#6: University of Gronningen, Netherlands, May 29-30 2015
Organizers: Marco Haan (m.a.haan@rug.nl), José-Luis Moraga-González (jose.l.moraga@gmail.com)
Martin OBRADOVITS (Goethe University Frankfurt): Going to the Discounter: Consumer Search with Local Market Heterogeneities
Stephan SEILER (Stanford University): Inferring Price Elasticities from Search Data
Luis CABRAL (New York University): Rational Buyers Search When Prices Increase
Adriaan SOETEVENT (University of Groningen): Discount Competition
Alex SHCHERBAKOV (University of Mannheim): Measuring Consumer Switching Costs in the Television Industry
Dimitry LUBENSKY (Indiana University): Bundling and Obfuscation by a Monopolist
Arthur FISHMAN (Bar-Ilan University): Is Bigger Cheaper? Firm Size and Price Adjustment Dynamics
Josh SHERMAN (University of Vienna): When the Price You See is Not the Price You Get: A Field Study
Andrew RHODES (University of Toulouse): A Search Theory of Retail Market Structure
Raluca URSU (University of Chicago): The Power of Rankings: Quantifying the Effects of Rankings on Online Consumer Search and Choice
Régis RENAULT (Université Paris-Dauphine): Search Direction
Alexei ALEXANDROV (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau): No Shopping in the U.S. Mortgage Market: Direct and Strategic Effects of Providing More Information
Andras KISS (Central European University): Salience and Switching
Daniel GARCIA (University of Vienna): The Double Diamond Paradox
Makoto WATANABE (VU University Amsterdam): Competitive Search Equilibrium with Differentiated Products
Pim HEIJNEN (University of Groningen): A Theory of Recommended or "Advisory" Prices
This workshop is made possible by generous support from the Authority Consumers and Markets, the SOM Research Institute and the Department of Economics, Econometrics and Finance at the University of Groningen.
#5: Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, May 15-16 2014Organized by: 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) Special thanks to Michael Baye for financial support and hospitality.
Arthur Fishman (Bar-Ilan University): Search, Quality, and Superstars
Zsolt Sándor (Sapientia University Miercurea Ciuc): Consumer Search and Prices in the Automobile Market
José Luis Moraga-González (VU University): Do Higher Search Costs Make Markets Less Competitive?
Babur De los Santos (Indiana University): Search with Learning
Dmitry Lubensky (Indiana University): A Model of Recommended Retail Prices
Elisabeth Honka (UT Dallas): Simultaneous or Sequential? Search Strategies in the U.S. Auto Insurance Industry
Chris Wilson (Loughborough University): Sales Competition with Informative Advertising
Paulo Albuquerque (University of Rochester): The Effects of Product Innovation on Online Search and Choice
Marco Haan (University of Groningen): Retention Offers and Heterogeneous Switching Costs
Stephan Seiler (Stanford University): Consumer Search: Evidence from Path-tracking Data
Alexei Parakhonyak (Higher School of Economics): Advertising and Fixed-Sample Search in Duopoly Model
Mitsukuni Nishida (Johns Hopkins University): Search, Equilibrium Pricing, and Local Market Competition: Estimating Heterogeneous Search Cost in the Retail Gasoline Market
Sandro Shelegia (University of Vienna): Consumer Search and Observational Learning
Henry Schneider (Cornell University): Search Costs and Equilibrium Price Dispersion in Auction Markets
Vaiva Petrikaitė (University of Groningen): Consumer Obfuscation by a Multiproduct Firm
Sabyasachi Das (University of Vienna): Price-quality Competition and Consumer Search
#4: Higher School of Economics, Moscow May 30-31, 2013 Organized by Maarten Janssen (University of Vienna and HSE, Moscow)
Yongmin Chen (Colorado), Entry and Welfare in Search Markets
Arthur Fishman (Bar-Ilan University), Search with Categories
Espen Moen (Oslo), Exclusive dealing in decentralized markets
Babur de los Santos (Indiana), Estimating the Effect of the Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price
Sandro Shelegia (Vienna), Retailers’ Cost Uncertainty and Consumer Search with Product Differentiation
Dmitry Lubensky (Indiana), A Model of Recommended Retail Prices.
Maarten Janssen (University of Vienna and HSE, Moscow) Non-Reservation Price Equilibria(re-visited)
Maria Arbatskaya (Emory), Food Allergen Liability and Regulation When Consumer Label Reading Effort Counts
Jose Luis Moraga-Gonzalez (Free University Amsetrdam), Do higher search costs make the markets less competitive?
