Friday, February 3
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Bargaining and International Reference Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Pierre Dubois, Toulouse School of Economics
Ashvin Gandhi, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
Luca Maini, Harvard University
9:55 am
Break
10:05 am

Bargaining with Private Equity: Implications for Hospital Prices and Patient Welfare

Tong Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussant:
Zach Y. Brown, University of Michigan and NBER
11:00 am
Break
11:10 am

Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry

Kory Kroft, University of Toronto and NBER
Yao Luo, University of Toronto
Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago and NBER
Bradley Setzler, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

Discussant:
Elena Prager, University of Rochester and NBER
12:05 pm
Lunch
1:25 pm

Quantity Commitments in Multiunit Auctions: Evidence from Credit Event Auctions

Eric A. Richert, University of Chicago

Discussant:
Vivek Bhattacharya, Northwestern University and NBER
2:20 pm
Break
2:30 pm

Estimating an Auction Platform Game with Two-sided Entry

Marleen R. Marra, Sciences Po

Discussant:
Yunmi Kong, Rice University
3:25 pm
Break
3:35 pm

Dynamic Price Competition: Theory and Evidence from Airline Markets

Ali Hortaçsu, University of Chicago and NBER
Aniko Oery, Carnegie Mellon University
Kevin R. Williams, Yale University and NBER

Discussant:
John Lazarev, New York University
4:30 pm
Adjourn and Happy Hour at SIEPR
Saturday, February 4
9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
9:30 am

Sophisticated Consumers with Inertia: Long-Term Implications from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

Klaus M. Miller, HEC Paris
Navdeep S. Sahni, Stanford University
Avner Strulov-Shlain, University of Chicago

Discussant:
Steven Tadelis, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
10:25 am
Break
10:35 am

Policy Uncertainty in the Market for Coal Electricity: The Case of Air Toxics Standards

Gautam Gowrisankaran, Columbia University and NBER
Ashley Langer, University of Arizona and NBER
Wendan Zhang, Renmin University of China

Discussant:
Stephen P. Ryan, Washington University in St Louis and NBER
11:30 am
Lunch
12:30 pm

Multidimensional Screening and Menu Design in Health Insurance Markets

Hector Chade, Arizona State University
Victoria R. Marone, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Amanda Starc, Northwestern University and NBER
Jeroen Swinkels, Northwestern University

Discussant:
Michael D. Whinston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
1:25 pm
Break
1:35 pm

Demand Analysis under Latent Choice Constraints: An Application to the US Dialysis Market

Nikhil Agarwal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Paulo J. Somaini, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
Christopher Conlon, New York University and NBER
2:30 pm
Adjourn