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20th Annual Berkeley-Columbia-Duke-MIT-Northwestern IO Theory Conference

The Departments of Economics and Business Schools at Columbia, Duke, and MIT, the Gilbert Center at Berkeley, and Center for the Study of Industrial Organization (CSIO) at Northwestern announce the twentieth in a series of annual jointly-sponsored conferences focusing primarily on theoretical work in industrial organization. The conference is intended to serve as a forum for presentation and discussion of current research on theoretical industrial organization, with a special emphasis on work by younger scholars.

Program

Dates:
Friday, November 10th to Saturday, November 11th, 2023

Location:

Kellogg Global Hub
2211 Campus Drive, Room 1410
Evanston, IL 60208

Friday, November 10th

Session 1

Emanuel Tarantino, LUISS, “Market Segmentation, Information Sale, and Information Foreclosure” (with Stefan Terstiege and Adrien Vigier)

Discussant: Quitze Valenzuela-Stookey, UC Berkeley

Session 2
Presentations by JIE Fellows

Frank Yang, Stanford, “Nested Bundling”

Tan Gan, Yale, “From Doubt to Devotion: Trials and Learning-Based Pricing”

Maren Vairo, Northwestern, “What Type of Transparency in OTC Markets?”

Carl-Christian Groh, University of Bonn, “Search, Data, and Market Power”

Session 3
In Honor of Tracy R. Lewis

Remarks by Pino Lopomo, Duke

Session 4

Martino Banchio, Google Research, “Artificial Intelligence and Spontaneous Collusion” (with Giacomo Mantegazza)

Discussant: Justin Johnson, Cornell

Session 5

Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, UCLA, “Experimentation in Networks” (with Simon Board)

Discussant: Alessandro Bonatti, MIT

Session 6

Beixi Zhou, University of Pittsburgh, “Optimal Disclosure Windows”

Discussant: Erik Madsen, NYU

Saturday, November 11th, 2023

Session 7

Ellen Muir, Harvard University, “Optimal Hotelling Auctions” (with Simon Loertscher)

Discussant: Yingni Guo, Northwestern

Session 8

Arijit Mukherjee, Michigan State University, “‘Sherlocking’ and Platform Information Policy” (with Jay Pil Choi and Kyungmin Kim)

Discussant: Yossi Spiegel, Tel Aviv University

Session 9

Chiara Margaria, Boston University, “Dynamic Signaling in Wald Options” (with Doruk Cetemen)

Discussant: Laura Doval, Columbia University