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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2016 Industrial Organization

Michael Whinston and Steven Tadelis, Organizers

July 22-23, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Charles Suites

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Friday, July 22
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Morning session is joint with the Economics of IT and Digitization, Ballroom A, West Tower
9:00 am	Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University L. Kamran Bilir, University of Wisconsin Alan Sorensen, University of Wisconsin and NBER Information and Innovation Diffusion: The Case of Pharmaceuticals in the United States
	Discussant: Benjamin Handel, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
9:50 am	Break
10:05 am	Chiara Farronato, Harvard University Andrey Fradkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Market Structure with the Entry of Peer-to-Peer Platforms: The Case of Hotels and Airbnb Discussant: Matthew Backus, Columbia University and NBER
10:55 am	Break
11:10 am	Greg Lewis, Microsoft Research New England and NBER Georgios Zervas, Boston University The Welfare Impact of Consumer Reviews: A Case Study of the Hotel Industry
	Discussant: Ryan McDevitt, Duke University
12:00 pm	Lunch
	Industrial Organization Workshop - Charles Suites (East Tower)
1:30 pm	Oyvind Thomassen, Seoul National University Howard Smith, Oxford University Stephan Seiler, Stanford University Pasquale Schiraldi, London School of Economics Multi-Category Competition and Market Power: A Model of Supermarket Pricing Discussant: Jean-Pierre Dube, University of Chicago and NBER
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Ying Fan, University of Michigan Chenyu Yang, University of Michigan Competition, Product Proliferation and Welfare: A Study of the U.S. Smartphone Market Discussant: Andrew Sweeting, University of Maryland and NBER
4:00 pm	Javier Donna, The Ohio State University Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez, Yale University The Illiquidity of Water Markets: Efficient Institutions for Water Allocation in Southeastern Spain Discussant: Jakub Kastl, Princeton University and NBER
5:00 pm	Adjourn
6:15 pm	Group Dinner at the Hotel Marlowe (Serrano BC)
Saturday, July 23
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Jose Azar, Charles River Associates Sahil Raina, University of Michigan Martin Schmalz, University of Michigan Ultimate Ownership and Bank Competition Discussant: Judith Chevalier, Yale University and NBER
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Fanyin Zheng, Columbia University Spatial Competition and Preemptive Entry in the Discount Retail Industry Discussant: Panle Jia-Barwick, Cornell University and NBER
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Mitsuru Igami, Yale University Kosuke Uetake, Yale University Mergers, Innovation, and Entry-Exit Dynamics: Consolidation of the Hard Disk Drive Industry, 1996–2015 Discussant: Allan Collard-Wexler, Duke University and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Thomas Quan, University of Georgia Kevin Williams, Yale University Product Variety, Across-Market Demand Heterogeneity, and the Value of Online Retail Discussant: Patrick Bajari, University of Washington and NBER
2:30 pm	Adjourn