The 2007 CSIO/IDEI Conference on Industrial Organization
September 7-8, 2007

All presentations are in Jacobs Center G-45. The format of paper presentations will be: (i) 50
minutes for presenter (ii) 10 minutes for discussant (iii) 15 minutes for questions led by presenter

Friday September 7

            8:00 - 8:40      Coffee

            8:40 - 8:45      Mike Whinston Welcome

            8:45-10:00      Bruno Jullien, “Designing a Two-Sided Platform: When to Increase Search Costs?”

                                    Discussant: Bill Rogerson

            10:00-11:15    Mark Satterthwaite “Learning-by-Doing, Organizational Forgetting, and Industry Dynamics” (with David Besanko, Ulrich Doraszelski, and Yaroslav Kryukov)

                                    Discussant: Stéphane Villeneuve

            11:15-11:45    Coffee Break

            11:45-1:00      Bruno Biais “Equilibrium Discovery and Preplay Communication in An Experimental Market” (with Sebastien Pouget and Christophe Bisiere)

                                    Discussant: Ernesto Reuben

            1:00 - 2:30      Lunch

            2:30-3:45        Mike Whinston “Dynamic Merger Policy” (with Volker Nocke)

                                    Discussant: Patrick Rey

            3:45- 4:15       Coffee Break

            4:15- 5:30       Ron Siegel “All Pay Contests”

Discussant: Jacques Crémer

            6:30                Dinner

Saturday September 8

            8:00 - 8:30      Coffee

            8:30- 9:45       Jacques Crémer, “The Value of Switching Costs“ (with Gary Biglaiser and Gergely Dobos)

                                    Discussant: Eric Anderson

            9:45 - 11:00    Igal Hendel “The Relative Performance of Real Estate Marketing Platforms: MLS versus FSBOMadison.com” (with Aviv Nevo and Francois Ortalo-Magne)

                                    Discussant: Pierre Dubois

            11:00-11:30    Coffee Break

            11:30- 12:45   Patrick Rey “On the Design of Leniency Programs” (with Zhijun Chen)

Discussant: Rob Porter

            12:45              Lunch

            Social event