Saturday October 18

8:15-8:45          CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:45-10:00        Gopal Das Varma (Duke; with James Anton)
                        “Storability, Market Structure, and Demand-Shift Incentives”
                           Discussant:  David McAdams (MIT)

10:00-10:15          BREAK

10:15–11:30      Biglaiser, G. (Univ. of North Carolina; with Nikolaos Vettas),
                        “Dynamic Price Competition with Capacity Constraints and Strategic Buyers”
                           Discussant: Dennis Yao (Wharton School, Univ. of Pennsylvania)

11:30-12:45       Glenn Ellison (MIT), “A Model of Add-On Pricing”
                              Discussant: Preston McAfee (UT - Austin)

12:45–2:15        CONFERENCE LUNCH (Allen Center)

2:15-4:00           Lucia Quesada (with Eloic Peyrache), “Strategic Certification”
                              Discussant: Alessandro Lizzeri (NYU)

4:00-4:15           BREAK

4:15-5:30           Luis Rayo (Chicago GSB), “Monopolistic Signal Provision”
                              Discussant:  Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern)
 

7:30                  CONFERENCE DINNER (Davis St. Fish Market)
 
 
 
 

Sunday October 19
 

8:30-9:00         CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
 

9:00-10:15       Volker Nocke (Penn; with Lucy White),
                       “Do Vertical Mergers Facilitate Upstream Collusion?”
                           Discussant: Ray Deneckere (Wisconsin)

10:15-10:30       BREAK

10:30-11:45     Yongmin Chen (Colorado; with Michael Riordan),
                       “Vertical Integration, Exclusive Dealing, and Ex Post Cartelization”
                           Discussant:  Dan O’Brien (FTC)
 
 

Click here for road map showing the way from Hilton Garden Inn to Jacob Center, NWU and floor map showing the way to conference room (Jacob Center, room 1246) from Foster/Sheridan entrance.