Programme
The videos of the EARIE 2020 online conference sessions are available on the University of Bologna Department of Economics YouTube Channel.
Friday, August 28, 2020
| 15:00 - 16:15 CEST | ||
| Plenary speaker | Natalia Fabra | |
| The Energy Transition: A Challenge for Industrial Economics | ||
| 16:30 - 18:00 CEST | ||
| Invited session 1: Vertical restraints and investment | ||
| Jeanine Miklós-Thal | Scott Kominers | |
| Input Price Discrimination by Resale Market (joint with Greg Shaffer) | Investment Incentives in Near-Optimal Mechanisms (joint with M. Akbarpour, S. Li, and P. R. Milgrom) | |
| Invited session 2: Empirical analysis of oligopoly | ||
| Greg Crawford | David Byrne | |
| The case to investigate in Google-Fitbit (And its implications for academic IO research) | Price Discrimination, Search, and Negotiation in an Oligopoly: A Field Experiment in Retail Electricity (joint with Leslie A. Martin and Jia Sheen Nah) | |
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Saturday, August 29, 2020
| 15:00 - 16:15 CEST | ||
| Presidential address | John Vickers | |
| Competition for Imperfect Consumers | ||
| 16:15 - 16:25 CEST | ||
| General Assembly | ||
| 16:30 - 18:00 CEST | ||
| Invited session 3: Platforms and network effects | ||
| Julian Wright | Marc Ivaldi | |
| Data-Enabled Learning, Network Effects and Competitive Advantage (joint with Andrei Hagiu) | Platform Mergers: Lessons from a Case in the Digital TV Market (joint with Jiekai Zhang) | |
| Invited session 4: Empirics for auctions and trading games | ||
| Shoshana Vasserman | Brad Larsen | |
| Scaling Auctions as Insurance: A Case Study in Infrastructure Procurement (joint with Valentin Bolotnyy) | A Mechanism Design Approach to Identification and Estimation (joint with Anthony Lee Zhang) | |
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Sunday, August 30, 2020
| 15:00 - 16:15 CEST | ||
| Plenary speaker | John Asker | |
| Cartels and Welfare | ||
| 16:30 - 18:00 CEST | ||
| Invited session 5: Antitrust | ||
| Guest Chair | Lorenzo Coppi (Compass Lexecon) | |
| Giacomo Calzolari | Louis Kaplow | |
| Algorithmic Pricing, Observability and Collusion (joint with Emilio Calvano, Vincenzo Denicolò and Sergio Pastorello) | Horizontal Merger Analysis | |
| Invited session 6: Price discrimination | ||
| Renato Gomes | Laura Doval | |
| Brand Loyalty and Quality Provision in Oligopolistic Price Discrimination (joint with Jean-Marie Lozachmeur and Lucas Maestri) |
Nonlinear Pricing with Downstream Markets (joint with Vasiliki Skreta) | |
