The Second Annual Microeconomics Conference
Participant Papers & Presentations
| Welcome and Opening Remarks Joe Farrell (Federal Trade Commission) Chairman Jon Leibowitz (Federal Trade Commission) |
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| [Presentation] | Keynote Address by Scott Stern (Northwestern University) |
| Panel Session One: Mortgage Delinquency and Modification: Economic Research and Policy | |
| [Presentation] | Paul Willen (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) |
| Richard Brown (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) | |
| Mark McArdle (Department of Treasury) | |
| [Presentation] | Laura Sullivan (Federal Trade Commission) |
| Paper Session One: Competition and Innovation | |
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Christos Genakos (University of Cambridge), Leveraging Monopoly Power by Limiting Inter-Operability: Theory and Evidence from Computer Markets |
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Jacob Gramlich (Georgetown University), Gas Prices, Fuel Efficiency, and Endogenous Product Choice in the U.S. Automobile Industry |
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| [Paper] [Presentation] | Johannes Van Biesebroeck (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Market Structure and Innovation: A Dynamic Analysis of the Global Automobile Industry |
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| [Presentation] | Keynote Address by Jan Pappalardo (Federal Trade Commission) |
| Paper Session Two: Advertising, Information, and Consumer Behavior | |
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Federico Ciliberto (University of Virginia), Push-Me Pull-You: Comparative Advertising in the OTC Analgesics Industry |
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Brett Wendling (Federal Trade Commission), The Impact of Drug Advertising on Consumer Choice in Health Care |
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Sophia Villas-Boas (University of California – Berkeley), Can Information Costs Confuse Consumer Choice: Nutritional Labels in a Supermarket Experiment |
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| Paper Session Three: Studies in Empirical Industrial Organization | |
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Gregory Lewis (Harvard University), Demand Estimation in Auction Platform Markets |
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Ying Fan (University of Michigan), Market Structure and Product Quality in the U.S. Daily Newspaper Market |
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Mitsukuni Nishida (Johns Hopkins University), Estimating a Model of Strategic Network Choice: The Convenience-Store Industry in Okinawa |
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Presentation: Economic Analysis at the FTC by David Balan (Federal Trade Commission) |
| [Presentation] | Keynote Address by Kyle Bagwell (Stanford University) |
| Paper Session Four: Asymmetric Information and Consumer Choice | |
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Liad Wagman (Illinois Institute of Technology), Who Benefits from Online Privacy? |
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Roman Inderst (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University) and Marco Ottaviani (Northwestern University – Kellogg), How (not) to Pay for Advice: A Framework for Consumer Protection |
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Devin Pope (University of Pennsylvania), What’s in a Picture? Evidence of Discrimination from Prosper.com |
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| Panel Session Two: The Administration’s Innovation Policy: What Is It or What Should It Be? | |
| Joe Farrell (Federal Trade Commission) | |
| Robert Litan (Brookings Institution) | |
| [Presentation] | Thomas Peterson (National Science Foundation) |
| Keynote Address by Howard Shelanski (Federal Trade Commission) | |