Consumer Search And Switching Cost Workshop
10th Annual
Consumer Search and Switching Costs Workshop
Friday, June 7 – Saturday, June 8, 2019
UCLA Anderson School of Management
In recent years, there has been a growing recognition that consumer search and switching costs play a crucial role in understanding market outcomes. Whether in physical or online market environments (or in combination of both), small search frictions may have important consequences. Join us as we discuss and assess the changes these costs bring to the market.
There is no registration fee for the workshop.
To RSVP, please email Eleanor Garibay at eleanor.garibay@anderson.ucla.edu or click the button below.
Call for Papers
Researchers interested in presenting at the 10th Annual Consumer Search and Switching Costs Workshop (June 7–8, 2019) should email their papers or abstracts to Elisabeth Honka by March 15, 2019. Preference will be given to complete papers.
Accommodations
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Lodging
| HOTEL | ADDRESS | DISTANCE (MI) | PHONE | SHUTTLE |
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| Luskin Conference Center & Hotel | 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles 90095 | 0.3 mi. | (855) 522-8252 | Shuttle Acess |
| UCLA Guest House | 330 Charles E. Young Drive East | 0.5 mi. | (310) 825-2923 | Shuttle Acess |
| W Los Angeles -Westwood | 930 Hilgard Avenue | 1.0 mi. | (310) 208-8765 | |
| Hilgard House Hotel | 927 Hilgard Avenue | 1.0 mi. | (310) 208-3945 | |
| Claremont Hotel | 1044 Tiverton Avenue | 1.0 mi. | (310) 208-5957 | |
| Royal Palace Westwood Hotel | 1052 Tiverton Avenue | 1.0 mi. | (310) 208-6677 | |
| Hotel Palomar | 10740 Wilshire Boulevard | 1.3 mi. | (310) 475-8711 | Shuttle Acess |
| Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel | 11461 Sunset Boulevard | 1.6 mi. | (310) 476-6571 | Shuttle Acess |
| Hotel Angeleno | 170 North Church Lane | 1.7 mi. | (310) 476-6411 | Shuttle Acess |
| Beverly Hills Plaza Hotel | 10300 Wilshire Boulevard | 2.1 mi. | (310) 275-5575 | |
| The Beverly Hilton | 9876 Wilshire Boulevard | 2.8 mi. | (310) 274-7777 | |
| The Beverly Hills Hotel | 9461 Sunset Boulevard | 2.8 mi. | (310) 276-2251 | |
| The Brentwood Inn | 12200 Sunset Boulevard | 2.8 mi. | (310) 476-9981 | |
| The Peninsula Beverly Hills | 9882 South Santa Monica Boulevard | 3.1 mi. | (310) 551-2888 | |
| Holiday Inn Express -CenturyCity | 10330 West Olympic Boulevard | 3.4 mi. | (310) 553-1000 | |
| Courtyard Marriott -CenturyCity | 10320 West Olympic Boulevard | 3.4 mi. | (310) 556-2777 | |
| InterContinental Los Angeles - Century City | 2151 Avenue Of The Stars | 3.6 mi. | (877) 270-1390 | |
| Avalon Hotel Beverly Hills | 9400 West Olympic Boulevard | 4.5 mi. | (800) 670-6183 | |
| Crowne Plaza Beverly Hills | 1150 South Beverly Drive | 4.4 mi. | (310) 553-6561 | |
| Sofitel Los Angeles | 8555 Beverly Boulevard | 5.1 mi. | (310) 358-3911 | |
| SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills | 465 South La Cienega | 5.2 mi. | (310) 246-2062 |
Friday, June 7, 2019
Location: UCLA Anderson School of Management, Collins Center for Executive Education, A202
| 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. | Online Demand Under Limited Consumer Search and Limited Review Reading | Download Paper |
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Marton Varga (INSEAD) and Paulo Albuquerque (INSEAD) |
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| 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. | Commitment and Cheap Talk in Search Deterrence: Exploding Offer vs. Buy-Now Discount | Download Paper |
| Siqi Pan (University of Melbourne) and Xin Zhao (University of Technology Sydney) Discussant: Song Lin (HKUST) |
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| 11:00 – 11:15 a.m. | Break | |
| 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Search Duration | Download Paper |
| Raluca Ursu (NYU Stern School of Business), Qingliang Wang (Northwestern Politechnical University) and Pradeep Chintagunta (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) Discussant: Jason Abaluck (Yale) |
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| 12:15 – 1:00 p.m. | Cursed Beliefs in Search Markets | Download Paper |
| Tobias Gamp (Humboldt University of Berlin) and Daniel Kraehmer (University of Bonn) Discussant: Dmitry Lubensky (Indiana University) |
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| 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. | Lunch | |
| 2:15 – 3:15 p.m. | Measuring Long-Run Price Elasticities in Urban Travel Demand | Download Paper |
| Javier Donna (The Ohio State University) Discussant: Jurre Thiel (Amsterdam) |
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| 3:15 – 3:30 p.m. | Break | |
| 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. | Online Shopping With Endogenous Channel Choice: PC vs. Mobile | Download Paper |
| Shuo Zhang (Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis), Zhenling Jiang (Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis) and Hai Che (University of California Riverside) Discussant: Song Yao (Minnesota) |
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| 4:30 – 5:15 p.m. | Partially Directed Search for Prices | Download Paper |
| 4:30 – 5:15 p.m. | Eeva Mauring (University of Vienna) Discussant: Martin Obradovitsch (Innsbruck) |
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| 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. | Dinner |
Saturday, June 8, 2019
Location: UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room
| 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. | Consumer Inertia and Market Power | |
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Alexander MacKay (Harvard Business School) and Marc Remer (Swarthmore College)
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| 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. | Online Retail Platform, Consumer Search, and Filtering | Download Paper |
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Baojun Jiang (Washington University) and Tianxin Zou (Washington University) Discussant: Maxim Sinitsyn (UC San Diego) |
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| 11:00 – 11:15 a.m. | Break | |
| 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Discounts and Deadlines in Consumer Search | Download Paper |
| Dominic Coey (Facebook), Bradley Larson (Stanford University) and Brennan Platt (Brigham Young University) Discussant: Sonia Gilbukh (Baruch College) |
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| 12:15 – 1:00 p.m. | Vertical Bargaining and Obfuscation | Download Paper |
| Edona Reshidi (University of Vienna) Discussant: Marcel Preuss (Cornell University) |
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| 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. | Lunch | |
| 2:15 – 3:15 p.m. | The Importance of Price Beliefs in Consumer Search | Download Paper |
| Pranav Jindal (UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School) and Anocha Aribarg (Ross School of Business, University of Michigan) Discussant: Matthijs Wildenbeest (Indiana University) |
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| 3:15 – 3:30 p.m. | Break | |
| 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. | Consumer Search With Learning: A Structural Estimation of Gasoline Demand | Download Paper |
| Xiaosong Wu (Clemson University) and Frank Wolak (Stanford University) Discussant: Sergei Koulayev (CFPB) |
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| 4:30 – 5:15 p.m. | Product Quality and Consumer Search | Download Paper |
| Jose Luis Moraga-Gonzalez (VU Amsterdam) and Yajie Sun (VU Amsterdam) Discussant: Garth Baughman (Federal Reserve Board) |
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| 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. | Dinner |
