Programme

Registration and Coffee

Session 1: Information and Banks
Chair: Christos Genakos (Athens University of Economics & Business and CEPR)                                      

Asymmetric Information and Imperfect Competition in Lending Markets
Gregory S. Crawford (University of Zurich and CEPR), *Nicola Pavanini (University of Zurich) and Fabiano Schivardi (Università Bocconi and CEPR)

Discussant: Ralph Koijen (London Business School and CEPR)​

Testing Alternative Learning Theories: Evidence from Subscription Contracts
*Itai Ater (Tel Aviv University) and Vardit Landsman (Tel-Aviv University)

Discussant: Pedro Bordalo (Royal Holloway)

Coffee Break

Session 2: Dynamic Oligopoly
Chair: Aureo de Paula (University College London, Sao Paulo School of Economics and CEPR)

Dynamic Oligopoly with Incomplete Information
Alessandro Bonatti (MIT Sloan School of Management and CEPR), *Gonzalo Cisternas (MIT Sloan School of Management) and Juuso Toikka (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Discussant: John Thanassoulis (Warwick Business School)

Very Simple Markov-Perfect Industry Dynamics
*Jaap H Abbring (Tilburg University and CEPR), Jeffrey R. Campbell (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago), Jan Tilly (University of Pennsylvania) and Nan Yang (National University of Singapore)

Discussant: Martin Pesendorfer (London School of Economics and CEPR)

Session 3: Internet Search
Chair: José Moraga (University of Amsterdam and CEPR)

Consumer Search Costs and Preferences on the Internet
*Grégory Jolivet (University of Bristol) and Hélène Turon (University of Bristol)

Discussant: Sarit Weisburd (Tel Aviv University)

Search platforms: Showrooming and price parity clauses
Chengsi Wang (University of Mannheim) and *Julian Wright (National University of Singapore)

Discussant: Yossi Spiegel (Tel Aviv University and CEPR)

Keynote speaker
*Bruno Jullien (Toulouse School of Economics and CEPR)

Session 4: Relational contracts and Price dynamics
Chair: Alessandro Gavazza (London School of Economics and CEPR)

Supply Assurance, Relational Contracts and Vertical Integration: Evidence from Costa Rica’s Coffee Chain
*Rocco Macchiavello (University of Warwick and CEPR) and Josepa Miguel-Florensa (Toulouse School of Economics)

Discussant: Estelle Cantillon (ECARES and CEPR)

Price Dynamics with Customer Markets
Luigi Paciello (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) and CEPR), *Andrea Pozzi (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) and CEPR) and Nicholas Trachter (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF))

Discussant: Philipp Kircher (University of Edinburgh and CEPR)

Session 5: Innovation
Chair: Otto Toivanen (KU Leuven and CEPR)

Patent Rights and Innovation by small and large firms
Alberto Galasso (University of Toronto and CEPR) and *Mark Schankerman (London School of Economics and CEPR)

Discussant: Philippe Aghion (Harvard University and CEPR)

Antitrust, Patents, and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence from Bell Labs
*Martin Watzinger (University of Munich), Thomas Fackler (Ludwig Maximilians Universität München), Markus Nagler (University of Munich) and Monika Schnitzer (University of Munich and CEPR)

Discussant: John Van Reenen (London School of Economics and CEPR)

Session 6: Competition
Chair: Christian Michel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Delisting of Pharmaceuticals from Insurance Coverage: Effects on Consumption, Pricing and Expenditures in France
*Laura Lasio (McGill University)  

Discussant: Alessandro Iaria (CREST)

Competition, Product Proliferation and Welfare: A Study of the U.S. Smartphone Market
*Ying Fan (University of Michigan) and Chenyu Yang (University of Michigan)

Discussant: Meghan Busse (Northwestern University)

Keynote Speaker
*Jan De Loecker (Princeton University, KU Leuven and CEPR)

Session 7: Multiproduct Firms
Chair: Nikos Vettas (Athens University of Economics & Business and CEPR)

Multiproduct Pricing Made Simple
Mark Armstrong (University of Oxford and CEPR) and *John Vickers (University of Oxford)

Discussant: Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim and CEPR)

Multi-Variety Durable Good Monopoly: A Revisited Coase Conjecture and Product Design
*Francesco Nava (London School of Economics) and Pasquale Schiraldi (London School of Economics and CEPR)

Discussant: Nicolas Schutz (University of Mannheim)​

Session 8: History of IO
Chair: Gregory S. Crawford (University of Zurich and CEPR)

History in the Study of Industrial Organization
*David Genesove (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and CEPR)

Discussant: Rob Porter (Northwestern University​)