Friday, July 21
12:00 noon
Lunch
1:00 pm

One Markup to Rule Them All: Taxation by Liquor Pricing Regulation

Jeff Thurk, University of Georgia
Katja Seim, Yale University and NBER
Eugenio Miravete, University of Texas at Austin

Discussant:
Julie Holland Mortimer, University of Virginia and NBER
2:00 pm
Break
2:15 pm

Distorted Advice in Financial Markets: Evidence from the Mortgage Market

Leonardo Gambacorta, Bank for International Settlements
Luigi Guiso, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Paolo Emilio Mistrulli, Banca d'Italia
Andrea Pozzi, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Anton Tsoy, University of Toronto

Discussant:
Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University and NBER
3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm

Switching Costs in Pension Plan Choice

Gaston Illanes, Northwestern University and NBER

Discussant:
Michael J. Dickstein, New York University and NBER
4:30 pm
Break
4:45 pm

Geography, Search Frictions and Endogenous Trade Costs

Giulia Brancaccio, New York University and NBER
Myrto Kalouptsidi, Harvard University and NBER
Theodore Papageorgiou, Boston College

Discussant:
Paul L. E. Grieco, Pennsylvania State University
5:45 pm
Adjourn
6:45 pm
Group Dinner at Hotel Marlowe (Muse Salon)
Saturday, July 22
8:30 am
Coffee and pastries
9:15 am

Advertising in Vertical Relationships: An Equilibrium Model of the Automobile Industry

Charles Murry, University of Michigan and NBER

Discussant:
Steven T. Berry, Yale University and NBER
10:15 am
Break
10:30 am

Effects of Regulatory Capture: Evidence from Patent Examiners

Haris Tabakovic, The Brattle Group
Thomas G. Wollmann, University of Chicago and NBER
11:15 am

Advertising Spending and Media Bias: Evidence from News Coverage of Car Safety Recalls

Graham Beattie, Loyola Marymount University
Ruben Durante, National University of Singapore
Brian G. Knight, Brown University and NBER
Ananya Sen, Carnegie Mellon University
12:00 noon
Lunch
1:00 pm
Panel Discussion on Merger Enforcement in Healthcare Markets
Moderator: Nancy L. Rose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
David Dranove, Northwestern University
Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland and NBER (tentative)
Aviv Nevo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
2:00 pm

The Ice Cream Split: Empirically Distinguishing Price and Product Space Collusion

Christopher J. Sullivan, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Discussant:
Jonathan W. Williams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm

Does Advertising Serve as a Signal? Evidence from Field Experiments in Mobile Search

Navdeep S. Sahni, Stanford University
Harikesh Nair

Discussant:
Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER
4:15 pm
Adjourn