Previous Talks

This is the list of previous VIOS talks. Papers and recordings are included for up to two months after the talk with the permission of the speaker.

2021-2022

• September 22, 2021 Ekaterina Khmelnitskaya (Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia), "Competition and Attrition in Drug Development"

  • Discussant: Luca Maini (UNC) Moderator: Pierre Dubois (TSE)

• October 6 2021 Chiara Fumagalli (Bocconi University), "Shelving or developing? The acquisition of potential competitors under financial constraints."

  • Discussant Florian Ederer (Yale) Moderator Leslie Marx (Duke)

• October 20, 2021 Nano Barahona (UC Berkeley), Paper "Equilibrium Effects of Food Labeling Policies" (joint with Cristobal Otero, Sebastian Otero, Joshua Kim)

  • Discussant Sofia Villas-Boas (UC Berkeley) Moderator Marit Hinnosaar (Nottingham)

• November 3, 2021 Jidong Zhou (Yale SOM), Paper "Personalized Pricing and Privacy Choice"

  • Discussant David Ronayne (ESMT) Moderator Andrew Rhodes (TSE)

• November 17, 2021: Tobias Salz (MIT), Paper "Auto Dealer Loan Intermediation: Consumer Behavior and Competitive Effects" (joint with Andreas Grunewald, Jonathan Lanning, and David Low)

  • Discussant Paul Heidhues (Düsseldorf) Moderator Alon Eizenberg (Hebrew U.)

• December 1, 2021 Philippe Choné (ENSAE-CREST), Paper Double marginalization and vertical integration (Joint with Laurent Linnemer and Thibaud Vergé)

  • Discussant Giacomo Calzolari (EUI) Moderator Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim)

• March 23 2022 Dana Foarta (Stanford GSB) "Market Competition and Political Influence: An Integrated Approach" (joint with Steven Callander and Takuo Sugaya)

  • Discussant: Luigi Zingales (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and CEPR)

• April 4 2022 Ying Fan (Michigan)"Spillover Effects in Complementary Markets: A Study of the Indian Cellphone and Wireless Service Markets" (with Chirantan Chatterjee and Debi P. Mohapatra)

  • Discussant Paul Scott (NYU)

• April 20, 2022 Alessandro Bonatti (MIT Sloan) "Data, Competition and Digital Platforms" (with Dirk Bergemann)

  • Discussant Andrei Hagiu (Boston University)

• May 4, 2022 Giulia Brancaccio (NYU Stern) "Search frictions and product design in the municipal bond market" (with Karam Kang)

  • Discussant Robert Clark (Queen's University)

• May 18, 2022: Nicolas Schutz (Mannheim) "Dual Pricing in a Model of Sales" (with Anton Sobolev)

  • Discussant Maarten Janssen (University of Vienna)

• June 1, 2022 Andrew Sweeting (Maryland) Should We Expect Merger Synergies To Be Passed Through to Consumers? (with Mario Leccese and Xuezhen Tao)

  • Discussant Philipp Schmidt-Dengler (University of Vienna)

2020-2021

• September 16, 2020 Laura Grigolon (Mannheim) - "Stigma as a Barrier to Adoption of Innovation" (joint with Laura Lasio)

  • Discussant: Margaret Kyle (Mines ParisTech). Moderator: Daniel Ershov (TSE)

• September 23, 2020 Renato Gomes (TSE) - "Nonlinear Pricing in Oligopoly: How Brand Preferences Shape Market Outcomes"(joint with Jean-Marie Lozachmeur and Lucas Maestri).

  • Discussant: Nicolas Schutz (Mannheim). Moderator: Özlem Bedre-Defolie (ESMT Berlin)

• September 30, 2020 Ruben Durante (Pompeu Fabra) - "Online Competition, Newspaper Quality, and Political Accountability: Evidence from the Introduction of Craigslist" (joint with Milena Djourelova and Greg Martin).

