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Conference on Structural Microeconomics

June 11 – 12, 2015

Watson Center, 60 Sachem Street, Room A51 [Map]

Organizers: Steven Berry and Philip Haile

*Speaker, when more than one author listed

 THURSDAY
8:30 Breakfast
9:15 Caterina Calsamiglia (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) *Chao Fu (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and Maia Güell (University of Edinburgh), “Structural Estimation of a Model of School Choices: the Boston Mechanism vs. Its Alternatives
    Discussant: Paulo Somaini (Stanford University-GSB/Yale University)
10:15 Coffee
10:30 Przemyslaw Jeziorski (University of California-Berkeley), *Elena Krasnokutskaya (Johns Hopkins University), and Olivia Ceccarini (Porto Business School), “Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard in the Dynamic Model of Auto Insurance”
    Discussant: Jaap Abbring (Tilburg University)
11:30 Coffee
11:45 Mariacristina De Nardi (University College London), *Eric French (University College London), and John Bailey Jones (University at Albany), “Medicaid Insurance in Old Age
    Discussant: Joseph Altonji (Yale University)
12: 45 Lunch
2:00 Antonio Merlo and *Xun Tang (Rice University), “Bargaining with Heterogeneous Beliefs: A Structural Analysis of Medical Malpractice Lawsuits in Florida
    Discussant: Victor Aguirregabiria (University of Toronto)
3:00 Coffee
3:15 *Gautam Gowrisankaran (University of Arizona), Marc Rysman (Boston University), and Wei Yu (Boston University), “Computing Price-Cost Margins in a Durable Goods Environment”
    Discussant: Chris Conlon (Columbia University)
6:30 Dinner, Union League Café, 1032 Chapel Street
 FRIDAY
8:30 Breakfast
9:15 Kate Ho (Columbia University) and *Robin Lee (Harvard University), “Insurer Competition in Health Care Markets
    Discussant: Robert Town (University of Pennsylvania-Wharton)
10:15 Coffee
10:30 Hanming Fang and *Andrew Shephard (University of Pennsylvania), “Joint Household Labor Supply and Health Care Reform”
    Discussant: Jonathan Kolstad (University of Pennsylvania-Wharton)
11:30 Coffee
11:45 John Kennan (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Spatial Variation in Higher Education Financing and the Supply of College Graduates
    Discussant: Rebecca Diamond (Stanford University-GSB)
12:45 Lunch
2:00 Pierre Dubois and *Thierry Magnac (Toulouse School of Economics), “Consumer Demand with Unobserved Stockpiling and Intertemporal Price Discrimination”
    Discussant: Daniel Ackerberg (University of Michigan)
3:00 Coffee
3:30 Vilsa Curto, *Liran Einav, Jonathan Levin, and Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford University), “Can Health Insurance Competition Work? Evidence from Medicare Advantage
    Discussant: Kate Ho (Columbia University)
4:30 Adjourn

Participants

Jaap Abbring (Tilburg University)
Daniel  Ackerberg (University of Michigan)
Nikhil Agarwal (MIT)
Victor Aguirregabiria (University of Toronto)
Joseph Altonji (Yale University)
Noriko Amano Patino (Yale University)
Peter Arcidiacono (Duke University)
Steven Berry (Yale University)
Maliheh Birjandi (Yale University)
Marc Chan (University of Technolgy, Sydney)
Andrew Ching (University of Toronto)
Giovanni Compiani (Yale University)
Chris Conlon (Columbia University)
Jan De Loecker (Princeton University)
Rebecca  Diamond (Stanford University-GSB)
Liran Einav (Stanford University)
Alon Eizenberg (Hebrew University)
Ying Fan (University of Michigan)
Hanming Fang (University of Pennsylvania)
Jeremy Fox (University of Michigan)
Eric French (University College London)
Chao Fu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Amit Gandhi (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Julia Garlick (Yale University)
Eric Gautier (Toulouse School of Economics)
Martin Gaynor (Carnegie Mellon University)
Penny Goldberg (Yale University)
Gautam Gowrisankaran (University of Arizona)
Phil Haile (Yale University)
Yinghua He (Toulouse School of Economics)
Sebastian Heise (Yale University)
Katherine Ho (Columbia University)
Matthew Hom (Yale University)
Jean-François Houde (University of Pennsylvania-Wharton)
Przemyslaw Jeziorski (University of California-Berkeley)
Aigerim Kabdiyeva (Yale University)
Hiroaki Kaido (Boston University)
Karam Kang (Carnegie Mellon University)
John Kennan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Jonathan Kolstad (University of Pennsylvania-Wharton)
Elena Krasnokutskaya (Johns Hopkins University)
John Lazarev (New York University)
Robin Lee (Harvard University)
Hyunwoo Lim (Ajou University)
Costas Meghir (Yale University)
Thierry Magnac (Toulouse School of Economics)
Robert Miller (Carnegie Mellon University)
Eduardo Morales (Princeton University)
Monica Morlacco (Yale University)
Giuseppe Moscarini (Yale University)
Christopher Neilson (New York University-Stern)
Yin Jia Qiu (Yale University)
Ana Reynoso (Yale University)
Marcelo Sant'Anna (Yale University)
Andrew Shephard (University of Pennsylvania)
Paulo Somaini (Stanford University-GSB/Yale University)
Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues (University of Toronto)
Meredith Startz (Yale University)
Steven Stern (University of Virginia)
K. Sudhir (Yale University)
Xun Tang (Rice University)
Robert Town (University of Pennsylvania-Wharton)
Kosuke Uetake (Yale University)
Hans-Martin von Gaudecker (Bonn University)
Xinyang Wang (Yale University)
Yujung Whang (Yale University)
Chenyu Yang (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
Ali Yurukoglu (Stanford University-GSB)