
	Thursday, July 19
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Instrument-Free Demand Estimation Alexander MacKay, University of Virginia Nathan H. Miller, Georgetown University and NBER Discussant: Steven T. Berry, Yale University and NBER
2:00 pm	Empirical Properties of Diversion Ratios (slides) Christopher Conlon, New York University and NBER Julie H. Mortimer, University of Virginia and NBER Discussant: Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University and NBER
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Understanding Disparities in Punishment: Regulator Preferences and Expertise Karam Kang, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Bernardo S. Silveira, University of California, Los Angeles Discussant: Mike Abito, The Ohio State University
4:15 pm	Escalation of Scrutiny: The Gains from Dynamic Enforcement of Environmental Regulations (slides) Wesley Blundell, Washington State University Gautam Gowrisankaran, Columbia University and NBER Ashley Langer, University of Arizona and NBER Discussant: Paul Scott, New York University
5:00 pm	Adjourn
6:15 pm	Group Dinner - Ballroom B, Royal Sonesta Hotel
	Friday, July 20
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
	First two morning papers joint with IT and Digitization in Ballroom
9:00 am	The Marginal Congestion of a Taxi in New York City Alejandro Molnar, The World Bank Daniel Mangrum, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Discussant: Thomas N. Hubbard, Northwestern University and NBER
9:45 am	Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Taxis and Uber Meng Liu, Washington University in St. Louis Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER Jason Dowlatabadi, Uber Discussant: M. Keith Chen, University of California at Los Angeles
10:30 am	Break
	Industrial Organization continues in the Charles Rooms
10:45 am	Welfare Effects of Physician-Industry Interactions: Evidence From Patent Expiration Aaron Chatterji, Duke University and NBER Matthew R. Grennan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Kyle R. Myers, Harvard University and NBER Ashley Swanson, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Discussant: Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER
11:30 am	On the Effect of Parallel Trade on Manufacturers' and Retailers' Profits in the Pharmaceutical Sector Pierre Dubois, Toulouse School of Economics Morten Sæthre, Norwegian School of Economics Discussant: Marc Rysman, Boston University
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Panel Discussion “Competitiveness Trends in the U.S. Economy: Gathering Evidence” Moderator: Carl Shapiro, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Panelists: Florian Ederer, Sharat Ganapati, Ben Leyden, Ioana Marinescu, and Ian McCarthy will address the general topic with reference to their own papers:
	Killer Acquisitions (slides) Colleen M. Cunningham, London Business School Florian Ederer, Boston University and NBER Song Ma, Yale University and NBER
	Oligopolies, Prices, Output, and Productivity Sharat Ganapati, Georgetown University and NBER
	Public Communication and Collusion in the Airline Industry Gaurab Aryal, Boston University Federico Ciliberto, University of Virginia Ben T. Leyden, Cornell University
	Multimarket Contact in Health Insurance (slides) Haizhen Lin, Indiana University and NBER Ian McCarthy, Emory University and NBER
	Labor Market Concentration José A. Azar, IESE Business School Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Marshall I. Steinbaum, University of Utah Department of Economics
2:30 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Crude by Rail, Option Value, and Pipeline Investment Thomas R. Covert, University of Chicago and NBER Ryan Kellogg, University of Chicago and NBER Discussant: Giulia Brancaccio, New York University and NBER
3:45 pm	Upstream, Downstream: Diffusion and Impacts of the Universal Product Code Emek Basker, U.S. Census Bureau Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER Discussant: Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER
4:30 pm	Adjourn
	Tuesday, July 23
1:00 pm	Escalation of Scrutiny: The Gains from Dynamic Enforcement of Environmental Regulations Wesley Blundell, Washington State University Gautam Gowrisankaran, Columbia University and NBER Ashley Langer, University of Arizona and NBER Discussant: Jay Shimshack, University of Virginia

