Industrial Organization Program Meeting

Julie Holland Mortimer, Christopher Neilson, and Michael Sinkinson, Organizers

February 7-8, 2020

Stanford University, SIEPR - Koret-Taube Conference Center

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, February 7
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
(30 minutes presenter, 10 minutes discussant, 20 minutes audience)
9:00 am

Leveraging Uncertainties to Infer Preferences: Robust Analysis of School Choice
Discussant: Nikhil Agarwal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

Theory for Extending Single-Product Production Function Estimation to Multi-Product Settings
Discussant: Ariel Pakes, Harvard University and NBER
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

Guiding Consumers through Lemons and Peaches: Analyzing of the Effects of Search Design Activities (slides)
Discussant: Stephan Seiler, Imperial College London
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Vertical Contracts with Endogenous Product Selection: An Empirical Analysis of Vendor-Allowance Contracts
Discussant: Pierre Dubois, Toulouse School of Economics
2:30 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Price Transparency, Media and Informative Advertising
Discussant: Fernando Luco, Texas A&M University
4:00 pm

Preference Externality Estimators: A Comparison of Border Approaches and IVs
Discussant: Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Group Dinner - Indo Restaurant, 3295 El Camino Real, Palo Alto
Saturday, February 8
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
(25 minutes author, 10 minutes discussant, 15 minutes audience)
8:40 am

Bidding for Firms: Subsidy Competition in the United States
Discussant: Peter W. Newberry, University of Georgia
9:30 am
Break
9:50 am

License Complementarity and Package Bidder: The U.S. Spectrum Auctions
Discussant: Gabriel Weintraub, University of Chile
10:40 am
Break
11:00 am

Relinquishing Riches: Auctions vs Informal Negotiations in Texas Oil and Gas Leasing
Discussant: Steve Cicala, Tufts University and NBER
11:50 am
Lunch
12:50 pm

Endogenous Information and Simplifying Insurance Choice
Discussant: Michael Grubb, Boston College
1:40 pm

Selection with Variation in Diagnostic Skill: Evidence from Radiologists
Discussant: Martin B. Hackmann, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
2:30 pm
Adjourn