SICS 2016
Program
Monday, July 11, 2016
6:30-8:30pm
Reception, Faculty Club
Tuesday, July 12
9:00-10:20am
"'Big Data' vs. 'Small Data': Consumer Profiling with Data Requirements"
Tommaso Valetti (Imperial College, London) and Jiahua Wu (Imperial College, London)
Discussant: Steve Shugan (Florida University)
10:40-12:00pm
"Word-of-Mouth, Observational Learning, and Product Adoption: Evidence from an Anime Network"
Mina Ameri (The University of Texas at Dallas), Elisabeth Honka (University of California, Los Angeles), and Ying Xie (The University of Texas at Dallas)
Discussant: Brett Gordon (Northwestern University)
1:30-2:50pm
Pedro Gardete (Stanford University) and Yakov Bart (Northeastern University)
Discussant: Jeff Shulman (University of Washington)
3:10-4:30pm
"Does Advertising Serve as a Signal? Evidence from Field Experiments in Mobile Search"
Navdeep Sahni (Stanford University) and Harikesh Nair (Stanford University)
Discussant: Raphael Thomadsen (Washington University in St. Louis)
Wednesday, July 13
Competition day, Sponsored by the Competition Policy Center, UC Berkeley
9:00-10:20am
"Signaling in Online Credit Markets"
Kei Kawai (University of California Berkeley), Ken Onishi (Singapore Management University), and Kosuke Uetake (Yale University)
Discussant: Monic Sun (Boston University)
10:40-12:00pm
Yi Zhu (University of Minnesota) and Anthony Dukes (University of Southern California)
Discussant: Juanjuan Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
1:30-2:50pm
"Channel Coordination in Search Advertising"
Xinyu Cao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and T. Tony Ke (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Discussant: Sherif Nasser (Cornell University)
3:10-4:30pm
"Market Structure with the Entry of Peer-to-Peer Platforms: The Case of Hotels and Airbnb"
Chiara Farronato (Harvard Business School) and Andrey Fradkin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Airbnb Inc.)
Discussant: Ken Wilbur (University of California, San Diego)
Thursday, July 14
Media day, Sponsored by the Media Program, Columbia Business School
9:00-10:20am
"Matching Pennies on the Campaign Trail: An Empirical Study of Senate Elections and Media Coverage"
Camilo Garcia-Jimeno (University of Pennsylvania) and Pinar Yildirim (University of Pennsylvania)
Discussant: TI Kim (Emory University)
10:40-12:00pm
"Newspapers in Times of Low Advertising Revenues"
Charles Angelucci (Columbia University) and Julia Cage (Sciences Po)
Discussant: Sridhar Moorthy (University of Toronto)
1:30-2:50pm
"Competing by Restricting Choice: The Case of Search Platforms"
Hanna Halaburda (Bank of Canada & New York University), Mikolaj Piskorski (IMD), and Pinar Yildirim (University of Pennsylvania)
Discussant: David Godes (University of Maryland)
3:10-4:30pm
"The Effect of Links and Excerpts on Internet News Consumption"
Jason Roos (Erasmus University), Carl Mela (Duke University), and Ron Shachar (IDC Herzliya)
Discussant: Hema Yoganarasimhan (University of Washington)
6:00pm
Conference Dinner
Trader Vic's Emeryville
Friday, July 15
9:00-10:20am
"The Benefit of Collective Reputation"
Zvika Neeman (Eitan Berglas School of Economics), Aniko Öry (Yale University), and Jungju Yu (Yale University)
Discussant: Robert Zeithammer (University of California, Los Angeles)
10:40-12:00pm
"Cost-Information Transparency and Intertemporal Pricing"
Baojun Jiang (Washington University in St Louis), K. Sudhir (Yale University), and Tianxin Zhu (Washington University in St Louis)
Discussant: Kinshuk Jerath (Columbia University)
1:30-2:50pm
"What are We Really Good at? Product Strategy with Uncertain Capabilities"
Jeanine Miklos-Thal (University of Rochester), Michael Raith (University of Rochester), and Matthew Selove (University of Southern California)
Discussant: Jiwoong Shin (Yale University)
3:15pm
Drinks at the Faculty Club
Saturday, July 16
Special Session: Big Data & Marketing
Coordinators:Jean-Pierre Dubé (University of Chicago)
Przemyslaw Jeziorski (University of California, Berkeley)
9:00-10:20am
"The Power of Rankings: Quantifying the Effects of Rankings on Online Consumer Search and Choice"
Raluca M. Ursu (Univeristy of Chicago)
Discussant: Song Yao (Northwestern University)
10:40-12:00pm
"Human Bias and Machine Learning: Evidence from Digitized Resume Screening"
Bo Cowgill (Columbia University)
Discussant: Harikesh Nair (Stanford University)
1:30-2:50pm
"Dynamic Effects of Price Promotions: A Large-Scale Field Experiment"
Andrés Elberg (Universidad Diego Portales), Pedro M. Gardete (Stanford University), Rosario Macera (Pontificia Universidad Católica), and Carlos Noton (University of Chile)
Discussant: Eva Ascarza (Columbia University)
3:10-4:30pm
"Product Variety, Across-Market Demand Heterogeneity and the Value of Online Retail"
Thomas W. Quan (University of Georgia) and Kevin R. Williams (Yale University)
Discussant: Tat Chan (Washington University in St Louis)