Friday, September 26
Discovery Building – Orchard View Room (3rd floor)
330 N. Orchard St.
Madison WI 53715
The conference will be held in the Orchard View Room at the Discovery Building on the UW-Madison campus. Access the room from the 1st floor via the elevator located near Aldo’s Cafe.
9:30-10: Coffee/snacks
10 – 10:50: Karam Kang (Wisconsin). Title: “Inefficiencies in local infrastructure: evidence from drinking water in California’’ (with Pierre Bodéré and Giulia Brancaccio)
11 – 11:50: Giovanni Compiani (Chicago Booth). Title: “Demand Estimation with Text and Image Data” (with Ilya Morozov and Stephan Seiler)
12 – 1: Lunch
1 – 1:50: Anran Li (Minnesota). Title: “The Welfare Effects of Intermediation in the Employer-Sponsored Insurance Market” (with Tong Li, Anthony LoSasso, and Nicholas Tilipman)
2 – 2:50: Milena Almagro (Chicago Booth). Title: “Segregation by Choice? Separating Preferences from Restrictions in Housing Markets” (with Aradhya Sood)
3 – 3:50: Gaston Illanes (Northwestern). Title: “A Large Scale Evaluation of Merger Simulations” (with Vivek Bhattacharya)
This workshop is in part funded by the Juli Plant Grainger Institute for Economic Research (econ.wisc.edu/jpgi) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Conference Organizer: Jean-Francois Houde
Registration for the event is required by September 1, 2025. To complete your registration or view the conference schedule, use the links below.
Hotel Accommodations
For those who would like to arrive a day early or extend your stay in Madison, the Union South Hotel (across the street from the Discovery Building) offers a discount of 15% off their normal rate for the nights of September 26 and September 27. Currently the rooms are $186 on Thursday and $207 on Friday.
Prices and availability are subject to change. Please book early!
The direct booking link is below.