
	Friday, February 8
	Friday morning papers are a Joint Session between IO and Insurance (Room 130)
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
	25 minutes author, 20 minutes discussant, 15 minutes audience
9:00 am	Take-Up, Drop-Out, and Spending in ACA Marketplaces Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER Michael J. Dickstein, New York University and NBER Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Petra Persson, Stanford University and NBER Discussant: Jonathan T. Kolstad, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Optimal Managed Competition Subsidies Keaton S. Miller, University of Oregon Amil Petrin, University of Minnesota and NBER Robert Town, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Michael Chernew, Harvard University and NBER Discussant: Francesco Decarolis, Bocconi University
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Competition, Asymmetric Information, and the Annuity Puzzle: Evidence from a Government-run Exchange in Chile Gaston Illanes, Northwestern University and NBER Manisha Padi, University of California at Berkeley Discussant: Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch
	30 minutes presenter, 10 minutes discussant, 20 minutes audience
1:30 pm	Nonparametric Estimates of Demand in the California Health Insurance Exchange Pietro Tebaldi, Columbia University and NBER Alexander Torgovitsky, University of Chicago Hanbin V. Yang, Harvard University Discussant: Philip Haile, Yale University and NBER
2:30 pm	Break
3:00 pm	How to Get Away with Merger: Stealth Consolidation and its Effects on US Healthcare Thomas G. Wollmann, University of Chicago and NBER Discussant: Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University and NBER
4:00 pm	Carpooling and the Economics of Self-Driving Cars Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford University and NBER Michael Schwarz, Microsoft Discussant: Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER
5:00 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Group Dinner - Indo Restaurant, 3295 El Camino Real, Palo Alto
	Saturday, February 9
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
	25 minutes author, 10 minutes discussant, 15 minutes audience
8:30 am	Competition in Network Industries: Evidence from Mobile Telecommunications in Rwanda Daniel Bjorkegren, Columbia University Discussant: Robin S. Lee, Harvard University and NBER
9:20 am	Market Expanding or Market Stealing? Competition with Network Effects in Bike-Sharing Guangyu Cao, Peking University Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland and NBER Xi Weng, Peking University Li-An Zhou, Peking University Discussant: Ying Fan, University of Michigan and NBER
10:10 am	Break
10:40 am	Privatization and Productivity in China (slides) Yuyu Chen, Peking University Mitsuru Igami, University of Toronto Masayuki Sawada, Yale University Mo Xiao, University of Arizona Discussant: Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER
11:30 am	China’s Industrial Policy: an Empirical Evaluation Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Myrto Kalouptsidi, Harvard University and NBER Nahim B. Zahur, Queen's University Discussant: Katja Seim, Yale University and NBER
12:20 pm	Lunch
1:20 pm	Searching for Approval Sumit Agarwal, National University of Singapore John Grigsby, Princeton University and NBER Ali Hortaçsu, University of Chicago and NBER Gregor Matvos, Northwestern University and NBER Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER Vincent Yao, Georgia State University Discussant: Alan T. Sorensen, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
2:10 pm	Arbitration with Uninformed Consumers Mark L. Egan, Harvard University and NBER Gregor Matvos, Northwestern University and NBER Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER Discussant: Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University and NBER
3:00 pm	Adjourn
	Friday, July 19
2:30 pm	Arbitration with Uninformed Consumers Mark L. Egan, Harvard University and NBER Gregor Matvos, Northwestern University and NBER Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER Discussant: Giorgia Piacentino, University of Southern California and NBER
	Thursday, July 25
10:25 am	Arbitration with Uninformed Consumers Mark L. Egan, Harvard University and NBER Gregor Matvos, Northwestern University and NBER Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER Discussant: W. Bentley MacLeod, Princeton University and NBER

Participants

Mike Abito, The Ohio State University
Nikhil Agarwal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER
Gaurab Aryal, Washington University in St. Louis
John Asker, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Juan Pablo Atal, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER
Matthew Backus, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
C. Lanier Benkard, Stanford University and NBER
Steven T. Berry, Yale University and NBER
Vivek Bhattacharya, Northwestern University and NBER
Daniel Björkegren, Columbia University
Giulia Brancaccio, New York University and NBER
Timothy F. Bresnahan, Stanford University
Nicholas Buchholz, Princeton University
Eric Budish, University of Chicago and NBER
Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University and NBER
Robert Clark, Queen's University
Giovanni Compiani, University of Chicago
Jan De Loecker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Francesco Decarolis, Bocconi University
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER
Michael J. Dickstein, New York University and NBER
Michael Dinerstein, Duke University and NBER
Jean-Pierre H. Dubé, University of Chicago and NBER
Mark L. Egan, Harvard University and NBER
Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER
Paul Ellickson, University of Rochester
Glenn Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Sara Fisher Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ying Fan, University of Michigan and NBER
Joseph Farrell, University of California at Berkeley
Silke J. Forbes, Tufts University
Jeremy T. Fox, Rice University and NBER
Amit Gandhi, Airbnb
Martin Gaynor, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
Richard Gilbert, University of California at Berkeley
Matthew Grennan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Paul Grieco, Pennsylvania State University
Philip Haile, Yale University and NBER
Benjamin R. Handel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Igal Hendel, Northwestern University and NBER
Kenneth Hendricks, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Kate Ho, Princeton University and NBER
Jean-François Houde, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Mitsuru Igami, University of Toronto
Gastón Illanes, Northwestern University and NBER
Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland and NBER

Louis Kaplow, Harvard University and NBER
Adam Kapor, Princeton University and NBER
Jakub Kastl, Princeton University and NBER
Kei Kawai, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Ryan Kellogg, University of Chicago and NBER
Jonathan T. Kolstad, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
John Lazarev, New York University
Robin S. Lee, Harvard University and NBER
Lorenzo Magnolfi, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Gregor Matvos, Northwestern University and NBER
Ryan C. McDevitt, Duke University and NBER
Keaton S. Miller, University of Oregon
Eugenio Miravete, University of Texas at Austin
Julie Holland Mortimer, University of Virginia and NBER
Sarah Moshary, University of California, Berkeley
Charles Murry, Boston College and NBER
Christopher Neilson, Yale University and NBER
Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford University and NBER
Ariel Pakes, Harvard University and NBER
Robert H. Porter, Northwestern University and NBER
Steven L. Puller, Texas A&M University and NBER
Peter C. Reiss, Stanford University and NBER
Daniel L. Rubinfeld, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Stephen P. Ryan, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Tobias Salz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Michael Schwarz, Microsoft
Paul Scott, New York University
Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University and NBER
Katja Seim, Yale University and NBER
Carl Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER
Michael Sinkinson, Yale University and NBER
Alan T. Sorensen, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Amanda Starc, Northwestern University and NBER
Christopher J. Sullivan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER
Yuya Takahashi, University of Washington
Pietro Tebaldi, Columbia University and NBER
Sofia Villas-Boas, University of California at Berkeley
Daniel C. Waldinger, New York University and NBER
Kevin R. Williams, Yale University and NBER
Frank A. Wolak, Stanford University and NBER
Catherine Wolfram, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Thomas G. Wollmann, University of Chicago and NBER
Mo Xiao, University of Arizona
Hanbin Yang, Harvard University
Ali Yurukoglu, Stanford University and NBER
Nahim B. Zahur, Queen's University
Fanyin Zheng, Imperial College