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Jana Gieselmann is a Doctoral Researcher at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. She is part of the DFG Research Unit on 'Consumer Preferences, Consumer Mistakes, and Firms’ Response' and was a Visiting Research Assistant at Yale University (2022–2023). Her academic background includes a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Economics from Heinrich Heine University, with a semester abroad at Waseda University in Tokyo.
Her research focuses on behavioral economics, industrial organization, and digital economics, particularly examining issues in platform markets, two-sided markets, and collusion dynamics. Key projects include analyzing platform monopolies' incentive distortions in matching algorithms and fake profile strategies to manipulate perceived network sizes. She has also studied strategic collusion in vertically related markets and quality uncertainty in competitive settings.
Jana holds teaching experience as a tutor at DICE and has interned at the German Federal Cartel Office (Monopolies Commission). She will join the University of Edinburgh as an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in 2025. Her work bridges theoretical economic frameworks with applied analysis of modern digital market challenges.