Seminar: Current Research in Industrial Economics A. Organization I. Dates - Kick-off meeting and allocation of papers: 19.2.2016, 12:00, room 3.206, SSC. - Students have to choose a paper from the list below. Students may also voluntarily propose article(s) they are interested in. - Students have to hand in a referee report. - The seminar will be held as a block seminar on 28.4.2016 (9:00-17:00) and 29.4.2016 (9:0017:00). II. Referee report - The report should be written in English and not exceed 10 pages. - The referee report should describe the content of the paper, the contribution to the literature as well as an evaluation of the paper. III. Presentation - The presentation on 28./29.4.2016 should take 50 min (30 min of presentation and 20 min of discussion). B. Paper I. Theoretical Paper Insulated Platform Competition E. Glenn Weyl, Alex White (2012), Working Paper The strategic use of download limits by a monopoly platform Economides, Nicholas, and Benjamin E. Hermalin, The RAND Journal of Economics 46.2 (2015): 297-327. Either or Both Competition: A" Two-Sided" Theory of Advertising with Overlapping Viewerships Ambrus, Attila, Emilio Calvano, and Markus Reisinger, Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper 170 (2014), Forthcoming AEJ The Limits of Price Discrimination Bergemann, Dirk, Benjamin Brooks, and Stephen Morris, 2015, American Economic Review, 105(3): 921-57. Suspense and Surprise Ely, Jeffrey, Alexander Frankel, and Emir Kamenica, Journal of Political Economy 123.1 (2015): 215-260. Network competition with income effects Tangerås, T. P. (2014), The RAND Journal of Economics, 45: 645–673. http://crm.sem.tsinghua.edu.c n/UploadFiles/File/201412/20 141229164937860.pdf http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com /doi/10.1111/17562171.12087/full http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/P apers.cfm?abstract_id=24468 67 http://www.benjaminbrooks.n et/downloads/bbm_limits.pdf http://www.jstor.org/stable/1 0.1086/677350?seq=1#page_s can_tab_contents http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com /doi/10.1111/17562171.12066/abstract The welfare effects of third-degree price discrimination in http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com intermediate good markets: the case of bargaining /doi/10.1111/1756O'Brien, D. P. (2014), The RAND Journal of Economics, 45: 92–115. 2171.12043/abstract Vertical Relations under Credit Constraints Nocke, V. and Thanassoulis, J. (2014), Journal of the European Economic Association, 12: 337–367. Sales and Collusion in a Market with Storage Nava, F. and Schiraldi, P. (2014), Journal of the European Economic Association, 12: 791–832. Competition under consumer loss aversion Karle, H. and Peitz, M. (2014), The RAND Journal of Economics, 45: 1–31. Naked exclusion with minimum-share requirements Chen, Z. and Shaffer, G. (2014), The RAND Journal of Economics, 45: 64–91. Market structure and the competitive effects of vertical integration Loertscher, S. and Reisinger, M. (2014), The RAND Journal of Economics, 45: 471–494. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com /doi/10.1111/jeea.12067/abst ract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com /doi/10.1111/jeea.12046/abst ract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com /doi/10.1111/17562171.12040/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com /doi/10.1111/17562171.12042/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com /doi/10.1111/17562171.12058/abstract New, Like New, or Very Good? Reputation and Credibility http://restud.oxfordjournals.o Jullien, Bruno and In-Uck Park (2014), The Review of Economic rg/content/81/4/1543.abstrac Studies 81: 1543-1574. t The Political Economy of Regulation in Markets with naïve Consumers Warren, P. L. and Wood, D. H. (2014), Journal of the European Economic Association, 12: 1617–1642. Efficient Entry in Competing Auctions Albrecht, James, Pieter A. Gautier, and Susan Vroman (2014), American Economic Review, 104(10): 3288-96. Optimal auction design in two-sided markets Gomes, R. (2014), Optimal auction design in two-sided markets. The RAND Journal of Economics, 45: 248–272. Insulated Platform Competition White, A. and Weyl, E. G. (2012), NET Institute Working Paper No. 10-17. Pass-Through as an Economic Tool: Principles of Incidence under Imperfect Competition Weyl, E. G. and Fabinger, M. (2013), Journal of Political Economy, 121 (3), Forthcoming. Multiproduct Retailing Rhodes, A. (2015), Review of Economic Studies, 82 (1): 360-390. Targeted advertising and advertising avoidance Johnson, J. P. (2013), RAND Journal of Economics, 44: 128-144. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com /doi/10.1111/jeea.12087/abst ract https://www.aeaweb.org/artic les.php?doi=10.1257/aer.104. 10.3288 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com /doi/10.1111/17562171.12050/abstract http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/p apers.cfm?abstract_id=16943 17 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/p apers.cfm?abstract_id=13244 26 http://restud.oxfordjournals.o rg/content/82/1/360.abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com /doi/10.1111/17562171.12014/abstract The Economics of Network Neutrality http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/p Economides, N. and Hermalin, B. E. (2012), RAND Journal of apers.cfm?abstract_id=17239 Economics, 2012; NET Institute Working Paper No. 10-25; NYU Law 45 and Economics Research Paper No. 10-57. Competition for attention in the Information (overload) Age http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com Anderson, S. P. and de Palma, A. (2012), RAND Journal of /doi/10.1111/j.1756Economics, 43: 1–25. 