SI 2016 - Industrial Organization

Jonathan D. Levin, Michael D. Whinston, and Steven Tadelis, Organizers

July 22-23, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, July 22
10:05 am
Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
Andrey Fradkin, Boston University

Market Structure with the Entry of Peer-to-Peer Platforms: The Case of Hotels and Airbnb
1:30 pm
Oyvind Thomassen, Seoul National University
Howard W. Smith, University of Oxford
Stephan Seiler, Imperial College London
Pasquale Schiraldi, London School of Economics

Multi-Category Competition and Market Power: A Model of Supermarket Pricing
2:45 pm
Ying Fan, University of Michigan and NBER
Chenyu Yang, University of Maryland

Competition, Product Proliferation and Welfare: A Study of the U.S. Smartphone Market
4:00 pm
Javier Donna, University of Miami
Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez, Yale University

The Illiquidity of Water Markets: Efficient Institutions for Water Allocation in Southeastern Spain
Saturday, July 23
9:00 am
Jose Azar, IESE Business School
Sahil Raina, University of Alberta
Martin C. Schmalz, University of Oxford

Ultimate Ownership and Bank Competition
10:15 am
Fanyin Zheng, Imperial College

Spatial Competition and Preemptive Entry in the Discount Retail Industry
11:30 am
Mitsuru Igami, University of Toronto
Kosuke Uetake, Yale University

Mergers, Innovation, and Entry-Exit Dynamics: Consolidation of the Hard Disk Drive Industry, 1996–2015
1:30 pm
Kevin Williams, Yale University and NBER
Thomas W. Quan, Wayfair

Product Variety, Across-Market Demand Heterogeneity, and the Value of Online Retail