Friday, July 22

10:05 am

Market Structure with the Entry of Peer-to-Peer Platforms: The Case of Hotels and Airbnb

Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
Andrey Fradkin, Boston University

1:30 pm

Multi-Category Competition and Market Power: A Model of Supermarket Pricing

Oyvind Thomassen, Seoul National University
Howard W. Smith, University of Oxford
Stephan Seiler, Imperial College London
Pasquale Schiraldi, London School of Economics

2:45 pm

Competition, Product Proliferation and Welfare: A Study of the U.S. Smartphone Market

Ying Fan, University of Michigan and NBER
Chenyu Yang, University of Maryland

4:00 pm

The Illiquidity of Water Markets: Efficient Institutions for Water Allocation in Southeastern Spain

Javier Donna, University of Miami
Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez, Yale University

Saturday, July 23

9:00 am

Ultimate Ownership and Bank Competition

Jose Azar, IESE Business School
Sahil Raina, University of Alberta
Martin C. Schmalz, University of Oxford

10:15 am

Spatial Competition and Preemptive Entry in the Discount Retail Industry

Fanyin Zheng, Imperial College

11:30 am

Mergers, Innovation, and Entry-Exit Dynamics: Consolidation of the Hard Disk Drive Industry, 1996–2015

Mitsuru Igami, University of Toronto
Kosuke Uetake, Yale University

1:30 pm

Product Variety, Across-Market Demand Heterogeneity, and the Value of Online Retail

Kevin Williams, Yale University and NBER
Thomas W. Quan, Wayfair