SI 2024 Industrial Organization

C. Lanier Benkard, Tobias Salz, Pietro Tebaldi, and Daniel C. Waldinger, Organizers

July 18-19, 2024

Charles AB

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

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, July 18
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
25 minute presentation, 15 minute discussion, 20 minute Q&A
8:30 am
Joachim Freyberger, University of Bonn
Bradley Larsen, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER

How Well Does Bargaining Work in Consumer Markets? A Robust Bounds Approach
Discussant: Philip Haile, Yale University and NBER
9:30 am
Break
10:00 am
Patrick Agte, Yale University
Claudia Allende, Stanford University and NBER
Adam Kapor, Princeton University and NBER
Christopher Neilson, Yale University and NBER
Fernando Ochoa, New York University

Search and Biased Beliefs in Education Markets
Discussant: Alan T. Sorensen, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am
Brett Hollenbeck, University of California at Los Angeles
Sylvia Hristakeva, Cornell University
Kosuke Uetake, Yale University

Retailer Competition and Assortment Differentiation: Evidence from Entry Lotteries
Discussant: Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
Chuan Yu, Harvard University

The Welfare Effects of Sponsored Product Advertising
Discussant: Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Justin Katz, Harvard University
Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER

Digital Media Mergers: Theory and Application to Facebook-Instagram
Discussant: Marc Rysman, Boston University
4:30 pm
Adjourn
6:30 pm
Group Dinner at Royal Sonesta in Charles Room
Friday, July 19
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am
Anna Russo, Harvard University
Karl M. Aspelund, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Additionality and Asymmetric Information in Environmental Markets: Evidence from Conservation Auctions
Discussant: Nicholas Ryan, Yale University and NBER
9:30 am
Break
10:00 am
Nicola Rosaia, Columbia University

Competing Platforms and Transport Equilibrium
Discussant: Jakub Kastl, Princeton University and NBER
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am
Sophie Calder-Wang, University of Pennsylvania
Gi Heung Kim, University of Pennsylvania

Algorithmic Pricing in Multifamily Rentals: Efficiency Gains or Price Coordination?
Discussant: Alexander MacKay, University of Virginia
12:30 pm
Lunch
Afternoon session is joint with Digitization
20 minute presentation, 10 minute discussion, 10 minute Q&A
1:30 pm
Ballroom A
Adam S. Harris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maggie Yellen, Federal Trade Commission

Decision-Making with Machine Prediction: Evidence from Predictive Maintenance in Trucking
Discussant: Daniel Björkegren, Columbia University
2:10 pm
Break
2:25 pm
Ballroom A
Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER
Benjamin R. Handel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Rafael Jimenez-Duran, Bocconi University
Christopher Roth, University of Cologne

When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media
Discussant: Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
3:05 pm
Break
3:20 pm
Ballroom A
Eric Budish, University of Chicago and NBER

Trust at Scale: The Economic Limits of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains
Discussant: Hanna Halaburda, New York University
4:00 pm
Adjourn