Triangle Microeconomics Conference | Economics Department

We are pleased to announce that the Department of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host the 2019 Triangle Microeconomics Conference, which will take place at the Koury Auditorium, Kenan Flagler Business School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on April 5-6, 2019.

The goal of this conference is to provide a forum for economists to present and discuss high quality research. The conference will cover recent academic work in microeconomic theory and industrial organization.

For more information, see our list of presenters for past conferences.

Schedule

Friday, April 5 in Koury Auditorium at Kenan Flagler School of Business

8:00am-9:00am
Breakfast and Welcome
9:00am-9:45am
Laura Doval, California Institute of Technology
Paper: “Mechanism design with limited commitment”
9:45am-10:30am
Ben Handel, University of California, Berkeley
Paper: “What Do Insurers Do Differently From One Another? Productivity, Innovation, and Managed Competition”
10:30am-11:00am
Coffee Break
11:00am-11:45am
Alessandro Pavan, Northwestern University
Paper: “Targeting and price customization in platform markets”
11:45am-12:30pm
Graduate Student Presentations
12:30pm-2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm-2:45pm
Natalie Bachas, Princeton University
Paper: “Market Power and Policy Pass-through in Small Business Lending”
2:45pm-3:30pm
Simon Board, University of California at Los Angeles
Paper: “Learning Dynamics in Social Networks”
3:30pm-4:00pm
Coffee Break
4:00pm-4:45pm
John Asker, Columbia University
Paper: “A Computational Framework for Analyzing Dynamic Procurement Auctions: The Market Impact of Information Sharing”

Saturday, April 6 in Koury Auditorium at Kenan Flagler School of Business

8:00am-9:00am
Breakfast and Welcome
9:00am-9:45am
Paul Scott, New York University Stern School of Business
Paper: “Competition and Investment in Mobile Telecommunications”
9:45am-10:30am
Jidong Zhou, Yale University School of Management
“Information Structure and Price Competition”
10:30am-11:00am
Coffee Break
11:00am-11:45am
JP Dube, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Paper: “Scalable Price Targeting”

11:45am-12:30pm
Marina Halac, Yale University
Paper: “Raising Capital from Heterogeneous Investors”

Registration

Registration for the 2019 Triangle Microeconomics Conference is open. If you have any questions, please contact Fei Li or Jonathan Williams directly.

Travel information

We have blocked rooms at The Carolina Inn at $199/night, for stays of April 4-5; this is competitive with other, more distant hotels in the area. To obtain the group rate, contact The Carolina Inn directly at 919 918 2726 and mention the “Department of Economics”. Reservations at the group rate must be made by February 19, 2019.

For more information on traveling to our department, please see our travel and accommodations page.

Questions?

If you have any questions, please contact Fei Li or Jonathan Williams.