SI 2015 - Industrial Organization

Jonathan D. Levin, Kenneth Hendricks, James W. Roberts, Jonathan D. Levin, and Susan Athey, Organizers

July 17-18, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Friday, July 17
9:00 am	Patrick Bajari, Keystone Strategy Guido Imbens, Stanford University and NBER Ana Gomez Lemmen Meyer, Amazon Wilko Schulz-Mahlendorf, Amazon Demand Estimation with High Dimensional Data and an Application to Amazon's Book Marketplace
10:15 am
10:15 am	Matthew Backus, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Tom Blake, Amazon Steven Tadelis, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Cheap Talk, Round Numbers, and the Economics of Negotiation
11:30 am
11:30 am	Matthew R. Grennan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Ashley Swanson, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Transparency and Negotiated Prices: The Value of Information in Hospital-Supplier Bargaining
1:30 pm	Jidong Zhou, Yale University Competitive Bundling
2:45 pm
2:45 pm	Ali Hortaçsu, University of Chicago and NBER Jakub Kastl, Princeton University and NBER Allen Zhang, U.S. Department of the Treasury Bid Shading and Bidder Surplus in the U.S. Treasury Auction System
4:00 pm
4:00 pm	Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER Measuring the Sensitivity of Parameter Estimates to Sample Statistics
Saturday, July 18
9:00 am
9:00 am	Greg Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER Guido Menzio, New York University and NBER Leena Rudanko, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Nicholas Trachter, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Relative Price Dispersion: Evidence and Theory
10:15 am
10:15 am	Bradley Shapiro, University of Chicago and NBER Positive Spillovers and Free Riding in Advertising of Prescription Pharmaceuticals: the Case of Antidepressants
11:30 am
11:30 am	Kate Ho, Princeton University and NBER Robin S. Lee, Harvard University and NBER Insurer Competition in Health Care Markets