Third Workshop in Industrial Organization

Bocconi University
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EIEF-IGIER-UNIVERSITA' DI BOLOGNA
 Third Workshop in Industrial Organization

December 16-17, 2013, Università Bocconi
via Roentgen 1, Milano, 5th floor, seminar room 5-E4-Sr04

Participation is by invitation only

program

December 16, 2013

14:30 – 15:10 Monopolistic Competition when Income Matters by Paolo Bertoletti (University of Pavia) and Federico Etro* (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)

15:10 – 15:50 Asymmetric Information and Imperfect Competition in the Loan Market by Gregory S. Crawford (University of Zürich), Nicola Pavanini* (University of Zürich) and Fabiano Schivardi (LUISS-Eief)

15:50 – 16:30 Certifier Competition and Product Quality by Jacopo Bizzotto (Boston University)

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 – 17:40 A Quantitative Analysis of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs by Manolis Galenianos (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Alessandro Gavazza* (London School of Economics)

17:40 – 18:20 Innovation, Spillovers, and Organizational Change  by  Umberto Garfagnini (ITAM School of Business)

December 17, 2013

8:30 – 9:10 Corruption, Accountability and Efficiency. An Application to Municipal Solid Waste Services by Graziano Abrate (University of Eastern Piedmont), Federico Boffa* (University of Macerata and Institut d’Economie de Barcelona), Fabrizio Erbetta (University of Eastern Piedmont), and Davide Vannoni (University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto)

9:10 – 9:50  Exclusive contracts and market dominance by Giacomo Calzolari (University of Bologna) and Vincenzo Denicolò* (University of Bologna and University of Leicester)

9:50 -10:30 Price Competition in Two-Sided Markets with Heterogeneous Consumers and Network Effects by Lapo Filistrucchi* (Tilburg University) and Tobias J. Klein (Tilburg University)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 11:40 Estimation of Discrete Games under Weak Assumptions on Information by Lorenzo Magnolfi (Yale University) and Camilla Roncoroni* (Yale University)

11:40 – 12:20 Common Agency and Coordinated Bids in Sponsored Search Auctions
by Francesco Decarolis* (Boston University and Hariri Institute), Maris Goldmanis (University of London) and Antonio Penta (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

 12:20 – 13:00  Flexibility and Collusion with Imperfect Monitoring by Maria Bigoni (University of Bologna), Jan Potters (Tilburg University) and Giancarlo Spagnolo* (SITE-Stockholm School of Economics, Univ. of Tor Vergata)

 

Scientific Committee: Giacomo Calzolari, Chiara Fumagalli, Marco Ottaviani, Andrea Pozzi, Fabiano Schivardi

Local Organization Committee: Chiara Fumagalli and Marco Ottaviani