Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics
Summer 2008 Workshop
Segment 5: Theory-Based Micro-Econometric Modeling
July 10 - 12
Organized by Bernard Salanié, Columbia University and Frank Wolak, Stanford University.
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Conference took place at Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) Conference Room A, located on the ground floor of Landau Economics Building.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
9:00-9:30 Breakfast
9:30-10:30 Estimating Dynamic Games of Complete Information with an Application to the Generic Pharmaceutical Industry presented by Ahmed Khwaja, Duke University and co-authored with A. Ronald Gallant, Duke University and Han Hong, Stanford University
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:00 The Effect of Full-line Forcing Contracts presented by
Kate Ho, Columbia University and co-authored with Justin Ho and Julie Holland Mortimer, both Harvard University
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Evaluating Innovation Policy: A Structural Treatment Effect Model of R&D Subsidies presented by Otto Toivanen, HECER, University of Helsinki and co-authored with Tuomas Takalo, Bank of Finland and Tanja Tanayama, HECER, University of Helsinki
2:30-3:00 Coffee
3:00-4:00 Last-In First-Out Oligopoly Dynamics presented by Jeff Campbell, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and co-authored by Jaap H. Abbring, VU University, Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute
4:00-4:30 Coffee
4:30-5:30 The Welfare Effects of Ticket Resale presented by Phillip Lesley and Alan Sorensen, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Friday, July 11, 2008
9:00-9:30 Breakfast
9:30-10:30 Identifying and Testing Generalized Moral Hazard Models of Managerial Compensation presented by George-Levi Gayle, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University and co-authored by Robert A. Miller, also Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:00 CCP Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models presented by Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 The Joy of Giving and the Greater Joy of Receiving: Estimating a Multiple-Discrete Choice Models of Philanthropic Behavior presented by Holger Sieg, Carnegie Mellon University and co-authored with Jipeng Zhang, University of Pittsburgh
2:30-3:00 Coffee
3:00-4:00 You Are What You Bet: Eliciting Risk Attitudes from Horse Races presented by Bernard Salanié, Columbia University and co-authored with Pierre-André Chiappori, Columbia University, Amit Gandhi, University of Chicago and François Salanié, Toulouse School of Economics
4:00-4:30 Coffee
4:30-5:30 Factions and Political Competition presented by Dan Silverman, University of Michigan
7:00 Dinner
Saturday, July 12, 2008
9:00-9:30 Breakfast
9:30-10:30 Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School presented by Stephen P. Ryan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-authored with Esther Duflo, also Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:00 Product Differentiation, Multi-Product Firms and Estimating the Impact of Trade Liberalization on Productivity presented by Jan De Loecker, New York University
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 The Buy-it-Now Option, Risk Aversion, and Impatience in an Empirical Model of eBay Bidding presented by Dan Ackerberg, University of California, Los Angeles and co-authored with Kei Hirano and Quazi Shahriar, both University of Arizona
2:30-3:00 Coffee
3:00-4:00 Nonlinear Pricing in Yellow Pages presented by Isabelle Perrigne and Quang Vuong, Pennsylvania State University and co-authored with Yao Huang, University of Pittsburgh
4:00-4:30 Coffee
4:30-5:30 Entry and Inefficiency in the Real Estate Brokerage Industry: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications presented by Seung-Hyun Hong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and co-authored with Lu Han, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
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