Industrial Organization Program Meeting

Eric Budish and Jean-François Houde, Organizers

February 8-9, 2019

Stanford University, SIEPR-Gunn Building, 366 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, February 8
Friday morning papers are a Joint Session between IO and Insurance (Room 130)
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
25 minutes author, 20 minutes discussant, 15 minutes audience
9:00 am

Take-Up, Drop-Out, and Spending in ACA Marketplaces
Discussant: Jonathan T. Kolstad, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

Optimal Managed Competition Subsidies
Discussant: Francesco Decarolis, Bocconi University
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

Competition, Asymmetric Information, and the Annuity Puzzle: Evidence from a Government-run Exchange in Chile
Discussant: Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
30 minutes presenter, 10 minutes discussant, 20 minutes audience
1:30 pm

Nonparametric Estimates of Demand in the California Health Insurance Exchange
Discussant: Philip Haile, Yale University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
3:00 pm

How to Get Away with Merger: Stealth Consolidation and its Effects on US Healthcare
Discussant: Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University and NBER
4:00 pm

Carpooling and the Economics of Self-Driving Cars
Discussant: Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Group Dinner - Indo Restaurant, 3295 El Camino Real, Palo Alto
Saturday, February 9
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
25 minutes author, 10 minutes discussant, 15 minutes audience
8:30 am

Competition in Network Industries: Evidence from Mobile Telecommunications in Rwanda
Discussant: Robin S. Lee, Harvard University and NBER
9:20 am

Market Expanding or Market Stealing? Competition with Network Effects in Bike-Sharing
Discussant: Ying Fan, University of Michigan and NBER
10:10 am
Break
10:40 am

Privatization and Productivity in China (slides)
Discussant: Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER
11:30 am

China’s Industrial Policy: an Empirical Evaluation
Discussant: Katja Seim, Yale University and NBER
12:20 pm
Lunch
1:20 pm

Searching for Approval
Discussant: Alan T. Sorensen, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
2:10 pm

Arbitration with Uninformed Consumers
Discussant: Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University and NBER
3:00 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 19
2:30 pm

Arbitration with Uninformed Consumers
Discussant: Giorgia Piacentino, University of Southern California and NBER
Thursday, July 25
10:25 am

Arbitration with Uninformed Consumers
Discussant: W. Bentley MacLeod, Yale University and NBER