SI 2017 Industrial Organization

Aviv Nevo, Paulo J. Somaini, and Liran Einav, Organizers

July 21-22, 2017

Charles Room

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, July 21
12:00 noon
Lunch
1:00 pm
Jeff Thurk, University of Georgia
Katja Seim, Yale University and NBER
Eugenio Miravete, University of Texas at Austin

One Markup to Rule Them All: Taxation by Liquor Pricing Regulation
Discussant: Julie Holland Mortimer, University of Virginia and NBER
2:00 pm
Break
2:15 pm
Leonardo Gambacorta, Bank for International Settlements
Luigi Guiso, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Paolo Emilio Mistrulli, Banca d'Italia
Andrea Pozzi, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Anton Tsoy, University of Toronto

Distorted Advice in Financial Markets: Evidence from the Mortgage Market
Discussant: Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University and NBER
3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Gaston Illanes, Northwestern University and NBER

Switching Costs in Pension Plan Choice
Discussant: Michael J. Dickstein, New York University and NBER
4:30 pm
Break
4:45 pm
Giulia Brancaccio, New York University and NBER
Myrto Kalouptsidi, Harvard University and NBER
Theodore Papageorgiou, Boston College

Geography, Search Frictions and Endogenous Trade Costs
Discussant: Paul Grieco, Pennsylvania State University
5:45 pm
Adjourn
6:45 pm
Group Dinner at Hotel Marlowe (Muse Salon)
Saturday, July 22
8:30 am
Coffee and pastries
9:15 am
Charles Murry, Boston College and NBER

Advertising in Vertical Relationships: An Equilibrium Model of the Automobile Industry
Discussant: Steven T. Berry, Yale University and NBER
10:15 am
Break
10:30 am
Haris Tabakovic, The Brattle Group
Thomas G. Wollmann, University of Chicago and NBER

Effects of Regulatory Capture: Evidence from Patent Examiners
11:15 am
Graham Beattie, Loyola Marymount University
Ruben Durante, National University of Singapore
Brian G. Knight, Brown University and NBER
Ananya Sen, Carnegie Mellon University

Advertising Spending and Media Bias: Evidence from News Coverage of Car Safety Recalls
12:00 noon
Lunch
1:00 pm
Panel Discussion on Merger Enforcement in Healthcare Markets
Moderator: Nancy L. Rose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
David Dranove, Northwestern University
Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland and NBER (tentative)
Aviv Nevo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
2:00 pm
Christopher J. Sullivan, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Ice Cream Split: Empirically Distinguishing Price and Product Space Collusion
Discussant: Jonathan W. Williams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm
Navdeep S. Sahni, Stanford University
Harikesh Nair

Does Advertising Serve as a Signal? Evidence from Field Experiments in Mobile Search
Discussant: Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER
4:15 pm
Adjourn