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
Dirk Bergemann (Yale University) and Alessandro Bonatti (MIT)
Discussant: David Soberman (University of Toronto)
1:30-2:50pm
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
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