Sat/Sun Nov. 7-8, 2009
Allen Center, Tribune Auditorium
Northwestern University
| Saturday, November 7 | |
| 8:30-9:00am | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00-10:15am | Justin Johnson (Cornell) “Targeted Advertising and Advertising Avoidance” Discussant: Heski Bar-Isaac (New York University) |
| 10:15-11:30am | Alessandro Bonatti (MIT) and Dirk Bergemann (Yale) |
| 11:30-11:45am | Break |
| 11:45am-1:00pm | Joe Harrington (Johns Hopkins) and Andrzej Skrzypacz
(Stanford) |
1:00-2:30pm |
Lunch |
| 2:30-3:45pm | Ray Deneckere (Wisconsin) and James Peck (Ohio State) “Dynamic Competition with Random Demand and Costless Search: A Theory of Price Posting” Discussant: Willie Fuchs (UC Berkeley) |
| 3:45-4:15pm | Break |
| 4:15-5:30pm | Ricardo Alonso (University of Southern California), Wouter Dessein (Columbia) and Niko Matouschek (Northwestern) “Organize to Compete” Discussant: Steve Tadelis (UC Berkeley) |
| 7pm | Reception at Va Pensiero |
| 7:30pm | Conference Dinner at Va Pensiero |
| Sunday, November 8 | |
| 8:15-8:45am | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45-10:00am | E. Glen Weyl (Harvard Society of Fellows) and Michal Fabinger
(Harvard) “Pass-Through as an Economic Tool” Discussant: Mike Salinger (Boston University) |
| 10:00-10:15am | Break |
| 10:15-11:30am | Ariel Pakes (Harvard) and Chaim Fershtman (Tel Aviv) “Finite State Dynamic Games with Asymmetric Information: A Framework for Applied Work” Discussant: Jeff Ely (Northwestern) |
| 11:30-11:45am | Break |
| 11:45am-1:00pm | Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim) and John Thanassoulis
(Oxford) “Vertical Relations Under Credit Constraints” Discussant: Tracy Lewis (Duke) |
The allocation of time for each of the sessions will be: