CONFERENCE IN STRUCTURAL MICROECONOMICS
June 3–4, 2013

Location: YALE SOM, Watson Center, 60 Sachem St., Room A51
Organizers: Phil Haile and Peter Arcidiacono

Monday 8:00 – 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00 Rasmus Lentz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Optimal Wage-Tenure Contracts without Search Intensity Commitment"
10:00 – 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 – 11:15 Andrew Ching, University of Toronto, "Dynamic Demand for New and Used Durable Goods without Physical Depreciation: The Case of Japanese Video Games" (with Masakazu Ishihara, NYU Stern)
11:15 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania, "Equilibrium Labor Market Search and Health Insurance Reform" (with Naoki Aizawa, University of Pennsylvania)
12:30 – 1:45 Lunch
1:45 – 2:45 Stephan Seiler, Stanford University, "Free to Choose? Reform and Demand Response in the English National Health Service" (with Martin Gaynor, Carnegie Mellon University and Carol Propper, University of Bristol)
2:45 – 3:00 Coffee Break
3:00 – 4:00 Limor Golan, Washington University-St. Louis, "What Accounts for the Racial Gap in Time Allocation and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital?" (with George-Levi Gayle, Washington University-St. Louis and Mehmet Soytas, Ozyegin University)
6:00 Dinner, Union League Café, 1032 Chapel Street
Tuesday 8:00 – 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00 Che-Lin Su, University of Chicago Booth, "Estimating Dynamic Discrete-Choice Games of Incomplete Information" (with Michael Egesdal, Harvard University and Zhenyu Lai, Harvard University)
10:00 – 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 – 11:15 Jaap Abbring, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, "Very Simple Markov-Perfect Industry Dynamics" (with Jeffrey Campbell, Feberal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Jan Tilly, University of Pennsylvania and Nan Yang, National University of Singapore Business School)
11:15 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 Jonathan James, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, "Learning and Occupational Sorting"
12:30 – 1:45 Lunch
1:45 – 2:45 Jakub Kastl, Stanford University, "Liquidity Auctions, Fixed Rate Tenders, Bailouts & Systemic Risk in EURO Zone" (with Nuno Cassola, European Central Bank and Ali Hortaçsu, University of Chicago)
2:45 – 3:00 Coffee Break
3:00 – 4:00 Patrick Bayer, Duke University, "Endogenous Sources of Volatility in Housing Markets: The Joint Buyer-Seller Problem" (with Elliot Anenberg, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Washington, DC)

PARTICIPANTS

Jaap Abbring, Tilburg School of Economics and Management
Naoki Aizawa, University of Pennsylvania
Joseph Altonji, Yale University
Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University
Jorge Balat, Johns Hopkins University
Patrick Bayer, Duke University
Steven Berry, Yale University
Marianne Bruins, Yale University
Xiaohong Chen, Yale University
Andrew Ching, University of Toronto
Chris Conlon, Columbia University
Uli Doraszelski, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Egesdal, Harvard University
Ying Fan, University of Michigan
Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania
Chao Fu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Amit Gandhi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jonah Gelbach, Yale University
Kenneth Gillingham, Yale University
Limor Golan, Washington University-St. Louis
Mitch Hoffman, Yale University
Philip Haile, Yale University
Mitsuru Igami, Yale University
Fedor Iskhakov, University of Oslo
Jonathan James, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Jihye Jeon, NYU Stern
Przemyslaw Jeziorski, UC Berkeley
Jakub Kastl, Stanford University
John Kennan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alvin Klevorick, Yale University
Samuel Kortum, Yale University
Ahmed Khwaja, Yale School of Management
Zhenyu Lai, Harvard University
Amanda Kowalski, Yale University
Margaret Leighton, Toulouse School of Economics
Rasmus Lentz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania
Robert Miller, Carnegie Mellon University
Juan Pantano, Washington University
Nick Papageorge, Johns Hopkins University
Mar Reguant, Stanford University
Jean-Marc Robin, Sciences-Po
Camilla Roncoroni, Yale University
John Rust, Georgetown University
Marcel Sant'Anna, Yale University
Bertel Schjerning, University of Copenhagen
Stephan Seiler, Stanford University
Paulo Somaini, MIT
Kyungchul (Kevin) Song, University of British Columbia
Steve Stern, University of Virginia
Che-Lin Su, University of Chicago Booth
K. Sudhir, Yale University
Chris Taber,  University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nathan Yang, Yale University
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