SICS 2015
Co-Chairs:
Greg Shaffer (University of Rochester)
Juanjuan Zhang (MIT)
Program
Monday, July 20, 2015
6:30-8:30pm
Reception, Faculty Club
Tuesday, July 21
9:00-10:20am
Benjamin Handel (University of California, Berkeley) and Kanishka Misra (University of Michigan)
Discussant: Kannan Srinivasan (Carnegie-Mellon University)
10:40-12:00pm
"Encouraging Word of Mouth: Free Contracts, Referral Programs, or Both?"
Yuichiro Kamada (University of California, Berkeley) and Aniko Öry (Yale University)
Discussant: Dina Mayzlin (University of Southern California)
1:30-2:50pm
"Search for Information on Multiple Products"
Tony Ke (MIT), Zuo-Jun Max Shen (University of California, Berkeley), and J. Miguel Villas-Boas (University of California, Berkeley)
Discussant: Jidong Zhou (New York University)
3:10-4:30pm
"Price Transparency and Retail Prices"
Federico Rossi (Bocconi University) and Pradeep K. Chintagunta (University of Chicago)
Discussant: Vithala Rao (Cornell University)
Wednesday, July 22
9:00-10:20am
"Structural Analysis of Multi-Channel Demand"
Scott Shriver (Columbia University) and Bryan Bollinger (Duke University)
Discussant: Bart Bronnenberg (Tilburg University)
10:40-12:00pm
Song Lin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Discussant: Steven Shugan (University of Florida)
1:30-2:50pm
"A CCP Estimator for Dynamic Discrete Choice Models with Aggregate Data"
Timothy Derdenger (Carnegie-Mellon University) and Vineet Kumar (Yale University)
Discussant: Matthew Shum (California Institute of Technology)
3:10-4:30pm
"The Agency Model and MFN Clauses"
Justin Johnson (Cornell University)
Discussant: Andrew Rhodes (Toulouse School of Economics)
Thursday, July 23
9:00-10:20am
"Can Online Price Matching Defeat Showrooming?"
Kangkang Wang (University of Alberta), Chunhua Wu (University of British Columbia), and Ting Zhu (University of British Columbia)
Discussant: Anne Coughlan (Northwestern University)
10:40-12:00pm
"Resale Price Maintenance in the Age of Showrooming"
Jeanine Miklos-Thal (University of Rochester) and Greg Shaffer (University of Rochester)
Discussant: Rajeev Tyagi (University of California, Irvine)
1:30-2:50pm
"Effects of Targeted Promotions: Evidence from Field Experiments"
Navdeep Sahni (Stanford University), Dan Zou (University of Chicago), Pradeep K. Chintagunta (University of Chicago)
Discussant: David Reiley (Principal Scientist, Pandora)
3:10-4:30pm
"The Internet and the News Media"
Susan Athey (Stanford University)
Discussant: Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto)
6:30pm
Conference Dinner
Trader Vic's
Friday, July 24
9:00-10:20am
"Competitive Mobile Targeting"
Yuxin Chen (New York University, Shangai), Xinxin Li (University of Connecticut), and Monic Sun (Boston University)
Discussant: David Soberman (University of Toronto)
10:40-12:00pm
"Advertising and Price Targeting on the Hotelling Line"
Sridhar Moorthy (University of Toronto) and Shervin S. Tehrani (University of Toronto)
Discussant: Preyas Desai (Duke University)
1:30-2:50pm
"Identification and Estimation of Forward-looking Behavior: The Case of Consumer Stockpiling"
Andrew Ching (University of Toronto) and Matthew Osborne (University of Toronto)
Discussant: Stephan Seiler (Stanford University)
3:15pm
Drinks at the Faculty Club
Special Session: Big Data & Marketing
Coordinators:Jeremy Fox (Rice University)
Przemyslaw Jeziorski (University of California, Berkeley)
Monday, July 27
9:00-10:10am
"The Impact of Privacy Policy on the Auction Market for Online Display Advertising"
Garrett Johnson (University of Rochester)
Discussant: Kei Kawai (New york University)
