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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC
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SUMMER INSTITUTE 2012
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Industrial Organization Program
Meeting
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Behavioral Economics: Glenn Ellison, Organizer
Digitization/IO: Susan Athey, Nick Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson,
Shane Greenstein, and Hal Varian, Organizers
IO General Session: Judy Chevalier and
Ariel Pakes, Organizers
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July 20-21, 2012
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Royal Sonesta
Hotel
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Parkview Room
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40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
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PROGRAM
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Click to download a full
set of papers
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Friday, July 20:
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8:30 am
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Coffee and Pastries
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9:00 am
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Mark Armstrong, Oxford University
Yongmin Chen, University of Colorado
Discount Pricing
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Discussant: Glenn Ellison, MIT and NBER
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9:45 am
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Michael Grubb, MIT and NBER
Matthew Osborne, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Cellular
Service Demand: Biased Beliefs, Learning, and Bill Shock
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Discussant: Andrew Sweeting, Duke University and NBER
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10:50 am
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Break
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11:05 am
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Fabian Duarte, RAND
Justine Hastings, Brown University and NBER
Fettered
Consumers and Sophisticated Firms: Evidence from Mexico's Privatized Social
Security Market
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Discussant: Phillip Leslie, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
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11:50 pm
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Meghan Busse, Northwestern
University and NBER
Devin Pope, University of Chicago and NBER
Jaren Pope, Brigham Young University
Jorge Silva-Risso, UC Riverside
Projection
Bias in the Car and Housing Markets
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Discussant: Chad Syverson, University of Chicago
and NBER
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12:30 pm
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Lunch
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1:30 pm
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Elisa Celis, University of Washington
Gregory Lewis, Harvard University and NBER
Markus Mobius, Iowa State University and NBER
Hamid Nazerzadeh,
University of Southern California
Buy-it-Now or Take-a-Chance:
A Mechanism for Real-Time Price Discrimination
Discussant: Jon
Levin, Stanford University and NBER
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2:15 pm
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Joerg Claussen, Ifo Institute, University of Munich
Tobias Kretschmer, LMU Munich
Philip Mayrhofer, CDTM, LMU & TU Munich
Incentives for Quality
over Time – The Case of Facebook Applications
Discussant: Jen Brown,
Northwestern University and NBER
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3:00 pm
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Break
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3:30 pm
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Liran Einav, Stanford
University and NBER
Chiara Farronato,
Stanford University
Jonathan D. Levin, Stanford University and NBER
Neel Sundaresan, eBay Research Labs
Sales
Mechanisms in Online Markets: What Happened to Internet Auctions?
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4:14 pm
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Dina Mayzlin, Yale University
Yaniv Dover, Yale University
Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University and NBER
Promotional Reviews: An Empirical
Investigation of Online Review Manipulation
Discussant: Michael
Luca, Harvard University
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5:00 pm
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Adjourn
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6:00 pm
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IO Program Dinner, Legal Sea Foods at Kendall Square
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Saturday,
July 21
IO General Program Meeting
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8:30 am
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Coffee and pastries
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9:00 am
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Alon Eizenberg, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
Alberto Salvo, Northwestern University
Grab
them Before they Go Generic: Habit Formation and the Emerging Middle Class
Discussant: Matthew Gentzkow, University of Chicago
and NBER
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10:00 am
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Break
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10:15 am
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Gautam Gowrisankaran,
University of Arizona and NBER
Robert Town, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Aviv Nevo, Northwestern University and NBER
Keith Brand, US Federal Trade Commission
Mergers
When Prices Are Negotiated: Evidence from the Hospital Industry
Discussant: Robin Lee, New York University
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11:15 am
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Break
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11:30 am
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Kerem A. Cosar,
University of Chicago
Paul Grieco, Pennsylvania State University
Felix Tintelnot, Pennsylvania State University
Borders,
Geography, and Oligopoly: Evidence from the Wind Turbine Industry
Discussant: Jan De Loecker, Princeton University
and NBER
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12:30 pm
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Lunch
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1:30 pm
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Frank A. Wolak, Stanford University and NBER
Measuring the
Competitiveness Benefits of a Transmission Investment Policy: The Case of the
Alberta Electricity Market
Discussant: Steven Puller, Texas A&M University and NBER
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2:30 pm
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Break
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2:45 pm
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Sang Won Kim, Columbia University
Marcelo Olivares, Columbia University
Gabriel Weintraub, Columbia University
Measuring
the Performance of Large-Scale Combinatorial Auctions: A Structural
Estimation Approach
Discussant: Gregory Lewis, Harvard University
and NBER
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3:45 pm
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Break
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4:00 pm
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Keith Ericson, Boston University
Amanda Starc, University of Pennsylvania
Age-Based
Heterogeneity and Pricing Regulation on the Massachusetts Health Insurance
Exchange
Discussant: Benjamin Handel, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
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5:00 pm
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Adjourn
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