The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics will host a two day conference to bring together scholars working in industrial organization, information economics, game theory, quantitative marketing, consumer behavior, and other areas related to the FTC’s antitrust and consumer policy missions. Examples of potentially relevant topics include online advertising, information disclosure, horizontal and vertical mergers, bundling, loyalty and other discounts, dynamic oligopoly, intellectual property, and behavioral and experimental economics.
The scientific committee for the conference is:
- Susan Athey (Harvard)
- Patrick Bajari (Minnesota)
- John List (Chicago)
- Carl Shapiro (Berkeley)
- Scott Stern (Northwestern-Kellogg)
WORKSHOP INFORMATION
PARTICIPANT PAPERS
- Alan Sorensen (Stanford University), The Welfare Effects of Ticket Resale [PDF]
- Andrew Sweeting (Duke University), Equilibrium Price Dynamics in Perishable Goods Markets: The Case of Secondary Markets for Major League Baseball Tickets [PDF]
- Steve Puller (Texas A&M University), Testing Theories of Price Dispersion and Scarcity Pricing in the Airline Industry
- Stephan Meier (Columbia University), Charging Myopically Ahead: Evidence on Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing [PDF]
- James Hilger (Federal Trade Commission), Expert Opinion and the Demand for Experience Goods: An Experimental Approach in the Retail [PDF]
- Cary Deck (University of Arkansas), Price Discrimination with Sequential Purchasing: Theory and Experiments [PDF]
- Dean Karlan (Yale University), Put Your Money Where Your Butt Is: A Commitment Savings Account for Smoking Cessation [PDF]
- Michael Waldman (Cornell University), Why Tie a Product Consumers Do Not Use? Explanations-Efficiency, Price Discrimination, and Exclusion [PDF]
- Minjae Song (University of Rochester), Sleeping with the Enemy: Inter-firm Product Combinations [PDF]
- Christian Rojas (University of Massachusetts -- Amherst), The Role of Information and Monitoring on Collusion [PDF]
- Matthew Weinberg (University of Georgia), An Evaluation of Merger Simulations [PDF]
- Jeremy Fox (University of Chicago), Improving the Numerical Performance of BLP Static and Dynamic Discrete Choice Random Coefficients Demand Estimation [PDF]
- Katja Seim (University of Pennsylvania), Beyond Plain Vanilla: Modeling Joint Product Assortment and Pricing Decisions [PDF]
- David Reiley (University of Arizona), Retail Advertising Works! Measuring the Effects of Advertising on Sales via a Controlled Experiment on Yahoo!
- Anindya Ghose (New York University), Modeling and Estimating the Relationship Between Organic and Paid Search Advertising
- Günter Hitsch (University of Chicago), Tipping and Concentration in Markets with Indirect Network Effects [PDF]
PRE-REGISTRATION
Pre-registration for this conference is not necessary, but is encouraged so that we may better plan for the event.
To pre-register, please email your name and affiliation to BE-IOC@ftc.gov.
NOTE:When you pre-register, we will collect your name, affiliation, and your email address. This information will be used to estimate how many people will attend. We may use your email address to contact you with information about the conference.
Additional information will be posted as it becomes available.
CONTACT
Marissa Crawford
Bureau of Economics
BE-IOC@ftc.gov
202-326-3293