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

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

Search and Biased Beliefs in Education Markets
Discussant: Alan T. Sorensen, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am

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

The Welfare Effects of Sponsored Product Advertising
Discussant: Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm

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

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

Competing Platforms and Transport Equilibrium
Discussant: Jakub Kastl, Princeton University and NBER
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am

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

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

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

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