  • Discussant: Ying Fan (Michigan). Moderator: Alessandro Iaria (Bristol)

• October 7, 2020 Natalia Fabra (Carlos III) "Market Power and Price Discrimination: Learning from Changes in Renewables Regulation" (joint with Imelda)

  • Discussant: Estelle Cantillon (ULB). Moderator: Emilio Calvano (Università di Bologna).

• October 14, 2020 Christoph Walsh (Tilburg) "Enforcement and Bargaining over Illicit Drug Wholesale Prices: Structural Evidence from a Transnational Asian Gang" (joint with Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li, and Marc Rysman)

  • Discussant: Matthew Weinberg (Ohio State). Moderator: Daniel Ershov (TSE).

• October 21, 2020 Mark Armstrong (Oxford) "Patterns of Competitive Interaction" (joint with John Vickers).

  • Discussant: Dirk Bergemann (Yale). Moderator: Andrew Rhodes (TSE). Slides here.

  • A video recording is available on Youtube

• October 28, 2020 Nicola Pavanini (Tilburg) "The Impact of Alternative Forms of Bank Consolidation on Credit Supply and Financial Stability" (joint with Sergio Mayordomo and Emanuele Tarantino).

  • Discussant: Daniel Paravisini (LSE). Moderator: Michelle Sovinsky (Mannheim)

  • A video recording is available on Youtube

• November 4, 2020 Nikhil Vellodi (Paris School of Economics), "Ratings Design and Barriers to Entry."

  • Discussant: Renato Gomes (Toulouse School of Economics). Moderator: Aniko Öry (Yale School of Management).

• November 11, 2020 Mar Reguant (Northwestern), "The Distributional Impacts of Real-Time pricing" (with Michael Cahana, Natalia Fabra, and Jingyuan Wang).

  • Discussant: Mike Waterson (Warwick). Moderator: Alessandro Gavazza (LSE).

  • A video recording is available on Youtube

• November 18, 2020 Maryam Saeedi (Tepper School of Business) "Raising the Bar: Certification Thresholds and Market Outcomes" (joint with Xiang Hui, Giancarlo Spagnolo, and Steve Tadelis).

  • Discussant: Roland Strausz (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin). Moderator: Nikhil Vellodi (Paris School of Economics).

  • A video recording is available on Youtube

• November 25, 2020 Andre Veiga (Imperial College Business School) "Quality Information and Competitive Selection in Health Care."

  • Discussant: Martin Gaynor (Carnegie Mellon University).

  • A video recording is available on Youtube

• December 2, 2020 Aniko Öry (Yale School of Management) “Aiming for the Goal: Contribution Dynamics of Crowdfunding” (joint with Joyee Deb and Kevin R. Williams).

  • Discussant: Matthew Ellman (IAE-CSIC). Moderator: Shannon Liu (University of Toronto)

  • A video recording is available on Youtube

• December 9, 2020 Jan De Loecker (K.U. Leuven) "The Welfare Impact of Market Power: The OPEC Cartel" (joint with John Asker and Allan Collard-Wexler).

  • Discussant: David Genesove (Hebrew University). Moderator: Alessandro Gavazza (LSE)

• December 16, 2020 José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez (Yale) "Playing Checkers in Chinatown" (joint with Santiago Truffa).

  • Discussant: Philip Schmidt-Dengler (University of Vienna). Moderator: Alessandro Iaria (Bristol)

  • A video recording is available on Youtube

• February 24, 2021: Daniel Ershov (Toulouse) - "Algorithmic Pricing and Competition: Empirical Evidence from the German Retail Gasoline Market" (joint with Stephanie Assad, Robert Clark and Lei Xu).

  • Discussant: David Byrne (Melbourne). Moderator: Alon Eizenberg (Hebrew-U).

  • A video recording is available on Youtube

• March 3, 2021: Vincenzo Denicolò (Università di Bologna) - "Exploiting rivals' strengths" (joint with Giacomo Calzolari).

