Friday, February 12
Presentation format: 25 minutes presenter, 10 minutes discussant, 15 minutes audience Q&A
12:00 pm

Common Ownership and Competition in the Ready-To-Eat Cereal Industry (slides)

Matthew Backus, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Christopher Conlon, New York University and NBER
Michael Sinkinson, Northwestern University and NBER

Discussant:
Florian Ederer, Boston University and NBER
12:50 pm
Break
1:00 pm

Dog Eat Dog: Measuring Network Effects Using a Digital Platform Merger

Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
Jessica Y. Fong, University of Michigan
Andrey Fradkin, Boston University

Discussant:
Jing Li, Tufts University
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Soaking Up the Sun: Battery Investment, Renewable Energy, and Market Equilibrium

Andrew Butters, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Jackson Dorsey, University of Texas at Austin
Gautam Gowrisankaran, Columbia University and NBER

Discussant:
Mar Reguant, Northwestern University and NBER
2:50 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillover, and Industrial Quality Upgrading: Evidence from the Chinese Auto Industry

Jie Bai, Harvard University and NBER
Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Shengmao Cao, Northwestern University
Shanjun Li, Cornell University and NBER

Discussant:
Thomas G. Wollmann, University of Chicago and NBER
3:50 pm
Breakout rooms
4:30 pm
Adjourn
Saturday, February 13
Special session on online economy
Presentation format: 20 minutes presenter, 10 minutes discussant, 10 minutes audience Q&A
12:00 pm

The Editor and the Algorithm: Returns to Data and Externalities in Online News

Joerg Claussen, University of Munich
Christian W. Peukert, HEC Lausanne
Ananya Sen, Carnegie Mellon University

Discussant:
Julia Cagé, Sciences Po
12:40 pm

Are Consumers Averse to Sponsored Messages? The Role of Search Advertising in Information Discovery

Navdeep S. Sahni, Stanford University
Charles Y. Zhang, Stanford University

Discussant:
Thomas Blake, Amazon
1:20 pm

Choice Screen Auctions

Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
John Asker, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
2:00 pm
Break
Presentation format for the next 2 papers: 25 minutes presenter, 10 minutes discussant, 15 minutes audience Q&A
2:10 pm

Manipulation Proof Machine Learning

Daniel Bjorkegren, Columbia University
Joshua Blumenstock, University of California at Berkeley
Samsun Knight, Brown University

Discussant:
Gregory Lewis, Amazon
3:00 pm
Break
3:10 pm

Should We Prevent Off-Label Drug Prescriptions? Empirical Evidence from France

Tuba Tuncel, Florida State University

Discussant:
Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University and NBER
4:00 pm
Breakout rooms
4:30 pm
Adjourn