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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SI 2014 - Industrial Organization
Jean-Pierre H. Dube, Nancy L. Rose, Ali Yurukoglu, Susan Athey, and Organizers
July 17-18, 2014
Parkview Room Royal Sonesta Hotel 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd. Cambridge, MA
PROGRAM
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8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Bart Bronnenberg, Tilburg University Jean-Pierre H. Dube, University of Chicago and NBER Matthew Gentzkow, University of Chicago and NBER Jesse M. Shapiro, University of Chicago and NBER Do Pharmacists Buy Bayer? Informed Shoppers and the Brand Premium Discussant: Justine Hastings, Brown University and NBER
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Karunakaran Sudhir, Yale School of Management Nathan Yang, Yale University Exploiting the Choice-Consumption Mismatch:  A New Approach to Disentangle State Dependence and Heterogeneity Discussant: Peter Rossi, University of California, Los Angeles
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Elisabeth Honka, University of Texas at Dallas Ali Hortacsu, University of Chicago and NBER Maria Ana Vitorino, University of Minnesota Advertising, Consumer Awareness and Choice: Evidence from the U.S. Banking Industry Discussant: Sanjog Misra, University of California, Los Angeles
12:30 PM	Lunch
PARALLEL SESSIONS TO CONTINUE AFTER LUNCH 1:30 pm start: IO and Digitization joint session, Ballroom A, West Tower 1:45 pm start: IO and Marketing in Parkview Room, East Tower
	IO and Digitization Joint Session, Ballroom A, West Tower
1:30 pm	Kenneth Hendricks, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER Alan T. Sorensen, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER The Value of an Intermediary in a Dynamic Auction Market Discussant: Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER
	Matthew Willi. Chesnes, Federal Trade Commission Weijia Dai, University of Maryland Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland and NBER Banning Foreign Pharmacies from Sponsored Search: The Online Consumer Response Discussant: Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University and NBER
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Aguiar Luis, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER Panning for Gold: The Random Long Tail in Music Production Discussant: Ajay K. Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER
	Xiang Hui, The Ohio State University Maryam Saeedi, The Ohio State University Neel Sundaresan, eBay Research Labs Jack Shen, eBay From Lemon Markets to Managed Markets: The Evolution of eBay's Reputation System Discussant: Sara Fisher Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4:45 pm	Adjourn
	IO and Marketing session, Parkview Room, East Tower
1:45 pm	Glenn Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Sara Fisher Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Match Quality, Search, and the Internet Market for Used Books Discussant: Stephen Seiler, Stanford University
2:45 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Wesley Hartmann, Stanford University Daniel Klapper, Humboldt Univeristy, Berlin Super Bowl Ads
	Seth I. Stephens-Davidowitz, Google Hal Varian, Google, Inc. Michael D. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University Super Returns? The Effects of Ads on Product Demand Discussant: Matthew Gentzkow, University of Chicago and NBER
4:30 pm	Adjourn
5:00 p.m.	You are invited to the Summer Institute-wide session in Ballroom A The NBER Working Paper Series at 20,000
6:45 pm	Group Dinner at Hotel Marlowe, Serrano Ballroom (across the street from the Sonesta)
Friday, July 18
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Akshaya Jha, Stanford University Frank A. Wolak, Stanford University and NBER Testing for Market Efficiency with Transactions Costs: An Application to Convergence Bidding in Wholesale Electricity Markets Discussant: Erin Mansur, Dartmouth University and NBER
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Kate Ho, Columbia University and NBER Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University and NBER Joseph Hogan, Columbia University The Impact of Consumer Inattention on Insurer Pricing in the Medicare Part D Program Discussant: Benjamin Handel, University of California, Berkeley, and NBER
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Eric Budish, University of Chicago Peter Cramton, University of Maryland John Shim, Chicago Booth The High-Frequency Trading Arms Race: Frequent Batch Auctions as a Market Design Response Discussant: Jon Levin, Stanford University and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Matthew R. Grennan, University of Pennsylvania Robert Town, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Regulating Innovation with Uncertain Quality: Information, Risk, and Access in Medical Devices Discussant: Scott Stern, MIT and NBER
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Ali Yurukoglu, Stanford University and NBER Claire Lim, Cornell University Dynamic Natural Monopoly Regulation: Time Inconsistency, Asymmetric Information, and Political Environments Discussant: Steven Puller, Texas A&M and NBER
3:45 pm	Adjourn