Profile
Dr Alexei Parakhonyak
Profile
I studied Economics as an undergraduate (BA, 2002) at Higher School of Economics, Nizhny Novgorod and a graduate (MA, 2004) at Higher School of Economics, Moscow. After working for almost two years at Deloitte, I continued my studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Tinbergen Institute, where I obtained my PhD in 2010. In 2010-2015 I worked as an Assistant and Associate Professor at Higher School of Economics, Moscow. In 2015 I moved to Oxford to take up the position of Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Tutorial Fellow at Lincoln College.
College teaching
I teach an array of Microeconomics related courses to undergraduates, including the Micro part of Prelims and core Micro, as well as optional courses like Microeconomic Analysis or Game Theory.
- Research
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My primary research area is theoretical industrial organisation, with the focus on the role of information in consumer markets. I work on consumer search, advertising, social learning, and network externalities in consumer markets.
- Select publications
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Optimal Sales Schemes for Network Goods (with N. Vikander), Management Science vol. 65(2), 2019, pp. 819-841, doi
Shopping Malls, Platforms and Consumer Search (with M. Titova), International Journal of Industrial Organization 58, 2018, pp. 183-213, doi
Non-Reservation Price Equilibria and Consumer Search (with M.C.W. Janssen and An. Parakhonyak) , Journal of Economic Theory 172, 2017, pp. 120-162, doi
Non-Reservation Price Equilibria and Search Without Priors (with A. Sobolev), The Economic Journal 125(584), 2015, pp. 887-909, doi
Consumer Search Markets With Costly Revisits (with M.C.W. Janssen), Economic Theory 55(2), 2014, pp. 481-514, doi
Position
- Amelia Ogunlesi Fellow in Economics