Participants

Mike Abito, The Ohio State University
Nikhil Agarwal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER
Claudia Allende, Stanford University and NBER
Gaurab Aryal, Boston University
Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER
Matthew Backus, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Patrick L. Bajari, Keystone Strategy
Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Emek Basker, U.S. Census Bureau
C. Lanier Benkard, Stanford University and NBER
Steven T. Berry, Yale University and NBER
Vivek Bhattacharya, Northwestern University and NBER
Wesley Blundell, Washington State University
Giulia Brancaccio, New York University and NBER
Keith Brand, Federal Trade Commission
Timothy F. Bresnahan, Stanford University
Nicholas Buchholz, Princeton University
Eric Budish, University of Chicago and NBER
Meghan R. Busse, Northwestern University and NBER
Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University and NBER
Christopher Conlon, New York University and NBER
Thomas R. Covert, University of Chicago and NBER
José Ignacio Cuesta, Stanford University and NBER
Jan De Loecker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Francesco Decarolis, Bocconi University
Michael J. Dickstein, New York University and NBER
Michael Dinerstein, Duke University and NBER
Ulrich Doraszelski, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Pierre Dubois, Toulouse School of Economics
Jean-Pierre H. Dubé, University of Chicago and NBER
Florian Ederer, Boston University and NBER
Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER
Paul Ellickson, University of Rochester
Ying Fan, University of Michigan and NBER
Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
Jeremy T. Fox, Rice University and NBER
Andrey Fradkin, Boston University
Sharat Ganapati, Georgetown University and NBER
Evan Gee, Department of Justice
Gautam Gowrisankaran, Columbia University and NBER
Matthew Grennan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Paul Grieco, Pennsylvania State University
Michael Grubb, Boston College
Benjamin R. Handel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Justine S. Hastings, University of Washington
Kenneth Hendricks, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Kate Ho, Princeton University and NBER
Charles Hodgson, Yale University and NBER
Ali Hortaçsu, University of Chicago and NBER
Thomas N. Hubbard, Northwestern University and NBER
Mitsuru Igami, University of Toronto
Gastón Illanes, Northwestern University and NBER
Yizhou Jin, University of Toronto
Paul Joskow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Karam Kang, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Louis Kaplow, Harvard University and NBER
Adam Kapor, Princeton University and NBER
Jakub Kastl, Princeton University and NBER
Kei Kawai, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Ryan Kellogg, University of Chicago and NBER
Christopher R. Knittel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Elena Krasnokutskaya, Johns Hopkins University
Francine Lafontaine, University of Michigan

Ashley Langer, University of Arizona and NBER
Bradley Larsen, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
John Lazarev, New York University
Robin S. Lee, Harvard University and NBER
Jonathan D. Levin, Stanford University and NBER
Gregory Lewis, Amazon
Benjamin T. Leyden, Cornell University
Alessandro Lizzeri, Princeton University and NBER
Song Ma, Yale University and NBER
Alexander MacKay, University of Virginia
Lorenzo Magnolfi, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Neale Mahoney, Stanford University and NBER
Erin T. Mansur, Dartmouth College and NBER
Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Ian McCarthy, Emory University and NBER
Ryan C. McDevitt, Duke University and NBER
Nathan H. Miller, Georgetown University and NBER
Julie Holland Mortimer, University of Virginia and NBER
Sarah Moshary, University of California, Berkeley
Christopher Neilson, Yale University and NBER
Ariel Pakes, Harvard University and NBER
Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Robert S. Pindyck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Robert H. Porter, Northwestern University and NBER
Steven L. Puller, Texas A&M University and NBER
Mar Reguant, Northwestern University and NBER
James W. Roberts, Duke University and NBER
Nancy L. Rose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Stephen P. Ryan, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Marc Rysman, Boston University
Tobias Salz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Richard Schmalensee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paul Scott, New York University
Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University and NBER
Katja Seim, Yale University and NBER
Bradley Shapiro, University of Chicago and NBER
Carl Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER
Mark Shepard, Harvard University and NBER
Bernardo S. Silveira, University of California, Los Angeles
Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER
Michael Sinkinson, Northwestern University and NBER
Paulo J. Somaini, Stanford University and NBER
Alan T. Sorensen, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Marshall I. Steinbaum, University of Utah Department of Economics
Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Ashley T. Swanson, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Andrew Sweeting, University of Maryland and NBER
Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER
Morten Sæthre, Norwegian School of Economics
Pietro Tebaldi, Columbia University and NBER
Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Hal R. Varian, Google
Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University and NBER
Nicholas Vreugdenhil, Arizona State University
Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER
Daniel C. Waldinger, New York University and NBER
Michael D. Whinston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER
Kevin R. Williams, Yale University and NBER
Catherine Wolfram, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Thomas G. Wollmann, University of Chicago and NBER
Florian Zettelmeyer, Northwestern University and NBER