Alan Sorensen Associate Professor of Economics & Strategic Management Graduate School of Business Stanford University 518 Memorial Way Stanford, CA  94305-5015 650-724-0446 650-725-7979 (fax) asorensen@stanford.edu

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Curriculum Vitae

Research papers:

• "Equilibrium Price Dispersion in Retail Markets for Prescription Drugs," Journal of Political Economy, August 2000.
• "Price Dispersion and Heterogeneous Consumer Search for Retail Prescription Drugs," NBER Working Paper 8548, October 2001. (download PDF)
• "Insurer-Hospital Bargaining: Negotiated Discounts in Post-deregulation Connecticut," Journal of Industrial Economics, December 2003.
• "Social Learning and Health Plan Choice," forthcoming, RAND Journal of Economics. (read abstract) || (download PDF)
• "Information and Consumer Choice: The Value of Publicized Health Plan Ratings" (with Ginger Jin), Journal of Health Economics, v. 26 n. 2 (March 2006). (read abstract) || (download PDF)
• "Negative Publicity: When is Negative a Positive?" (with Jonah Berger and Scott Rasmussen). (read abstract) || (download PDF)
• "Bestseller Lists and Product Variety," forthcoming, Journal of Industrial Economics. (read abstract) || (download PDF)
• "Information and the Skewness of Music Sales" (with Ken Hendricks), March 2007. (read abstract) || (download PDF)
• "Supply Responses to Digital Distribution: Recorded Music and Live Performances" (with Julie Holland Mortimer). (read abstract) || (download PDF)
• "Nearly Optimal Pricing for Multiproduct Firms" (with Sean Chu and Phillip Leslie). (read abstract) || (download PDF)
  

Work in progress:

• "The Welfare Effects of Ticket Resale," with Phillip Leslie. (preliminary draft)
  
   
• "Competition and Diffusion for Word-of-Mouth Products," with Li Hao.

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