Friday, May 10, 2019 (Ross Building, R0210)
9:45 – 10: 15
Registration and Welcome
10:15 – 11:15
“Bait and Ditch: Consumer Naïveté and Salesforce Incentives”
Fabian Herweg (University of Bayreuth) and Antonio Rosato (University of Technology Sydney)
Discussant: Sanjay Jain (UTD)
11:30 – 12:30
“What the Past Tells about the Future: Historical Prices in the Durable Goods Market”
Zheng Gong (University of Toronto), Jin Huang (NYU Shanghai) and Yuxin Chen (NYU Shanghai)
Discussant: Robert Zeithammer (UCLA)
14:00 – 15:00
“Benign vs. Self-Serving Information Reduction”
Alexander L. Brown (Texas A&M University) and Daniel E. Fragiadakis (Villanova University)
Discussant: Steve Leider (University of Michigan)
15:15 – 16:15
“Strategically Naive or Guided by Trust”
Xiaolin Li (UTD), Özalp Özer (UTD), Upender Subramanian (UTD)
Discussant: Tanjim Hossain (University of Toronto)
16:30 – 17:30
“Identification of Biased Beliefs in Games of Incomplete Information Using Experimental Data“
Victor Aguirregabiria (University of Toronto) and Erhao Xie (Bank of Canada)
Discussant: Ruli Xiao (Indiana University)
19:00
Conference Dinner (Executive Residence)
Saturday, May 11, 2019 (Ross Building, R2210)
8:30 – 9:30
“Rate This Transaction: Towards Principles for the Design of Market Feedback Systems”
Gary E. Bolton (UTD), Alina Ferecatu (Erasmus University), David J. Kusterer (University of Cologne)
Discussant: Paola Mallucci (University of Wisconsin)
9:45 – 10:45
“More than a Penny’s Worth: Left-Digit Bias and Firm Pricing”
Avner Shlain (UC Berkeley)
Discussant: Zhenling Jiang (University of Washington in St.Louis)
11:00-12:00
“The Zero Bias in Target Retirement Fund Choice”
Xiao Liu (NYU), Wei Zhang (Iowa State University), and Ajay Kalra (Rice University)
Discussant: Tyler Shumway (University of Michigan)
13:30 – 14:30
“Obesity and Self Control: Evidence from Food Purchase Data”
Ying Bao (University of Toronto), Matthew Osborne (University of Toronto), Emily Wang (University of Mass., Amherst), Edward C. Jaenicke (Penn State University)
Discussant: Nathan Yang (McGill University)
14:45-15:45
“Consumer Attention Allocation and Firm Information Design”
Kinshuk Jerath (Columbia University) and Qitian Ren (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Discussant: Tony Ke (MIT)