Conference on Auctions, Firm Behavior, and Policy


June 10 & 11, 2024

University of Oklahoma

Norman, Oklahoma


Program

Below is the conference program.  All times are listed in Central Time (CT) and all sessions will be held in Dale Hall Tower (DaHT) 906, at the University of Oklahoma.



Sunday/June 9

Welcome reception and dinner at The Noun Hotel

5:30 - Reception

6:00 - Dinner



Monday/June 10


8:00 - 8:30

Breakfast at DaHT 906


8:30 - 9:00

Ben Rosa presents "Fiscal Stimulus in the Highway Procurement Market," joint work with Dakshina G. De Silva


9:00 - 9:30

Justin Marion presents "The Ratchet Effect and Government Performance Targets: Small Business Goals in U.S. Federal Procurement"


9:30 - 10:00

Matthew Gentry presents "Dynamic Oligopoly in Procurement Auction Markets," joint work with Dakshina G. De Silva, Pasquale Schiraldi 


10:00 - 10:30

Lei He presents "Network Effects, Competition and Survival of Small and Minority-Owned Firms in Public Procurement ," joint work with Georgia Kosmopoulou, Xueqi Zhou, and Nancy Alexander


10:30 - 11:00

Break


11:00 - 11:30

Timothy Salmon presents "An Investigation into Dynamic Reserve Prices in Procurement Auctions" joint work with Farasat Bokhari, Sean Ennis, and Carlos Vega


11:30 - 12:00

Alexander L. Brown presents "Is There a Better Way to Elicit Valuations than the BDM?" joint work with Jinliang Liu and Michael Tsoi


12:00 - 12:30

Dan Levin presents "Auction with two groups Private-Value bidders (PVB), and common-value (commercial) bidders"


12:30 - 1:15

Lunch at DaHT 906


1:15 - 1:45

Andrew Sweeting presents "Bargaining and Dynamic Competition," joint work with Shanglyu Deng, Dun Jia, and Mario Leccese 


1:45 - 2:15

Philip G. Gayle presents "Post and Hold Regulation and Competitive Conduct: Evidence from the U.S. Beer Industry," joint work with Adeel Faheem


2:15 - 2:45

Myongjin Kim presents "Supply Network and Resilience: Electric Vehicle Markets," joint work with Georgia Kosmopoulou, Kyu-Min Lee, Euncheol Shin, and Lei He

 

2:45 - 3:15

George Deltas presents "Industry Associations and Pricing Co-ordination: IATA and Market Conduct on Transatlantic Routes," joint work with Richard Sicotte


3:15 - 3:45

Break


3:45 - 4:15

Federico Zincenko presents "Identification and Estimation of Multidimensional Screening," joint work with Gaurab Aryal


4:15 - 4:45

Hector Tzavellas presents "Games Under Network Uncertainty," joint work with P. Chaudhuri, M.O. Jackson, and S. Sarangi


4:45 - 5:15

Gagan Ghosh presents "Verifiable Private Disclosure in Auctions," joint work with Heng Liu




5:15 - Dinner

Gallery walk and dinner at The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art



Tuesday/June 11


8:00 - 8:30

Breakfast at DaHT 906


8:30 - 9:00

Marc Rysman presents "International Trade in Data: Investment and Usage of the Subsea Internet Cable Network," joint work with Jihye Jeon


9:00 - 9:30

Jeff Thurk presents "Industrial Subsidies When There Is Learning-by-Doing," joint work with Pinelopi Goldberg, Reka Juhasz, and Nathaniel Lane


9:30 - 10:00

Jorge Balat presents "Heterogeneous Firms: Skilled-Labor Productivity and Export Destinations," joint work with Irene Brambilla and Yuya Sasaki


10:00 - 10:30

Dakshina G. De Silva presents "Financing Climate Change Mitigation Projects: Cost and

Environmental Performance of Government Green Bonds," joint work with Klenio Barbosa, Ali Hortacsu, Anita R. Schiller, and Liyu Yang


10:30 - 11:00

Break


11:00 - 11:30

Alina Arefeva  presents "Discrimination During Eviction Moratoria," joint work with Kay Jowers, Qihui Hu, and Christopher Timmins


11:30 - 12:00

Timothy N. Cason  presents "Price Competition and Cooperation on Sustainable Investments," joint work with Takahiko Kiso and Frans P. de Vries


12:00 - 12:30

Minhae Kim presents "Does the Internet Replace Brick-and-Mortar Bank Branches?"



