Masterclass: Empirical Industrial Organization and Finance by Alessandro Gavazza (LSE)

Session 1: 14:00-16:00

Welcome reception & dinner (by invitation): from 19.00

Session 1: 9.30 - 11.00

Estimating Discrete Games with Many Firms and Many Decisions: An Application to Merger and Product Variety by Ying Fan (Michigan), joint with Chenyu Yang (Maryland)
Self-preferencing, Quality Provision, and Welfare in Mobile Application Markets by Xuan Teng (LMU)

Refinancing Cross-Subsidies in the Mortgage Market by Alessandro Gavazza (LSE), joint with Jack Fisher (LSE), Lu Liu (U. of Pennsylvania, Wharton), Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial College Business Schoo) and Jagdish Tripathy (Bank of England)
Bank Branching Strategies in the 1997 Thai Financial Crisis and Local Access to Credit by Christoph Walsh (Tilburg), joint with Marc Rysman and Robert M. Townsend.

Insider and outsider careers in executive management by Robert Miller (CMU Tepper), joint with Andrea Flores, George-Levi Gayle and Limor Golan.
Customers as buffer, by Andrea Pozzi (EIEF) joint with Massimiliano Affinito (Bank of Italy), Marco Di Maggio (HBS), Luigi Guiso (EIEF) and Fadi Hassan (Bank of Italy).

Session 4: 9.00 - 10.30

Search Frictions and Product Design in the Municipal Bond Market by Giulia Brancaccio (NYU Stern), joint with Karam Kang (CMU)
London Sorting: a BLP model of location choice of heterogeneous workers in London by Lars Nesheim (UCL)

Influencer Cartels by Marit Hinnosaar (Nottingham), joint with Toomas Hinnosaar.

What can Greek islands teach us about pass-through and competition? by Christos Genakos (Cambridge Judge).