Industrial Organization Program Meeting

Giulia Brancaccio, Christopher Conlon, and Alan T. Sorensen, Organizers

February 4-5, 2022

Stanford on Zoom

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, February 4
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Juan Pablo Atal, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Jose Ignacio Cuesta, Stanford University and NBER
Morten Sæthre, Norwegian School of Economics

Quality Regulation and Competition: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Markets
Discussant: Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am
Michael J. Dickstein, New York University and NBER
Kate Ho, Princeton University and NBER
Nathaniel D. Mark, U.S. Department of Justice

Market Segmentation and Competition in Health Insurance
Discussant: Victoria Marone, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
11:15 am
Break
11:30 AM
Panel: What’s the Deal with Antitrust? Industrial Organization and the New-Brandeis Movement
Panelists:
Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University and NBER
Carl Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
(background paper)
Tommaso Valletti, Imperial College London (background paper)
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:50 pm
Special Session: Rising Markups
Format: 25 minutes for each presenter, 15 minutes for the discussant, 15 minutes for Q&A
James M. Brand, Microsoft

Differences in Differentiation: Rising Variety and Markups in Retail Food Stores
Paul Grieco, Pennsylvania State University
Charles Murry, University of Michigan and NBER
Ali Yurukoglu, Stanford University and NBER

The Evolution of Market Power in the US Auto Industry
Discussant: Aviv Nevo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
3:10 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Bruno Pellegrino, Columbia University

Product Differentiation and Oligopoly: A Network Approach
Discussant: Jeffrey R. Campbell, University of Notre Dame
4:30 pm
Rodrigo Carril, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Andres Gonzalez-Lira, PUC-Chile
Michael Walker, University of California, Berkeley

Competition under Incomplete Contracts and the Design of Procurement Policies
Discussant: Karam Kang, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
5:30 pm
Adjourn
Saturday, February 5
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am
Kaiwen Leong, Nanyang Technological University
Huailu Li, Fudan University
Nicola Pavanini, Tilburg University
Christoph Walsh, Tilburg University

The Welfare Effects of Law Enforcement in the Illegal Money Lending Market
Discussant: Claudia Robles Garcia, Stanford University
9:30 am
Break
9:50 am
Benjamin Friedrich, Northwestern University
Martin B. Hackmann, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Adam Kapor, Princeton University and NBER
Sofia J. Moroni, University of Pittsburgh
Anne B. Nandrup, VIVE

Interdependent Values in Matching Markets: Evidence from Medical School Programs in Denmark
Discussant: Paulo J. Somaini, Stanford University and NBER
10:50 am
Break
11:10 am
Sophie Calder-Wang, University of Pennsylvania

The Distributional Impact of the Sharing Economy on the Housing Market
Discussant: Daniel C. Waldinger, New York University and NBER
12:10 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm
Luis Gonzales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Koichiro Ito, University of Chicago and NBER
Mar Reguant, Northwestern University and NBER

The Value of Infrastructure and Market Integration: Evidence from Renewable Expansion in Chile
Discussant: Akshaya Jha, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
2:15 pm
Break
2:25 pm
Christoph Graf, Stanford University
Federico Quaglia, Terna S.p.A.
Frank A. Wolak, Stanford University and NBER

Simplified Market Mechanisms for Non-Convex Markets: Evidence from Italian Electricity Market
Discussant: Ignacia Mercadal, University of Florida
3:25 pm
Adjourn