SI 2024 Industrial Organization
Organized by C. Lanier Benkard, Tobias Salz, Pietro Tebaldi, and Daniel C. Waldinger
July 18-19, 2024
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Thursday, July 18
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
25 minute presentation, 15 minute discussion, 20 minute Q&A
8:30 am

How Well Does Bargaining Work in Consumer Markets? A Robust Bounds Approach

Joachim Freyberger, University of Bonn
Bradley Larsen, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER

Discussant:
Philip Haile, Yale University and NBER
9:30 am
Break
10:00 am

Search and Biased Beliefs in Education Markets

Patrick Agte, Stockholm School of Economics
Claudia Allende, Stanford University and NBER
Adam Kapor, Princeton University and NBER
Christopher Neilson, Yale University and NBER
Fernando Ochoa, New York University

Discussant:
Alan T. Sorensen, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am

Retailer Competition and Assortment Differentiation: Evidence from Entry Lotteries

Brett Hollenbeck, University of California, Los Angeles
Sylvia Hristakeva, Cornell University
Kosuke Uetake, Yale University

Discussant:
Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm

The Welfare Effects of Sponsored Product Advertising

Chuan Yu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Discussant:
Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm

Digital Media Mergers: Theory and Application to Facebook-Instagram

Justin Katz, Harvard University
Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
Marc Rysman, Boston University
4:30 pm
Adjourn
6:30 pm
Group Dinner at Royal Sonesta in Charles Room
Friday, July 19
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am

Additionality and Asymmetric Information in Environmental Markets: Evidence from Conservation Auctions

Anna Russo, Harvard University
Karl M. Aspelund, Harvard University Center for the Environment

Discussant:
Nicholas Ryan, Yale University and NBER
9:30 am
Break
10:00 am

Competing Platforms and Transport Equilibrium

Nicola Rosaia, Columbia University

Discussant:
Jakub Kastl, Princeton University and NBER
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am

Algorithmic Pricing in Multifamily Rentals: Efficiency Gains or Price Coordination?

Sophie Calder-Wang, University of Pennsylvania
Gi Heung Kim, Boston College

Discussant:
Alexander MacKay, University of Virginia
12:30 pm
Lunch
Afternoon session is joint with Digitization
20 minute presentation, 10 minute discussion, 10 minute Q&A
1:30 pm

Decision-Making with Machine Prediction: Evidence from Predictive Maintenance in Trucking

Adam S. Harris, Cornell University
Maggie Yellen, Federal Trade Commission

Discussant:
Daniel Björkegren, Columbia University
2:10 pm
Break
2:25 pm

When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media

Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER
Benjamin R. Handel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Rafael Jimenez-Duran, Bocconi University
Christopher Roth, University of Cologne

Discussant:
Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
3:05 pm
Break
3:20 pm

Trust at Scale: The Economic Limits of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains

Eric Budish, University of Chicago and NBER

Discussant:
Hanna Halaburda, New York University
4:00 pm
Adjourn