12:30 - 1:15

Lunch at DaHT 906


1:15 - 1:45

Gaurab Aryal presents "Bundling Demand in K-12 Broadband Procurement," joint work with Charles Murry, Pallavi Pal, and Arnab Palit


1:45 - 2:15

Georgia Kosmopoulou presents "Networks, Platforms, and Auction Pricing: Evidence from the NFT Art Market," joint work with Kasra Khademorezaian, Carlos Lamarche


2:15 - 2:45

Diogenes Cruz presents "Quantifying Commitment Failure in Auctions," joint work with Mark Agerton and Eric Lewis 


2:45 - 3:15

Hayri Alper Arslan presents "Auctions vs Negotiations under Corruption: Evidence from Land Sales in China," joint work with Robert Clark and Qidi Hu



Program committee and organizers: Georgia Kosmopoulou, Myongjin Kim, Daniel Nedelescu, Tim Hubbard


Presenters:

Alina Arefeva (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

Hayri Alper Arslan (University of Texas at San Antonio)

Gaurab Aryal (Washington University in St. Louis)

Jorge Balat (University of Texas at Austin)

Alexander Brown (Texas A&M University)

Timothy N. Cason (Purdue University)

Diogenes Cruz (University of California - Davis)

George Deltas (University of Illinois)

Dakshina G. De Silva (Lancaster University)

Philip Gayle (Kansas State University)

Matthew Gentry (Florida State University)

Gagan Ghosh (California State University Fullerton)

Lei He (Moravian University)

Minhae Kim (Oklahoma State University)

Myongjin Kim (University of Oklahoma)

Georgia Kosmopoulou (University of Oklahoma)

Dan Levin (Ohio State University)

Justin Marion (University of California - Santa Cruz)

Ben Rosa (University of Michigan)

Marc Rysman (Boston University)

Timothy Salmon (Southern Methodist University)

Andrew Sweeting (University of Maryland)

Jeff Thurk (University of Georgia)

Hector Tzavellas (Virginia Tech)

Federico Zincenko (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)




Dates & Details

Submission deadline: April 1

Submission decision: May 1

Program announcement: May 8

Accommodations: NOUN Hotel


Call for Papers

A Conference on Auctions, Firm Behavior, and Policy will be held June 10 and 11, 2024, in-person at the University of Oklahoma, in Norman, Oklahoma. We are particularly interested in applied research using different methodologies (structural econometrics, reduced-form approaches, experiments, applied theory). If you are interested in presenting your research, participating in some capacity, or if you have questions, please email oueconconf@gmail.com. Researchers hoping to present their work should attach their paper as a PDF and send an email by April 1. Early career scholars are especially encouraged to submit their work for consideration.


This conference is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Funds are available to provide accommodations and subsidize travel expenses for presenters, with special effort to support the attendance of presenters without their own source of travel funding. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by May 1 with the program announced by May 8. All interested are welcome to join, regardless of their role at the conference. To aid with planning, all attendees will be asked to complete a conference registration form by May 22.



Context

The University of Oklahoma will host the second of two meetings focused on recent research on auctions, firm behavior, and policy. This conference is sponsored by NSF grant #1919345 and by the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences. The conference at Colby was sponsored by NSF grant #1919343. The two NSF grants constitute a collaborative proposal supported by the Division of Social and Economic Sciences at NSF. Though this conference is supported by NSF, any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.