University of Wisconsin–Madison

Juli Plant Grainger Industrial Organization Workshop

Important note:

The Industrial Organization Workshop meets Wednesdays at 3:45 pm in 7142 Social Science (Morton Room)
Faculty organizers: Panle Barwick and Karam Kang

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
2/11	Jean-Francois Houde *12:20-1:20pm	UW-Madison	Differential returns to securitization: Evidence and Impact
2/18	Chad Syverson	University of Chicago Booth School of Business	Spatial Competition, Strategic Entry Responses, and the North Dakota Railroad War of 1905
2/25	Richard Sweeney	Boston College	Investment, Productivity, and Selection in the U.S. Shale Boom
3/11	Leon Musolff	University of Pennsylvania, Wharton	Sources of Market Power in Web Search: Evidence from a Field Experiment
3/25	Dayin Zhang	UW-Madison	Referral Lending and Mortgage Market Power: The Role of Realtors
4/8	Karam Kang	UW-Madison	Managing Long-Run Competition: Evidence from Sao Paulo Pharmaceutical Procurement
4/15	Tuba Tuncel	Florida State University	Product Discontinuations in the Pharmaceutical Industry
4/22	Daniel Ackerberg	University of Texas at Austin	Production Function Identification Under Imperfect Competition∗
4/29	Matthew Grennan	Emory University	Regulating New Product Testing: the FDA vs. the Invisible Hand

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/03	Zhe Yuan	Zhejiang University	Empowering Inclusivity
9/24	Danny Gold	UW-Madison	Regulatory Hurdles and Costly Delay in Housing Development
10/1	Giselle Labrador-Badia	UW-Madison	Deposit Segmentation and Bank Competition: Implications for Monetary Policy
10/15	Yuan Fang	UW-Madison	Impact of Price-to-Beat Rule When Consumers Have Inertia: Evidence from Texas Electricity Retail Market
10/22	Arseniy Stolyarov	UW-Madison	Endogenous Echo Chamber Formation: Evidence from Telegram
10/29	Frank Verboven	KU Leuven	Price caps and coordinated effects: evidence from retail gasoline.
11/5	Anya Tarascina	UW-Madison	The Value of Intermediation in Bikeshare
11/12	Lu Han	UW-Madison	Housing Affordability and the Mobility of Renters
11/19	Steve Tadelis	UC-Berkeley	Digital Advertising and Market Structure: Implications for Privacy Regulation

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/18	Mert Demirer	MIT	Firm Productivity and Learning in the Digital Economy: Evidence from Cloud Computing
9/25	Brad Setzler	Penn State	Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry
10/2	TBD	TBD	TBD
10/9	Andres Gonzalez-Lira	PUC-Chile	Centralizing Procurement: The Roles of Scale, Selection, and Variety
10/16	Xian Wu	UW-Madison	Dynamic Market Choice
10/23	Matt Gentry	Florida State	Dynamic Oligopoly in Procurement Auction Markets
10/30	Greg Kirwin	UW-Madison	It’s About Time: Transitioning to Time-of-Use Pricing and Consumer Demand for Electricity
11/6	Ryan McDevitt	Duke-Fuqua	Profit Sharing & Patient Steering: Joint Ventures and Other Vertical Ties in Dialysis
11/13	Pietro Tebaldi	Columbia	Managed Competition vs. Public Procurement in Individual Health Insurance
11/20	Kevin Williams	Yale-SOM	Distributional Impacts of the Changing Retail Landscape
12/4	Cecile Gaubert	UC Berkeley	Responsible Sourcing?: Theory and Evidence from Costa-Rica
12/11	No Seminar	No Seminar	No Seminar