  • Discussant: Juan-Pablo Montero (PUC - Chile). Moderator: Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim).

  • A video recording is available on Youtube

• March 10, 2021: Tomaso Duso (DIW) - "Airbnb and Rents: Evidence from Berlin" (joint with Claus Michelsen, Maximilian Schaefer, and Kevin Ducbao Tran).

  • Discussant: Milena Almagro (Minneapolis Fed/Chicago Booth). Moderator: Michelle Sovinsky (University of Mannheim).

  • A video recording is available on Youtube

• March 17, 2021: Michael Whinston (MIT) - "Concentration Screens for Horizontal Mergers" (joint with Volker Nocke).

  • Discussant: Carl Shapiro (Berkeley). Moderator: Chiara Fumagalli (Università Bocconi).

• March 24, 2021: Boyoung Seo (Indiana) - "How Do National Firms Respond to Local Shocks?: Evidence from Excise Taxes" (joint with R. Andrew Butters and Daniel W. Sacks).

  • Discussant: Andrea Pozzi (EIEF). Moderator: Marit Hinnosaar (University of Nottingham, Collegio Carlo Alberto).

  • A video recording is available on Youtube

• March 31, 2021: Sandro Shelegia (UPF) - "Retailer-led Marketplaces" (joint with Andres Hervas-Drane).

  • Discussant: Patrick Rey (TSE). Moderator: Chiara Fumagalli (Università Bocconi).

• April 7, 2021: Sebastian Fleitas (KU Leuven) - "Selection, Subsidies, and Welfare in Health Insurance: Employer Sponsored Health Insurance Versus the ACA Marketplaces" (joint with Caitlyn Fleming, Gautam Gowrisankaran, and Anthony Lo Sasso).

  • Discussant: Carol Propper (Imperial College London). Moderator: Michelle Sovinsky (University of Mannheim).

• April 14, 2021: Yingni Guo (Northwestern) - "Robust Monopoly Regulation" (joint with Eran Shmaya).

  • Discussant: Mark Armstrong (University of Oxford). Moderator: Leslie Marx (Duke University).

• April 21, 2021: Pasquale Schiraldi (LSE) - "Identification of Dynamic Discrete-Continuous Choice Models, with an Application to Consumption-Savings-Retirement" (joint with Matthew Levy).

  • Discussant: Jaap Abbring (Tilburg University). Moderator: Marit Hinnosaar (University of Nottingham, Collegio Carlo Alberto).

• April 28, 2021: Alex Smolin (TSE) - "Disclosure and Pricing of Attributes."

  • Discussant: Heski Bar-Isaac (Rotman School of Management). Moderator: Emilio Calvano (Università di Bologna).

• May 5, 2021: Cailin Slattery (Columbia) - "Bidding for Firms: Subsidy Competition in the U.S."

  • Discussant: Elena Krasnokutskaya (JHU). Moderator: Alon Eizenberg (Hebrew-U).

• May 12, 2021: Jeanine Miklos-Thal (Rochester) - “Opportunism in Vertical Contracting: A Dynamic Perspective” (joint with Jihwan Do).

  • Discussant: Lucy White (Boston University). Moderator: Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim).

• May 19, 2021: Maria Ana Vitorino (INSEAD) - "Hospital Competition and Quality: Evidence from the Entry of High-Speed Train in South Korea” (joint with Hyesung Yoo and Song Yao).

  • Discussant: Stephan Seiler (Imperial). Moderator: Alessandro Gavazza (LSE).

• May 26, 2021: Nageeb Ali (Penn State) - "Voluntary Disclosure and Personalized Pricing" (joint with Greg Lewis and Shoshana Vasserman).

  • Discussant: Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim). Moderator: Chiara Fumagalli (Università Bocconi).

