Friday, July 17

9:00 am

Demand Estimation with High Dimensional Data and an Application to Amazon's Book Marketplace

Patrick Bajari, Keystone Strategy
Guido Imbens, Stanford University and NBER
Ana Gomez Lemmen Meyer, Amazon
Wilko Schulz-Mahlendorf, Amazon

10:15 am

Cheap Talk, Round Numbers, and the Economics of Negotiation

Matthew Backus, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Tom Blake, Amazon
Steven Tadelis, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

11:30 am

Transparency and Negotiated Prices: The Value of Information in Hospital-Supplier Bargaining

Matthew R. Grennan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Ashley Swanson, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER

1:30 pm

Competitive Bundling

Jidong Zhou, Yale University

2:45 pm

Bid Shading and Bidder Surplus in the U.S. Treasury Auction System

Ali Hortaçsu, University of Chicago and NBER
Jakub Kastl, Princeton University and NBER
Allen Zhang, U.S. Department of the Treasury

4:00 pm

Measuring the Sensitivity of Parameter Estimates to Sample Statistics

Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER

Saturday, July 18

9:00 am

Relative Price Dispersion: Evidence and Theory

Greg Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER
Guido Menzio, New York University and NBER
Leena Rudanko, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Nicholas Trachter, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

10:15 am

Positive Spillovers and Free Riding in Advertising of Prescription Pharmaceuticals: the Case of Antidepressants

Bradley Shapiro, University of Chicago and NBER

11:30 am

Insurer Competition in Health Care Markets

Kate Ho, Princeton University and NBER
Robin S. Lee, Harvard University and NBER