Thursday, August 24
| Time | Session / Event |
|---|---|
| 10:00 – 13:00 | Registration |
| 13:00 – 13:15 | Welcome Address |
| 13:15 – 14:30 | Keynote – Ali Hortaçsu |
| 14:45 – 16:15 | Parallel I & Invited I |
| 16:15 – 16:45 | Coffee Break |
| 16:45 – 18:15 | Parallel II & Invited II |
| 18:15 – 19:30 | Welcome Reception |
Friday, August 25
| Time | Session / Event |
|---|---|
| 09:30 – 11:00 | Parallel III & Invited III |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Parallel IV & Invited IV |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:15 | Roundtable IO Journal Editors |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | Parallel V |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 – 18:00 | Keynote – Panel |
| 18:00 – 18:30 | EARIE General Assembly |
| 20:00 – 22:30 | Conference Dinner |
Saturday, August 26
| Time | Session / Event |
|---|---|
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Parallel VI & Invited V |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 12:15 | Keynote Paul Heidhues |
| 12:15 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | ERC Funding Panel |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Parallel VII & Invited VI |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Parallel VIII |
Keynote Speakers
Ali Hortaçsu
University of Chicago
Title: Organizations and Firm Behavior
Chair: Pierre Dubois
Paul Heidhues
Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE),
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Title: Regulation in Economies with Limited Consumer Attention (joint work with J. Johnen (UC Louvain) and B. Kőszegi (briq)
Chair: Natalia Fabra
Plenary Panel: Frontiers in Merger Analysis and Policy
Chair: Elisabetta Iossa, Commissioner, Italian Competition Authority, Full Professor of Economics (On leave) Dept of Economics and Finance, University of Rome Tor Vergata;
Panellists:
Chiara Fumagalli
Bocconi University, Milan
Patrick Rey
Toulouse School of Economics
Hans Zenger
DG Competition (European Commission)
Invited Sessions
Invited I
Theory
Chair: Jeanine Miklos-Thal
Simon Loertscher (University of Melbourne)
Ramsey pricing revisited (with Ellen Muir)
Nicolas Schutz (University of Mannheim)
Merger Analysis with IIA Demand (with Volker Nocke)
Invited II
Data, Privacy, Competition
Chair: Chiara Fumagalli
Alessandro Bonatti (MIT)
How Do Digital Advertising Auctions Impact Product Prices?
(with Dirk Bergemann, Nicholas Wu)
Jacopo Perego (Columbia University)
Competitive Markets for Personal Data
Invited III
IO/Health
Chair: Laura Lasio
Anders Munk-Nielsen (University of Copenhagen)
Markups on Drop-Downs: Prominence in Pharmaceutical Markets
James Roberts (Duke University)
Regulation and Litigation in Health Care Fraud: the Case of Dialysis
Invited IV
IO/Finance
Chair: Ulrich Hege
Alessandro Gavazza (London School of Economics)
Mortgage Pricing and Monetary Policy
Milena Wittwer (Boston College)
Intermediary Market Power and Capital Constraints
Invited V
Digital
Chair: Bruno Jullien
Ginger Zhe Jin (University of Maryland)
The Effects of Short-term Rental Regulation: Insights from Chicago (with Liad Wagman and Mengyi Zhong)
Giacomo Calzolari (European University Institute)
Artificial intelligence, algorithmic recommendations, and competition
Invited VI
Procurement/Auctions
Chair: Estelle Cantillon
Rodrigo Carril (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Centralized Procurement: the Role of Scale, Selection, and Preference Heterogeneity
Marleen Marra (Science Po Paris)
Spatial Rents, Garage Location, and Competition in the London Bus Market (with Florian Oswald)
Roundtable with the IO Journal Editors
Chair: Larry White (NYU)
Giacomo Calzolari and Ginger Zhe Jin (International Journal of Industrial Organization)
Vincenzo Denicolò (Journal of Economics and Management Strategy)
Alessandro Gavazza (RAND Journal of Economics)
Matthew Mitchell (Journal of Industrial Economics)
Larry White (Review of Industrial Organization)
ERC Funding Panel
Chair: Jerko Markovina
Panellists: Jerko Markovina, Natalia Fabra, Alessandro Gavazza, Sandro Shelegia
The ERC presents a great opportunity for economists to fund their research. This panel, chaired by Jerko Markovina, from the ERC SH1 panel, offers an opportunity to learn more about the application and selection process, while receiving first-hand experience from panel members and successful ERC grant holders.