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The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics and the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University will host the 17th Annual FTC Microeconomics Conference on November 14 and 15, 2024 in Washington, D.C. This event will bring together scholars working in areas related to the FTC’s antitrust, consumer protection, and public policy missions. This will be an in-person event with a live stream for those who want to view remotely.

The Scientific Committee for the conference is:

  • Allan Collard-Wexler (Duke University)
  • Zack Cooper (Yale University)
  • Pinar Yildirim (University of Pennsylvania)

Organizers: Viola Chen (FTC) and Samuel Kleiner (FTC)

Staff Contact: Stephanie Aaron (BE-Micro@ftc.gov)

Sponsors

This conference is sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics and the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University.

Registration

Pre-registration is now closed. Registration will still be available on-site for those who still wish to attend. For those who wish to participate virtually, webcast information is posted. For those of you who have already registered, we will use your email address to contact you with information about the conference and will share your name and email address with the conference co-sponsors. The FTC Act and other laws we administer permit the collection of your pre-registration contact information and the comments you file to consider and use in this proceeding as appropriate. For additional information, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, see the Commission’s system for mailing lists. For more details, please see the FTC Privacy Policy.

Attending the Workshop

The conference is free and open to the public. Please arrive early with enough time to go through security. The security processing will include a metal detector and X-ray screening of all hand carried items. You must have a valid government issued photo ID (government badge, license, passport, etc.). The conference will follow the AEA’s code of professional conduct, and requires presenters to adhere to AEA disclosure policies. These disclosures will be included in the presenters' bios.

  • Agenda

    Thursday, November 14

    8:30 a.m.

    Registration
    9:00 a.m.

    Welcome

    Aviv Nevo (Federal Trade Commission)
    9:15 a.m.

    Paper Session- Chaired by Allan Collard-Wexler (Duke University)

    Driving the Drivers: Algorithmic Assignment in Ride-Hailing
    Yanyou Chen (University of Toronto)
    co-authored with Yao Luo (University of Toronto) and Zhe Yuan (Zhejiang University)
    Discussant: Nick Buchholz (Princeton University)

    Dynamic Monopsony with Large Firms and Noncompetes
    Gregor Jarosch (Duke University and NBER)
    co-authored with Axel Gottfries (University of Edinburgh)
    Discussant: Heski Bar-Isaac (University of Toronto, Competition Bureau Canada, and CEPR)
    10:45 a.m.

    Break
    11:15 a.m.

    Keynote Address, “Oligopsony and Collective Bargaining”

    Allan Collard-Wexler (Duke University)
    11:55 a.m.

    Lunch
    1:00 p.m.

    Paper Session - Chaired by Viola Chen and Samuel Kleiner (FTC)

    What Makes Players Pay? An Empirical Investigation of In-Game Lotteries
    Andrey Simonov (Columbia Business School and CEPR)
    co-authored with Tomomichi Amano (Harvard Business School)
    Discussant: Fabliha Ibnat (Federal Trade Commission)

    Adverse Selection and (un)Natural Monopoly in Insurance Markets
    Mark Shepard (Harvard and NBER)
    co-authored with Edward Kong (Harvard University) and Timothy J. Layton (UVA and NBER)
    Discussant: Andrew Ching (Johns Hopkins University)
    2:30 p.m.

    Break
    2:50 p.m.

    Keynote Address, “Effects of Automation in the Workplace”

    Pinar Yildirim (University of Pennsylvania)
    3:30 p.m.

    Break
    3:50 p.m.

    Paper Session - Chaired by Pinar Yildirim (University of Pennsylvania)

    Balancing User Privacy and Personalization
    Malika Korganbekova (Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management)
    co-authored with Cole Zuber (Wayfair LLC)
    Discussant: Ginger Jin (University of Maryland)

    Clause and Effect: Theory and Field Experimental Evidence on Noncompete Clauses.
    Evan Starr (University of Maryland)
    co-authored with Bo Cowgill (Columbia University) and Brandon Freiberg (Columbia University)
    Discussant: Ananya Sen (Carnegie Mellon University)
    5:20 p.m.

    Hors d’oeuvres Reception

    Sponsored by the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University
    6:30 p.m.

    First Day of Conference Concludes

    Friday, November 15

    8:45 a.m.

    Registration
    9:00 a.m.

    Welcome

    Steven Berry (Yale University)
    9:15 a.m.

    Paper Session - Chaired by Zack Cooper (Yale University)

    Labor and Product Market Effects of Mergers
    Miriam Larson-Koester (Federal Trade Commission)
    co-authored with Daniel Hosken (Federal Trade Commission) and Charles Taragin (Federal Reserve Board)
    Discussant: Elena Prager (University of Rochester and NBER)

    Vertical Integration and Plan Design in Healthcare Markets
    Benjamin Vatter (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    co-authored with José Ignacio Cuesta (Stanford University and NBER) and Carlos Noton (PUC-Chile)
    Discussant: Shoshana Vasserman (Stanford University)
    10:45 a.m.

    Break
    11:15 a.m.

    Keynote Address, “Health Care Consolidation, Labor Markets, and Inequality”

    Zack Cooper (Yale University)
    11:55 a.m.

    Conference Concludes

FTC Privacy Policy

Under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) or other laws, we may be required to disclose to outside organizations the information you provide when you pre-register for events that require registration. The Commission will consider all timely and responsive public comments, whether filed in paper or electronic form, and as a matter of discretion, we make every effort to remove home contact information for individuals from the public comments before posting them on the FTC website.

The FTC Act and other laws we administer permit the collection of your pre-registration contact information and the comments you file to consider and use in this proceeding as appropriate. For additional information, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, see the Commission’s Privacy Act system for public records and comprehensive privacy policy.

This event will be open to the public and may be photographed, videotaped, webcast, or otherwise recorded.  By participating in this event, you are agreeing that your image — and anything you say or submit — may be posted indefinitely at ftc.gov or on one of the Commission's publicly available social media sites.

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