Gaurav Jakhu

Research
Publications
"On the Implications of Cost of Anonymity in Advertising Financed Two-Sided Markets."
Oxford Economic Papers (2026). [Working Paper]
"Impact of Pre-Installation on Firm Profits, Application Functionality and Welfare," (with Tarun Jain)
Journal of the Operational Research Society (2026). [Article Link]
"Integrating a Free Online Service: Advertisements and Competitive Implications"
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (2025). [Working Paper] [Article Link]
"Economics of Content Aggregation: Pricing and Advertising Competition in a Multi-Channel Structure,"
(with Tarun Jain)
Naval Research Logistics (2025). [Article Link]
"Endogenous Data Collection in Platform Markets: Privacy and Welfare," (with Prabal Roy Chowdhury)
Production and Operations Management (2025). [Article Link]
"Data Protection and Empowering Users to Control Data."
Marketing Letters (2024). [Article Link]
Revise and Resubmit
"Sabotage in Digital Markets with Endogenous Homing"
Revise and Resubmit (Third Round) at MIS Quarterly.
Papers Under Review
"Application Compatibility in the Presence of Preference for Variety", (with Akhil Ilango)
"Optimal Payments to News Publishers, Snippet Length and News Aggregation", (with Manaswini Bhalla)
Work in Progress
"Biased Intermediation in the Presence of Direct Sales", (with Saish Navrekar)
"Privacy and Quality Investment" , (with Vinay Ramani)"
"Data, Market Power and Multi-Homing" , (with Vinay Ramani)"
"A Ban on Sensitive Data Collection" , (with Prabal Roy Chowdhury)
"Endogenous Homing and Competition"
"Implications of Quality Screening and Blockchain Adoption in the Marketplace Structure"