Federal Trade Commission and Northwestern University Microeconomics Conference, November 18-19, 2010

Posted by D. Daniel Sokol

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Thursday, November 18
8:30 a.m.	Registration
9:00 a.m.	Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:15 a.m.	Keynote Address Roman Inderst, University of Frankfurt
9:45 a.m.	Panel Session One: Disclosures and Informed Consumer Choice Chaired by Tim Daniel, Federal Trade Commission
10:45 a.m.	Morning Break
11:05 a.m.	Paper Session One: Topics in Empirical IO   Chaired by Aviv Nevo, Northwestern University
	Matthew Gentzkow (University of Chicago), The Evolution of Brand Preferences: Evidence from Consumer Migration
	Kate Ho (Columbia University), Physician Responses to Financial Incentives: Evidence from Hospital Discharge Data
	Nathan Miller (Department of Justice), Competition Among Spatially Differentiated Firms: An Empirical Model with an Application to Cement
12:35 p.m.	Lunch
1:10 p.m.	Keynote Address David Laibson, Harvard University
1:40 p.m.	Paper Session Two: Inattentive Consumers Chaired by David Laibson, Harvard University
	Michael Grubb (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management), Penalty Pricing: Optimal Price Posting Regulation with Inattentive Consumers
	Jonathan Zinman (Dartmouth College), Limited and Varying Consumer Attention: Evidence from Shocks to the Salience of Overdraft Fees
	Nicola Lacetera (University of Toronto), Heuristic Thinking and Limited Attention in the Car Market
3:10 p.m	Afternoon Break
3:30 p.m.	Paper Session Three: Consumer Choice in New Markets Chaired by Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University School of Management
	Dirk Bergemann (Yale University), Targeting: Implications for Offline vs. Online Media Competition
	Steven Puller (Texas A&M University), Power to Choose: An Analysis of Consumer Behavior in the Texas Retail Electricity Market
	Eugenio Miravete (University of Texas at Austin), Sinking, Swimming or Learning to Swim in Medicare Park D
5:00 p.m.	Close
Friday, November 19
9:00 a.m.	Keynote Address   Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University School of Management
9:30 a.m.	Paper Session Four: Theory of Industrial Organization Chaired by Roman Inderst, University of Frankfurt
	Heski Bar-Isaac (New York University), Search, Design, and Market Structure
	Patrick DeGraba (Federal Trade Commission), Naked Exclusion by a Dominant Supplier: Exclusive Contracting and Loyalty Discounts
	Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim), Merger Policy with Merger Choice
11:00 a.m.	Morning Break
11:20 a.m.	Keynote Address Aviv Nevo, Northwestern University
11:50 p.m.	Panel Session Two: Merger Retrospectives Chaired by Aviv Nevo, Northwestern University
	Orley Ashenfelter, Princeton University
	Lanier Benkard, Yale University
	John Kwoka, Northeastern University
	Christopher Taylor, Federal Trade Commission
12:50 p.m.	Close