SI 2018 Industrial Organization

Mar Reguant and Carl Shapiro, Organizers

July 19-20, 2018

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, July 19
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

Instrument-Free Demand Estimation
Discussant: Steven T. Berry, Yale University and NBER
2:00 pm

Empirical Properties of Diversion Ratios (slides)
Discussant: Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm

Understanding Disparities in Punishment: Regulator Preferences and Expertise
Discussant: Mike Abito, The Ohio State University
4:15 pm

Escalation of Scrutiny: The Gains from Dynamic Enforcement of Environmental Regulations (slides)
Discussant: Paul Scott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5:00 pm
Adjourn
6:15 pm
Group Dinner - Ballroom B, Royal Sonesta Hotel
Friday, July 20
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
First two morning papers joint with IT and Digitization in Ballroom
9:00 am

The Marginal Congestion of a Taxi in New York City
Discussant: Thomas N. Hubbard, Northwestern University and NBER
9:45 am

Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Taxis and Uber
Discussant: M. Keith Chen, University of California, Los Angeles
10:30 am
Break
Industrial Organization continues in the Charles Rooms
10:45 am

Welfare Effects of Physician-Industry Interactions: Evidence From Patent Expiration
Discussant: Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER
11:30 am

On the Effect of Parallel Trade on Manufacturers' and Retailers' Profits in the Pharmaceutical Sector
Discussant: Marc Rysman, Boston University
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm
Panel Discussion
“Competitiveness Trends in the U.S. Economy: Gathering Evidence”
Moderator: Carl Shapiro, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Panelists: Florian Ederer, Sharat Ganapati, Ben Leyden, Ioana Marinescu, and Ian McCarthy will address the general topic with reference to their own papers:

Killer Acquisitions (slides)

Oligopolies, Prices, Output, and Productivity

Public Communication and Collusion in the Airline Industry

Multimarket Contact in Health Insurance (slides)

Labor Market Concentration
2:30 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Crude by Rail, Option Value, and Pipeline Investment
Discussant: Giulia Brancaccio, New York University and NBER
3:45 pm

Upstream, Downstream: Diffusion and Impacts of the Universal Product Code
Discussant: Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER
4:30 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 23
1:00 pm

Escalation of Scrutiny: The Gains from Dynamic Enforcement of Environmental Regulations
Discussant: Jay Shimshack, University of Virginia