All sessions will be in A1.22, at the School of Business and Economics.
Address: Tongersestraat 53.
19:00 : Welcome dinner at the Marres Kitchen (address: Capucijnenstraat 98)
Welcome
08:30—08:45: Welcome at Ad Fundum (Tongersestraat 53 – opposite of the glass entrance) with coffee and vlaai
Opening by Rachel Pownall
Session 1: Chair — Rachel Pownall
08:45—09:30: Dakshina G. De Silva (Lancaster University), David Rietzke (Lancaster University), Anita R. Schiller (Lancaster University), and Hisayuki Yoshimoto (University of Glasgow), "Multitasking, complementarities, and information disclosure: Theory and evidence from the U.K."
Discussant: António Neto
09:30—10:15: Matilde Cappelletti (ISEG–Lisbon School of Economics and Management) and Eleonora Sfrappini (University of St. Andrews Business School) , "Procuring Pollution? How Government Spending Shapes Firms' Green Investments"
Discussant: Dakshina G. De Silva
10.15—10:30: Coffee break
Session 2: Chair — Timothy P. Hubbard
10.30—11.15: Riccardo Camboni (University of Padova), Luca Corazzini (University of Milan Bicocca), Stefano Galavotti (University of Bari), and Paola Valbonesi (University of Padova), "Procuring Innovation Through Bid Preference: An Experiment"
Discussant: Timothy P. Hubbard
11.15—12.00: David Rietzke (Lancaster University), "Entry, allocation, and welfare in successive oligopoly"
Discussant: Benjamin Rosa
12:00—13:00 Conference Lunch – Ad Fundum
Session 3: Chair — Hisayuki Yoshimoto
13:00—13.45: Guilherme Campanha (PUC-Rio), Nathalie Gimenes (PUC-Rio), Lucas Lima (PUC-Rio), Marcelo Sant’Anna (FGV EPGE), and Victor Hugo Terziani (PUC-Rio), "When help hurts: unintended consequences of set-aside auctions for small firms in Brazil"
Discussant: Vitezslav Titl
13:45—14:30: Alexsandros Cavgias (Ghent University), Dimas Fazio (National University of Singapore), Luis Meloni
(University of São Paulo ), and Vita Titl (Utrecht University & Charles University), "Do Set-Aside Auctions Pay Off? Evidence from Brazil"
Discussant: Nathalie Gimenes
14:30—15:15: Vitezslav Titl (Utrecht University), "The One and Only: Single-Bidding in Public Procurement"
Discussant: Riccardo Camboni
15:15—15:30: Coffee break
Session 4: Chair — David Rietzke
15:30—16:15: Elizaveta Archanskaia (European Commission), Yannick Bormans (KU Leuven), Maria Garrone (European Commission), Waleed Hassan (KU Leuven), and Anna Thum-Thysen (European Commission), "A joint assessment of markups and profitability: Evidence for Europe over 2007-2022"
Discussant: Alexsandros Cavgias
16:15—17:00: Filipa Mota (Universidade Catolica Portuguesa) and António Neto (University College London and KPMG), "The Competitive Effects of Platform Most-Favored-Nation Clauses on Price and Quality"
Discussant: Waleed Hassan
19:00: Conference dinner at the Harry's Restaurant Hotel Beaumont
Welcome
08:30—08:45: Welcome at Ad Fundum (Tongersestraat 53 – opposite of the glass entrance) with coffee and vlaai
Session 1: Chair — Georgia Kosmopoulou
08:45—09:30: Brent Hickman (Washington University in Saint Louis), Timothy P. Hubbard (Colby College), and Eric Richert (University of Chicago) "A Convenient Test of Independent Private Values against a Comprehensive Alternate Hypothesis in Auction Data"
Discussant: Hisayuki Yoshimoto
09:30—10.15: Dakshina De Silva (Lancaster University) and Benjamin Rosa (University of Michigan & NBER), "Highway Procurement During the Great Recession and Stimulus"
Discussant: Eric Richert
10.15—10:30: Coffee break
Session 2: Chair — Benjamin Rosa
10.30—11.15: Kasra Khademorezaian (State University of New York, New Paltz), Georgia Kosmopoulou (University of Oklahoma), and Carlos Lamarche (University of Kentucky), "Beyond Value: Investigating Reputation Effect on Resale Prices in NFT Auctions"
Discussant: Rachel Pownall
10:30—11:15: Rachel Pownall (Maastricht University), "Art Prices, Disparities, and Cultural Leadership"
Discussant: João Rafael Cunha
12:00—13:00 Lunch Ad Fundum
Session 3: Chair — Howard Smith
13:00—13:45: James Chapman (Bank of Canada), Eric Richert (University of Chicago), and Yu Zhu (Renmin University), "Auctions with Imperfectly Competitive Resale: Evidence from Central Bank Auctions"
Discussant: Howard Smith
13.45—14.30: João Rafael Cunha (University of St Andrews), "The Making of Financial Regulation - Voting on the U.S. Congress"
Discussant: Peiran Jiao
14:30—15:15: Peiran Jiao(Maastricht Univeristy), Kees Koedijk (Utrecht University), and Yilong Xu (Utrecht University), "Green Premium or Brown Discount? Evidence from Experimental Asset Markets"
Discussant: Matilde Cappelletti
15:15—15:30: Coffee break
Session 4: Chair — Eric Richert
15.30—16:15: Mitja Kleczka (Solve Economics ) and Erion Shtjefanaku (Solve Economics), "Modeling Abuses of Dominance in Digital Platform Ecosystems: Tying and Data Exploitation"
Discussant: David Rietzke
16.15—17:00: Segye Shin (Compass Lexecon), Augustus Smith (Oxford), and Howard Smith (Oxford), "Repeated procurement auctions with incumbents and mandatory switching"
Discussant: Georgia Kosmopoulou
18:00: Dinner at the Pêt Thai (address: Boschstraat 93)