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What Can We Learn About Consumers from Their Online Search Queries?
Apr 13, 2018 Olivier Toubia, Columbia UniversityOlivier Toubia will present research that attempts to understand and quantify the link between consumers' preferences and the queries they submit to online search engines.
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Optimal Targeting Policy Evaluation
Mar 12, 2018 Sanjog Misra, University of ChicagoIn this presentation we will demonstrate how a single randomized experiment can be used to evaluate the profitability of an arbitrary number of targeting policies without incurring large implementation costs.
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Randomized Markdowns and Online Monitoring
Feb 22, 2018 Kostas Bimpikis, Stanford UniversityOnline retail reduces the costs of obtaining information about a product's price and availability and enables customers to better time their purchases to potentially take advantage of lower prices. At the same time, firms can observe and exploit their customers' monitoring behavior and use this information to better price and target their promotions.
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Modernizing Customer Insights
Feb 22, 2018 Linda Vytlacil, Vice President, Walmart LabsIn this practitioner’s overview, we discuss three uses cases for marketing analytics on solutions across the demand side of retail.
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The Problem with Attribution Models
Feb 22, 2018 Steven Tadelis, University of California, BerkeleyAttribution models are based on the premise that that pre-purchase engagement with ads can help predict the effectiveness of ads. However, spurious correlations between customer intent and customer behavior make this a challenging exercise that often yields biased estimates of ad effectiveness.
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