SICS 2011



Program


Monday, July 11th, 2011

6:30-8:30pm

Reception, Faculty Club

Tuesday, July 12th

9:00-10:20am

"Does Reducing Spatial Differentiation Increase Product Differentiation? Effects of Zoning on Retail Entry and Format Variety"

Sumon Datta (Purdue University) and K. Sudhir (Yale University)

 

Discussant: Wes Hartmann (Stanford University)


10:40-12:00pm

"Seeking an Aggressive Competitor: How Product Line Expansion Can Increase All Firms' Profits"

Raphael Thomadsen (UCLA)

 

Discussant: Sridhar Moorthy (University of Toronto)


1:30-2:50pm

"Targeting Political Advertising on Television"

Mitchell Lovett (University of Rochester) and Michael Peress (University of Rochester)

 

Discussant: Jean-Pierre Dubé (University of Chicago)


3:00-4:20pm

"Strategic Consumer Competition between Heavy and Light Users"

Steven Mark Shugan (University of Florida)

 

Discussant: Tony Cui (University of Minnesota)

Wednesday, July 13th

9:00-10:20am

"The Value of Low Value Customers"

Upender Subramanian (UT Dallas), Jagmohan S. Raju (University of Pennsylvania), Z. John Zhang (University of Pennsylvania)

 

Discussant: Jeff Shulman (University of Washington)


10:40-12:00pm

"Media, Aggregators and the Link Economy: Strategic Hyperlink Formation in Content Networks"

Chrysanthos Dellarocas (Boston University), Zsolt Katona (UC Berkeley), and William Rand (University of Maryland)

 

Discussant: Anthony Dukes (USC)


1:30-2:50pm

"When does Retargeting Work? Timing Information Specificity"

Anja Lambrecht (LBS) and Catherine Tucker (MIT)

 

Discussant: Brett Gordon (Columbia University)


3:00-4:20pm

"Economic Value of Celebrity Endorsement: Tiger Woods' Impact on Sales of Nike Golf Balls"

Kevin YC Chung, Timothy Derdenger, and Kannan Srinivasan (CMU)

 

Discussant: Nitin Mehta (University of Toronto)

Thursday, July 14th

9:00-10:20am

"How is the Mobile Internet Different? Search Costs and Local Activities"

Anindya Ghose (NYU), Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto) and Sang-Pil Han (NYU)

 

Discussant: Raghu Iyengar (University of Pennsylvania)


10:40-12:00pm

"Identifying the Presence and Cause of Fashion Cycles in the Choice of Given Names"

Hema Yoganarasimhan (UC Davis)

 

Discussant: Matthew Selove (USC)


1:30-2:50pm

"Repositioning Dynamics and Pricing Strategy"

Paul B. Ellickson (University of Rochester), Sanjog Misra (University of Rochester), Harikesh S. Nair (Stanford)

 

Discussant: Vineet Kumar (Harvard University)


3:00-4:20pm

"National Label's Response to Store Brands: Throw in the Towel or Fight Back?"

Sherif Nasser, Danko Turcic, and Chakravarthi Narasimhan (Washington University in St. Louis)

 

Discussant: Nanda Kumar (UT Dallas)


7:00pm

Conference Dinner - Trader Vick's Emeryville

 

Keynote Speaker: Preyas Desai (Duke University)

Friday, July 15th

9:00-10:20am

"Sequential versus Simultaneous Group Buying Mechanisms"

Ming Hu, Mengze Shi, and Jiahua Wu (University of Toronto)

 

Discussant: Jerath Kinshuk (CMU)


10:40-12:00pm

"There's no 'I' in 'Team': Estimating NBA Players' Offensive Production"

Xinlei (Jack) Chen (UBC), Yuxin Chen (Northwestern University) and Kenneth C Wilbur (Duke University)

 

Discussant: Sridhar Narayanan (Stanford University)


1:30-2:50pm

"Asymmetric Demand Effects and Cost Pass-Through"

Alexei Alexandrov (University of Rochester) and Ozlem Bedre-Defoliey (European School of Management and Technology (ESMT), Berlin)

 

Discussant: Ram Rao (University of Texas, Dallas)


3:00-4:20pm

"Strategic Demarketing"

Jeanine Miklos-Thal (University of Rochester), Juanjuan Zhang (MIT)

 

Discussant: Anne Coughlan (Northwestern University)


4:30pm

Drinks at the Faculty Club