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5th Workshop on Consumer Search and Switching Costs

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    May 15-16, 2014
    Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

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Program

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Thursday, May 15

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9.00 Arthur Fishman (Bar-Ilan University): Search, Quality, and Superstars
Discussant: Michael Rauh (Indiana University)

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9.45 Zsolt Sándor (Sapientia University Miercurea Ciuc): Consumer Search and Prices in the Automobile Market
Discussant: Elisabeth Honka (UT Dallas)

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10.30 Break

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11.00 José Luis Moraga-González (VU University): Do Higher Search Costs Make Markets Less Competitive?
Discussant: Dmitry Lubensky (Indiana University)

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11.45 Babur De los Santos (Indiana University): Search with Learning
Discussant: Mitsukuni Nishida (Johns Hopkins University)

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12.30 Lunch

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2.00 Dmitry Lubensky (Indiana University): A Model of Recommended Retail Prices
Discussant: Heski Bar-Isaac (University of Toronto)

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2.45 Elisabeth Honka (UT Dallas): Simultaneous or Sequential? Search Strategies in the U.S. Auto Insurance Industry
Discussant: Babur De los Santos (Indiana University)

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3.30 Break

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4.00 Chris Wilson (Loughborough University): Sales Competition with Informative Advertising
Discussant: Mike Baye (Indiana University)

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4.45 Paulo Albuquerque (University of Rochester): The Effects of Product Innovation on Online Search and Choice
Discussant: Sergei Koulayev (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)

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6.30 Dinner

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Friday, May 16

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9.00 Marco Haan (University of Groningen): Retention Offers and Heterogeneous Switching Costs
Discussant: Maria Arbatskaya (Emory University)

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9.45 Stephan Seiler (Stanford University): Consumer Search: Evidence from Path-tracking Data
Discussant: Matthijs Wildenbeest (Indiana University)

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10.30 Break

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11.00 Alexei Parakhonyak (Higher School of Economics): Advertising and Fixed-Sample Search in Duopoly Model
Discussant: Jidong Zhou (New York University)

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11.45 Mitsukuni Nishida (Johns Hopkins University): Search, Equilibrium Pricing, and Local Market Competition: Estimating Heterogeneous Search Cost in the Retail Gasoline Market
Discussant: Zsolt Sándor (Sapientia University Miercurea Ciuc)

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12.30 Lunch

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2.00 Sandro Shelegia (University of Vienna): Consumer Search and Observational Learning
Discussant: Marco Haan (University of Groningen)

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2.45 Henry Schneider (Cornell University): Search Costs and Equilibrium Price Dispersion in Auction Markets
Discussant: Daniel Garcia (University of Vienna)

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3.30 Break

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3.45 Vaiva Petrikaitė (University of Groningen): Consumer Obfuscation by a Multiproduct Firm
Discussant: Chris Wilson (Loughborough University)

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4.30 Sabyasachi Das (University of Vienna): Price-quality Competition and Consumer Search
Discussant: Vaiva Petrikaitė (University of Groningen)

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5.30 Reception (Mike Baye’s home)

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Organizing Committee

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Babur De los Santos (Kelley School of Business, Indiana University)

Matthijs Wildenbeest (Kelley School of Business, Indiana University)

Michael Rauh (Kelley School of Business, Indiana University)

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Previous Workshops on Search and Switching Costs

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  • 1st Workshop, December 17-18, 2010; University of Groningen, Netherlands
  • Organized by José Luis Moraga-González (VU University)

  • 2nd Workshop, May 23-24, 2011; University of Groningen, Netherlands
  • Organized by José Luis Moraga-González (VU University)

  • 3rd Workshop, June 7-8, 2012; Higher School of Economics, Moscow
  • Organized by Maarten Janssen (University of Vienna and HSE, Moscow)

  • 4th Workshop, May 30-31, 2013; Higher School of Economics, Moscow
  • Organized by Maarten Janssen (University of Vienna and HSE, Moscow)

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    Other Information

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    Workshop Venue

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    Conference Room CG-3055

    Godfrey Graduate and Executive Education Center

    Kelley School of Business

    1275 E 10th St

    Bloomington, IN 47405

    Contact: Mary Jones, Phone +1 (812) 855-9219

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    Hotel

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    Hilton Garden Inn

    245 N College Ave

    Bloomington, IN 47403

    Phone (812) 331-1335