MARIT HINNOSAAR
Email: marit.hinnosaar@gmail.com
Web: https://marit.hinnosaar.net
RESEARCH FIELDS
Empirical Industrial Organization, Economics of Digitization, Health Economics, Machine Learning
ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND AFFILIATIONSAssistant Professor, University of Nottingham, Department of Economics, 2020–present
Assistant Professor, Collegio Carlo Alberto, 2013–2021 (on leave 2020–2021)
Research Aﬀiliate in Industrial Organization, CEPR, 2016–present
EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
Associate Editor, Journal of Industrial Economics, 2021–present
EDUCATION
PhD Economics, Northwestern University, 2013
Committee: Aviv Nevo (chair), Matthias Doepke, Rob Porter, Shane Greenstein
MA Economics, Northwestern University, 2009
MA Economics, University of Tartu, 2002, cum laude
BA Economics, University of Tartu, 2001
PUBLICATIONS
1. ”The persistence of healthy behaviors in food purchasing”,
Marketing Science, 2023, 42(3): 521–537.
2. ”Wikipedia matters”, with Toomas Hinnosaar, Michael Kummer, Olga Slivko,
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2023, 32–3: 657–669.
3. ”Malleability of alcohol consumption: Evidence from migrants”, with Elaine M. Liu,
Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 85: 102648.
4. ”Externalities in knowledge production: Evidence from a randomized field experiment”, withToomas Hinnosaar, Michael Kummer, Olga Slivko,
Experimental Economics, 2022, 25: 706–733.
5. ”Gender inequality in new media: Evidence from Wikipedia”,
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 163: 262–276.
6. ”Time inconsistency and alcohol sales restrictions”,
European Economic Review, 2016, 87: 108–131.
WORKING PAPERS AND PAPERS UNDER REVIEW
1. ”Influencer cartels”, with Toomas Hinnosaar
2. ”Externalities of marijuana legalization: marijuana use in non-legalizing states”, with ElaineM. Liu and Eva Loaeza Albino
3. ”The impact of retirement on the healthiness of food purchases”

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1. ”Store opening hours and consumer behavior”, with Javier Donna, Toomas Hinnosaar, andAndre Trindade
2. ”How does the expansion of local influencer advertising affect markets?”, with Daniel Ershov
and Jiewei Li
3. ”Competition and information dissemination”, with Shijian Liu, Seung-Keun Martinez, Ryan
McDevitt, and Chelsea Park
4. ”Information disclosure in ride-hailing markets”, with Doruk Cetemen, and Toomas Hinnosaar
5. ”The costs of non-tariff trade barriers”, with Maria Garcia-Vega and Richard Kneller
6. ”Demand for fitness solutions”
GRANTS & AWARDS
1. British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant, Co-PI with Toomas Hinnosaar, 2024–2025, 10,000 GBP
2. University of Nottingham, Faculty of Social Sciences Commendations for high student satisfaction in Machine Learning for Economics, 2023/24
3. NBER Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (PIE) Program, Economics of Digitization Research Grant, Co-PI with Ryan McDevitt, David Ridley: 2021–2022, 15,000 USD
4. ZEW SEEK Grant, PI with Olga Slivko (PI ZEW), Peter Gloor, Toomas Hinnosaar, MichaelKummer, Michael Zhang: 2014–2015, 199,000 EUR
5. 11th International Industrial Organization Conference, Best Paper in Regulatory Economics,
Public Utility Research Center Prize, 2013
6. European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Young Economists’
Essay Award (YEEA), Best Paper (Job Market Paper), 2013
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIESScientific Program Committee
European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Annual Conference Scientific Committee, 2023, 2024
Co-organizer of CEPR Virtual IO Seminar Series, 2021
International Industrial Organization Conference, Awards Selection Committee, 2018, 2019
Conference Organizer
Co-organizer of ”Digital Economy Workshop”, Collegio Carlo Alberto, June 2015
Co-organizer of ”Pricing Workshop”, Collegio Carlo Alberto, May 2014
PhD Thesis Examiner
External Examiner for PhD dissertation, University of Houston: Eva Loaeza Albino, 2024
Internal Examiner for PhD dissertation, University of Nottingham: Sarah Bowen, 20222

