SICS 2013
Program
Monday, June 24, 2013
6:30-8:30pm
Reception, Faculty Club
Tuesday, June 25
9:00-10:20am
"When Technology Products Meet Social Needs: Product Pricing and Design"
Jiong Sun (Illinois Institute of Technology), Tao Chen (University of Maryland), Jinhong Xie (University of Florida), Fei Li (Tsinghua University), and Gao Wang (China Europe International Business School)
Discussant: Pedro Gardete (Stanford University)
10:40-12:00pm
"`We're Number 1': Price Wars for Market Share Leadership"
Luis Cabral (New York University)
Discussant: Dmitri Kuksov (University of Texas, Dallas)
1:30-2:50pm
"Quantifying the Impacts of Limited Supply: The Case of Nursing Homes"
Andrew Ching (University of Toronto), Fumiko Hayashi (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City) and Hui Wang (Peking University)
Discussant: Kanishka Misra (University of Michigan)
3:10-4:30pm
"A Two-Sided Entry Model with Manufacturer-Retailer Contracts"
Tat Chan (Washington University in St. Louis), Alvin Murphy (Washington University in St. Louis), and Li Wang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
Discussant: Sanjog Misra (University of California, Los Angeles)
Wednesday, June 26
9:00-10:20am
"Social Responsibility and Product Innovation"
Ganesh Iyer (University of California, Berkeley) and David Soberman (University of Toronto)
Discussant: Baojun Jiang (Washington University in St. Louis)
10:40-12:00pm
"Inter Connected Dynamic Choices under Moral Hazard: Estimating a Model of Health Related Consumption Decisions"
Ahmed Khwaja (Yale University)
Discussant: Michael Dickstein (Stanford University)
1:30-2:50pm
"Product Preannouncement under Consumer Loss Aversion"
Ram Rao (University of Texas, Dallas) and Ozge Turut (Sabanci University)
Discussant: Wilfred Amaldoss (Duke University)
3:10-4:30pm
"Sunk Cost Fallacy in Driving the World's Costliest Cars"
Teck Ho (University of California, Berkeley), Ivan Png (National University of Singapore) and Sadat Reza (National University of Singapore)
Discussant: Song Yao (Northwestern University)
Thursday, June 27
Media Day, Sponsored by the Media Program, Columbia Business School
9:00-10:20am
"Do Superbowl Ads Affect Brand Share?"
Wes Hartmann (Stanford University) and Daniel Klapper (Humboldt University Berlin)
Discussant: Kenneth Wilbur (Duke University)
10:40-12:00pm
"Agenda Chasing and Contests among News Providers"
Zsolt Katona (University of California, Berkeley), Jonathan Knee (Columbia University) and Miklos Sarvary (Columbia University)
Discussant: Pinar Yildirim (University of Pennsylvania)
1:30-2:50pm
"The Selective Reporting of Factual Content by Commercial Media"
Yi Zhu (University of Southern California) and Anthony Dukes (University of Southern California)
Discussant: Miklos Sarvary (Columbia University)
3:10-4:30pm
"Empirical Model of Dynamic Merger Enforcement - Choosing Ownership Caps in U.S. Radio"
Przemyslaw Jeziorski (University of California, Berkeley)
Discussant: Paul Ellickson (University of Rochester)
6:00pm
Conference Dinner
Skates on the Bay
Friday, June 28
9:00-10:20am
"`Showrooming' and the Competition between Store and Online Retailers"
Amit Mehra (Indian School of Business), Subodha Kumar (Texas A&M University) and Jagmohan S. Raju (University of Pennsylvania)
Discussant: Jiwoong Shin (Yale University)
10:40-12:00pm
"Pay What You Want as a Marketing Strategy in Monopolistic and Competitive Markets "
Klaus M. Schmidt (University of Munich), Martin Spann (University of Munich) and Robert Zeithammer (University of California, Los Angeles)
Discussant: Navdeep Sahni (Stanford University)
1:30-2:50pm
"Virtual Property Trade in Online Games"
Yi Xiang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) and Liang Guo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Discussant: Dina Mayzlin (University of Southern California)
3:15pm
Drinks at the Faculty Club