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, Stanford University and NBER
Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
Chuan Yu, Stanford University

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