Refereeing
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy,
Economic Journal, Economics Letters, Education Economics, Health Economics, International
Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Economic
Behavior & Organization, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Health
Economics, Journal of Industrial Economics, Management Science, Review of Economic Studies
Seminars and Conference Presentations
2024 (including scheduled) UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Liverpool Text-as-Data
Workshop, City/CMA Workshop on Economics of Competition and Regulation, Tinbergen Workshop
2023 Bristol-Warwick Empirical IO Workshop, Berlin IO Day, 6th Monash-Warwick-Zurich Textas-Data Workshop, 2nd UK Digital Economics Workshop, CESifo Economics of Digitization
Conference
2022 13th Workshop on the Economics of Advertising and Marketing (London)
2021 12th Paris Conference on Digital Economics, IIOC, Mannheim Virtual IO seminar, Munich Summer Institute, Baltic Economics Conference, North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society, SED, NBER SI IT and Digitization,
NBER SI Health Economics, Econometric Society European Meeting, EARIE, University of Leicester, Electronic Health Economics Colloquium2020 Baltic Economic Association
2019 University of Pittsburgh, University of Tennessee, University of Houston, Duke University, George
Mason University, University of Nottingham, Royal Holloway, University of Essex, University ofBristol, University of Edinburgh, LSE, IFS, ZEW Conference on the Economics of ICT, Advanceswith Field Experiments 2019 Conference at the University of Chicago, 4th Dondena Workshop
on Public Policy (Bocconi)
2018 Digital Economics Conference in Toulouse, 3rd Economics of Media Bias Workshop in Cologne,
Health Behaviours and Health Information Workshop in London, IIOC (Indianapolis), EARIE(Athens), JEI (Barcelona), University of East Anglia, SEA (Washington, DC), European WinterMeeting of the Econometric Society (Naples)2017 ZEW Conference on the Economics of ICT, EARIE (Maastricht), Advances with Field Experiments 2017 Conference at the University of Chicago, 15th Annual Media Economics Workshop(Barcelona), HCHE Risky Health Behaviors Workshop
2016 Arizona State University
2015 Humboldt University of Berlin, ZEW Conference on the Economics of ICT, Digital EconomyWorkshop, iHEA World Congress (Milan), 8th ICT Paris Conference, University of Naples,
European University Institute, Pennsylvania State University
2014 Pricing Workshop (Turin), University of Mannheim
2013 University of Copenhagen, CERGE-EI, New Economic School, Collegio Carlo Alberto, EIEF,
University of Queensland, University of Oslo, IIOC (Boston), Barcelona GSE Summer Forum,EEA (Gothenburg), EARIE (Evora), Wikipedia Workshop (Mannheim), Aalto University
2012 ESEM (Malaga), EARIE (Rome), Internet, Politics, and Policy (Oxford), MOOD (Rome), Northwestern University

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UNIVERSITY SERVICE
University of Nottingham
PhD Placement Oﬀicer, School of Economics, University of Nottingham, 2024-present
School Workshop Organizer, School of Economics, University of Nottingham, 2024-present
Research Ethics Committee, School of Economics, University of Nottingham, 2021-present
Junior Hiring Committee, School of Economics, University of Nottingham, 2020-present
Academic Misconduct Oﬀicer, School of Economics, University of Nottingham, 2022-2024
Collegio Carlo Alberto
Co-organizer of economics seminar series, Collegio Carlo Alberto, 2013–2020
Junior hiring committee, Collegio Carlo Alberto, 2013–2020
Master program admissions committee, Collegio Carlo Alberto, 2014–2020
Undergraduate defense committees, Collegio Carlo Alberto, 2014–2020
Co-organizer of Monday lunch seminar series, Collegio Carlo Alberto, 2013–2015
PHD ADVISING
1. Miquel Oliver i Vert (expected graduation 2025)
2. Lucas Braga de Melo (expected graduation 2026)
3. Jesus Rodriguez (expected graduation 2026)
TEACHING
University of Nottingham
Machine Learning for Economics (MSc), Fall 2023–2024
Economic Data Analysis (MSc), Fall 2020–2024
Pre-sessional Econometrics (MSc), Fall 2020–2024
Big Data Economics (MSc), Spring 2022–2023
Expert Workshop on Big Data from Social Media Platforms (PhD), 2022Current Economic Issues (undergraduate), Spring 2021–2023
Collegio Carlo Alberto
Empirical Industrial Organization, Fall 2013–2015, Spring 2020
Econometric Theory I, Fall 2016–2018
Northwestern University, 2008--2012
Introduction to Microeconomics (Teaching Assistant), Economics of Medical Care (Teaching Assistant), Law and Economics (Teaching Assistant), Economics of the Family (Teaching Assistant),Differential Calculus of One Variable Functions (Teaching Assistant)
University of Tartu, 2005--2006
Introduction to Economics (Teaching Assistant), Advanced Microeconomics, Advanced Macroeconomics, Mathematical Methods in Economics
4GENERAL PRESS PUBLICATIONS”How influencer cartels manipulate social media: Fraudulent behaviour hidden in plain sight”,
VoxEU Column, with Toomas Hinnosaar”Malleability of alcohol consumption”, VoxEU Column, with Elaine M. Liu
WORK DISCUSSED IN POPULAR PRESS
BBC Radio, Guardian, Quartz, Telegraph, Independent, MSN, News Medical, IndianExpress,
BusinessMagazine (Albanian), Dosja (Albanian), Seznam Zprávy (Chezh), Sina Technology (Chinese), Zimo (Croatian), Eesti Ekspress (Estonian), Postimees (Estonian), Tivi (Finnish), Business Insider France (French), France Soir (French), Business AM (French), Clubic (French),
FR24news (French), Siècle Digital (French), Travelestate (Greek), PiaceProfit (Hungarian), mfor.hu(Hungarian), Privátbankár (Hungarian), Morgunblaðið (Icelandic), Daily-planet (Indonesian),FocusTech (Italian), Gazeta.pl (Polish), 1pezeshk (Persian), Pagina Jornal (Portuguese), Inc.
Russia (Russian), Roskom Svoboda (Russian), Nuevo Periodico (Spanish), La Información (Spanish), Turkish BBC (Turkish), Bursa Hakimiyet (Turkish)
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONSUK Professional Standards Framework for teaching: Fellow (FHEA) certificate, 2022
ACADEMIC VISITSLondon School of Economics, November–December 2019
Duke University, September–October 2019
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Spring 2016
OTHER EMPLOYMENTBank of Estonia, Research Department, Economist, 2002–2004

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