5th Annual Duke/Northwestern/Texas
IO Theory Conference

Sat/Sun Sept. 30 - Oct. 1, 2006

Jacobs Center, Room 1246

Friday September 29

7:30 - 9:30                  RECEPTION

Saturday September 30

8:30 - 9:15                  CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

9:15 - 10:30                 Jeff Campbell (Federal Reserve Bank; with Jaap Abbring), “Last-in First-Out Oligopoly Dynamics"

                                   Discussant: Tom Holmes ( Univ. of Minnesota )

10:30 - 10:45              BREAK

10:45 - 12:00              Kai-Uwe Kuhn and Michael Rimler (Univ. of Michigan and Xavier University), “The Comparative Statics of Collusion Models

                                   Discussant: Volker Nocke (Univ. of Pennsylvania and Oxford Univ.)

12:00 - 1:30                LUNCH

1:30 - 2:45                  Heiko Gerlach (Univ. of Auckland), “Stochastic Market Sharing, Partial Communication, and Collusion

                                   Discussant: Joe Harrington (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

2:45 - 4:00                  William Fuchs (Univ. of Chicago; with Andrej Skrzypacz), “Bargaining with Arrival of New Traders or New  Information

                                   Discussant: Tom Wiseman (Univ. of Texas, Austin)

4:00 - 4:15                  BREAK

4:15 - 5:30                  Sergei Severinov (Duke; with Yeon-Koo Che), “On the Value of Legal Representation

                                   Discussant: Andrew Daughety (Vanderbilt)

7:30                            CONFERENCE DINNER

 

Sunday October 1

8:00 - 8:30                  CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:30 - 9:45                  Wouter Dessein (Univ. of Chicago ; with Ricardo Alonso amd Niko Matouschek), “When Does Coordination Require Centralization?

                                   Discussant: Paul Milgrom (Stanford)

9:45 - 10:00                BREAK

10:00 - 12:00              Huanxing Yang (Ohio State Univ.; with Howard Marvel), “Group Purchasing, Nonlinear Tariffs, and Oligopoly

                                   Patrick Greenlee (DOJ; with David Reitman),  “Competing with Loyalty Discounts

                                   Discussants: Patrick Bolton (Columbia) and Dan O'Brien (DOJ)

 

Please note:  Hard copies of the papers will not be provided at the conference.

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