PARALLEL SESSION 5: Consumer Search and Platform Recommendations

(15mn introduction – 8mn speaker – questions and answers)

Moderator: Daniel ERSHOV (TSE)

Introduction: Heski BAR-ISAAC (University of Toronto)

Stephan SEILER (Imperial College London), Tomomichi Amano (Harvard Business School) and Andrew Rhodes (TSE)

Large Scale Demand Estimation with Search Data

Charles HODGSON (Yale University) and Gregory Lewis (Microsoft Research)

You Can Lead a Horse to Water: Spatial Learning and Path Dependence in Consumer Search Tat-How TEH (National University of Singapore)

Platform Governance

Andrei HAGIU (Boston University) and Julian Wright (National University of Singapore)

Platform Leakage

Heski BAR-ISAAC (University of Toronto and UPF) and Sandro Shelegia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CEPR)

Search, Showrooming, and Retailer Variety