3 papers
econ.EM2026
Do Third-Party Web Traffic Estimates Preserve Causal Variation?
Mehrzad Khosravi, Hema Yoganarasimhan
Researchers increasingly rely on third-party platforms such as Similarweb and Semrush to measure web traffic when first-party analytics are unavailable. Yet these platforms report…
cs.LG2026
Boundedly Rational Meta-Learning in Sequential Consumer Choice
Mehrzad Khosravi, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Hema Yoganarasimhan
Many consumer decisions involve repeated choices under uncertainty, where experience in one context may inform decisions in another. For example, experience with a brand in one mar…
cs.CY2026
Impact of AI Search Summaries on Website Traffic: Evidence from Google AI Overviews and Wikipedia
Mehrzad Khosravi, Hema Yoganarasimhan
Search engines increasingly display AI-generated answers above organic links, potentially displacing traffic to upstream publishers. We estimate the impact of Google's AI Overviews…