Market power workshop

Market power Workshop

On November 14 – 15, 2024, the 3rd UZH Market Power Workshop 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

Thursday November 14

14:00 - 14:30  Welcome and opening remarks 

14:30 - 16:00 Chris Conlon (NYU Stern)

Keynote Speech

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 17:15 Michele Fioretti  (Bocconi University) 

Prices and Concentration: A U-shape? Theory and Evidence from Renewables

(with Junnan He and Jorge A. Tamayo)

Discussant: Luise Eisfeld (HEC Lausanne)

17:15 - 18:00 Tove Forsbacka (Norwegian School of Economics) 

Does the Production Approach to Markup Estimation Match a Stylized Fact?

Discussant: Vardges Levonyan (University of Zurich)

19:00 - … Dinner for presenters and discussants (Hotel St. Josef)

Friday November 15

09:00 - 09:30 Get together and coffee

09:30 - 10:15 Flavio Toxvaerd (University of Cambridge)

Bilateral Monopoly Revisited: Price Formation, Efficiency and Countervailing Powers

Discussant: Armin Schmutzler (University of Zurich) 

10:15 - 11:00 Yann Delaprez (European University Institute) 

Unveiling Bargaining Impacts of Mergers and Divestitures

Discussant: Alon Eizenberg  (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 

11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 - 12:15 Nelson Sunuwar (University of Zurich) 

Competition on the Labor Market 

(with Theodor Friederiszick and Axel Malmcrona)

Discussant:  Louis Pape (Télécom Paris) 

12.15 - 13.00 Oscar Jara (Norwegian School of Economics) 

Markups, Markdowns and Superstar Firms: Evidence from the US Energy Drinks Market 

Discussant: Theodor Friederiszick  (University of Zurich) 

13:00- 14:00  Brown Bag Lunch

14:00 - 14:45 Paolo Mengano (ESADE Business School) 

Markups and Cost Pass-through Along the Supply Chain 

(with Santiago E. Alvarez, Alberto Cavallo, and Alexander MacKay)

Discussant: Igor Letina (University of Bern & Swiss Competition Commission) 

Cancelled Kai Fischer (Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics) 

Industrial Policy in Declining Industries: Evidence from German Coal Mines

Discussant: Axel Malmcrona (University of Gothenburg) 

About the ORganisers 

• Theodor Friederiszick  

• Nelson Sunuwar 

Contact: marketpower@econ.uzh.ch