VAIVA PETRIKAITE˙ Instituto de An´alisis Econ´omico (CSIC), Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain [email protected], [email protected] www.petrikaite.eu, ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3218-8525

EDUCATION 2007 Sept.– 2012 May PhD in , University of Groningen (NL) Thesis: The E↵ects of Costly Consumer Search on Mergers and Cartels 2004 Sept.– 2006 Jul. MSc. in Economics, Vilnius University (LT) Thesis: Role of the Buyer Power in the Analysis of Structural Market Changes (Lithuanian Academy of Sciences award for the best student paper in the section of humanities and social sciences) 2000 Sept. – 2004 Jul. Bachelor in Economics, cum laude Vilnius University (LT) (with the minor in Mathematical Economics)

WORK EXPERIENCE 2014 Oct. - current Postdoctoral researcher, BGSE and IAE-CSIC (ES) 2012 Sept. –2014 Sept. Postdoctoral researcher, University of Groningen (NL) 2004 Jul. – 2007 Aug. State Tax Inspectorate under Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania (LT)

PUBLICATIONS M. Haan, J.L. Moraga-Gonz´alez, V. Petrikait˙e(2018) “A Model of Directed Consumer Search”, In- ternational Journal of Industrial Organization, forthcoming. V. Petrikait˙e(2018) “Consumer Obfuscation by a Multiproduct Firm”, RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 49, 206-223. V. Petrikait˙e(2018) “A Search Model of Costly Product Returns”, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol 58, 236-251. V. Petrikait˙e(2016) “Collusion with Costly Consumer Search”, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 44, 1-10. M. Mulder, V. Petrikait˙e, B. Scholtens (2015) “Distributed Energy Generation Techniques and the Competitive Fringe E↵ect in Electricity Markets”,ResourceandEnergyEconomics,Vol.42,125-140. J.L. Moraga-Gonz´alez, V. Petrikait˙e(2013) “Search Costs, Demand-Side Economies and the Incen- tives to Merge under Bertrand Competition”, RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 44, 391-424.

WORKING PAPERS . Burguet, V. Petrikait˙e “Targeted Advertising and Costly Consumer Search”, Barcelona GSE Work- ing Paper No. 971. S. H¨am¨al¨ainen, V. Petrikait˙e “Mobility with Private Information and Privacy Suppression”, CEPR Discussion paper No. 12860. V. Petrikait˙e “Search Choice, Pricing and Obfuscation” OTHER TRAINING 2010 Jul. Summer school: Econometric Methods for Demand Systems in Economics and Marketing (Queen Mary College, University of London, the UK) 2009 Jul. Summer school: Discrete Choice Models - Theory and Applications to Environment, Landscape, Transportation and Marketing (Bologna University, Italy) 2009 Jan. 14th Graduate Student Workshop in Experimental Economics, (Chapman University, the USA)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2012 Nov. – Dec. Microeconomic Analysis (ISM Vilnius, LT) 2012 Sept. – Nov. Microeconomics I (University of Groningen, NL) 2007 – 2011 Microeconomics III (University of Groningen, NL), teaching assistant

CONFERENCES RES 2014 Postgraduate Presentation Meeting & Job Market 38th Simposio of Spanish Economic Association EARIE: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017 IIOC: 2009, 2017 BECCLE 2015 Search and Matching Workshop: 2015, 2017 Consumer Search and Switching Workshop: 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 Workshop on the Economics of Advertising and Marketing: 2016 Annual Lithuanian Conference on Economic Research: 2012, 2015, 2016

GRANTS, PROJECTS 2017 Jan. -2019 Dec. “Consumers’ Search Costs and Privacy in Online Markets” (by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, grant No. ECO2015-74328-JIN (AEI/FEDER/UE)). Personal grant. 2017 Jan. - 2019 Dec. “Theoretical and Experimental Microeconomics”, (Government of Catalonia No: SGR 1136, leading researcher Jordi Brandts) 2016 Sep. - 2018 Sep. “Innovation and Information in a Digital Economy” (BBVA Fundaci´on, leading researcher Matthew Ellman). 2012 Sep. - 2014 Dec. “E↵ects of Decentralized New-gas Injection in Relation with Sustainable Electricity on the Market System Dynamics” (EDGaR project, leading researcher: Hans Wortmann) OTHER Research aliate at Centre for Economic Policy Research since 2016. The member of the scientific committee for the Annual Lithuanian Conference on Economic Research 2017-2018. The organizer of the 9th Consumer Search and Switching Workshop (within Barcelona GSE Summer Forum), 2018. Refereeing services for: RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of European Economic Association, In- ternational Journal of Industrial Organization, Review of Industrial Organization, Economic Journal, Journal of Economics and Business, Manchester School, Journal of Economics, European Economic Review

LANGUAGES Lithuanian (mother tongue), English (fluent), Russian (intermediate), Dutch (intermediate), German (basic), Spanish (intermediate)

COMPUTER SKILLS Statistical and other specialized packages: Mathematica, E-Views, R, MatLab, LATEX, Stata, SageMath

Updated, 2018 October