EIEF-Unibo-IGIER Fourth Workshop in Industrial Organization

Preliminary program

December 18, 2014

14:00 – 14:45 Consumer Valuation of Fuel Costs and the Effectiveness of Tax Policy – Evidence from the European Car Market
by Laura Grigolon* (McMaster University), Mathias Reynaert (University of Leuven and University of Antwerp), Frank Verboven (University of Leuven and CEPR).

14:45 – 15:30 Optimal Cartel Prices in Two-Sided Markets
by Federico Boffa (Free University of Bolzano) and Lapo Filistrucchi University of Florence and Tilburg University).

15:30 – 16:15 The Role of Reputation when Awarding Contracts: Empirical Evidence from a Vendor Rating System
by Francesco Decarolis* (Boston University), Riccardo Pacini (Agenzia del Demanio) and Giancarlo Spagnolo (Stockholm School of Economics, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” and CEPR).

16:15 – 16:45 Coffee break

16:45 – 17:30 Selling Experiments: Menu Pricing of Information
by Dirk Bergemann (Yale University), Alessandro Bonatti* (MIT Sloan) and Alex Smolin (Yale University).

17:30 – 18:15 Green Cars Adoption and the Geography of Supply of Alternative Fuels
by Giulia Pavan* (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” and EIEF).

20:00 – 22:00 Conference dinner

December 19, 2014

8:45 – 9:30 The Strategic Value of Partial Vertical Integration
by Raffaele Fiocco* (University of Mannheim).

9:30 – 10:15 Entry and Patenting in the Pharmaceutical Industry
by Maria Letizia Giorgetti* (Università degli studi di Milano and Catholic University of Milan) and Maria Luisa Mancusi (Catholic University of Milan and Crios-Bocconi).

10:15 -11:00 Time Scarcity and the Market for News
by Larbi Alaoui (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE) and Fabrizio Germano* (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE).

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30- 12:15 Identifying Industry Margins with Unobserved Price Constraints: Structural Estimation on Pharmaceuticals
by Pierre Dubois (Toulouse School of Economics) and Laura Lasio* (Toulouse School of Economics).

12:15–13:00 Simultaneous First-Price Auctions with Preferences over Combinations: Identification and Application
by Matthew Gentry (LSE), Tatiana Komarova (LSE) and Pasquale Schiraldi* (LSE and CEPR).

13:00 – 14:00 Box lunch