Cole Randall Williams
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Vienna
I am an economist working in the areas of industrial organization and political economy.

Publications
Influencing Search with Maarten Janssen
Accepted at The RAND Journal of Economics
Truth and Conformity on Networks with Aydin Mohseni
Erkenntnis (2021), pp 1-22
How Redefining Statistical Significance can Worsen the Replication Crisis
Economics Letters (2019), Vol. 181, pp 65-69
Working Papers
Echo Chambers: Social Learning under Unobserved Heterogeneity
Revise and Resubmit at The Economic Journal
Searching Online and Product Returns with Maarten Janssen
Affirmative Action with Multidimensional Identities with Jean-Paul Carvalho and Bary Pradelski
Column: Intersectional Affirmative Action with J.P. Carvalho and B. Pradelski, VoxEU
Resisting Education with Jean-Paul Carvalho and Mark Koyama
Under Review
Preregistration and Incentives
Under Review
Work in Progress
Search Platforms: Big Data and Sponsored Positions with Maarten Janssen, Thomas Jungbauer, and Marcel Preuss
(presentation slides)
Coasian Dynamics in Sequential Search with Eeva Mauring
Contact
cole.randall.williams@gmail.com
Oskar Morgenstern Platz 1
1090 Vienna, Austria