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
Yeon-Koo Che, Columbia University
Dong Woo Hahm, University of Southern California
Yinghua He, Rice University

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
Amil Petrin, University of Minnesota and NBER
Emmanuel Dhyne, National Bank of Belgium
Valerie Smeets, Aarhus University
Frederic Warzynski, Aarhus University

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
Pedro Gardete, Nova School of Business and Economics
Megan Hunter, Boston College

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
Sylvia Hristakeva, Cornell University

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
Itai Ater, Tel Aviv University
Oren Rigbi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Price Transparency, Media and Informative Advertising
Discussant: Fernando Luco, Texas A&M University
4:00 pm
Xing Li, Peking University
Wesley Hartmann, Stanford University
Tomomichi Amano, Harvard University

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
Cailin R. Slattery, University of California, Berkeley

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

License Complementarity and Package Bidder: The U.S. Spectrum Auctions
Discussant: Gabriel Weintraub, Stanford University
10:40 am
Break
11:00 am
Thomas R. Covert, University of Chicago and NBER
Richard Sweeney, Boston College

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
Zach Y. Brown, University of Michigan and NBER
Jihye Jeon, Boston University

Endogenous Information and Simplifying Insurance Choice
Discussant: Michael Grubb, Boston College
1:40 pm
David C. Chan Jr, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
Chuan Yu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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