The First Annual Microeconomics Conference
Participant Papers & Presentations
| Welcome and Opening Remarks Michael Baye (Federal Trade Commission) Chairman William Kovacic (Federal Trade Commission) |
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| [Presentation] | Introduction by Scott Stern (Northwestern University) |
Panel Session One: Demand Estimation for Merger Cases |
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| [Presentation] | · Mike Vita (Federal Trade Commission) |
| · Aviv Nevo (Northwestern University) | |
| [Presentation] | · Gail Slater (Federal Trade Commission) |
| Paper Session One: Estimating Demand and Pricing Strategies | |
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Alan Sorensen (Stanford University), The Welfare Effects of Ticket Resale |
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Andrew Sweeting (Duke University), Equilibrium Price Dynamics in Perishable Goods Markets: The Case of Secondary Markets for Major League Baseball Tickets |
| Steve Puller (Texas A&M University), Testing Theories of Price Dispersion and Scarcity Pricing in the Airline Industry | |
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| [Presentation] [Paper] | Keynote Address by Carl Shapiro (University of California, Berkeley) |
| Paper Session Two: Field and Lab Experiments | |
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Stephan Meier (Columbia University), Charging Myopically Ahead: Evidence on Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing |
| [Paper] | James Hilger (Federal Trade Commission), Expert Opinion and the Demand for Experience Goods: An Experimental Approach in the Retail Wine Market |
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Cary Deck (University of Arkansas), Price Discrimination with Sequential Purchasing: Theory and Experiments |
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Dean Karlan (Yale University), Put Your Money Where Your Butt Is: A Commitment Savings Account for Smoking Cessation |
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| Paper Session Three: Economics of Antitrust | |
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Michael Waldman (Cornell University), Why Tie a Product Consumers Do Not Use? Explanations-Efficiency, Price Discrimination, and Exclusion |
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| [Paper] | Minjae Song (University of Rochester), Sleeping with the Enemy: Inter-firm Product Combinations |
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Christian Rojas (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), The Role of Information and Monitoring on Collusion |
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| Panel Session Two: Economics of Privacy and Internet Behavior | |
| [Presentation] | · Sue Glueck (Microsoft Corporation) |
| [Presentation] | · Amalia Miller (University of Virginia) |
| [Presentation] | · Pablo Chavez (Google) |
| · Alessandro Acquisti (Carnegie Mellon University) | |
| Keynote Address by Susan Athey (Harvard University) | |
| Paper Session Four: Developments in Demand Estimation | |
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Matthew Weinberg (University of Georgia), An Evaluation of Merger Simulations |
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Jeremy Fox (University of Chicago), Improving the Numerical Performance of BLP Static and Dynamic Discrete Choice Random Coefficients Demand Estimation |
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Katja Seim (University of Pennsylvania), Beyond Plain Vanilla: Modeling Joint Product Assortment and Pricing Decisions |
| Paper Session Five: Economics of Networks and the Internet | |
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David Reiley (University of Arizona), Retail Advertising Works! Measuring the Effects of Advertising on Sales via a Controlled Experiment on Yahoo! |
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| Anindya Ghose (New York University), Modeling and Estimating the Relationship Between Organic and Paid Search Advertising | |
| [Paper] | Günter Hitsch (University of Chicago), Tipping and Concentration in Markets with Indirect Network Effects |
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| [Paper] | Keynote Address by John List (University of Chicago) |