2017 HKUST Workshop on Industrial Organization

June 6-7, 2017
Department of Economics, School of Business and Management
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Conference Venue: Room 1005, Lee Shau Kee (LSK) Business Building, HKUST

Program Schedule[PDF version]

Day 1: June 6, 2017 (Tuesday)


8:55-9:00am Opening Remark


9:00-10:00am David Myatt: Playing for the Winning Team: Talent Recruitment and the Success of Competing Organizations (joint with Torun Dewan)


10:00-11:00am Ian Jewitt: Optimal Selection from An Endogenous Pool of Applicants


11:00-11:30am Break


11:30-12:30pm Roland Strausz: Sequential versus Static Screening: An Equivalence Result (joint with Daniel Krähmer)


12:30-2:00pm Lunch


2:00-3:00pm Igal Hendel: The Welfare Impact of Long Term Health Insurance Contracts (joint with Ben Handel and Michael Whinston)


3:00-3:30pm Ke Liu (HKUST PhD student): Dynamic Diminishing Marginal Utility and Tacit Collusion (joint with Yuk-fai Fong)


3:30-4:00pm Break


4:00-4:30pm Zhengqing Gui (HKUST PhD student): Incentive-Compatibility in Financial Contracting with Limited Liability (joint with Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden and Xiaojian Zhao)


4:30-5:30pm Juuso Välimäki: All-Pay Auctions with Affiliated Values (joint with Chang Koo Chi and Pauli Murto)[Download PDF]


5:45pm Departure for dinner



Day 2: June 7, 2017 (Wednesday)


9:00-10:00am Simon Board: Recruiting Talent (joint with Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn and Tomasz Sadzik)


10:00-11:00am Justin Johnson: The Determinants of Product Lines (joint with David P. Myatt) [Download PDF]


11:00-11:30am Break


11:30-12:30pm Yeon-Koo Che: Optimal Sequential Decision with Limited Attention (joint with Konrad Mierendorff)[Download PDF][Supplemental Material]


12:30-1:45pm Lunch


1:45-2:45pm Xavier Vives: Overlapping Ownership, R&D Spillovers, and Antitrust Policy (joint with Ángel L. López)


2:45-3:45pm Bruno Jullien: Privacy Protection (joint with Yassine Lefouili and Michael Riordan) [Download PDF]


3:45-4:15pm Break


4:15-5:15pm Guofu Tan: Nonlinear Pricing under Asymmetric Competition with Complete Information (joint with Yong Chao and Adam Wong)


5:15-5:45pm Yuk-fai Fong: Consumers' Trust of Multi-attribute Experience-good Seller (joint with Xiaoxuan Meng, Ting Liu and Yimeng Zhang)


5:45-5:50pm Closing Remark


6:00pm Departure for dinner