Thursday, June 6
12:00 pm
Lunch- Vidalakis Mid, Schwab Dining Hall, 680 Serra Street, Stanford, CA
12:40 pm
Introductions

Technological Frontier and Challenges for AV Deployment

Avinash Balachandran, Toyota Research Institute
1:30 pm

Carpooling and the Economics of Self-driving Cars (slides)

Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford University and NBER
Michael Schwarz, Microsoft

Discussant:
Ashley Langer, University of Arizona and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Resolving Braess’s Paradox through Information Design: Routing for Heterogeneous Autonomous Vehicles (slides)

Yixuan Liu, University of Texas at Austin
Andrew B. Whinston, University of Texas

Discussant:
Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
4:00 pm
Break
4:15 pm

Market Expanding or Market Stealing? Competition with Network Effects in Bike-Sharing

Guangyu Cao, Peking University
Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Xi Weng, Peking University
Li-An Zhou, Peking University

Vehicle Depreciation and Survival

Christopher R. Knittel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
James M. Sallee, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
5:15 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Dinner- Vidalakis Mid, Schwab Dining Hall, 680 Serra Street, Stanford, CA
Friday, June 7
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am

Congestion and Incentives in the Age of Driverless Cars (slides)

Federico Boffa, Free University of Bolzano
Alessandro Fedele, Free University of Bolzano
Alberto Iozzi, Università di Roma Tor Vergata

Discussant:
Matthew Turner, Brown University and NBER
9:30 am

The Potential Distributional Impacts of Automated Vehicle Technologies (slides)

Leslie A. Martin, University of Melbourne
Zan Fairweather, University of Melbourne

Ridesharing, Spatial Frictions, and Urban Consumption Patterns

Zhe Zhang, University of California, San Diego
Beibei Li, Carnegie Mellon University
10:30 am
Break
Panel Moderator, Paul Oyer, Stanford University and NBER
11:00 am
Panel discussion on the future of AVs and EVs
Elaine Buckberg, General Motors
Dragos Maciuca, Ford Research and Innovation Center
Venkat Sumantran, Celeris Technologies
12:00 pm
Lunch- Vidalakis Mid,Schwab Dining Hall,680 Serra Street, Stanford, CA
1:00 pm

The Electric Vehicle Transition and the Economics of Banning Gasoline Vehicles (slides)

Stephen P. Holland, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and NBER
Erin T. Mansur, Dartmouth College and NBER
Nicholas Muller, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Andrew J. Yates, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Discussant:
Severin Borenstein, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
2:00 pm
Break
2:15 pm

Impact of Vehicle Automation on Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Siting and Energy Demand (slides)

Avi Chaim Mersky, Carnegie Mellon University
Constantine Samaras, Carnegie Mellon University

Minimizing Fleet Emissions through Optimal EV Subsidy Design and Vehicle Replacement

Boyoung Seo, Indiana University
Matthew H. Shapiro, Singapore Management University

GHG Implications of an Autonomous Future (slides)

Jennifer B. Hatch, Boston University
Will Gorman, University of California at Berkeley
3:30 pm
Adjourn