Cornell/Penn State Conference on Econometrics and IO, 2015

Location

225 ILR Conference Center · King-Shaw Hall · 140 Garden Avenue · Ithaca, NY 14853

Schedule

Friday, October 23

11:00–12:00 — Keynote
Steve Berry (Yale), Empirical Models of Differentiated Products

12:00–1:00 — Lunch

1:00–1:55
Bernard Salanié (Columbia), The Informational Content of Mixed Logit

1:55–2:25
Peter Newberry (Penn State), Sales Tax, E-commerce and Amazon’s Fulfillment Center Network, with J. F. Haude and K. Seim

2:25–2:45 — Coffee break

2:45–3:40
Aureo de Paula (UCL), Identifying and Estimating Social Connections from Outcome Data, with I. Rasul and P. Souza

3:40–4:10
Ron Gallant (Penn State), Reflections on the Probability Space Induced by Moment Conditions with Implications for Bayesian Inference

4:10–4:30 — Coffee break

4:30–5:25
Bryan Graham (Berkeley), An Econometric Model of Link Formation with Degree Heterogeneity

5:25–5:55
Shanjun Li (Cornell), Better Lucky Than Rich? Welfare Analysis of Automobile License Allocations in Beijing and Shanghai

7:00 — Dinner

Saturday, October 24

8:30–9:00 — Breakfast

9:00–9:55
Allan Collard-Wexler (Duke), Production Function Estimation with Measurement Error in Inputs, with Jan De Loecker

9:55–10:25
Martin Hackmann (Penn State), Incentivizing Better Quality of Care: The Role of Medicaid and Competition in the Nursing Home Industry

10:25–10:45 — Coffee break

10:45–11:40
Tom Wollmann (Chicago Booth), Trucks Without Bailouts: Equilibrium Product Characteristics for Commercial Vehicles

11:40–12:10
Sung Jae Jun (Penn State), Counterfactual Experiments in Games with Unknown Equilibrium Selection: A Maximum-Entropy Approach, with J. Pinkse

12:15 — Lunch