Friday, July 19
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning session will be held jointly with the Digitization group (Ballroom A)
9:00 am

Buying Data from Consumers: The Impact of Monitoring Programs in U.S. Auto Insurance

Yizhou Jin, University of Toronto
Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:20 am

Digital Dystopia

Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics
11:10 am
Panel Discussion: Market Power in the 'Big Data' Economy
Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER
Dirk Bergemann, Yale University
Fiona Scott-Morton, Yale University and NBER
Carl Shapiro, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Florian Zettlemeyer Northwestern University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
Industrial Organization continues (Parkview Room)
2:00 pm

The Efficiency of A Dynamic Decentralized Two-sided Matching Market

Tracy Xiao Liu, Tsinghua University
Zhixi Wan, The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Chenyu Yang, University of Maryland

Discussant:
Tobias Salz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm

Oligopolistic Price Leadership and Mergers: The United States Beer Industry (slides)

Nathan H. Miller, Georgetown University and NBER
Gloria Sheu, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Matthew C. Weinberg, The Ohio State University

Discussant:
Michael D. Whinston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
4:15 pm
Break
4:30 pm

Vertical Integration between Hospitals and Insurers

Jose Ignacio Cuesta, Stanford University and NBER
Carlos E. Noton, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Benjamin Vatter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussant:
Kate Ho, Princeton University and NBER
5:30 pm
Adjourn
6:45 pm
Dinner - Royal Sonesta Hotel, Riverfront Room
Saturday, July 20
8:45 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:15 am

An Instrumental Variable Approach to Dynamic Models (slides)

Steven T. Berry, Yale University and NBER
Giovanni Compiani, University of Chicago

Discussant:
Allan Collard-Wexler, Duke University and NBER
10:15 am
Break
10:30 am

The Patent Troll: Benign Middleman or Stick-Up Artist?

David Abrams, University of Pennsylvania
Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER
Gokhan Oz, University of Pennsylvania
Jeremy G. Pearce, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Discussant:
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
11:30 am
Lunch
12:45 pm

Will the Market Fix the Market? A Theory of Stock Exchange Competition and Innovation

Eric Budish, University of Chicago and NBER
Robin S. Lee, Harvard University and NBER
John Shim, University of Notre Dame

Discussant:
Jakub Kastl, Princeton University and NBER
1:45 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Approximating the Equilibrium Effects of Informed School Choice

Claudia Allende, Stanford University and NBER
Francisco Gallego, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Christopher Neilson, Yale University and NBER

Discussant:
Paulo J. Somaini, Stanford University and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm

Testing the Theory of Common Stock Ownership

Lysle Boller, University of Pennsylvania
Fiona Scott-Morton, Yale University and NBER

Discussant:
Nancy L. Rose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
4:15 pm
Adjourn
The format for this workshop will be as follows:
- 30 minutes for presentations
- 10 minutes for discussants
- 20 minutes for general discussion and questions from the audience