2171.2011.00155.x/abstract II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. XV. XVI. XVII. XVIII. XIX. Empirical Paper The Effects of Mergers on Product Positioning: Evidence from the Music Radio Industry Sweeting, A. (2010), RAND Journal of Economics,41(2) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com /doi/10.1111/j.17562171.2010.00104.x/full Dynamic Product Positioning in Differentiated Product Industries: The Effect of Fees for Musical Performance Rights on the Commercial Radio Industry Sweeting, A. (2013), Econometrica,81(5):1763-1803 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com /doi/10.3982/ECTA7473/abstr act Do Mergers Increase Product Variety? Evidence From Radio Broadcasting Berry, S.T., and J. Waldfogel (2001), The Quarterly Journal of Economics 116, 1009-1025 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2 696424?seq=1#page_scan_ta b_contents Productivity and Quality in Health Care: Evidence from the Dialysis Industry Paul Grieco and Ryan C. McDevitt, December 2015 (working paper – available on his website) Borders, Geography, and Oligopoly: Evidence from the Wind Turbine Industry (and Online Appendix) A. Cosar, P. Grieco and F.Tintelnot, Review of Economics and Statistics, 97(3): 623-637, July 2015. http://www.personal.psu.edu /plg15/gm_dialysis_Dec2015. pdf How Do Electricity Shortages Affect Industry? Evidence from India Allcott, Hunt, Allan Collard-Wexler, and Stephen D. O'Connell (2015)." American Economic Review, forthcoming. (codes for replication on website) Pass-Through of Emissions Costs in Electricity Markets Fabra, Natalia, and Mar Reguant. "" The American Economic Review 104.9 (2014): 2872-2899. Innovation, reallocation and growth Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Nicholas Bloom and William Kerr, Working Paper, No. w18993, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2013. What Drives Home Market Advantage? Kerem Cosar, Paul Grieko Shengyu Li, and Felix Tintelnot, Working Paper, No. w21583, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015. Usage-Based Pricing and Demand for Residential Broadband, Nevo, Aviv and Turner, John L. and Williams, Jonathan W., UsageBased Pricing and Demand for Residential Broadband (October 2015). Econometrica, Forthcoming. http://www.personal.psu.edu /plg15/cgt_wind_May2014.pd f http://www.personal.psu.edu /plg15/cgt_wind_appendix.pd f http://www.nber.org/papers/ w19977 https://docs.google.com/view er?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGV mYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxuYXRhb GlhZmFicmF8Z3g6NmFhYmVh NWE4NTdkN2RhMw http://www.nber.org/papers/ w18993 http://www.personal.psu.edu /plg15/cglt_cars_Sep2015.pdf http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/p apers.cfm?abstract_id=23304 26 XX. Prices, Markups and Trade Reform Jan De Loecker, Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Amit K. Khandelwal, Nina Pavcnik, Working Paper, July 2015, Forthcoming in Econometrica. http://www.nber.org/papers/ w17925 XXI. Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry Nickolas Bloom, Mark Schankerman and John Van Reenen, Econometrica, Vol. 81, No. 4 (July, 2013), 1347–1393 https://people.stanford.edu/n bloom/sites/default/files/bsv. pdf Uncertainty and Investment Dynamics Nick Bloom, Steve Bond and John Van Reenen, Review of Economic Studies (2007) 74, 391–415. https://people.stanford.edu/n bloom/sites/default/files/roes _7923.pdf Estimation of cost efficiencies from mergers: application to US http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com radio /doi/10.1111/1756Jeziorski, P. (2014), The RAND Journal of Economics, 45: 816–846. 2171.12072/abstract Quantifying search and switching costs in the US auto insurance http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com industry /doi/10.1111/1756Honka, E. (2014), The RAND Journal of Economics, 45: 847–884. 2171.12073/abstract Resale and Rent-Seeking: An Application to Ticket Markets http://restud.oxfordjournals.o Leslie, Phillip and Alan Sorensen (2013), The Review of Economic rg/content/81/1/266.abstract Studies 81: 266-300. Adverse selection in the used-car market: evidence from purchase and repair patterns in the Consumer Expenditure Survey Peterson, J. R. and Schneider, H. S. (2014), The RAND Journal of Economics, 45: 140–154. Do Consumers Respond to Marginal or Average Price? Evidence from Nonlinear Electricity Pricing Ito, Koichiro (2014), American Economic Review, 104(2): 537-63. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com /doi/10.1111/17562171.12045/abstract https://www.aeaweb.org/artic les.php?doi=10.1257/aer.104. 2.537 Ownership Consolidation and Product Characteristics: A Study of http://www.ingentaconnect.c the US Daily Newspaper Market om/content/aea/aer/2013/00 Fan, Y. 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