IO in Chile Workshop
Organizers: Jorge Ale-Chile, Sebastian Fleitas, Andres Gonzalez-Lira, Wei Xiong
Wednesday, Oct 29
Venue: Universidad de los Andes
Monseñor Álvaro del Portillo 12455, Las Condes. Edificio Biblioteca, Auditorio B
9:00 Coffee
9:30 Session 1
Andres Gonzalez-Lira (PUC) - Centralizing Procurement: The Roles of Scale, Selection, and Variety
Maria Florencia Gabrielli (UDD) - Auctioning Annuities Under Two-sided Private Information
Sebastian Buhai (Stockholm) - Real Option AI: Reversibility, Silence, and the Release Ladder
11:45 Coffee
12:30 Keynote Day 1: Mitsuru Igami (Toronto) - Welfare Gains from Product and Process Innovations: The Case of LCD Panels, 2001-2011
14:00 Lunch
15:30 Session 2
Sebastian Fleitas (PUC) - Patient Choice, Payment Systems and Multidimensional Quality
Pedro Roje (BCCh) - Macroprudential Policies and Market Competition in Mortgage Lending Markets: Evidence for Chile
17:00 End Day 1.
19:00 Conference Dinner (by invitation)
Thursday, Oct 30
Venue: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Campus San Joaquín
Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul. Facultad de Economía y Administración, Sala Postgrado, 4th Floor
8:30 Coffee
9:00 Session 3
Gaston Llanes (PUC) - App Store Competition
Gustavo Quinderé Saraiva (PUC) - Incentives to Fake Reviews in Online Platforms
10:25 Coffee
10:45 Session 4
Carlos Noton (PUC) - Vertical Integration and Plan Design in Healthcare Markets
Wei Xiong (UAndes) - Equilibrium Effects of Health Insurance Selection on the Hospital Market
12:10 Lunch
13:30 Keynote Day 2: Pierre Dubois (TSE) - Pharmaceutical Advertising in Dynamic Equilibrium (with Ariel Pakes)
14:50 Coffee
15:20 Session 5
Jorge Ale-Chilet (UAndes) - Product Bans as Protectionism: The Maggi Scare
Jose Manuel Paz y Miño (U-Chile) - Merger Remedies and Entry: Evidence from the Fiat-Peugeot
17:00 End Workshop.