A Conference on The Economics of Drip Pricing
Agenda

Monday, May 21, 2012
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8:30 a.m.   Registration
   
9:00 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission    
   
9:05 a.m.
Presentation
 Overview of Drip Pricing
Mary Sullivan, Federal Trade Commission  
   
9:15 a.m.
Presentation
 Consumer and Competitive Effects of Obscure Pricing
Joseph Farrell, Director, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission
   
9:45 a.m. 
 Theories of Drip Pricing
Chair, Doug Smith, Federal Trade Commission
   
Presentation David Laibson, Harvard University
Presentation Michael Baye, Indiana University
Presentation Michael Waldman, Cornell University
   
  Discussion leader
Michael Salinger, Boston University
   
11:15 a.m.  Morning Break
   
11:30 a.m. 
Presentation		 Keynote Address
 Amelia Fletcher, Chief Economist, Office of Fair Trading, UK
   
12:00 p.m Lunch
   
1:00 p.m.
 Empirical Analysis of Drip Pricing
Chair, Erez Yoeli, Federal Trade Commission
   
Presentation
 Vicki Morwitz, New York University
Presentation
 Meghan Busse, Northwestern University
Presentation
 Sara Fisher Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   
Comments Discussion leader
Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College
   
2:30 p.m. Afternoon Break
   
2:45 p.m. Public Policy Roundtable
   
  Moderator, Mary Sullivan, Federal Trade Commission
 
  Panelists

Michael Baye, Indiana University

Sara Fisher Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rebecca Hamilton, University of Maryland
  David Laibson, Harvard University
  Vicki Morwitz, New York University
  Michael Salinger, Boston University
  Michael Waldman, Cornell University
  Florian Zettelmeyer, Northwestern University
  Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College
   
3:45 p.m.  Closing Remarks