business; IDEI
Software and Internet Conference, Toulouse
2010: University of
Miami, Department of Economics; Harvard Industrial Organization Brown Bag; NET
Institute Conference, New York; Chair
Orange Conference on “Search and Web Advertisement Strategies”, Paris;
Toulouse School of Economics Theory Seminar; Workshop on the Economics of
Advertising and Marketing, IESE, Barcelona; Platform Markets: Regulation and
Competition Policy, ZEW Mannheim; Paris School of Economics; German Institute
for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin; Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble;
Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2009: Research
Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm; Econometric Society European
Meeting, Barcelona; ZEW Conference on the Economics of ICT, Mannheim; Télécom
ParisTech Conference on the Economics of ICT, Paris; INFORMS Marketing Science
Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan; University of Hong Kong, School of Economics
and Finance; European University Institute, Department of Economics, Florence;
IDEI Software and Internet Conference, Toulouse
2008: LACEA-LAMES
Annual Meeting, Rio de Janeiro; University College London, Department of
Economics; ZEW Conference on the Economics of ICT, Mannheim
Languages
English (native), Spanish (fluent),
French (fluent), Spoken Mandarin (intermediate), Turkish (intermediate)
Other
Studied in Boğaziçi University’s Turkish Language and Culture
Program, Summer 2004
Member of
Columbia University Varsity Golf Team, 2000 – 2002
Alumnus of School Year Abroad Spain in
Zaragoza, 2000
Personal
Married with
two children
U.S. Citizen