This seminar series is not currently running and may resume in the future.
For registration (to receive reminders, updates, and ZOOM Meeting ID information via email) please follow the link above.
Seminar presentations are scheduled to last a total of 60 minutes (50 minutes presentations plus 10 minutes Q&A). The research presented will focus on models of consumer search and their implications for consumer and firm behavior, competition, and economic welfare.
Organizers: Simon Anderson (University of Virginia), Maxim Engers (University of Virginia), Maarten Janssen (University of Vienna), José Luis Moraga-González (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Dan Savelle (St. Mary's College of Maryland).
Please direct questions to Daniel Savelle at dssavelle@gmail.com
If you are interested in presenting, please email Dan Savelle at dssavelle@gmail.com.
We welcome theoretical and empirical submissions from Economics, Marketing and related disciplines.
Note: Presentations are recorded and posted to Youtube.
March 2 - Cole Williams (University of Vienna) with Maarten Janssen
"Searching Online and Product Returns" (Video)
March 16 - Mark Whitmeyer (Arizona State University) with Pak Hung Au
"Attraction Versus Persuasion: Information Provision in Search Markets" (Video)
March 30 - Benson Tsz Kin Leung (Hong Kong Baptist University) with Johannes Johnen
"Distracted from Comparison: Product Design and Advertisement with Limited Attention" (Video)
April 13 - Brennan Platt (Brigham Young University) with S. Nuray Akin
"Consumer Search Intensity and Dynamic Pricing" (Video)
April 27 - Ben Casner (US Federal Trade Commission) with Tat-How Teh
"Content-hosting platforms: discovery, membership, or both?" (Video)
September 14 - Marcel Preuss (Cornell University)
"Search, Learning, and Tracking" (Video)
September 28 - Felix Montag (LMU Munich) with Alina Sagimuldina and Monika Schnitzer
"Does tax policy work when consumers have imperfect price information? Theory and evidence" (Video)
October 12 -Weixuan Zhou (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) with Feiting Xu
"Indirect Sales with Search Costs" (Video)
October 26 -Atabek Atayev (ZEW -Leibniz Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim)
“Nonlinear Prices, Homogeneous Goods, Search” (Video)
November 23 -Tony Ke (Chinese University of Hong Kong) with Song Lin and Michelle Lu
"Information Design of Online Platforms" (Video)
February 3 - Jidong Zhou (Yale University)
"Improved Information in Search Markets" (Video)
February 10 - Helena Perrone (University of Mannheim, MaCCI) with Pierre Dubois
"Price dispersion and informational frictions: evidence from supermarket purchases" (Video)
February 17 - Hal Varian (UC Berkeley and Google)
"Ad costs and product prices" (Video)
February 24 - Ilya Morozov (Northwestern University) with Robert Donnelly and Ayush Kanodia
"The Long-Tail Effect of Personalized Rankings" (Video)
March 3 - Anton Sobolev (University of Mannheim) with Nicolas Schutz
"Dual Pricing in a Model of Sales" (Video)
March 10 - Jiwoong Shin (Yale University) with Tony Ke and Jungju Yu
"A Theory of Brand Positioning: Product-Portfolio View" (Video)
March 17 - Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim) with Patrick Rey
"Consumer Search and Choice Overload" (Video)
March 24 - Kinshuk Jerath (Columbia University) with Qitian Ren
"Consumer Search Under Product Returns" (Video)
March 31 - Vaiva Petrikaitė (Vilnius University)
"How much to inform a handyman beforehand" (Video)
April 14 - Daniel Savelle (University of Mannheim) with Simon Anderson and Maxim Engers
"Consumer Journeys with Nested Weitzman Scores and Informational Complementarities" (Video)
April 21 - Yiyi Zhou (Stony Brook University) with Ziying Fan, Xi Weng, and Li-An Zhou
"Observational Learning and Information Disclosure in Search Markets" (Video)
April 28 - Rafael P. Greminger (Tilburg University)
"Optimal Search and Discovery" (Video)
May 5 - Anders Munk-Nielsen (University of Copenhagen) with Frederik Plum Hauschultz
"Markups on Drop-Downs: Prominence in Pharmaceutical Markets" (Video)
May 12 - Jurre Thiel (Copenhagen Business School) with Aljoscha Janssen
"Do Search Costs Explain Persistent Investment In Active Mutual Funds?" (Video)
October 7 - Sandro Shelegia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, BGSE, CEPR) with Heski Bar-Isaac
"Search, Showrooming, and Retailer Variety" (Video)
October 14 - Eeva Mauring (University of Bergen)
"Sequential Search with Limited Price Discrimination"
October 21 - Daniel Savelle (University of Mannheim) with Simon Anderson and Maxim Engers
"Ordered Search: Equilibrium and Optimum" (Video)
October 28 - Tobias Gamp (Humboldt University of Berlin) with Daniel Krähmer
"Unrealistic Beliefs in Search Markets" (Video)
November 4 - Andrew Rhodes (Toulouse School of Economics) with Alexei Parakhonyak
"Dynamic Consumer Search" (Video)
November 11 - Cole Randall Williams (University of Vienna) with Maarten Janssen
"Influencing Search" (Video)
November 18 - Raluca Ursu (NYU Stern School of Business) with Qianyun Zhang and Elisabeth Honka
"Search Gaps" (Video)
December 2 - Stephan Lauermann (University of Bonn) with Asher Wolinsky
"Auctions with Frictions" (Video)
December 9 - Job Market Jam Session (Video)
5:15 - Andrey Minaev (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
5:35 - Marton Varga (INSEAD)
5:55 - Jiarui Liu (University of Chicago)
6:15 - Yang Yang (Toulouse School of Economics)
Image Credit to Mai Savelle Art