Industrial Organization Program Meeting
Organized by Julie Holland Mortimer, Christopher Neilson, and Michael Sinkinson
February 7-8, 2020
Stanford University, SIEPR - Koret-Taube Conference Center
Friday, February 7
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
(30 minutes presenter, 10 minutes discussant, 20 minutes audience)
9:00 am

Leveraging Uncertainties to Infer Preferences: Robust Analysis of School Choice

Yeon-Koo Che, Columbia University
Dong Woo Hahm, University of Southern California
Yinghua He, Rice University

Discussant:
Nikhil Agarwal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

Theory for Extending Single-Product Production Function Estimation to Multi-Product Settings

Amil Petrin, University of Minnesota and NBER
Emmanuel Dhyne, National Bank of Belgium
Valerie Smeets, Aarhus University
Frederic Warzynski, Aarhus University

Discussant:
Ariel Pakes, Harvard University and NBER
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

Guiding Consumers through Lemons and Peaches: Analyzing of the Effects of Search Design Activities (slides)

Pedro Gardete, Nova School of Business and Economics
Megan Hunter, Boston College

Discussant:
Stephan Seiler, Imperial College London
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Vertical Contracts with Endogenous Product Selection: An Empirical Analysis of Vendor-Allowance Contracts

Sylvia Hristakeva, Cornell University

Discussant:
Pierre Dubois, Toulouse School of Economics
2:30 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Price Transparency, Media and Informative Advertising

Itai Ater, Tel Aviv University
Oren Rigbi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Discussant:
Fernando Luco, Texas A&M University
4:00 pm

Preference Externality Estimators: A Comparison of Border Approaches and IVs

Xing Li, Peking University
Wesley Hartmann, Stanford University
Tomomichi Amano, Harvard University

Discussant:
Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Group Dinner - Indo Restaurant, 3295 El Camino Real, Palo Alto
Saturday, February 8
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
(25 minutes author, 10 minutes discussant, 15 minutes audience)
8:40 am

Bidding for Firms: Subsidy Competition in the United States

Cailin R. Slattery, University of California, Berkeley

Discussant:
Peter W. Newberry, University of Georgia
9:30 am
Break
9:50 am

License Complementarity and Package Bidder: The U.S. Spectrum Auctions

Mo Xiao, University of Arizona
Zhe Yuan, Zhejiang University

Discussant:
Gabriel Weintraub, Stanford University
10:40 am
Break
11:00 am

Relinquishing Riches: Auctions vs Informal Negotiations in Texas Oil and Gas Leasing

Thomas R. Covert, University of Chicago and NBER
Richard Sweeney, Boston College

Discussant:
Steve Cicala, Tufts University and NBER
11:50 am
Lunch
12:50 pm

Endogenous Information and Simplifying Insurance Choice

Zach Y. Brown, University of Michigan and NBER
Jihye Jeon, Boston University

Discussant:
Michael Grubb, Boston College
1:40 pm

Selection with Variation in Diagnostic Skill: Evidence from Radiologists

David C. Chan Jr, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
Chuan Yu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Discussant:
Martin B. Hackmann, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
2:30 pm
Adjourn