Nuray Akin (Florida), Searching on a Deadline
Alexei Parakhonyak (Higher School of Economics, Moscow), Search Without Priors
Regis Renault (Cergy-Pontoise), Platform contents
Martin Obradovits (Vienna), Austrian-style gasoline price regulations: how it may backfire
Marco Haan (Groningen), Search when consumers are loss averse
#3: Higher School of Economics, Moscow June 7-8, 2012 Organized by Maarten Janssen (University of Vienna and HSE, Moscow) Asher Wolinsky (Northwestern University), Search with Adverse Selection
Sagit Bar-Gill (Tel Aviv University), Equilibrium Long-Tailed Sales in a Search Model
Arthur Fishman (Bar-Ilan University), Absentee Consumers, Search, Advertising, and Sticky Prices.
Joshua Sherman (Vienna), An Empirical Analysis of Search Costs and Price Dispersion
Sergei Koulayev (Keystone Strategy, LLC), Using Consumer Preferences to Improve upon Popularity Rankings in Online Markets
Maarten Janssen (University of Vienna and HSE, Moscow) Non-Reservation Price Equilibria
Simon Anderson (Virginia), Yield Management with consumer search costs
Stephan Lauermann (Michigan), Common Value Auctions with Bid Solicitation
Jose Luis Moraga-Gonzalez (Free University Amsetrdam) Heterogeneous Consumer Information and the Effects of Competition
Sandro Shelegia (University of Vienna), Triple Marginalization and Consumer Search
Alexei Parakhonyak (Higher School of Economics, Moscow), Oligopolistic Markets and Search Without Priors
Hui Song (Paris, Cergy-Pointoise), Ordered Search with Asymmetric Product Design
#2: University of Gronningen, Netherlands, May 23-24, 2011 Organizer: Jose L. Moraga (ICREA, IESE and Univ. of Groningen) Sponsored by Marie Curie Actions and SOM Research and Graduate School (University of Groningen)
Maarten Janssen (University of Vienna): “Minimum Price Guarantees and Consumer Search.” Jidong Zhou (University College London): “Multiproduct Search” Elisabeth Honka (Chicago Booth): Quantifying Search and Switching Costs in the U.S. Auto Insurance Industry Alex Shcherbakov (University of Mannheim): “Measuring Consumer Switching Costs in the Television Industry.” Marielle Non (University of Groningen): Inert Consumers in Markets with Switching Costs and Price Discrimination Andrew Rhodes (University of Oxford): “Small Switching Costs are Pro-Competitive”.
Zsolt Sandor (University of Groningen): “On the Identification of the Costs of Simultaneous Search.” Joseph Cullen (Harvard University): “Measuring Consumer Switching Costs in the Wireless Industry” Sandro Shelegia (University of Vienna): “Multiproduct Pricing in Oligopoly” Chris Wilson (Loughborough University): “Being in the Right Place: A Natural Field Experiment on List Position and Consumer Choice” Alexei Parakhonyak (Higher School of Economics, Moscow): Consumer Search Markets with Costly Second Visits.
#1: University of Groningen, Netherlands, December 17-18, 2009 Organizer: Jose L. Moraga (ICREA, IESE and Univ. of Groningen) Financed by Marie Curie Excellence Grant MEXT-CT-2006-042471. With collaboration of SOM Research School (University of Groningen).
Maarten Janssen (University of Vienna): “Sequential Search with Incompletely Informed Consumers: Theory and Evidence from Retail Gasoline Markets”
Andrew Rhodes (Oxford University): “Multiproduct Pricing and the Diamond Paradox.”
Chris Wilson (Loughborough University): “Market Frictions: A Unified Model of Search and Switching Costs.” Babur de los Santos (Kelley Business School, Indiana): “Testing Models of Consumer Search using Data on Web Browsing and Purchasing Behavior”
Sergei Koulayev (Boston Fed.): “Estimating demand in search markets: the case of online hotel bookings”
Jose. L. Moraga (University of Groningen): “Consumer Search, Mergers and Product Differentiation”
Mark Armstrong (University College London): “Conditioning prices on search history.”
Heski Bar-Isaac (New York University): “Search Design and Market Structure.”
Matthijs Wildenbeest (Kelley Business School, Indiana): “Consumer Search and Prices in the Automobile Market”.
Paulo Albuquerque (Simon Graduate School of Business, Rochester): “Online demand under limited consumer search”.
Stephan Seiler (London School of Economics): “A dynamic demand model with consideration set formation.”
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