Second Annual UTDT Economics Conference
Conference Program
The Second Annual UTDT Economics Conference will take place on December 16th and 17th 2013, at the university premises in Buenos Aires.
December 16th
08:45-09:00 Opening Remarks
09:00-09:50 "Identification in Auction Models with Interdependent Costs" View Download
Paulo Somaini (MIT)
10:00-10:50 "Complements and Substitutes in Sequential Auctions :The Case of Water Auctions " View Download
Javier Donna (The Ohio State University), and José Antonio Espín Sanchez (Northwestern
University)
10:50-11:10 COFFEE BREAK
11:10-12:00 "Dynamic Collective Choice with Endogenous Status Quo." View Download
Wioletta Dziuda (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) and Antoine Loeper
(Universidad Carlos III)
12:10-13:00 "Segregation, Informativeness and Lorenz Dominance" View Download
Oscar Volij (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) and Cassilda Lasso de la Vega (University of the
Basque Country)
13:00-14:20 LUNCH
14:20-15:10 "Price Discrimination 2.0: The Case of Opaque Bookings in the Hotel Industry" View Download
Mariano Tappata (Sauder School of Business) and Mariano Cossa (Charles Rivers Associates)
16:20-16:10 "Robust Nonparametric Confidence Intervals for Regression-Discontinuity Designs" View Download
Matias Cattaneo (University of Michigan), Sebastian Calonicoy (University of Michigan) and
Rocio Titiunik (University of Michigan)
16:10-16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30-16:20 "External Integration and Internal Development: Evidence from Argentina , 1895-1914"
Pablo Fajgelbaum (UCLA and NBER) and Stephen J. Redding (Princeton University and NBER)
17:30-18:20 "Non-Homothetic Import Demand: Firm Productivity and Quality Bias"
Joaquin Blaum (Brown University), Claire Lelarge (CREST) and Michael Peters (Yale University
and London School of Economics)
We will go to a bar for drinks and then
for dinner.
December 17th
09:00-09:50 "Exchange Rates, Aggregate
Productivity and the Currency of Invoicing of International Trade"
Javier Cravino (UCLA)
10:00-10:50 "Knowing your Neighborhood: Asymmetric Information in Real Estate Markets". View Download
Pablo
Kurlat (Stanford
University) and Johannes Stroebel (NYU
Stern)
10:50-11:10 COFFEE BREAK
11:10-12:00 "Product Market Competition and Industry Returns" View Download
María Cecilia Bustamante (London School of Economics) and Andrés Donangelo (University of
Texas
at Austin)
12:10-13:00 "Mandatory Disclosure and Financial Contagion" View Download
Fernando Alvarez (University of Chicago and NBER), and Gadi Barlevy (Federal Reserve Bank of
Chicago)
13:00-14:20 LUNCH
14:20-15:10 "Trading and Information Diffusion in Over-the-Counter Markets" View Download
Ana
Babus (Imperial College London) and Peter
Kondor (Central European University)
15:20-16:10 "A Model of Monetary Exchange in Over-the-Counter Markets" View Download
Ricardo
Lagos (NYU) and Shengxing Zhang (NYU)
16:10-16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30-17:20 "Price Setting with Customer Retention Concerns" View Download
Nicholas Trachter (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond), Luigi Paciello (Einaudi Institute for
Economics and CEPR) and Andrea Pozzi (Einaudi Institute for Economics)
17:30-18:20 "Zero Lower Bound Depressions" View Download
Martin Beraja (University of Chicago)