10:40-11:50am
"Demand for 'Healthy' Products: False claims in advertising"
Anita Rao (University of Chicago) and Emily Wang (University of Massachusetts)
Discussant: Yesim Orhun (University of Michigan)
2:00-3:10pm
"Learning about Consumers and Markets using Internet Data"
Liran Einav (Stanford University) and John Levin (Stanford University)
3:30-4:40pm
"Demand Estimation with Machine Learning and Model Combination"
Patrick Bajari (University of Washington), Denis Nekipelov (University of Virginia), Stephen Ryan (UT Austin), Miaoyu Yang (University of Washington)
Discussant: Peter Rossi (UCLA)
Tuesday, July 28
9:00-10:10am
"Complementarities in Consumption and the Consumer"
Anna Tuchman (Stanford University), Harikesh Nair (Stanford University), Pedro Gardete (Stanford Univeristy)
Discussant: Mitsukuni Nishida (Johns Hopkins University)
10:40-11:50am
Kirthi Kalyanam (Santa Clara University), John McAteer (Google), Jonathan Marek (Applied Predictive Technologies) James Hodges (University of Minnesota), Lifeng Lin (University of Minnesota)
Discussant: Joe Golden (Collage.com)
2:00-3:10pm
"The Adoption of Network Goods: Evidence from the Spread of Mobile Phones in Rwanda"
Daniel Bjorkegren (Brown University)
Discussant: Natalia Lazzati (University of Michigan)
3:30-4:40pm
"Cheap Talk, Round Numbers, and the Economics of Negotiation"
Matt Backus (Cornell University), Tom Blake (Ebay), Steve Tadelis (UC Berkeley)
Discussant: Ernan Haruvy (UT Dallas)
Special Session: Behavioral and Social Phenomena in Markets
Coordinators:Ganesh Iyer (University of California, Berkeley)
Dmitri Kuksov (University of Texas, Dallas)
Wednesday, July 29
9:00-10:20am
"Skewness and Intrisic Preferences for Information"
Yusufcan Masatliogu (University of Michigan), Yesim Orhun (University of Michigan), and Collin Raymond (University of Oxford)
Discussant: Kangkang Wang (University of Alberta)
10:40-12:00pm
"Managing Psychological Motivations in Contests"
Tanjim Hossain (University of Toronto), Mengze Shi (University of Toronto), and Robert Waiser (University of Toronto)
Discussant: Zsolt Katona (UC Berkeley)
1:30-2:50pm
"Signaling through Price and Quality to Consumers with Fairness Concerns"
Xiaomeng Guo (Washington University, St. Louis) and Baojun Jiang (Washington University, St. Louis)
Discussant: : Elie Ofek (Harvard University)
3:10-4:30pm
Stylianos Despotakis (Carnegie-Mellon University), Isa Hafalir (Carnegie-Mellon University), R. Ravi (Carnegie-Mellon University), and Amin Sayedi (University of Washington)
Discussant: David Godes (University of Maryland)
Thursday, July 30
9:00-10:20am
"Information, Advice or Delegation: What Leads to Higher Trust in a Distribution Channel?"
Ozalp Ozer (University of Texas, Dallas), Upender Subramanian (University of Texas, Dallas), and Yu Wang (University of Texas, Dallas)
Discussant: Kaifu Zhang (Carnegie Melon University)
10:40-12:00pm
"Pricing Self Improvement Programs for Impulsive Consumers"
Richard Schaefer (University of Texas, Austin), Raghunath Singh Rao (University of Texas, Austin), and Vijay Mahajan (University of Texas, Austin)
Discussant: Shubranshu Singh (Johns Hopkins University)
1:30-2:50pm
"Homophily and Influence: Pricing to Harness Word-of-Mouth on Social Networks"
Tuan Phan (National University of Singapore), Peter Zubcsek (University of Florida), and Xuesong Lu (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Discussant: Sanjay Jain (Texas A&M University)
3:10-4:30pm
Yi Zhao (Georgia State University), Sha Yang (University of Southern California), and Shantanu Dutta (University of Southern California)
Discussant: Ying Xie (UT Dallas)