7^thWorkshop on Consumer Search and Switching Costs

Fri , May 27, 2016----Sunday, May 29, 2016

School of Economics

Zhejiang University (ZJU)

Hangzhou, China

Conference Location: Conference Room, ZJU Science Park Hotel,

No.525 Xixi Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou 310007, China.

Tel: 86-571-28926888

Saturday, May28

8:30              Registration

9:00-10:30    Session One (Chair: Jidong Zhou Yale University)

                     Quality Provision and Efficiency in Search Markets

                     Jose Luis Moraga, VU University Amsterdam

Optimal Learning about Multiple Alternatives:

                     T. Tony Ke, MIT

10:30-11:00  Break

11:00-12:30  Session Two (Chair: Andrew Rhodes, Toulouse School of Economics)

Market structure and Search

                     Matthijs R. Wildenbeest, Indiana University

Understanding Search Behavior: The Roles of Loss Aversion and Mental Costs

                     Binglin Gong, Fudan University

12:30-13:30  Lunch

13:30-15:00  Session Three (Chair: Wen Zhou Hong Kong University)

Retail Channel Management in Consumer Search Markets

                     Maarten Janssen, University of Viena

Market Structure and Advance Selling

                     Makoto Watanabe, VU University Amsterdam

15:00-15:30  Break

15:30-17:45  Session Four (Chair: Tianle Zhang, Lingnan University)

Upstream and Downstream Competition in a Search Market

                     Sandro Shelegia, Pompeu Fabra University

Relative Price Dispersion in a Dynamic Model of Customer Acquisition

                     Nicholas Trachter, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Information Exchange and Consumer Search

                     Anton Sobolev, University of Vienna

Sunday, May 29

8:50-10:20    Session Five (Chair: Daniel Garcia, University of Viena)

Consumer Search, Platform Competition and Shopping Malls

                     Alexei Parakhonyak, Oxford University

Consumer Search on the Internet

                     Babur De los Santos, Clemson University

10:20-10:50  Break

10:50-12:20  Session Six (Chair: TBA)

                     Pricing to Obfuscate and Competition

                     Dmitry Y Lubensky, Indiana University

Price and Match-Value Advertising with Directed Consumer Search

                     Marco Haan, University of Groningen

 欢迎广大师生参加！

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