18/05 & 19/05 - Foyer Royal Aula Magna
This two-day workshop brings together leading economists to present and discuss cutting-edge research on consumer protection. The program covers a broad range of topics at the intersection of industrial organization, behavioral economics, and public policy, including hidden fees and shrouded pricing, data privacy and consent design, gambling and addiction, price discrimination, behavioral nudges and targeted interventions, and the welfare effects of regulation.
The workshop features two keynote presentations — by Chiara Farronato (Harvard Business School) on consumer welfare in data sharing, and by Paul Heidhues (ESMT Berlin) on procrastination markets — alongside seven additional paper presentations by researchers from leading institutions.
The event will take place at the Foyer Royal (entry of Louvain House). Participation is free, but registration is required. Please register using this link.
May 18th,
Time | Item | Details |
|---|---|---|
08:35 | Welcome | |
09:00 | Session 1 (chair: Botond Köszegi) | Chris Roth - News Customization with AI (with Felix Chopra, Ingar Haaland, Fabian Roeben and Vanessa Sticher. ) |
10:00 | Session 1 (chair: Botond Köszegi) | Mariana Guido - Do Sports Bettors Need Consumer Protection? Evidence from a Field Experiment (with Matthew Brown and Nick Grasley) |
11:00 | Break | |
11:30 | Session 2 ( chair: François Maniquet) | Chiara Farronato - Designing Consent: Choice Architecture and Consumer Welfare in Data Sharing (with Andrey Fradkin and Tesary Lin) |
12:30 | Lunch | |
13:30 | Session 3 (chair: Axel Gautier) | Michael Grubb - The Illusion of Competition (with Ryan Westphal) |
14:30 | Session 3 (chair: Axel Gautier) | Sandro Ambuehl - Interventionist Preferences and the Welfare State: The Case of In-Kind Aid (Douglas Bernheim, Tony Q. Fan, Zach Freitas-Groff) |
15:30 | Break | |
16:00 | Session 4 ( chair: Paul Heidhues) | Jan Bakker - The Equilibrium Effects of Regulating Junk Fees: Evidence from the Rental Brokerage Market (with Nikhil Datta) |
17:00 | Session 4 ( chair: Paul Heidhues) | Kevin Tran - Cleanin' It Up: Unshrouding Hidden Fees on a Peer-to-Peer Platform (joint with Leonardo Madio, Michelangelo Rossi, and Mark J. Tremblay) |
19:30 | Dinner | By invitation |
May 19th
Time | Item | Details |
|---|---|---|
09:00 | Session 5 (chair: Paul Belleflamme) | Jonas von Wangenheim - Price Discrimination in Search Markets: The Role of Consumer Awareness (with Carl-Christian Groh) |
10:00 | Session 5 (chair: Paul Belleflamme) | Andreas Grunewald - Targeting Treatment Assignment by combining Behavioral Measurement and Machine Learning (Kevin Bauer, Florian Hett, Johanna Jagow and Maximilian Speicher) |
11:00 | Break | |
11:30 | Session 6 ( Chiara Farronato) | Paul Heidhues - Procrastination Markets (with Peter Andre, Botond Kőszegi, and Takeshi Murooka) |
12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | End |