Program (PDF)

May 14-15, 2009

Room: Nancy et Michel Gaucher

Email facilities: United Rentals

HEC Montr�al classrooms are equipped with an overhead projector, a data projector linked to the computer available in the room (P4, 512Mo with Windows XP Pro, Office 2003 and AcrobatReader 7). You may also use your own laptop.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

 

8:00 - 8:50

 

Registration

 

8:50 - 9:00 Welcome address

 

9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Presentation 1, Chair: Georges Zaccour

Meta Analysis of Multi-Brand, Multi-Outlet Channel Systems
Richard Staelin, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, USA

 

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
 

10:30 - 12:30

 

Session 1, Chair: Mark Parry

 

 

Group Buying Mechanisms under Quantity Discounts
Rachel R. Chen, University of California, Davis, USA, Cuihong Li, University of Connecticut, USA, Rachel Q. Zhang, HKUST, Hong Kong.

Disclosing Multiple Product Attributes
Monic Sun, Stanford University, USA

On the Effects of Myopia in Marketing Channels Under the Dual-Role of Prices
Sihem Taboubi, GERAD, HEC Montr�al, Canada, Guiomar Mart�n-Herr�n, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain, Georges Zaccour, GERAD, HEC Montr�al, Canada

Resale Price Maintenance, Channel Breadth, and Heterogeneous Retailers
Charles A. Ingene, University of Mississippi, USA, Mark Parry, University of Missouri, USA

 

12:30 -14:00

Lunch

 

14:00 -16:00

 

Session 2, Chair: Raphael Thomadsen

 

 

The Effect of Persuasive Advertisements on Product Line Decisions in a distribution Channel
Sreya Kolay, University of California, Irvine, USA

Product Strategy for Commercial Open Source Software
Vineet Kumar, Brett Gordon, Kannan Srinivasan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Does Manufacturer Advertising Crowd-In or Crowd-Out Retailer Advertising?
Robert Ridlon, Sungkyunkwan University GSB, Korea
 

Seeking an Aggressive Competitor: How a Competitor�s Product Line Extensions Can Increase Profits for All Firms
Raphael Thomadsen, UCLA, USA

 

16:00 -16:30

Coffee Break.

 

16:30 -17:30

 

Tutorial 1, Chair: Arcan Nalca

   

 

Coordination Mechanisms in Marketing Channels: A Survey of Game Theory Models
Charles A. Ingene, University of Mississippi, USA, Sihem Taboubi, Georges Zaccour, GERAD, HEC Montr�al, Canada

 

19:30 -

 

 

 

Dinner

 

 

Friday, May 15, 2009

 

9:00 - 10:00

 

Keynote Presentation 2, Chair: Sihem Taboubi

 

 

 

 

Consequences of Using a Category Captain
Jagmohan S. Raju, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, USA

 

10:00 - 10:30

 

Coffee Break

 

10:30 - 12:30

 

Session 3, Chair: Rajeev Tyagi

 

 

 

Bundling and predatory pricing: a new perspective
Andrea Mantovani, University of Bologna, Italy

Competitive Price-Matching Guarantees in an Uncertain Demand Environment
Arcan Nalca, Queen's School of Business, Canada

Optimal Pricing for a Firm in Recession Periods Producing a Conspicuous Product
Peter M. Kort
, Tilburg University, The Netherlands 

The Effects of Consumer Overestimation and Underestimation Biases on Pricing Plans
Sreya Kolay, Rajeev Tyagi, University of California, Irvine, USA

 

 

12:30 -14:00

 

Lunch

 

14:00 -16:00

 

Session 4, Chair: Anthony Dukes

 

 

 

 

Optimal Reverse-Pricing Mechanisms
Robert Zeithammer, UCLA, USA, Martin Spann, University of Passau, Germany, Gerald Haubl, University of Alberta, Canada

Innovation Adoption and Entry Defense under Spillovers
Chun (Martin) Qiu, McGill University, Canada

Customer Ambivalence Toward Interpersonal Conflict: A Psychoanalytic Game Theory Perspective
Haithem Zourrig, Issam Telahigue, UQ�M, Canada, Jean-Charles Chebat, HEC Montr�al, Canada

The Role of Quality in a Channel with Asymmetric Retailers
Anthony Dukes, University of Southern California, USA

 

 

16:00 -16:30

 

Coffee Break

 

16: 30 - 17:30

 

Tutorial II, Chair: Peter M. Kort

 

 

 

 

Experimental Game Theory Methods for Behavioral Marketing Science
Paul Messinger, University of Alberta, Canada

 

 

19:30 -

 

Dinner