Market design at the AEA meetings in Boston

Here are some market-design-related sessions that caught my eye on first glance through the big program. (Three of them are at the same time:)

Jan 03, 2015 8:00 am, Hynes Convention Center, Room 209 
American Economic Association

Empirical Market Design (D4)

Presiding: RAMESH JOHARI (Stanford University)

Quality Externalities and the Limits of Reputation in Two-Sided Markets

CHRIS NOSKO (University of Chicago)

STEVEN TADELIS (University of California-Berkeley)

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At What Quality and What Price? Inducing Separating Equilibria as a Market Design Problem

JOHN JOSEPH HORTON (New York University)

RAMESH JOHARI (Stanford University)

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Changing the Course Allocation Mechanism at Wharton

ERIC BUDISH (University of Chicago)

JUDD KESSLER (University of Pennsylvania)

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The Economics of the Common Application

CHRISTOPHER AVERY (Harvard University)

PARAG A. PATHAK (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Discussants:

ALI HORTACSU (University of Chicago)

STEVEN TADELIS (University of California-Berkeley)

EDUARDO AZEVEDO (University of Pennsylvania)

ERIC BUDISH (University of Chicago)

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Jan 03, 2015 2:30 pm, Sheraton Boston, Beacon E 
Econometric Society

Empirical Analyses of Selling Mechanisms in Dynamic Environments (D4)

Presiding: GLENN ELLISON (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

An Empirical Analysis of Informationally Restricted Dynamic Auctions of Used Cars

SUNGJIN CHO (Seoul National University)

HARRY JOHN PAARSCH (Amazon)

JOHN RUST (Georgetown University)

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Invest in Information or Wing It? A Model of Dynamic Pricing with Seller Learning

GUOFANG HUANG (Carnegie Mellon University)

HONG LUO (Harvard Business School)

JING XIA (Harvard University)

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Primary-Market Auctions for Event Tickets: Eliminating the Rents of "Bob the Broker"

ERIC BUDISH (University of Chicago)

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Discussants:

JAKUB KASTL (Stanford University)

BRADLEY LARSEN (Stanford University)

GLENN ELLISON (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Jan 04, 2015 8:00 am, Hynes Convention Center, Room 206 
American Economic Association

Electronic Commerce and Big Data (L8, M2)

Presiding: JUSTIN RAO (Microsoft Research)

Sales Taxes Shielding on the Amazon.com Platform

ALEJANDRO MOLNAR (Vanderbilt University)

PAULO SOMAINI (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Salience and Quality Choice

BRADLEY LARSEN (Stanford University )

DOMINIC COEY (eBay Research Labs)

KANE SWEENEY (eBay Research Labs)

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Do-Not-Track and the Economics of Third-Party Advertising

GIORGOS ZERVAS (Boston University)

JUSTIN RAO (Microsoft Research)

SHARAD GOEL (Microsoft Research)

CEREN BUDAK (Microsoft Research)

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Big Data to the Rescue? Machine Learning and Causal Inference in Online Advertising

RANDALL LEWIS (Google, Inc.)

MICHAEL HANKIN (University of Southern California)

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Discussants:

DAVID REILEY (Google, Inc.)

MICHAEL OSTROVSKY (Stanford University)

STEVEN TADELIS (University of California-Berkeley and eBay Research Labs)

DENIS NEKIPELOV (University of California-Berkeley)

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Jan 04, 2015 10:15 am, Sheraton Boston, Commonwealth 
American Economic Association

Moral Values and Economic Behavior (A1, Z1)

Presiding: ALVIN E. ROTH (Stanford University)

Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth

ROLAND BENABOU (Princeton University)

DAVIDE TICCHI (Institute for Advanced Studies-Lucca)

ANDREA VINDIGNI (Institute for Advanced Studies-Lucca)

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Combating Vote-Selling: A Field Experiment in the Philippines

ALLEN HICKEN (University of Michigan)

STEPHEN LEIDER (University of Michigan)

NICO RAVANILLA (University of Michigan)

DEAN YANG (University of Michigan)

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More Money, More Problems? Can High Pay Be Coercive And Repugnant?

