Marie Curie Excellence Grant MEXT-CT-2006-042471

1st Workshop Search and Switching Costs

Thursday 17 and Friday 18 December 2009

University of Groningen

Venue: Het Kasteel, Melkweg 1, Groningen

Thursday 17 December 2009

9:00h.: Welcome

MORNING SESSION

Chair: Vaiva Petrikaite (University of Groningen)

 

9:00h.-10:00h.: Maarten Janssen (University of Vienna): “Sequential Search with Incompletely Informed Consumers: Theory and Evidence from Retail Gasoline Markets”

Discussant: Chris Wilson (Loughborough University)

 

10:00h.-11:00h.: Andrew Rhodes (Oxford University): “Multiproduct Pricing and the Diamond Paradox.”

Discussant: Sandro Shelegia (University of Vienna)

 

11:00h.-11:30h.: Coffee break

 

11:30h.-12:30h.: Chris Wilson (Loughborough University): “Market Frictions: A Unified Model of Search and Switching Costs.”

Discussant: Vaiva Petrikaite (University of Groningen)

12:30h.-14:30h.: Lunch

AFTERNOON SESSION

Chair: Jidong Zhou (University College London)

 

14:30h.-15:30h.: Babur de los Santos (Kelley Business School, Indiana): “Testing Models of Consumer Search using Data on Web Browsing and Purchasing Behavior”

Discussant: Stephan Seiler (London School of Economics)

 

15:30h.-16:30h.: Sergei Koulayev (Boston Fed.): “Estimating demand in search markets: the case of online hotel bookings”

Discussant: Paulo Albuquerque (Simon Graduate School of Business, Rochester).

 

16:30h.-16:45h.: Coffee break

 

16:45h.-17:45h.: Jose. L. Moraga (University of Groningen): “Consumer Search, Mergers and Product Differentiation”

Discussant: Jidong Zhou (University College London)

19:30h. Dinner

Friday 18 December 2009

MORNING SESSION

Chair: Marielle Non (University of Groningen)

 

10:00h.-11:00h.: Mark Armstrong (University College London): “Conditioning prices on search history.”

Discussant: Marco Haan (University of Groningen).

 

11:00h.-11:30h.: Coffee break

 

11:30h.-12:30h.: Heski Bar-Isaac (New York University): “Search Design and Market Structure.”

Discussant: Marielle Non (University of Groningen)

12:30h.-14:30h.: Lunch

AFTERNOON SESSION

Chair: Erjen van Nierop (University of Groningen)

 

14:30h.-15:30h.: Matthijs Wildenbeest (Kelley Business School, Indiana): “Consumer Search and Prices in the Automobile Market”.

Discussant: Sergei Koulayev (Boston Fed.)

 

15:30h.-16:30h.: Paulo Albuquerque (Simon Graduate School of Business, Rochester): “Online demand under limited consumer search”.

Discussant: Babur de los Santos (Kelley Business School, Indiana)

 

16:30h.-16:45h.: Coffee break

 

16:45h.-17:45h.: Stephan Seiler (London School of Economics): “A dynamic demand model with consideration set formation.”

Discussant: Erjen van Nierop (University of Groningen)

17:45h. Drinks

19:30h. Dinner

 

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Organizer: Jose L. Moraga (University of Groningen)

Sponsored by Marie Curie Actions and SOM Research and Graduate School (University of Groningen)