Industrial Organization Program Meeting
Thomas R. Covert, Ginger Zhe Jin, and Ali Yurukoglu, Organizers
February 12-13, 2021
on Zoom.us
| Friday, February 12 | ||||
| Presentation format: 25 minutes presenter, 10 minutes discussant, 15 minutes audience Q&A | ||||
| 12:00 pm |
Matthew Backus, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Christopher Conlon, New York University and NBER Michael Sinkinson, Yale University and NBER Common Ownership and Competition in the Ready-To-Eat Cereal Industry
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| 12:50 pm | Break | |||
| 1:00 pm |
Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER Jessica Y. Fong, University of Michigan Andrey Fradkin, Boston University Dog Eat Dog: Measuring Network Effects Using a Digital Platform Merger
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| 1:50 pm | Break | |||
| 2:00 pm |
Andrew Butters, Indiana University Jackson Dorsey, University of Texas at Austin Gautam Gowrisankaran, Columbia University and NBER Soaking Up the Sun: Battery Investment, Renewable Energy, and Market Equilibrium
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| 2:50 pm | Break | |||
| 3:00 pm |
Jie Bai, Harvard University and NBER Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Shengmao Cao, Northwestern University Shanjun Li, Cornell University and NBER Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillover, and Industrial Quality Upgrading: Evidence from the Chinese Auto Industry
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| 3:50 pm | Breakout rooms | |||
| 4:30 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Saturday, February 13 | ||||
| Special session on online economy | ||||
| Presentation format: 20 minutes presenter, 10 minutes discussant, 10 minutes audience Q&A | ||||
| 12:00 pm |
Joerg Claussen, University of Munich Christian W. Peukert, HEC Lausanne Ananya Sen, Carnegie Mellon University The Editor and the Algorithm: Returns to Data and Externalities in Online News
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| 12:40 pm |
Navdeep S. Sahni, Stanford University Charles Y. Zhang, Stanford University Are Consumers Averse to Sponsored Messages? The Role of Search Advertising in Information Discovery
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| 1:20 pm |
Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford University and NBER Choice Screen Auctions
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| 2:00 pm | Break | |||
| Presentation format for the next 2 papers: 25 minutes presenter, 10 minutes discussant, 15 minutes audience Q&A | ||||
| 2:10 pm |
Daniel Bjorkegren, Columbia University Joshua Blumenstock, University of California at Berkeley Samsun Knight, Brown University Manipulation Proof Machine Learning
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| 3:00 pm | Break | |||
| 3:10 pm |
Tuba Tuncel, Florida State University Should We Prevent Off-Label Drug Prescriptions? Empirical Evidence from France
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| 4:00 pm | Breakout rooms | |||
| 4:30 pm | Adjourn | |||