SICS 2012



Program


Monday, July 9th, 2012

6:30-8:30pm

Reception, Faculty Club

Tuesday, July 10th

9:00-10:20am

"Short Run Needs and Long Term Goals: A Dynamic Model of Thirst Management"

Guofang Huang (Yale University), Ahmed Khwaja (Yale University) and K. Sudhir (Yale University)

 

Discussant: Ron Goettler (University of Chicago)


10:40-12:00pm

"Markets for Data"

Dirk Bergemann (Yale University) and Alessandro Bonatti (MIT)

 

Discussant: David Soberman (University of Toronto)


1:30-2:50pm

"Will a Fat Tax Work?"

Romana Khan (University of Chicago), Kaniska Misra (London Business School) and Vishal Singh (New York University)

 

Discussant: Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto)


3:10-4:30pm

"A Dynamic Model of Competitive Entry Response"

Matthew Selove (University of Southern California)

 

Discussant: Chakravarthi Narasimhan (Washington University in St. Louis)

Wednesday, July 11th

9:00-10:20am

"Exploding Offers and Buy-Now Discounts"

Mark Armstrong (University College London) and Jidong Zhou (New York University)

 

Discussant: Zsolt Katona (University of California Berkeley)


10:40-12:00pm

"Product Updates in the Presence of Consumer Progression"

Paulo Albuquerque (University of Rochester) and Yulia Nevskaya (University of Rochester)

 

Discussant: Masakazu Ishihara (New York University)


1:30-2:50pm

"The Impatient Innovator "

Juanjuan Zhang (MIT)

 

Discussant: Elie Ofek (Harvard University)


3:10-4:30pm

"Free to Choose? Reform and Demand Response in the British National Health Service "

Martin Gaynor (Carnegie Mellon University, U. of Bristol and NBER), Carol Propper (Imperial College and U. of Bristol) and Stephan Seiler (Stanford University)

 

Discussant: Amanda Starc (University of Pennsylvania)


Thursday, July 12th

9:00-10:20am

"Peer Effects in the Diffusion of Solar Photovoltaic Panels"

Bryan Bollinger (New York University) and Kenneth Gillingham (Yale University)

 

Discussant: Song Yao (Northwestern University)


10:40-12:00pm

"Inequity Aversion and Fair Selling"

Liang Guo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

 

Discussant: Steven Shugan (University of Florida)


1:30-2:50pm

"A Model of Buzz and Advertising"

Arthur Campbell (Yale University), Dina Mayzlin (Yale University) and Jiwoong Shin (Yale University)

 

Discussant: Yogesh Joshi (University of Maryland)


3:10-4:30pm

"Estimating Network Economies in Retail Chain: A Revealed Preference Approach"

Paul B. Ellickson (University of Rochester), Stephanie Houghton (Texas A&M University) and Christopher Timmins (Duke University and NBER)

 

Discussant: Maria Ana Vitorino (University of Pennsylvania)


6:00pm

Conference Dinner

Friday, July 13th

9:00-10:20am

"Managing a New Product Introduction through Quick Response and Advanced Selling"

Fernando Bernstein (Duke University), Preyas Desai (Duke University) and Dinah Vernik (Rice University)

 

Discussant: Nanda Kumar (University of Texas, Dallas)


10:40-12:00pm

"A Model of the ‘It' Products in Fashion"

Dmitri Kuksov and Kangkang Wang (Washington University in St. Louis)

 

Discussant: David Godes (University of Maryland)


1:30-2:50pm

"The Value of Reputation in an Online Freelance Marketplace"

Hema Yoganarasimhan (University of California, Davis)

 

Discussant: Raphael Thomadsen (University of California, Los Angeles)


3:15pm

Drinks at the Faculty Club