Andrey Fradkin - Boston University Questrom

I am currently an assistant professor of marketing at the Boston University Questrom School of Business and an affiliate of the Boston University Economics Department. My academic research has been published in top marketing, economics, and computer science outlets. I’ve provided expert input about the digital economy to the President’s Council on Science and Technology and the Federal Trade Commission. Prior to BU, I was a postdoc at the Initiative on the Digital Economy at MIT. I worked as a data scientist at Airbnb while completing a Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford University. In my free time, I climb, write, and make a podcast.

Publications

Fradkin, A., Holtz, D. (In Press). “Do Incentives to Review Help the Market? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Airbnb”, Marketing Science

Farronato, C., MacKay, A., Fradkin, A. (In Press). “Self-Preferencing at Amazon: Evidence from Search Rankings”, American Economic Review (Paper and Proceedings)

Fradkin, A., Farronato, C., Fong, J. (In Press). “Dog Eat Dog: Balancing Network Effects and Differentiation in a Digital Platform Merger”, Management Science

Hagiu, A., Farronato, C., Fradkin, A., Lomax, D. (2024). “Understanding the Tradeoffs of the Amazon Antitrust Case”, Harvard Business Review

Fradkin, A. (2023). “Platform Papers: Do Incentives to Review Help the Market?”,

Longoni, C., Fradkin, A., Cian, L., Pennycook, G. (2022). “News from generative artificial intelligence is believed less”, FAccT ’22: 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Farronato, C., Fradkin, A. (2022). “The Welfare Effects of Peer Entry: The Case of Airbnb and the Accommodation Industry”, American Economic Review, 112 (6), 1782-1817

Fradkin, A., Farronato, C., Fong, J. (2021). “When Do Users Benefit From Platform Mergers?”, ProMarket

Fradkin, A. (2021). “The balance between platform variety and network effects”, VoxEU

(2020). “Tit for Tat? The Difficulty of Designing Two-Sided Reputation Systems”, NIM Marketing Intelligence Review

Fradkin, A., Panier, F., Tojerow, I. (2019). “Blame the Parents? How Parental Unemployment Affects Labor Supply and Job Quality for Young Adults”, Journal of Labor Economics, 37 (1), 35-100

Fradkin, A. (2019). “A Simulation Approach to Designing Digital Matching Platforms”,

Baker, S., Fradkin, A. (2017). “The Impact of Unemployment Insurance on Job Search: Evidence from Google Search Data”, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 99 (5), 756-768

Bernheim, B., Fradkin, A., Popov, I. (2015). “The Welfare Economics of Default Options in 401(k) Plans”, American Economic Review, 105 (9), 2798-2837

Fradkin, A., Grewal, E., Holtz, D., Pearson, M. (2015). “Bias and Reciprocity in Online Reviews”, Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Economics and Computation

Fradkin, A. (2015). “Search Frictions and the Design of Online Marketplaces”, Proceedings of the The Third Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and Their Applications