The Fourth Annual Microeconomics Conference
Participant Papers & Presentations
| Welcome and Opening Remarks Joe Farrell, Federal Trade Commission |
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Keynote Address Aviv Nevo, Northwestern University |
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| Panel Session One: Economics of Consumer Financial Protection | ||
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Chaired by Janis Pappalardo, Federal Trade Commission | |
| [Presentation] | Daniel Becker, Federal Trade Commission | |
| [Presentation] | Jesse Leary, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | |
| [Presentation] | Jeremy Tobacman, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School | |
| Paper Session One: Empirical Analysis of Mortgage Markets | ||
| Chaired by Aviv Nevo, Northwestern University | ||
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Itzhak Ben-David (Ohio State University), High Leverage and Willingness to Pay: Evidence from the Residential Housing Market | |
| Discussant: Karen Pence (Federal Reserve Board of Governors) | ||
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Sean Chu (Federal Reserve Board of Governors), Adverse or maybe not-so-adverse selection in the Commercial Mortgage-Backed Security Market | |
| [Presentation] | Discussant: Ron Borzekowski (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) | |
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Jean-Francois Houde (UW-Madison), Price Negotiation in Differentiated Product Markets: The Case of Insured Mortgages in Canada | |
| [Presentation] | Discussant: Kenneth Brevoort (Federal Reserve Board of Governors) | |
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Keynote Address David Dranove, Northwestern University - Kellogg |
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| Paper Session Two: Economics of Antitrust | ||
| Chaired by David Dranove, Northwestern University - Kellogg | ||
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Matthew Grennan (University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management), Price Discrimination and Bargaining: Empirical Evidence from Medical Devices | |
| [Presentation] | Discussant: Bob Town (University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School) | |
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Sonia Jaffe (Harvard University), The First-Order Approach to Merger Analysis | |
| [Presentation] | Discussant: Cory Capps (Bates White) | |
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Thomas Jeitschko (Department of Justice), Patent Pools and Product Development: Perfect complements revisited | |
| [Presentation] | Discussant: Jay Pil Choi (Michigan State University) | |
| Paper Session Three: Consumer Decision-Making and Seller Incentives | ||
| Chaired by Nancy Rose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
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Matthew Osborne (Bureau of Economic Analysis), Cellular Service Demand: Tariff Choice, Usage Uncertainty, Biased Beliefs, and Learning | |
| [Presentation] | Discussant: Eugenio Miravete (University of Texas at Austin) | |
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Henry Schneider (Cornell), Do Bidders on Ebay Have Nonstandard Preferences? | |
| [Presentation] | Discussant: John Asker (New York University) | |
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Mara Lederman (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto), Do Firms Game Quality Ratings? Evidence from Mandatory Disclosure of Airline On-Time Performance | |
| [Presentation] | Discussant: Jeff Prince (Indiana University, Kelley School of Business) | |
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Keynote Address Nancy Rose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| Paper Session Four: Economics of Advertising Markets | ||
| Chaired by Mark Armstrong, University College London | ||
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Joshua Gans (University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management), The Impact of the Internet on Advertising Markets for News Media | |
| [Presentation] | Discussant: Glen Weyl (University of Chicago) | |
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Charlie Gibbons (University of California, Berkeley), Firm Strategy in Contextual Advertising Auctions | |
| [Presentation] | Discussant: Jidong Zhou (NYU – Stern) | |
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Minjae Song (Rochester University - Simon Business School), Estimating Platform Market Power in Two-Sided Markets with an Application to Magazine Advertising | |
| [Presentation] | Discussant: Ginger Jin (Maryland) | |
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Keynote Address Mark Armstrong, University of Oxford |
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| Panel Session Two: Personalized Medicine | ||
| Chaired by Christopher Garmon (Federal Trade Commission) | ||
| [Presentation] | Adam Clark, MedTran Health Strategies | |
| [Presentation] | Clark Nardinelli, Food and Drug Administration | |
| [Presentation] | Mark Trusheim, MIT Sloan School of Management | |