
	Thursday, March 17
10:30 am	Welcome
10:45 am	Overview of Regulatory Costs and Benefits: Pharmaceutical Regulation Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER (slides)
11:25 am	Regulating Out-of-Network Hospital Payments: Disagreement Payoffs, Negotiated Prices, and Access (slides) Elena Prager, University of Rochester and NBER Nicholas Tilipman, University of Illinois at Chicago
11:55 am	A Denial a Day Keeps the Doctor Away Abe Dunn, Bureau of Economic Analysis Joshua D. Gottlieb, University of Chicago and NBER Adam Shapiro, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Daniel J. Sonnenstuhl, University of Chicago Pietro Tebaldi, Columbia University and NBER
12:25 pm	Break
12:40 pm	Overview of Regulatory Costs and Benefits: Energy and Environmental Regulation Joseph Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER (slides)
1:20 pm	Robust Bounds for Welfare Analysis (slides) Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University and NBER Zi Yang Kang, University of Toronto
1:50 pm	Regulation and Economic Growth: Evidence from British Columbia’s Experiment in Regulatory Budgeting Bentley Coffey, University of South Carolina Patrick McLaughlin, Mercatus Center at George Mason University
2:20 pm	Break
2:35 pm	Overview of Regulatory Costs and Benefits: Land Use and Housing Regulation Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER (slides)
3:15 pm	The Sky is Not The Limit: How Commercial Real Estate Regulations Affect U.S. Output and Welfare Filip Babalievsky, Census Bureau Kyle F. Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota and NBER Lee E. Ohanian, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Edward C. Prescott, Arizona State University
3:45 pm	Reporting Regulation and Corporate Innovation Matthias Breuer, Columbia University Christian Leuz, University of Chicago and NBER Steven Vanhaverbeke, KU Leuven
4:15 pm	Concluding Discussion
4:30 pm	Adjourn

Participants

Manuel Adelino, Duke University and NBER
Kenneth R. Ahern, University of Southern California and NBER
Naoki Aizawa, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Natee Amornsiripanitch, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Santosh Anagol, University of Pennsylvania
Soren T. Anderson, Michigan State University and NBER
Alan J. Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Fil Babalievsky, Census Bureau
John M. Barrios, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Juliane Begenau, Stanford University and NBER
Michael C. Best, Columbia University and NBER
Federico Boffa, Free University of Bolzano
Matthias Breuer, Columbia University
Kate Bundorf, Duke University and NBER
Fiona Burlig, University of Chicago and NBER
Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia University and NBER
Dennis W. Carlton, University of Chicago and NBER
Anne Case, Princeton University and NBER
Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER
Susan Cherry, Stanford University
Steve Cicala, Tufts University and NBER
Bentley Coffey, University of South Carolina
Elior Cohen, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Carrie H. Colla, Dartmouth College
Maureen L. Cropper, University of Maryland and NBER
José-Luis Cruz, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Julie Berry Cullen, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Leemore Dafny, Harvard University and NBER
Lucas W. Davis, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER
Nada Eissa, Georgetown University and NBER
Michael Ewens, Columbia University and NBER
Fernando V. Ferreira, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Arthur G. Fraas, Resources for the Future
Richard G. Frank, Harvard University and NBER
Chao Fu, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Don Fullerton, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Nicolas Gendron-Carrier, McGill University
Marco Giacoletti, University of Southern California
Joshua D. Gottlieb, University of Chicago and NBER
Joshua S. Graff Zivin, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Wayne B. Gray, Clark University and NBER
Shane Greenstein, Harvard University and NBER
Matthew Grennan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Umit Gurun, University of Texas at Dallas
Joseph Gyourko, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Lu Han, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Catherine Hausman, University of Michigan and NBER
Naomi Hausman, Hebrew University
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Kyle F. Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota and NBER
Matthew J. Higgins, University of Utah and NBER
Stephen P. Holland, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and NBER
Peter Hull, Brown University and NBER
Gastón Illanes, Northwestern University and NBER
Erica Xuewei Jiang, University of Southern California
Paul Joskow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Matthew E. Kahn, University of Southern California and NBER
Zi Yang Kang, University of Toronto
Jakub Kastl, Princeton University and NBER
Jeffrey R. Kling, Congressional Budget Office and NBER
Charles D. Kolstad, Stanford University and NBER
Scott Duke Kominers, Harvard University
Elizabeth Kopits, Environmental Protection Agency
Jacob Krimmel, Federal Reserve Board
Lorenz Kueng, Swiss Finance Institute
Amrita Kulka, New York University and University of Warwick
Nicolai V. Kuminoff, Arizona State University and NBER
Andrea Lamorgese, Bank of Italy
Kwok Hao Lee, National University of Singapore
Robin S. Lee, Harvard University and NBER
Yong Suk Lee, University of Notre Dame
Christian Leuz, University of Chicago and NBER
Jeffrey B. Liebman, Harvard University and NBER

Jeffrey Lin, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Crocker Liu, Cornell University
Alessandro Lizzeri, Princeton University and NBER
Byron Lutz, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER
Michelle M. Marcus, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Victoria Marone, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Patrick McLaughlin, Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Robert D. Metcalfe, Columbia University and NBER
Andrew Metrick, Yale University and NBER
Pascal Michaillat, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER
Jeffrey A. Miron, Harvard University and NBER
Myra Mohnen, University of Ottawa
Randall Morck, University of Alberta and NBER
Casey B. Mulligan, University of Chicago and NBER
Aviv Nevo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Paul Novosad, Dartmouth College
Glenda Oskar, Department of Energy
Ariel Pakes, Harvard University and NBER
Xinle Pang, SUNY Buffalo
Andrii Parkhomenko, University of Southern California
Kate Pennington, U.S. Census Bureau
William A. Pizer, Resources for the Future
Maria Polyakova, Stanford University and NBER
Robert H. Porter, Northwestern University and NBER
James M. Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Elena Prager, University of Rochester and NBER
Franklin Qian, University of North Carolina
Yi Qian, University of British Columbia and NBER
Luis E. Quintero, Johns Hopkins University
Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER
Tristan Reed, The World Bank
Roberta Romano, Yale University and NBER
Nancy L. Rose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Iowa State University and NBER
Stephen P. Ryan, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Albert Saiz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Northwestern University and NBER
Richard Schmalensee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Philipp Schnabl, New York University and NBER
Gregor Schubert, University of California, Los Angeles
Nathan Seegert, University of Utah
Katja Seim, Yale University and NBER
Felipe Severino, Dartmouth College
Edson R. Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Carl Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Joseph S. Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Mark Shepard, Harvard University and NBER
Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER
Michael Sinkinson, Northwestern University and NBER
Frank A. Sloan, Duke University and NBER
Daniel J. Sonnenstuhl, University of Chicago
Aradhya Sood, University of Toronto
Bryan A. Stuart, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Stanford University and NBER
Steven Tadelis, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Rose Tan, Stanford University
Alisa Tazhitdinova, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Nicholas Tilipman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Margarita Tsoutsoura, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University and NBER
Stan Veuger, American Enterprise Institute
Angelino Viceisza, Spelman College and NBER
Jialan Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Neng Wang, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Andrew R. Waxman, University of Texas at Austin
Roberton C. Williams III, University of Maryland and NBER
Clifford Winston, Brookings Institution
Ann Wolverton, Environmental Protection Agency
Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER
Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Edison G. Yu, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago and NBER
John M. de Figueiredo, Duke University and NBER
Winnie van Dijk, Yale University and NBER