8th Annual Duke/Northwestern/Texas
IO Theory Conference

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)
Targeting in Advertising Markets: Implications for New and Old Media
Discussant: Miguel Villas-Boas (UC Berkeley)

11:30-11:45am Break
11:45am-1:00pm

Joe Harrington (Johns Hopkins) and Andrzej Skrzypacz (Stanford)
Private Monitoring and Communication in Cartels: Explaining Recent Collusive Practices
Discussant: Susan Athey (Harvard)

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:
speaker 50 min
discussant 10 min
general discussion 15 min