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/18	Mert Demirer	MIT	Firm Productivity and Learning in the Digital Economy: Evidence from Cloud Computing
9/25	Brad Setzler	Penn State	Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry
10/2	TBD	TBD	TBD
10/9	Andres Gonzalez-Lira	PUC-Chile	Centralizing Procurement: The Roles of Scale, Selection, and Variety
10/16	Xian Wu	UW-Madison	Dynamic Market Choice
10/23	Matt Gentry	Florida State	Dynamic Oligopoly in Procurement Auction Markets
10/30	Greg Kirwin	UW-Madison	It’s About Time: Transitioning to Time-of-Use Pricing and Consumer Demand for Electricity
11/6	Ryan McDevitt	Duke-Fuqua	Profit Sharing & Patient Steering: Joint Ventures and Other Vertical Ties in Dialysis
11/13	Pietro Tebaldi	Columbia	Managed Competition vs. Public Procurement in Individual Health Insurance
11/20	Kevin Williams	Yale-SOM	Distributional Impacts of the Changing Retail Landscape
12/4	Cecile Gaubert	UC Berkeley	Responsible Sourcing?: Theory and Evidence from Costa-Rica
12/11	No Seminar	No Seminar	No Seminar

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
3/6	Felix Montag	Dartmouth (Tuck School of Business)	Mergers, Foreign Competition, and Jobs: Evidence from the U.S. Appliance Industry
3/13	Ben Klopack	Texas A&M	The Impact of Natural Disasters on Businesses and Consumers: Evidence from Hurricane Harvey
3/20	Charles Hodgson	Yale	You Can Lead a Horse to Water: Spatial Learning and Path Dependence in Consumer Search
4/3	El Hadi Caoui	Univ of Toronto (Rotman School of Business)	Network Diversity, Market Entry, and the Global Internet Backbone
4/10	Aureo de Paula	UCL	Production Function Estimation Using Subjective Expectations Data
4/17 CANCELLED	Daniel Ackerberg	Univ of Texas	Production Function Identification under Imperfect Competition
4/24	Yunmi Kong	Rice	Liquid Markets: An Empirical Analysis of a Water Exchange
5/1	Ulrich Doraszelski	Penn (Wharton)	Production Function Estimation in Imperfectly Competitive Environments (and with Demand Shocks)
5/8	Jorge Alé-Chilet	Universidad de los Andes	Product Bans as Protectionism: The Maggi Scare
5/9	Andrew Ching	Johns Hopkins Carey Business School	Heterogeneous Complementarity and Team Design: The Case of Real Estate Agents

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/06	NONE	-	-
9/13	Nahim Zahur	Queens University	TBD
9/20	Tianli Xia	UW-Madison	Welfare Effects of Resale Price Maintenance: Evidence from the Chinese Pharmaceutical Industry
9/27	NONE	-	-
10/04	NONE	-	-
10/11	Sarah Waldfogel	UW-Madison	The Effect of Out-of-District Donations on Candidate Positioning
10/18	Luming Chen	UW-Madison	The Dynamic Efficiency of Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from the Wind Industry
10/25	Jonathan Becker	UW-Madison	Adverse Selection in the Wholesale Mortgage Market
11/01	Jonathan McClure	UW-Madison	Markups and Costs under Capacity Constraints: the Welfare Effects of Hotel Mergers
11/08	TBD
11/10	NONE	-	-
11/15	Anh Nguyen	MIT/NYU	Long-Term Relationships and the Spot Market: Evidence from US Trucking (with Adam Harris)
11/22	NONE	-	-
11/29	Alessandro Gavazza	LSE	Refinancing Cross-Subsidies in the Mortgage Market
12/06	Tong Li	Vanderbilt	Nonparametric Identification of Bayesian Games
12/13	Gloria Sheu	FRB	Technology and Market Power: The United States Cement Industry, 1974-2019

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
3/01	Yunan Ji	Georgetown	Can Competitive Bidding Work in Health Care? Evidence from Medicare Durable Medical Equipment.
3/29	Michael Rubens	UCLA	Colluding Against Workers
4/05	Pierre Dubois	Toulouse	Bargaining and International Reference Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Industry
4/19	Ben Vatter	Stanford	Quality Disclosure and Regulation: Scoring Design in Medicare Advantage
4/26	Laura Grigolon	University of Mannheim	Credit Conditions when Lenders are Commonly Owned
5/03	Mathias Reynaert	Toulouse	Land Use and Policy in the European Union

