The 13th edition of the Workshop on the Economics of Advertising and Marketing will be held in London, UK (City, University of London) on June 24-25, 2022. The idea of the workshop is to bring together people doing frontier research on advertising, drawing from empirical IO, quantitative marketing, and economic theory.

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PROGRAM

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Location: City, University of London (Economics Department)

Address: Rhind Building, Northampton Square, EC1V 0HB.

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presentation + discussion = 40 minutes

(suggested: presentation 25-30mins; discussion 10-15 minutes)

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Friday, June 24th 

 

9:00 – Registration Opens

 

​9:15 - Welcoming Address

Levent Celik (City, University of London)

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9:30-10:50  Session I

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Martin Peitz (Mannheim)

“Inflated Recommendations”, with Anton Sobolev (Mannheim)  

Discussant: Mikhail Drugov (New Economic School)

 

Dina Mayzlin (USC)

“Do Curation Algorithms Amplify the Effect of Trolls on Users?”, with Amy Pei (USC)

Discussant: Pedro Gardete (Nova)

 

 

10:50-11:10  Tea

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11:10-12:30  Session II 

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Tommaso Valletti (Imperial)

“News Content and Advertising Effectiveness: Evidence from an Eye-Tracking Experiment”, with Andrey Simonov (Columbia) and Andre Veiga (Imperial)  

Discussant:  Sarah Moshary (Chicago)

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Brad Shapiro (Chicago)

“The value of third-party data for targeting: evidence from over 800,000 ad experiments at Facebook.”, with Robert Moakler (Facebook), Anna Tuchman (Kellogg), and Nils Wernerfelt (Facebook).  

Discussant: Stephan Seiler (Imperial)

 

 

12:30-2:00  Lunch

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2:00-3:30  Roundtable Discussion

"Digital Advertising and Online News Media"

Invited speakers from UK regulators (Ofcom and CMA) 

Moderator: Martin Peitz (Mannheim)

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3:30-3:50 Tea

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3:50-5:30 Session III

 

Marit Hinnosaar (Nottingham)

“Influencer Cartels”, with Toomas Hinnosaar (Nottingham)

Discussant: Dina Mayzlin (USC)

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Anja Lambrecht  (LBS)

“Apparent Algorithmic Discrimination and Real-Time Algorithmic Learning in Digital Search Advertising”, with Catherine Tucker (MIT)

Discussant: Tommaso Valletti (Imperial)

 

 

19:30 Dinner

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Saturday, June 25th 

 

 

9:30-10:50  Session IV

 

Xu Zhang (LBS)

"TV Advertising and Online Sales: The Role of Inter-Temporal Substitution" with Anja Lambrecht (LBS) and Catherine Tucker (MIT)

Discussant:  Marit Hinnosaar (Nottingham)

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Pedro Gardete (Nova)

“Guiding Consumers through Lemons and Peaches: An Analysis of the Effects of Search Design Activities”, with Megan Hunter (Boston College)

Discussant:  Brad Shapiro (Chicago)

 

 

10:50-11:10  Tea

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11:10-12:30  Session V 

 

Simon Anderson (UVA)

“The Collapse of Dialogue? Evidence from the US Advertising Political Campaigns, 2010-2016 ”, with Federico Ciliberto (UVA) and Ben Leyden (Cornell)  

Discussant: Maria Ana Vitorino (INSEAD)

 

Mikhail Drugov (New Economic School)

“Score Disclosure”, with Levent Celik (City, University of London)

Discussant: Mushegh Harutyunyan (Imperial)

 

12:30-2:00  Lunch

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2:00-3:20  Session VI

 

Sarah Moshary (Chicago)

“Sponsored Search in Equilibrium: Evidence from Two Experiments”

Discussant: David Reiley (Pandora, UC Berkeley)

 

Maria Ana Vitorino (INSEAD)

“Decomposing the Effect of Advertising: What Happens in the Retail Channel?", with Michaela Draganska (Drexel) 

Discussant: Xinrong Zhu (Imperial)

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3:20-3:40 Tea

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3:40-5:20 Session VII

 

Gorkem Bostanci (UBC)

“Negative Advertising and Competitive Product Positioning”, with Pinar Yildirim (Wharton)

Discussant: Joana Resende (Porto)

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Joana Resende (Porto)

“Customers' endogenous identity management”

Discussant: Arina Nikandrova (City, University of London)

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19:30 Casual Dinner

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