SICS - Summer Institute in Competitive Strategy


Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

N100


Sponsored by

Institute for Business Innovation (IBI), University of California Berkeley


Co-Chairs:
Liang Guo
Przemyslaw Jeziorski

Program

Monday, June 23, 2025

6:30 - 8:30pm

Reception, Faculty Club

Tuesday, June 24

9:00 - 10:20am

"Digital Advertising and Market Structure: Implications for Privacy Regulation"

Nils Wernerfelt (Northwestern University), Daniel Deisenroth (Meta Platforms), Utsav Manjeer (Meta Platforms), Zarak Sohail (University of California, Irvine), Steven Tadelis (University of California, Berkeley)

 

Discussant: Samuel G. Goldberg (Stanford University)


10:40 - 12:00pm

"Winner’s Curse in Data-Driven Decision-Making: Evidence and Solutions"

Sikun Xu (Washington University in St. Louis), Raphael Thomadsen (Washington University in St. Louis), Dennis J. Zhang (Washington University in St. Louis)

 

Discussant: Zikun Ye (University of Washington)


1:30 - 2:50pm

"Inclusive Product Design and Consumer Inference"

Kinshuk Jerath (Columbia Business School), Z. Eddie Ning (University of British Columbia)

 

Discussant: Jinzhao Du (University of Hong Kong)


3:10 - 4:30pm

"The Joy of Shopping: Thrill of the Hunt"

Jane Gu (University of Connecticut), Cristina Nistor (Chapman University), and Matthew Selove (Chapman University)

 

Discussant: Dmitri Kuksov (UT Dallas)


Wednesday, June 25

9:00 - 10:20am

"Peak-Load Pricing in Platform Markets"

Diego Aparicio (IESE Business School), Yufeng Huang (University of Rochester), Takeaki Sunada (University of Rochester)

 

Discussant: Sarah Moshary (University of California, Berkeley)


10:40 - 12:00pm

"Predictive Accuracy, Consumer Search, and Personalized Recommendation"

Zirou Chen (University of Toronto), Mengze Shi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Zachary Zhong (University of Toronto)

 

Discussant: Fei Long (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)


1:30 - 2:50pm

"Learning Competitors’ Identities from the Timing of Pricing Decisions: An Application to Retail Gasoline"

Richard Grice (National University of Singapore)

 

Discussant: Andreas Kraft (University of Chicago)


3:10 - 4:30pm

"Profitability of Frequency Reward Programs"

Xing Li (Peking University), V. Brian Viard (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business)

 

Discussant: Kinshuk Jerath (Columbia Business School)


Thursday, June 26

9:00 - 10:20am

"Unstructured Data, Econometric Models, and Estimation Bias"

Max Wei (University of Southern California), Nikhil Malik (University of Southern California)

 

Discussant: Walter Zhang (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)


10:40 - 12:00pm

"Pre-Purchase Sampling and Quality of Experience Goods"

Chenchen Di (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen), Yuk-fai Fong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Xiaoxuan Meng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Martin Shu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)

 

Discussant: Jiajia Cong (City University of Hong Kong)


1:30 - 2:50pm

"Does Personalized Pricing Increase Competition: Evidence from NIL in College Football"

Ivan Li (University of Texas, Dallas), Tim Derdenger (Carnegie Mellon University)

 

Discussant: Kristina Brecko (University of Rochester)


3:10 - 4:30pm

"Data Sharing and Website Competition: The Role of 'Dark Patterns'"

Chiara Farronato (Harvard Business School), Andrey Fradkin (Boston University), Tesary Lin (Boston University)

 

Discussant: Justin Huang (University of California, Los Angeles)





7:00pm

Conference Dinner - Location TBD

Friday, June 27

9:00 - 10:20am

"Strategic Disinformation Generation and Detection"

Wenxiao Yang (University of California, Berkeley), Yunfei (Jesse) Yao (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Pengxiang Zhou (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

 

Discussant: Song Lin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)


10:40 - 12:00pm

"New Product Diffusion Within Retailers: The Effect of Managerial Quality on Rollout"

Tomomichi Amano (Harvard University), Jorge Tamayo (Harvard University)

 

Discussant: Mitsukuni Nishida (Johns Hopkins University)


1:30 - 2:50pm

"Managing Consumer Attention to Diverse Information Sources in Product Diffusion"

Zihao Zhou (UCL School of Management), Z. Eddie Ning (University of British Columbia)

 

Discussant: Jason Choi (University of Maryland)


3:10 - 4:30pm

"Pricing and Consumption in Subscription Settings"

Pedro M. Gardete (Nova School of Business and Economics), Daniela Schmitt (Nova School of Business and Economics), Florian Stahl (University of Mannheim)

 

Discussant: Zekun Liu (Indiana University)


5:00pm

Drinks at the Faculty Club