Workshop on Consumer Search
November 6th to 8th 2014, Bad Homburg
Organizers: Martin Peitz, Andras Niedermayer and Chengsi Wang (University of Mannheim and MaCCI)
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
Informal discussion on the issue of consumer search
Friday, November 7th, 2014
Session 1: Directed Search (9.30-13.00)
09:30-10:30: Simon Anderson (Virginia), “Search Direction”
Discussant: Andrew Rhodes (Toulouse)
10:30-11:30: Philipp Kircher (Edinburgh), “Efficient Competition through Cheap Talk: The Case of Competing Auctions”
Discussant: Chengsi Wang (Mannheim)
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
12:00-13:00: Matt Backus (Cornell), “Cheap Talk, Round Numbers, and the Economics of Negotiation”
Discussant: Konrad Stahl (Mannheim)
13:00 – 14:30: Lunch
Session 2: Search and Platform (14.30-16.30)
14.30–15.30: Andras Niedermayer (Mannheim), “Predatory Fee Setting”
Discussant: Stephan Lauermann (Bonn)
15.30–16.30: Regis Renault (Paris Dauphine), “Platform Content”
Discussant: Martin Peitz (Mannheim)
16:30 – 17:00: Coffee Break
Session 3: Search and Learning (17.00-19.00)
17.00–18.00: Sandro Shelegia (Vienna), “Consumer Search with Observational Learning”
Discussant: Jose-Luis Moraga (Amsterdam/Groningen)
18.00–19.00: Babur de los Santos (Indiana), “Search with Learning”
Discussant: Matt Backus (Cornell)
19:00 -21:00: Dinner
Saturday, November 8th, 2014
Session 4: Empirical Search (9.30-13.00)
09.30–10.30: Matthijs Wildenbeest (Indiana), “Consumer Search and Prices in the Automobile Market”
Discussant: Philipp Schmidt-Dengler (Vienna)
10.30-11.30: Matthew Gentry (LSE), “Displays, Sales, and In-Store Search in Retail Markets”
Discussant: Barbur de los Santos (Indiana)
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
12.00-13.00: Nicolas Schutz (Mannheim), “Price Dispersion in Gasoline Industry”
Discussant: Matthijs Wildenbeest (Indiana)
13:00-14:30 Lunch
Session 5: Sequential Search (14.30-16.30)
14:30–15:30: Maarten Janssen (Vienna): “The Double Diamond Paradox”
Discussant: Regis Renault (Paris Dauphine)
15:30 – 16:30: Jose-Luis Moraga (Amsterdam/Groningen), “Product Differentiation and Heterogeneous Search Cost”
Discussant: Simon Anderson (Virginia)