2025 IO+ Conference
In recent years, economists have begun to apply the tools of industrial organization (IO) to an ever-growing set of industries. This conference will showcase how canonical IO concepts like supply, demand, 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.
This conference is by invitation only. Please contact bfi-events@uchicago.edu if you have any questions.
Agenda
Registration and Breakfast
6th Floor Lounge
Opening Remarks
Milena Almagro, University of Chicago
Jacob Conway, University of Chicago
Malika Korganbekova, University of Chicago
Eric Richert, University of Chicago
Political Economy Session
Michael Sinkinson, Northwestern University (Session Chair)
Market Power and Political Power: Is there a “Curse of Bigness”?
Tommaso Valletti, Imperial College
Break
Trade Sanctions
Alexey Makarin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lunch
1st Floor Dining Room
Marketing Session
Guy Aridor, Northwestern University
Andrey Simonov, Columbia University
Break
Yufeng Huang, University of Rochester
Break
Environmental Session
Luming Chen, University of Michigan (Session Chair)
Optimal Second-best Menu Design: Evidence from Residential Electricity Plans
Nicholas Vreugdenhil, Arizona State University
Conference Dinner
By invitation only
Breakfast
6th Floor Lounge
Keynote
Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University (Speaker)
Sam Goldberg, Stanford University (Session Chair)
Break
Health Session 1
Catherine Ishitani, Yale University (Session Chair)
Anatomy of Hospital Quality in Treating Covid-19: Variation and its Consequences
Gautam Gowrisankaran, Columbia University
Lunch
1st Floor Dining Room
Health Session 2
Catherine Ishitani, Yale University (Session Chair)
Michael Dickstein, New York University
Break
Benjamin Vatter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology