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In the News:

• Online campus auction breaks bidding record, Express News, November 2, 2008.

• Smell of a deal lures test subjects, Edmonton Journal, Oct 30, 2008 - Front page!
  (I did buy 5 copies for my mother....)
• Bundling goods can be cheaper by association, Edmonton Journal, March 26, 2008
• Bidding Wars, The Gateway, March 31, 2005.
• Auction excitement can ignite bidding frenzy, study finds, Folio, March 18, 2005.
• Beware eBay bidding frenzy,  Edmonton Journal, March 1, 2005.
• Online art auction to raise money for United Way, Express News Nov 5, 2003.
• Look out ebay. U of A's free auction site is drawing bids, Edmonton Journal, Sep 13, 2002.
• Professor hopes to investigate 'bidding frenzy' via auction site, Gateway, Sep 12, 2002.

Research Interests (updated May 19, 2009)

My broad research interests include: Theoretical and empirical issues related to offline and Internet auctions, Bidding behavior in auctions, Charity auctions, Charitable giving, Consumer store choice and shopping behavior, Product bundling, Pricing and promotional strategies.
 

• Complete List with  Publications and Working Papers
  
   
• Some Recent Publications

1. Haruvy, Ernan E. and Peter T.L. Popkowski Leszczyc (2009), “The impact of online auction duration,” forthcoming in Decision Analysis.
    
2. Popkowski Leszczyc, Peter T.L., Chun Qiu, and Yongfu He (2009), ”Empirical Testing of the Reference Price Effect of Buy-now Prices in Internet Auctions,” Journal of Retailing, 86, 211-21.
    

3. Popkowski Leszczyc, Peter T.L., John W. Pracejus and Michael Shen (2008), “Why More Can Be Less: An Inference-Based Explanation for Hyper-Subadditivity in Product Bundles,” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Vol. 105(2), 233-46.

    

4. Haruvy, Ernan E. and Peter T.L. Popkowski Leszczyc Octavian Carare, James C. Cox, Eric A. Greenleaf, Wolfgang Jank, Sandy Jap, Young-Hoon Park and Michael H. Rothkopf (2008), “Competition between Auctions,” Marketing Letters,19, 431-48.
    

5. Cheema, Amar, Peter T. L. Popkowski Leszczyc, Rajesh Bagchi, Richard Bagozzi, James Cox, Utpal Dholakia, Eric Greenleaf, Amit Pazgal, Michael Rothkopf, Michael Shen, Shyam Sunder, and Robert Zeithammer (2005), “Economics, Psychology, and Social Dynamics of Consumer Bidding in Auctions,” Marketing Letters Vol.16, No. 3-4, 401-13.
   
   
6. Kauffman, Ralph and Peter T.L. Popkowski Leszczyc (2005), "Optimum Consideration Set Size for Organizational Buying Decisions, Industrial Marketing ManagementVol. 34, No. 1, 3-12. [lead article]
   
   
7. Popkowski Leszczyc, Peter T.L., Ashish Sinha and Anna Sahgal (2004), "The effect of Multi-Purpose Shopping on Pricing and Location Strategy for Grocery Stores," Journal of Retailing, Vol. 80, No. 2,  85-99. [lead article and Winner of  Davidson Award Honorable Mention for the Best article in Journal of Retailing] 
    
8. Popkowski Leszczyc, Peter T.L. and Harry J.P. Timmermans (2002), “Unconditional and Conditional Competing Risk Models of Activity Duration and Activity Sequencing Decisions: An Empirical Comparison,” Journal of Geographical systems, Vol. 4, 157-170. [formerly Geographical Systems].
   
   
9. Popkowski Leszczyc, Peter T.L. and Harry J.P. Timmermans (2001), "Experimental Choice Analysis of Shopping Strategies," Journal of Retailing, Vol. 77, No. 4, 493-509.
    
10. Popkowski Leszczyc, Peter T.L., Ashish Sinha and Harry J.P. Timmermans (2000), "Consumer Store Choice Dynamics: An Analysis of the Competitive Market Structure for Grocery Stores," Journal of Retailing, Vol. 76, No. 3, 323-45.
     
11. Srinivasan, Shuba, Peter T.L. Popkowski Leszczyc and Frank M Bass (2000), “Market Share response and Competitive Interaction: The Impact of Temporary, Evolving and Structural Changes in Prices,” International Journal of Research in Marketing, Vol. 17, No. 4, 281-305.
     
12. Popkowski Leszczyc, Peter T.L. and Frank M. Bass (1998). "Determining the Effects of Observed and Unobserved Heterogeneity on Consumer Brand Choice," Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis, 14, 95-115. [lead article]
     

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