SI 2018 Industrial Organization
Organized by Mar Reguant and Carl Shapiro
July 19-20, 2018
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
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, Washington University in St Louis 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 and NBER

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, 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, Emory University 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, University of Utah
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, University of Navarra
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