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