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, Johns Hopkins University
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