Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics

ESTIMATION OF DYNAMIC DEMAND MODELS

November 1–2, 2002

Tobin Lounge (Common Room)

FRIDAY 12:00 Lunch and Welcoming Remarks
1:30–2:45 Tulin Erdem, University of California at Berkeley-Haas School of Business, "Learning about Computers: An Analysis of Information Search and Technology" (with Michael Keane, Yale University and Judi Strebel, San Francisco State University)
   Discussant: K. Sudhir, Yale University School of Management
2:45–4:00 Andrew Ching, Ohio State University, "A Structural Model of Dynamic Competition in Advertising under Quality Uncertainty, with an Application to a Prescription Drug Market"
   Discussant: Ahmed Khwaja, Duke University-Fuqua Business School
4:30–5:45 Victor Aguirregabiria, Boston University, "Intertemporal Price Discrimination in Supermarkets: Evidence from the Estimation of a Dynamic Game"
   Discussant: Steve Berry, Yale University
6:30 Dinner
SATURDAY 8:00 Continental Breakfast
9:30–10:45 Michael Keane, Yale University, "Brand and Quantity Choice Dynamics under Price Uncertainty" (with Tulin Erdem, University of California at Berkeley)
   Discussant: Günter Hitsch, University of Chicago-Graduate School of Business
11:15–12:30 Dick Wittink, Yale University School of Management, "Flexible Decomposition of Sales Promotion Effects Based on Store-Level Scanner Data" (with Harold van Heerde, Tilburg University and Peter Leeflang, University of Groningen)
   Discussant: Michael Keane, Yale University
12:30–1:30 Lunch
1:30–2:45 Aviv Nevo, University of California-Berkeley, "Measuring the Implications of Sales and Consumer Stockpiling Behavior" (with Igal Hendel, University of Wisconsin at Madison)
   Discussant: Judith Chevalier, Yale University School of Management
3:15–4:30 Steven Berry, Yale University, "Estimation of Dynamic Oligopoly" (with Ariel Pakes, Harvard University)
   Discussant: Victor Aguirregabiria, Boston University
4:30–5:45 Tat Y. Chan, Washington University-St. Louis, "Estimating Dynamic Pricing Decisions in Oligopolistic Markets: An Empirical Approach Using Micro- and Macro-Level Data" (with P.B. Seetharaman, Ohio State University)
   Discussant: Dan Ackerberg, UCLA
6:30 Dinner