2ND STATISTICAL CHALLENGES IN E-COMMERCE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
Management Information Systems Research Center
Schedule for Monday, May 22, 2006
Sudipto Banerjee, Biostatistics, School of Public Health
Mark Bergen, Marketing and Logistics Management, Carlson School of Management
Robert J. Kauffman, MISRC and Information and Decision Sciences, Carlson School of Management
Shashi Shekhar, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Institute of Technology
University of Minnesota
Last revised: May 18, 2006
TIME
8:00-8:30
8:30-8:50
ACTIVITY
BREAKFAST
Welcome
8:50-9:30
1st Keynote
9:30-9:50
9:50-10:20
BREAK
Paper Slot 1,2
10:20-10:50
Paper Slot 3,4
10:50-11:20
Paper Slot 5,6
11:20-11:50
Paper Slot 7,8
11:50-13:10
13:10-14:00
LUNCH
1st Panel
MAIN EVENT ROOM 2-260R
In the Executive Training Center Lobby, nearby 2-260R
John Fossum, Acting Associate Dean of Faculty & Research,
Professor of Human Resources & Industrial Relations, Carlson
School of Management, UMN
The Evolution of E-Commerce: Will We Need Statistics?
A. Odlyzko, Director, Digital Technology Center, UMN
EVENT ROOM 2-207
Is Consumer Demand Kinked? Estimating Menu Costs and
Search Costs in Electronic Markets (A. Ghose, NYU and B.
Gu, UT Austin)
Price Points and Price Rigidity (D. Lee, Korea University; D.
Levy, Bar-Ilan University; A. Chen, U Miami; R. Kauffman,
MISRC/IDSc, UMN; and M. Bergen, Marketing, UMN)
Do Market Characteristics Impact the Relationship between
Retailer Characteristics and Online Prices? (R.Venkatesan,
K. Mehta and R. Bapna, U Connecticut)
Asymmetric Price Adjustment in the Small and Rational
Inattention (A. Chen, U Miami; D. Levy, Bar-Ilan U; S. Ray,
McMaster U and M. Bergen, Marketing, UMN)
Carlson Private Dining Room, Lower Level
Explanatory Vs. Predictive Modeling in Electronic
Commerce (R. Bapna, U Connecticut and Indian School of
Business; O. Koppius, Erasmus U; G. Shmueli, U Maryland)
Quantifying Bid Shading in Online Auctions via a Functional Approach (G. Shmueli, W. Jank, U Maryland; and R.
Bapna, U Connecticut and Indian School of Business)
Maybe Enough Data: Short-Term Speculative Risk and
Return in Online Coin Auctions (C. Wood, U Notre Dame)
Dynamics and Evolution of Bidder Networks in Online
Auctions (M. Dass and S. Reddy, U Georgia)
Towards a Theory of Bidding Dynamics (W. Jank, S. Mithas,
G. Shmueli, U Maryland; J. Jones, U South Florida, O.
Koppius, Erasmus U)
TIME
14:00-14:30
ACTIVITY
Paper Slot 9
14:30-15:00
Paper Slot 10
15:00-15:15
15:15-15:45
BREAK
Paper Slot
11,12
Paper Slot
13,14
15:45-16:15
16:15-16:45
Paper Slot
15,16
16:45-17:00
17:00-18:00
BREAK
Tutorial
18:00-18:30
18:30-20:00
RECEPTION
DINNER
MAIN EVENT ROOM 2-260R
Network Structure and the Long Tail of E-Commerce Demand
(G. Ostreicher-Singer, A. Sundararajan, NYU)
Competing with Free: Impact of Movie Broadcasts on DVD
Sales and Digital Piracy (M. Smith, R. Telang, Carnegie
Mellon U)
EVENT ROOM 2-207
Flexible Modeling of Large Multivariate Spatial Datasets (S.
Banerjee, Statistics, UMN)
Impacts of Internet Technologies and Digital Economy on the
Agglomeration of IT Industries: A Knowledge Spillovers
Approach (R. Kauffman, A. Kumar, MISRC and IDSc, UMN)
The Impact of Location on Consumer Purchases in Digital
Markets (C. Forman, Carnegie Mellon U; A. Ghose, NYU; A.
Goldfarb, U Toronto)
From Clicks to Bricks: CRM Lessons from E-Commerce (S.
Mane, P. Desikan, J. Srivastava, Computer Science, UMN)
Ant Swarm Reinforcement Learning for Formulating Online
Promotion Strategies (T.S. Chung, P.K. Kannan, U
Maryland)
Strategic Sales Management Guided by Economic Regimes
(W. Ketter, J. Collins, M. Gini, P. Schrater, Computer
Science, UMN; A. Gupta, IDSc, UMN)
What’s Special about Mining Spatial Data? (S. Shekhar,
Computer Science, UMN)
Carlson School Dining Room on the lower level
Carlson School Dining Room on the lower level
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STATISTICAL CHALLENGES IN E-COMMERCE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
Schedule for Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Sudipto Banerjee, Biostatistics, School of Public Health
Mark Bergen, Marketing and Logistics Management, Carlson School of Management
Robert J. Kauffman, MISRC and Information and Decision Sciences, Carlson School of Management
Shashi Shekhar, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Institute of Technology
University of Minnesota
TIME
7:30-8:00
8:00-8:30
8:30-9:00
9:00-10:00
ACTIVITY
BREAKFAST
Paper Slot
17,18
MAIN EVENT ROOM 2-260R
In the Executive Training Center Lobby, nearby 2-260R
Price Adjustments for Multi-Component Systems Sold Online:
Rational Inattention and Implications for Firm Performance
(S. Ray, McMaster U, C. Wood, U Notre Dame; P. Messinger,
U Alberta)
Paper Slot
19,20
2nd Keynote
Estimating Demand from eBay Prices (C. Adams, Federal
Trade Commission)
The importance of web2.0/3.0 for e-business
Andreas S. Weigend, (Weigend Associates LLC)
(P. Messinger, U Alberta, discussant)
10:00-10:20
10:20-10:50
BREAK
Paper Slot
21,22
10:50-11:20
Paper Slot
23, 24
11:50-12:40
2nd Panel
12:40-13:00
6:00-close
CLOSE
Hierarchical Cure Rate Models for Survival Data under Latent
Activation Schemes (S. Banerjee, F. Cooner, Statistics, UMN)
Time Changes Everything, Even Our Coefficient Estimates:
Time-Varying Coefficients in E-Commerce Research (E.
Overby, and B. Konsynski, Emory U)
Computational Statistics and Its Challenges in ECommerce (S. Banerjee, Biostatistics, UMN; W. Jank, U
Maryland; G. Jones, Statistics, UMN)
Lunches offered for people who want to stay or leave
Optional dinner if you’re staying; excellent Korean food at a
local restaurant; not covered by conference fees; carpools
available
EVENT ROOM 2-207
Costs and Benefits of Fraud Detection in a National Health
Information Network (S. Parente, Finance, UMN; K.
Mandelbaum, HIS Network LLC; S. Hanson, TerraStar
Consulting Services; B. Cassidy, Cassidy Associates; D.
Simborg, MD)
An Industry Level Analysis of the Potential and Realized
Value of IT (K. Goh, R. Kauffman, MISRC, IDSc/ UMN)
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Estimating Trading Risks in the Presence of Reporting Bias:
Identifiability: Problems in Online Feedback Mechanisms
(C. Dellarocas, U Maryland and C. Wood, U Notre Dame)
The Dimensions of Reputation in Electronic Markets (A.
Ghose, P. Iperiotis and A. Sundararajan, NYU)
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