Anthony Vashevko
Anthony Vashevko
I study how market actors strategically respond to uncertainty in markets, with a specific focus on identifying structural factors that cause producers to innovate. My dissertation focuses on the critical role that market audiences play in determining which parts of a market choose to innovate: In order to cope with the complexity of markets, audiences draw boundaries to separate the best producers from the rest, with these boundaries taking the form of ratings, rankings, and categorizations. My research explores how producers strategically react to such boundaries, showing how producers’ decision to innovate depends on their position in the market. My work relies on formal modeling as well as analysis of large-scale observational data sets.