Steve Tadelis

Steve Tadelis

Professor

UC Berkeley Haas (prev. eBay, Amazon)

PhD: Stanford, 1995

Digital Advertising Market Design Contracts

About

Steve Tadelis is the godfather of tech-economics field experiments. He led eBay's research team and served as VP at Amazon. His paper showing eBay was wasting millions on ads changed how tech companies think about marketing effectiveness.

Key Work

2015

Consumer Acquisition Cost and Marketing Experiments at eBay

Econometrica

The paper that proved eBay was wasting $millions on ads

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2013

Game Theory: An Introduction

Textbook

Standard game theory textbook

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2016

Reputation and Feedback in Online Markets

JEP

How online reputation works

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Celebrating the pioneers of tech economics