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/21	Adam Kapor	Princeton	Interdependent Values in Matching Markets: Evidence from Medical School Admissions in Denmark
10/05	Natalia Serna	UW-Madison	Non-Price Competition and Risk Selection Through Hospital Networks
10/12	Federico Ciliberto	Virginia	Political Dialogue in Advertising: Evidence from US Political Campaigns 2012-2018
10/19	Shilong Sun	UW-Madison	The Vertical Spillover Effect of Import Liberalization: A Study of the Chinese Movie Theater Industry
10/26	Karam Kang	Carnegie Mellon	Search Frictions and Product Design in the Municipal Bond Market
11/02	Paul Grieco	Penn State	Conformant and Efficient Estimation of Discrete Choice Demand Models
11/16	Erika Frost	UW-Madison	Welfare Implications of Emerging Brands
12/07	Gaston Illanes	Northwestern	The Design of Defined Contribution Plans

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
3/2	Elena Prager	Northwestern-Kellogg	Regulating Out-of-Network Hospital Payments: Disagreement Payoffs, Negotiated Prices, and Access
4/13	Nicola Rosaia	Princeton and Columbia	Competing Platforms and Transport Equilibrium
4/20	Javier Donna	University of Florida	Direct-to-Consumer Sales by Manufacturers and Bargaining
4/27	Giovanni Compiani	Chicago Booth	A Method to Estimate Discrete Choice Models that is Robust to Consumer Search
5/4	Joe Harrington	Wharton	Cost Coordination

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/15	Asker, John	UCLA	The Welfare Impact of Market Power: The OPEC Cartel
9/29 VIRTUAL	Zhu, Xinrong	UW-Madison	Inference and Impact of Category Captaincy
10/6	Gaineddenova, Renata	UW-Madison	Pricing and Efficiency in a Decentralized Ride-Hailing Platform
10/13	McNamara, Cici	UW-Madison	Health information technology and innovation diffusion in primary care settings
10/20	Duarte Filho, Marco	UW-Madison	Hub-and-Spoke Collusion with Horizontally Differentiated Spokes
10/27	Zhu, Wanjia	UW-Madison	Leasing and Selling in Durable Goods Oligopoly
10/29	Kiseleva, Olga	UW-Madison	Why do high-quality sellers buy more fake reviews? The role of reputation cost on online platforms
11/3	Allende, Claudia	Stanford GSB	Competition under social interactions and the design of education policies
11/5 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Baik, Yeon Ju	UW-Madison	Reposting and Pricing in Online Platform
11/17	Moshary, Sarah	Chicago Booth	Sponsored Search in Equilibrium: Evidence from Two Experiments
12/1	Salz, Tobias	MIT	Auto Dealer Loan Intermediation
12/8	Fleitas, Sebastian	Univ of Leuven	Adverse Selection and Lock-out with Dynamic Incentives in Insurance Markets (joint work with Juan Pablo Atal and Eduardo Azevedo)

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
3/17 (This seminar begins at 11 am)	Frank Verboven	University of Leuven	Private Monopoly and Restricted Entry – Evidence from the Notary Profession
3/24	Milena Almagro	Chicago Booth	Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities: Evidence from Amsterdam
4/7	Julie Mortimer	Boston College	Impacts of legacy discounts in the market for national television advertising, joint with Sylvia Hristakeva
4/14	John Lazarev	University of Pennsylvania	Quantifying Delay Propagation in Airline Networks (joint with Liyu Dou and Jakub Kastl)
4/21 (This seminar begins at 12 pm)	Fernando Luco	Texas A&M	Vertical Structure and Market (Dis)integration: Evidence from the Chilean Stock Market (joint with Cristián Figueroa, Boston College)
4/28 (This seminar begins at 11 am)	Alessandro Iaria	University of Bristol	An Empirical Model of Quantity Discounts with Large Choice Sets joint with Ao Wang
5/5	Amanda Starc	Northwestern Kellogg	Does Entry Remedy Collusion? Evidence from the Generic Prescription Drug Cartel

