SICS - Summer Institute in Competitive Strategy
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Sponsored by
Institute for Business Innovation (IBI), University of California Berkeley
Co-Chairs:
Yuichiro Kamada (University of California, Berkeley)
Dina Mayzlin (University of Southern California)
Note: This year's conference will be held online. Zoom links will be emailed to registered participants.
Program
Tuesday, August 17, 2021
9:00-10:00am
"A Theory of a Distribution Channel with a Retail Buyer:Implications of Manufacturer Kickback"
Upender Subramanian (University of Texas at Dallas) and Z. John Zhang (University of Pennsylvania)
Discussant: Monic Sun (Boston University)
10:10-11:10am
"Advertising Effects in Equilibrium"
Sarah Moshary (University of Chicago)
Discussant: Xiang Hui (Washington University in St. Louis)
11:10-11:40am
Social Break with Breakout Sessions
12:00-1:00pm
"How Does A Firm Adapt in A Changing World? The Case of Prosper Marketplace"
Xinlong Li (Nanyang Technological University) and Andrew T. Ching (Johns Hopkins University)
Discussant: Anita Rao (University of Chicago)
1:10-2:10pm
"How Markets Clear Without Prices? Service Time in Online Grocery"
Itai Ater (Tel Aviv University) and Adi Shany (Tel Aviv University)
Andrey Simonov (Columbia University)
2:10-2:40pm
Social Break with Breakout Sessions
Wednesday, August 18
9:00-10:00am
"Firms as Model-Free Decision Makers – Evidence from a Reform"
Avner Strulov-Shlain (University of Chicago)
Discussant: Elisabeth Honka (University of California, Los Angeles)
10:10-11:10am
"Seeding with Costly Network Information"
Dean Eckles (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Hossein Esfandiari (Google Research), Elchanan Mossel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and M. Amin Rahimian (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Discussant: Jungju Yu (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
11:10-11:40am
Social Break with Breakout Sessions
12:00-1:00pm
"Pushing Information: Realized Uncertainty and Notification Design"
Ganesh Iyer (University of California, Berkeley) and Zemin Zhong (University of Toronto)
Discussant: Pinar Yildirim (University of Pennsylvania)
1:10-2:10pm
"Estimating Parameters of Structural Models Using Neural Networks"
Max Wei (University of Southern California) and Zhenling Jiang (University of Pennsylvania)
Discussant: Vineet Kumar (Yale University)
2:10-2:40pm
Social Break with Breakout Sessions
Thursday, August 19
9:00-10:00am
"Consumer Purchase Journey, Targeted Advertising, and Privacy Choices"
W. Jason Choi (Rutgers University), Kinshuk Jerath (Columbia University), and Miklos Sarvary (Columbia University)
Michelle Lu (McGill University)
10:10-11:10am
"How Does Competition Affect Exploration vs. Exploitation? A Tale of Two Recommendation Algorithms"
H. Henry Cao (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business), Liye Ma (University of Maryland), Z. Eddie Ning (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business), and Baohong Sun (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business)
Discussant: Tony Ke (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
11:10-11:40am
Social Break with Breakout Sessions
12:00-1:00pm
"Online Causal Inference for Advertising in Real-Time Bidding Auctions"
Caio Waisman (Northwestern University), Harikesh S. Nair (Stanford University), Carlos Carrion (JD.com), and Nan Xu (Facebook)
Discussant: Raluca Ursu (New York University)
1:10-2:10pm
"I Don't ``Recall'': The Decision to Delay Innovation Launch to Avoid Costly Product Failure"
Byungyeon Kim (Harvard University), Oded Koenigsberg (London Business School), and Elie Ofek (Harvard University)
Discussant: Fei Long (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
2:10-2:40pm
Reception