2019-2020

• April 8, 2020 - Chiara Farronato (HBS) - "Dog Eat Dog: Measuring Returns to Scale Using a Digital Platform Merger" (joint with Andrey Fradkin and Jessica Fong)*

  • Discussants: Tommaso Valletti (Imperial), Nathan Miller (Georgetown). Moderator: Daniel Ershov (TSE)

• April 15, 2020 - John Van Reenen (MIT) - Do tax incentives increase firm innovation? An RD Design for R&D (joint with Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Elias Einiö, Ralf Martin, and Kieu-Trang Nguyen).

  • Discussants: Monika Schnitzer (LMU), Daniel Xu (Duke). Moderator: Rachel Griffith (Manchester/IFS)

• April 22, 2020 - Alessandro Gavazza (LSE) - Mortgage Pricing and Monetary Policy (joint with Matteo Benetton and Paolo Surico)

  • Discussants: Olivier Darmouni (Columbia) and Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial College). Moderator: Andrea Pozzi (EIEF)

• April 29, 2020 - Leslie Marx (Fuqua School of Business) - Countervailing Power (joint with Simon Loertscher)

  • Discussants: Patrick Rey (Toulouse) and Joao Montez (HEC Lausanne). Moderator: Nicolas Schutz (Mannheim)

• May 6, 2020 - Lorenzo Magnolfi (Wisconsin) - The Competitive Conduct of Consumer Cooperatives (joint with Marco Duarte and Camilla Roncoroni)

  • Discussants: Helena Perrone (Mannheim) and Howard Smith (Oxford). Moderator: Alessandro Iaria (Bristol)

• May 13, 2020 - Andrew Rhodes (TSE) - Dynamic Consumer Search (joint with Alexei Parakohnyak)*.

  • Discussants: Régis Renault (Cergy) and Sandro Shelegia (UPF). Moderator: Daniel Garcia (Vienna)

• May 20, 2020 - Julia Cagé (Sciences Po) - Popularity vs Quality: Does Social Media Bias Editorial Decisions? (joint with Nicolas Hervé and Béatrice Mazoyer)

  • Discussants: Maria Petrova (UPF) and Mirko Draca (Warwick). Moderator: Daniel Ershov (TSE)

• May 27, 2020 - Roland Strausz (HU Berlin) - Collective Brand Reputation (joint with Volker Nocke)*.

  • Discussants: Jay Pil Choi (MSU) and Aniko Öry (Yale-SOM). Moderator: Özlem Bedre-Defolie (ESMT)

• June 3, 2020 - Elisabetta Iossa (Tor Vergata) - Organizing Competition for the Market (joint with Patrick Rey and Michael Waterson)

  • Discussants: Luis Cabral (NYU-Stern) and Juan-José Ganuza (UPF). Moderator: Malin Arve (NHH)

• June 11, 2020, 6:00-7:30 CEST - CEPR Applied IO Policy Panel: "What should IO economists be working on in tech?"

  • Panelists: Cristina Caffarra (CRA), Joshua Gans (Toronto), Fiona Scott-Morton (Yale), Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College London). Moderator: Gregory Crawford (Zurich)

    • This session was originally intended to be part of the annual CEPR Applied IO conference which was cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Another event from that conference - the Young Researcher Presentations - have been recorded and are available here.

  • The opening slides setting the context are available here.

• June 17, 2020 - Andrei Hagiu (BU-Questrom) - Should Amazon be allowed to sell on its own marketplace? (joint with Tat-How Teh and Julian Wright).

  • Discussants: Heski Bar-Isaac (UToronto) and Justin Johnson (Cornell). Moderator: Özlem Bedre-Defolie (ESMT)

• June 24, 2020 - Aureo de Paula (UCL) - Estimating Nesting Structures (joint with Ali Hortaçsu, Jonas Lieber and Julien Monardo)*

  • Discussants: Elena Manresa (NYU) and Frank Verboven (KU Leuven). Moderator: Alessandro Iaria (Bristol)

* = At the request of the authors, this paper was not made available prior to the seminar

^ = At the request of the speaker, this seminar was not recorded