Marie Curie Excellence Grant MEXT-CT-2006-042471

2nd Workshop Search and Switching Costs

May 23 and 24, 2011

University of Groningen

Venue: Het Kasteel, Melkweg 1, Groningen

Monday, May 23 2011

8:45h.: Welcome (Jose L. Moraga)

MORNING SESSION

Chair: Marco Haan (University of Groningen)

 

9:00h.-10:00h.: Maarten Janssen (University of Vienna): “Minimum Price Guarantees and Consumer Search.”

Discussant: Marco Haan (University of Groningen)

 

10:00h.-11:00h.: Jidong Zhou (University College London): “Multiproduct Search”

Discussant: Vaiva Petrikaite (University of Groningen)

 

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

 

11:30h.-12:30h.: Elisabeth Honka (Chicago Booth): Quantifying Search and Switching Costs in the U.S. Auto Insurance Industry

Discussant: Matthijs Wildenbeest (Indiana School of Business)

 

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

AFTERNOON SESSION

Chair: Matthijs Wildenbeest (Indiana School of Business)

 

14:30h.-15:30h.: Alex Shcherbakov (University of Mannheim): “Measuring Consumer Switching Costs in the Television Industry.”

Discussant: Zsolt Sandor (University of Groningen)

 

15:30h.-16:30h.: Marielle Non (University of Groningen): Inert Consumers in Markets with Switching Costs and Price Discrimination

Discussant: Andrew Rhodes (University of Oxford)

 

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

 

16:45h.-17:45h.: Andrew Rhodes (University of Oxford): “Small Switching Costs are Pro-Competitive”.

Discussants: Alexei Parakhonyak (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)

Marielle Non (University of Groningen)

19:30h. Speakers’ dinner

Tuesday, May 24 2011

MORNING SESSION

Chair: Jose L. Moraga

 

10:00h.-11:00h.: Zsolt Sandor (University of Groningen): “On the Identification of the Costs of Simultaneous Search.”

Discussant: Alex Shcherbakov (University of Mannheim)

 

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

 

11:30h.-12:30h.: Joseph Cullen (Harvard University): “Measuring Consumer Switching Costs in the Wireless Industry”

Discussant: Elisabeth Honka (Chicago Booth)

 

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

AFTERNOON SESSION

Chair: Pim Heijnen (University of Groningen)

 

14:30h.-15:30h.: Sandro Shelegia (University of Vienna): “Multiproduct Pricing in Oligopoly”

Discussant: Bart Voogt (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

 

15:30h.-16:30h.: Chris Wilson (Loughborough University): “Being in the Right Place: A Natural Field Experiment on List Position and Consumer Choice”

Discussant: Pim Heijnen (University of Groningen)

 

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

 

16:45h.-17:45h.: Alexei Parakhonyak (Higher School of Economics, Moscow): Consumer Search Markets with Costly Second Visits.

Discussant: Joseph Cullen (Harvard University)

 

17:45h. Drinks and closing workshop

19:30h. Speakers’ dinner

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Organizer: Jose L. Moraga (ICREA, IESE and Univ. of Groningen)

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