SI 2022 Industrial Organization

Vivek Bhattacharya, Michael Dinerstein, liran_einarv, Gautam Gowrisankaran, and Joel Waldfogel, Organizers

July 22-23, 2022

Charles Room AB

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

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, July 22
Morning joint with Digitization, Ballroom B, West Tower, 40 minutes per paper
10:40 am
Olivia R. Natan, University of California, Berkeley

Choice Frictions in Large Assortments
Discussant: Julie Holland Mortimer, University of Virginia and NBER
11:20 am
Germán Gutiérrez, University of Washington

The Welfare Consequences of Regulating Amazon
Discussant: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Stanford University
12:00 pm
Lunch, IO continues by itself after lunch
IO Format: Presentation: 25 minutes; discussion: 15 minutes; questions from the floor: 20 minutes
1:00 pm
Aradhya Sood, University of Toronto

Land Market Frictions in Developing Countries: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in India (slides)
Discussant: Nicholas Buchholz, Princeton University
2:00 pm
Nicholas Ryan, Yale University and NBER

Holding Up Green Energy
Discussant: Natalia Fabra, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Phuong Ho, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Trading for Economies of Scale: The Cost Efficiency of Cap-and-Trade in Common-Pool Resources
Discussant: Daniel Ackerberg, University of Texas at Austin
4:30 pm
Break
5:00 pm
Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER
Frank Yang, Stanford University
Ali Yurukoglu, Stanford University and NBER

Pricing Power in Advertising Markets: Theory and Evidence
Discussant: Bradley Shapiro, University of Chicago and NBER
6:00 pm
Adjourn
6:30 pm
Group Dinner in Riverfront Room
Saturday, July 23
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Michael Rubens, University of California, Los Angeles

Oligopsony Power and Factor-Biased Technology Adoption
Discussant: Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:30 am
Demand Estimation Session
Presentation: 15 minutes presentation per paper; discussion: 25 minutes; questions from the floor: 20 minutes
Joshua A. Lanier, China Center for Behavioral Economics and Finance
Jeremy H. Large, St Hugh's College, University of Oxford
John Quah, Johns Hopkins University

Estimating Very Large Demand Systems
Alessandro Iaria, University of Bristol
Ao Wang, University of Warwick

An Empirical Model of Quantity Discounts with Large Choice Sets
Lorenzo Magnolfi, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Jonathon McClure, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Alan T. Sorensen, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER

Embeddings and Distance-based Demand for Differentiated Products
Discussant: Steven T. Berry, Yale University and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Matteo Benetton, University of California, Berkeley
Greg Buchak, Stanford University
Claudia Robles Garcia, Stanford University

Wide or Narrow? Competition and Scope in Financial Intermediation (slides)
Discussant: Jakub Kastl, Princeton University and NBER
2:00 pm
Valentin Haddad, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Paul Huebner, Stockholm School of Economics
Erik Loualiche, University of Minnesota

How Competitive is the Stock Market? Theory, Evidence from Portfolios, and Implications for the Rise of Passive Investing
Discussant: Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Bradley Larsen, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Anthony Lee Zhang, University of Chicago

Quantifying Bargaining Power Under Incomplete Information: A Supply-Side Analysis of the Used-Car Industry
Discussant: Ashley Langer, University of Arizona and NBER
4:30 pm
Adjourn