Location: Second Floor, R2220 at the Ross School of Business

May 16, 2024

9:30 – 10:15Registration, Continental Breakfast
10:15 – 11:15Attention Spillovers from News to Ads: Evidence from an Eye-Tracking Experiment,  by Andrey Simonov (Columbia University, presenter), Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College London, NHH and CEPR), and Andre Veiga (Imperial College London)
Discussant: Lukas Bolte (Carnegie Mellon)
11:30 – 12:30Misinformation and Mistrust: The Equilibrium Effects of Fake Reviews on Amazon.com, by Ashvin Gandhi (UCLA, presenter) and Brett Hollenbeck (UCLA)
Discussant: Jessica Fong (University of Michigan)
12:30 – 14:00Lunch at the Executive Residence
14:00 – 15:00Pricing Frictions and Platform Remedies: The Case of Airbnb, by Yufeng Huang (University of Rochester Simon Business School)
Discussant: Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto)
15:15 – 16:15Consumer Trust Signals in Credence Goods Markets: A Field Experimental Study, by Ingrid Koch (UNC, presenter) and Noah Lim (National University of Singapore)
Discussant: Olivia Natan (UC Berkeley)
16:30 – 17:30 Bounded Rationality and Strategic Competition: Evidence from Gas Station Managers, by Yi Han (Renmin University), David Huffman (University of Pittsburgh, presenter), and Yiming Liu (Humbolt University of Berlin and WZB)
Discussant: Andreas Kraft (University of Chicago)
18:00 – 20:30Dinner at Taste Kitchen

May 17, 2024

8:30 – 9:00Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00Using The Dual-Privacy Framework To Understand Consumers’ Perceived Privacy Violations Under Different Firm Practices In Online Advertising, by Kinshuk Jerath (Columbia University, presenter) and Klaus Miller (HEC Paris)
Discussant: Tesary Lin (Boston University)
10:15 – 11:15The Illusion of Competition, by Michael Grubb (Boston College, presenter) and Ryan Westphal (Brandeis University)
Discussant: Ganesh Iyer (UC Berkeley)
11:30 – 12:30TV Advertising Effectiveness with Racial Minority Representation: Evidence from the Mortgage Market, by Donggwan Kim (Washington University), Zhenling Jiang (University of Pennsylvania, presenter) and Raphael Thomadsen (Washington University)
Discussant: Sarah Moshary (UC Berkeley)
12:30 – 14:00Lunch at the Executive Residence
14:05 – 15:00Leveraging Rational Addition Theory to Reduce Mobile Usage, by Jeeva Somasundaram (IE University, presenter), Laura Zimmermann (IE University), and Pham Quang Duc (IE University)
Discussant: Oleg Urminsky (University of Chicago)
15:00 – 16:00 Interest Rate Misperception in the Credit Card Market, by Tianyu Han (UC Berkeley, presenter) and Xiao Yin (University College London)
Discussant: Matthew Osborne (University of Toronto)