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
10/14	Alon Eizenberg	UW-Madison	Joint Industrial Organization & University of Wisconsin Workshop with Alon Eizenberg Website: http://www.economics.cornell.edu/workshops Estimating the Potential Effect of Multi-Market Contact on the Intensity of Competition (joint w/Dalia Shilian & Daniel D. Blanga)
10/15 (Thursday, 4- 5.30 pm)	Diwakar Raisingh	UW-Madison	The Effect of Pre-announcements on Participation and Bidding in Dynamic Auctions (Job Market Practice Talk)
10/20 (Tuesday, 4- 5.30 pm)	Phoebe Tian	UW-Madison	The Role of Long-Term Contracting in Business Lending (Job Market Practice Talk)
10/21 (Wednesday, 3.30 - 5 pm)	Chen Zheng	UW-Madison	Unintended Consequences of Policy Interventions: Evidence from Home Affordable Refinance Program (Job Market Practice Talk)
10/22 (Thursday, 4- 5.30 pm)	Dan McLeod	UW-Madison	Structural Remedies During Recession in the Airline Industry: Are Economies of Density Strong Enough? (Job Market Practice Talk)
10/23 (Friday, 3.30 - 5 pm)	~~Renata Gaineddenova~~	UW-Madison	~~Job Market Practice Talk~~
10/27 (Tuesday, 4- 5.30 pm)	Andrey Zubanov	UW-Madison	The TV Advertising Market: Demographic Segmentation and the Impact of Viewership Decline (Job Market Practice Talk)
10/28	Jihye Jeon	Boston University	Endogenous Information and Simplifying Insurance Choice
10/29 (Thursday, 4- 5.30 pm)	Lu Liao	UW-Madison	Advertising Incentives of National Brands against Private Labels (Job Market Practice Talk)
11/11	Laura Grigolon	University of Mannheim	Stigma as a Barrier to Adoption of Innovation
11/18	Nicola Pavanini	Tilburg University	The Value of “New” and “Old” Intermediation in Online Debt Crowdfunding

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
3/4	Gautam Gowrisankaran	NBER	Reclassification Risk in the Small Group Health Insurance Market
3/11	~~Thomas Holmes~~	University of Minnesota	~~Alliances and Scale Economies in Ocean Shipping~~
3/25	~~Giovanni Compiani~~	UC-Berkeley	~~A Method to Estimate Discrete Choice Models that is Robust to Consumer Search~~
4/8	~~Julie Mortimer~~	Boston College
4/15	~~Pierre Dubois~~	Toulouse School of Economics	~~Bargaining and International Reference Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Industry~~
4/22	~~Jihye Jeon~~	Boston University
4/29	~~John Lazarev~~	UPenn
5/6	~~Alon Eizenberg~~	Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
9/11	Marc Rysman	Boston University	Demand for Performance Goods: Import Quotas in the Chinese Movie Market
10/9	Robert Town	UT-Austin	Optimal Managed Competition Subsidies
10/16	Ying Fan	University of Michigan	Firms and Collective Reputation: a Study of the Volkswagen Emissions Scandal
10/23	Giulia Brancaccio	Cornell	Efficiency in Decentralized Transport Markets
10/30	Yue Qiu	UW-Madison
11/13	Yu Ding	UW-Madison	Consolidation for Cost Savings? Hospital Mergers and Service Repositioning
11/20: CANCELED	Adam Smith	UW-Madison	Product Visibility on Digital Goods Platforms
12/4 (4:00-5:30 p.m)	Ignacio Cuesta	Stanford	Price Regulation in Credit Markets: A Trade-off between Consumer Protection and Credit Access
12/11 (4:00-5:30 p.m)	Christopher Neilson	Princeton	Approximating the Equilibrium Effects of Informed School Choice

Date	Speaker	Institution	Presentation Title
3/13	Adam Dearing	Ohio State	Pseudo-Value Functions and Closed-Form CCP Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models
3/27	Alejandro Molnar	Vanderbilt	The Marginal Congestion of a Taxi in New York City
4/3	Joel Waldfogel	University of Minnesota	Personalized Pricing on Campus
4/10	Andrew Sweeting	University of Maryland	Dynamic Oligopoly Pricing with Asymmetric Information
4/17	Dan Goetz	University of Toronto	Dynamic Bargaining and Scale Effects in the Broadband Industry
4/24	Lauren Bergquist	University of Michigan	Pass-through, Competition, and Entry in Agricultural Markets: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
5/1	Brad Larsen	Stanford
5/13	Daniel Xu	Duke	Notching R&D Investment with Corporate Income Tax Cuts in China