Authors, please upload your paper here. 

NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. 

SI 2015 - Industrial Organization 

Kenneth Hendricks and James W. Roberts, Organizers 

July 17-18, 2015 

Charles Suites
Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Friday, July 17
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Morning session is joint with the Economics of IT and Digitization Group in Ballroom A (West Tower)
9:00 am	Matthew Backus, Cornell University Tom Blake, ebay Research Labs Steven Tadelis, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Cheap Talk, Round Numbers, and the Economics of Negotiation Discussant: Andrew Sweeting, University of Maryland and NBER
9:50 am	Break
10:05 am	Patrick Bajari, University of Washington and NBER Guido Imbens, Stanford University and NBER Ana Gomez Lemmen Meyer, Amazon Wilko Schulz-Mahlendorf, Amazon Demand Estimation with High Dimensional Data and an Application to Amazon's Book Marketplace Discussant: Peter Rossi, University of California at Los Angeles
10:55 am	Break
11:10 am	Dominc Coey, eBay Research Labs Brad Larsen, Stanford University and NBER Brennan Platt, Brigham Young University A Theory of Bidding Dynamics and Deadlines in Online Retail Discussant: Gregory Lewis, Microsoft Research New England and NBER
12:00 n	Lunch Panel Discussion on the Comcast-Time Warner Merger Panelists: Mark Israel, Dennis Carlton, Bill Rogerson, Nancy Rose
	Industrial Organization Workshop – Charles Suites (East Tower)
1:30 pm	Kate Ho, Columbia University and NBER Robin Lee, Harvard University and NBER Insurer Competition in Health Care Markets Discussant: Aviv Nevo, Northwestern University and NBER
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Matt Grennan, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Ashley Swanson, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Transparency and Negotiated Prices: The Value of Information in Hospital-Supplier Bargaining Discussant: Ali Yurukoglu, Stanford University and NBER
3:45 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Matthew Gentzkow, University of Chicago and NBER Jesse M. Shapiro, Brown University and NBER Measuring the Sensitivity of Parameter Estimates to Sample Statistics Discussant: Amit Gandhi, University of Wisconsin
5:00 pm	Adjourn
6:45 pm	Group Dinner – Hotel Marlowe, Serrano BC Room
Saturday, July 18
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Industrial Organization Workshop – Charles Suites (East Tower)
9:00 am	Ali Hortacsu, University of Chicago and NBER Jakub Kastl, Princeton University and NBER Allen Zhang, U.S. Treasury Bid Shading and Bidder Surplus in the U.S. Treasury Auction System Discussant: Philip Haile, Yale University and NBER
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Bradley Shapiro, University of Chicago Positive Spillovers and Free Riding in Advertising of Prescription Pharmaceuticals: the Case of Antidepressants Discussant: Marc Rysman, Boston University
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Greg Kaplan, Princeton University and NBER Guido Menzio, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Leena Rudanko, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Nicholas Trachter, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Relative Price Dispersion: Evidence and Theory Discussant: Glenn Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch and Adjourn
1:30 pm	Methods Lectures – Susan Athey and Guido Imbens Machine Learning for Economists