DC Industrial Organization Conference - March 6, 2015
Sponsored by: Compass Lexecon and the University of Maryland

REVISED SCHEDULE - MARCH 5 2015


9:00                Coffee & Pastries

 

9:20-10:10    Alexei Alexandrov (CFPB), “Sufficient Decisions in Multi-sided and Multi-Product Markets

Discussant: Dan Vincent (UMD)

 

10:10-11:00  Thomas Jeitschko (MSU), “Homogenous Platform Competition with Endogenous Homing

                        Discussant: Marius Schwartz (Georgetown)

                       

11-11:25         Break

 

11:25-12:15 Peter Cramton (UMD), “The High-Frequency Trading Arms Race

                        Discussant: Gregg Berman (SEC)

 

12:15 – 1:45  Lunch and Panel Discussion on the Economics of Bargaining (participants: Jon Baker, Robin Lee, Dennis Carlton, Cory Capps, Bobby Willig, Tim Brennan, Bob Majure)

 

1:45-2:00       Break

 

2:00 – 2:50    Yuya Takahashi (JHU), “Competitive Price Discrimination in an Intermediate Goods Market

                        Discussant: Nathan Miller (Georgetown)

 

2:50 - 3:10     Break

 

3:10-4:00       Mitsu Nishida (JHU), “Better Together? Retail Chain Performance Dynamics in Store Expansion

                        Discussant: Minjae Song (Bates White)

 

4:00-4:50       Devesh Raval (FTC), “Industrial Re-organization: Learning about Substitution Patterns from Natural Experiments

                        Discussant: Yair Taylor (DoJ)

 

4:50                Close








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