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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Industrial Organization Program Meeting

Jonathan D. Levin, Philip Haile and Katja Seim, Organizers

January 29-30, 2016

SIEPR

Stanford University

Stanford, CA

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Friday, January 29
1:30 pm	Matthew L. Gentry, London School of Economics Tatiana Komarova, London School of Economics Pasquale Schiraldi, London School of Economics Simultaneous First-Price Auctions with Preferences over Combinations: Identi cation, Estimation and Application Discussant: Paulo Somaini, Stanford University and NBER
2:30 pm	Marie-Laure Allain, CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique Claire Chambolle, INRA and Ecole Polytechnique Stephane Turolla, INRA Sofia Villas-Boas, University of California at Berkeley The Impact of Retail Mergers on Food Prices: Evidence from France Discussant: Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University and NBER
3:30 pm	Coffee Break
4:00 pm	“BLP Turns 21” Steven Berry, Yale University and NBER Philip Haile, Yale University and NBER Identification in Differentiated Products Markets Amit Gandhi, University of Wisconsin Jean-François Houde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Measuring Substitution Patterns in Differentiated Products Industries Panel Discussion: Steven Berry, Yale University and NBER Timothy Bresnahan, Stanford University and NBER Christian Hansen, University of Chicago (slides) Jean-François Houde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
5:30 pm	Adjourn
6:30 pm	Group Dinner – Indo Restaurant, 3295 El Camino Real, Palo Alto
Saturday, January 30
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Dominic Coey, eBay Research Labs Bradley Larsen, Stanford University and NBER Kane Sweeney, eBay Research Labs The Bidder Exclusion Effect Discussant: Elena Krasnokutskaya, Johns Hopkins University
10:00 am	Coffee Break Poster session Kerem A. Cosar, Paul Grieco, Shengyu Li and Felix Tintelnot What Drives Home Market Advantage? Anita Rao and Emily Y. Wang Demand for ‘Healthy’ Products: False Claims in Advertising Anita Rao Strategic R&D Investment Decisions in the Pharmaceutical Industry Fernando Luco Who Benefits from Price Disclosure? Evidence from Retail Gasoline Jean-Francois Houde, Yuya Takahashi and Ricard Gil Preemptive Entry and Technology Diffusion in the Market for Drive-in Theaters Mitsukuni Nishida and Nathan Yang Dynamic Franchising Decisions Mitsuru Igami and Kosuke Uetake Mergers, Innovation, and Entry-Exit Dynamics: The Consolidation of the Hard Disk Drive Industry, 1996-2015 Tiago Pires and Alberto Salvo Cash-constrained Households and Product Size Viplav Saini Entry, Exit and Investment in Auction Markets Bradley Shapiro Informational Shocks, Off-label Prescribing and the Effects of Physician Detailing Yufeng Huang Learning by Doing and Consumer Switching Costs Amil Petrin and Boyoung Seo Identification and Estimation of Discrete Choice Demand Models when Observed and Unobserved Product Characteristics are Correlated Frank Wolak Designing Minimum-Risk Nonlinear Price Schedules for Water Utilities
11:30 am	Mar Reguant, Northwestern University and NBER Bounding Equilibria in Counterfactual Analysis Discussant: Xiaoxia Shi, University of Wisconsin
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Michael Dinerstein, University of Chicago Troy D. Smith, Stanford University Quantifying the Supply Response of Private Schools to Public Policies Discussant: Christopher Neilson, Princeton University and NBER
2:30 pm	Mark L. Egan, University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management Ali Hortaçsu, University of Chicago and NBER Gregor Matvos, University of Chicago and NBER Deposit Competition and Financial Fragility: Evidence from the US Banking Sector Discussant: Victor Aguirregeburia, University of Toronto
3:30 pm	Adjourn