August 11, 2016 – Thursday

9:00 – 9:45

Registration

9:45 – 9:50

Welcome

9:50 – 10:50

“Reference-Dependent Utility, Product Variety and Price Competition”
Wilfred Amaldoss and Chuan He

Discussant:    Shaowei Ke

11:00 – 12:00

“Competitive Implications of Consumer Fairness Concerns”
Mushegh Harutyunyan, Baojun Jiang and Chakravarthi Narasimhan

Discussant: Katharina Schüssler

13:30 – 14:30

“Intrinsic Preferences for Information”
Yusufcan Masatlioglu, Yesim Orhun, Collin Raymond

Discussant: Carrie Xu

14:40 – 15:40

“Understanding Managers’ Tradeoffs Between Exploration and Exploitation”
Alina Ferecatu, Arnaud De Bruyn

Discussant:  Amit Pazgal

15:50 – 16:50

“A Heuristic Approach to Explore: Value of Perfect Information”
Shervin Shahrokhi Tehrani and Andrew T. Ching

Discussant: Steve Leider

August 12, 2016 – Friday

8:30 – 9:30

“Information Sharing, Advice Provision or Delegation: What Leads to Higher Trust and Trustworthiness?”
Ozalp Ozer, Upender Subramanian, Yu Wang

Discussant: John Zhang

9:45 – 10:45

“Pricing Cause Related Marketing Products”
Paola Mallucci, George John and Tony Haitao Cui

Discussant: Aradhna Krishna

11:00 – 12:00

“Transitory Shocks, Limited Attention, and a Firm’s Decision to Exit”
Avi Goldfarb, Mo Xiao

Discussant: Ying Fan

13:30 – 14:30

“Firm Strategies when Facing Consumers with Buying-Local Preferences”
Weining Bao, Baojun Jiang, Jian Ni

Discussant: Sanjay Jain

14:40 – 15:40

“Platform Service Offering to Business Customers: Strategic Considerations in Engendering Seller Use of Marketing Tools”
Botao Yang, Sha Yang, and Shantanu Dutta

Discussant: Vithala Rao