International Industrial Organization Conference Wieboldt Hall ...

IV.E. Competitive Outcomes in Oligopoly Markets
Saturday, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Wieboldt 150
Chair: Mike Mazzeo, Northwestern University
Kellogg School of Management
S4E1
S4E2
S4E3
Randal Watson, University of Texas at Austin
"Product Variety and Competition in the Retail
Market for Eyeglasses"
Discussant: V. Brian Viard, Stanford University
Graduate School of Business
Brian McManus, Washington University Olin School
of Business
"Competition, Insurance, and Quality in the Market
for Advanced Infertility Treatment" (with Bart
Hamilton, Washington University Olin School of
Business)
Discussant: Melayne McInnes, University of South
Carolina
Andrew Cohen, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
"Competition and Deposit Rates: The Effects of
Banks, Thrifts, and Credit Unions" (with Mike
Mazzeo, Northwestern University Kellogg School of
Business)
Discussant: Lanier Benkard, Stanford University
Graduate School of Business
IV.F. Electricity Markets I
Saturday, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Wieboldt 247
Chair: Erin Mansur, Yale School of Management
S4F1
S4F2
Eric Ralph, EKonomics LLC
"Supply Function Equilibria in Electricity Generation
and Transmission" (with Xinmin Hu, CSIRO
Manufacturing and Infastructure Technology, Danny
Ralph, University of Cambridge, Peter Bardsley,
University of Melbourne, and Michael Ferris,
University of Wisconsin)
Discussant: Chloe Le Coq, Stockholm School of
Economics
Timothy Brennan, University of Maryland Baltimore
County
"Preventing Monopoly or Discouraging Competition?
The Perils of Price-Cost Tests for Market Power in
Electricity"
Discussant: Erin Mansur, Yale School of
Management
IV.G. New Data and Techniques in Demand
Estimation
Saturday, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Wieboldt 203
Chair: Christopher Adams, U. S. Federal Trade
Commission
S4G1
S4G2
S4G3
Michael Sandfort, U. S. Department of Justice
"Merger Simulation in an Asymmetric Procurement
Auction with Censored Bid Data"
Discussant: Cory Capps, Northwestern University
Kellogg School of Management
George Deltas, University of Illinois
"Demand Estimation Using Binary Regression
Quantiles" (with Gregory Kordas, University of
Pennsylvania)
Discussant: Daniel Hoskin, U. S. Federal Trade
Commission
Christopher Adams, U. S. Federal Trade Commission
"Digital Demand: The Demand for Digital Cameras
on eBay" (with William Vogt, Carnegie Mellon
University)
Discussant: Unjy Song, University of Wisconsin
IV.H. Media Markets: The Impact of New Technology
Saturday, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Wieboldt 207
Chair: Juergen Bitzer, Free University Berlin
S4H1
S4H2
S4H3
David Waterman, Indiana University
"The Effects of Techological Change on the Quality
and Variety of Information Products"
Discussant: Fabio Manenti, Universita di Padova
Ibrahiim Bayaan, Emory University
"Technology and the Music Industry: Effects on
Profits, Variety, and Welfare"
Discussant: Juergen Bitzer, Free University Berlin
David Blackburn, Harvard University
"The Distribution Effects of File Sharing: The
Recorded Music Industry"
Discussant: Richard Schmidtke, University of
Munich
S4F3
Chloe Le Coq, Stockholm School of Economics
"Long-Term Supply Contracts and Collusion in the
Electricity Market"
Discussant: Ujjayant Chakrovorty, Emory University
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