The pod covers much ground, including:
How Amazon's real "core product" is convenience...
How quickly Amazon can get an order from customers' virtual shopping carts to their real-life doorsteps...
How Amazon's expanding distribution center network has been key to the company's growth strategy....
Katja Seim is an economics professor at Yale University with joint appointments in the School of Management and the Department of Economics.
Her research focuses on topics of industrial organization and applied microeconomics.
She studies how firms respond to public policies, including entry and technology deployment regulations, competition policy, and tax policy in their entry, product positioning, and pricing choices. Her work also evaluates market power's role in affecting efficiency and distributional outcomes of government auctions to procure goods and services and sell assets.
Seim spoke to Knowledge@Wharton about her paper, "Economies of Density in E-Commerce: A Study of Amazon's Fulfillment Center Network," co-authored with Cornell's Jean-Francois Houde and Penn State's Peter Newberry.
In short, she is an expert in analytics, big data, and antitrust + competition policy.
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-Marc
