Market power workshop

Market power Workshop

On October 6 – 7, 2023, the 2nd UZH Workshop on Market Power and the Economy will take place. 

We have compiled an exciting program with excellent speakers and discussants. 

Below you will find our detailed schedule. 

In case you want to participate, please click here to register.

Schedule

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Friday October 6 

13:30 - 14:00  Welcome and opening remarks 

14:00 - 14:45 Luise Eisfeld (HEC Lausanne) 

Entry and Acquisitions in Software Markets

Discussant: Melissa Newham (ETH Zurich)

14:45 - 15:30  Vardges Levonyan (University of Zurich) 

Mergers and Market Power (with Paolo Mengano) 

Discussant: Stefan Buehler (University of St. Gallen)

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 17:00 Keynote Speech 

Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College London) 

17:00 - 17:15 Coffee break

17:15 - 18:00 Etienne Guigue  (KU Leuven) 

Markups and Markdowns in the French Dairy Market (with Rémi Avignon)

Discussant: Sebastien Houde (HEC Lausanne) 

18:00 - 18:45 Gabriel Züllig (Swiss National Bank) 

Markups and marginal costs over the firm life: Implications for optimal inflation 

(with Klaus Adam and Tobias Renkin)

Discussant:  Julian Schärer (University of Geneva)

19:00 - … Dinner (by invitation, location TBD) 

Saturday October 7 

09:00 - 09:30 Get together and coffee

09:30 - 10:15 Vivek Bhattacharya (Northwestern University) 

Merger Effects and Antitrust Enforcement: Evidence from US Retail 

(with Gastón Illanes and David Stillerman)

Discussant: Vardges Levonyan (University of Zurich) 

10:15 - 11:00 Louis Pape (Télécom Paris)

How to Detect and Measure Labor Market Collusion? 

Discussant: Theodor Friederiszick  (University of Zurich)

11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 - 12:15 Keynote Speech 

Nathan Miller (Georgetown University) 

12:15 - 13:00 Brown-bag lunch

13:00 - 13:45     Kevin Remmy (University of Mannheim)

Price Competition and Endogenous Product Choice in Networks: Evidence from the US Airline Industry 

(with Christian Bontemps and Cristina Gualdani)

Discussant: Nelson Sunuwar (University of Zurich) 

13:45 - 14:30 Alon Eizenberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 

Estimating the Strategic Effect of Multimarket Contact

(with Dalia Shilian and Daniel D. Blanga)

Discussant: Bernhard Ganglmair (University of Mannheim)

14:30 - 15:00  Conclusion

About the ORganisers 

• Theodor Friederiszick  

• Vardges Levonyan 

• Paolo Mengano 

• Nelson Sunuwar 

Contact: marketpower@econ.uzh.ch 

Funding by the UZH Graduate Campus is gratefully acknowledged.