IO+ Conference
In recent years, economists have started applying the tools of industrial organization to an ever-growing set of industries. This conference showcased how the IO canonical concepts of demand, supply, imperfect competition, and strategic interactions can be applied to a broad set of general markets and economic questions, such as housing markets, school competition, environmental regulation, and health care.
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Agenda
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Continental Breakfast
Opening Remarks
Environmental Session
Jonathan Elliott, Johns Hopkins University (Session Chair)
Cows and Trees
Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues, University of Toronto
Regulating conglomerates in China: Evidence from an Energy Conservation Program
Daniel Yi Xu, Duke University
Break
Health Session
Stuart Craig, Yale University (Session Chair)
The Dynamic Effects of Health Care Price Reform
The Power of Exclusion: Pharmacy Networks and Bargaining in Medicare Part D
Lunch
Room 602
Spatial Session
Non-Payment and Eviction in the Rental Housing Market
Biased Beliefs and Search in Education Markets
Distributional Impacts of the Changing Retail Landscape
Break
Keynote Discussion: Unobserved Heterogeneity, State Dependence and Health Plan Choices
Ariel Pakes, Harvard University (Speaker)
Friday, September 22, 2023
Continental Breakfast
Development Session
Diego Jimènez Hernández, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Session Chair)
Relational Collusion in the Colombia Electricity Market
Rocco Macchiavello, London School of Economics
Private and Public Transit: Evidence from Lagos
Dan Bjorkegren, Brown University
Break
Keynote Discussion: Explaining Early Bidding in Informationally Restricted Ascending Bid Auctions
John Rust, Georgetown University (Speaker)
Lunch
Room 601
Marketing Session
Wesley Hartmann, Stanford University (Session Chair)
Pro-Social Change for the Most Challenging: Marketing and Testing Harm Reduction for Conservation
Kristina Brecko, University of Rochester
Valuing Solar Subsidies
Bryan Bollinger, New York University