SANDRO AMBUEHL (Stanford University)

MURIEL NIEDERLE (Stanford University)

ALVIN E. ROTH (Stanford University)

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Are Attitudes about Morally Controversial Transactions Affected by Information? The Case of Payments for Human Organs

JULIO J. ELIAS (Universidad del CEMA)

NICOLA LACETERA (University of Toronto)

MARIO MACIS (Johns Hopkins University)

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Discussants:

ANDREI SHLEIFER (Harvard University)

JUDD KESSLER (University of Pennsylvania)

THEODORE BERGSTROM (University of California-Santa Barbara)

RODNEY GARRATT (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

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Jan 04, 2015 10:15 am, Boston Marriott Copley, Vermont 
Economic Science Association

Political Engineering (D7, D6)

Presiding: T. NICOLAUS TIDEMAN (Virginia Tech)

Quadratic Voting

STEVEN P. LALLEY (University of Chicago)

E. GLEN WEYL (Microsoft Research New England)

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Aggregating Local Preferences To Guide Policy

DANIEL BENJAMIN (Cornell University)

GABRIEL CARROLL (Stanford University)

ORI HEFFETZ (Cornell University)

MILES KIMBALL (University of Michigan)

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Storable Votes and Judicial Nominations in the United States Senate.

ALESSANDRA CASELLA (Columbia University)

SEBASTIEN TURBAN (California Institute of Tecnology)

GREGORY WAWRO (Columbia University)

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Purchasing Votes without Cash: Implementing Quadratic Voting Outside the Lab

ROMAN DAVID ZARATE (University of California-Berkeley)

CESAR MANTILLA (Toulouse School of Economics)

JUAN CAMILO CÁRDENAS (Universidad de los Andes)

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Discussants:

ERIC S. MASKIN (Harvard University)

RICHARD J. ZECKHAUSER (Harvard University)

JOHN MORGAN (University of California-Berkeley)

ERIK SNOWBERG (California Institute of Technology)

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Jan 04, 2015 10:15 am, Boston Marriott Copley, Simmons 
Industrial Organization Society

Frontiers of Empirical Industrial Organization (L1)

Presiding: MARC RYSMAN (Boston University)

Drip Pricing When Consumers Have Limited Foresight: Evidence from Driving School Fees

DAVID MUIR (University of Pennsylvania)

KATJA SEIM (University of Pennsylvania)

MARIA ANA VITORINO (University of Minnesota)

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The Welfare Effects of Congestion in Uncoordinated Assignment: Evidence from the NYC HS Match

ATILA ABDULKADIROGLU (Duke University)

NIKHIL AGARWAL (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

PARAG A. PATHAK (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Deposit Competition and Financial Fragility: Evidence from the United States Banking Sector

MARK EGAN (University of Chicago)

ALI HORTACSU (University of Chicago)

GREGOR MATVOS (University of Chicago)

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Information Frictions and the Welfare Consequences of Adverse Selection

BENJAMIN HANDEL (University of California-Berkeley)

JONATHAN KOLSTAD (University of Pennsylvania)

JOHANNES SPINNEWIJN (London School of Economics)

Discussants:

CHRIS CONLON (Columbia University)

FRANCESCO DECAROLIS (Boston University)

GINGER ZHE JIN (University of Maryland)

DAN ACKERBERG (University of Michigan)

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Jan 04, 2015 12:30 pm, Sheraton Boston, Riverway 
Korea-America Economic Association/American Economic Association

The Economics of the Internet (L8, D8)

Presiding: JAY PIL CHOI (University New South Wales and Michigan State University)

Social Media and News Consumption

SUSAN ATHEY (Stanford University)

MARKUS MOBIUS (Microsoft Research)

JENO PAL (Central European University)

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Net Neutrality, Business Models, and Internet Interconnection

JAY PIL CHOI (University New South Wales and Michigan State University)

DOH-SHIN JEON (Toulouse School of Economics)

BYUNG-CHEOL KIM (Georgia Institute of Technology)

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Match Quality, Search, and the Internet Market for Used Books

GLENN ELLISON (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

SARA ELLISON (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Online Search

THOMAS BLAKE (eBay Research Labs)

CHRIS NOSKO (University of Chicago)

STEVEN TADELIS (University of California-Berkeley)

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Discussants:

KYOO IL KIM (Michigan State University)

JOSHUA GANS (University of Toronto)

MINJAE SONG (Bates White)

YUN JEONG CHOI (Yonsei University)

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Jan 04, 2015 2:30 pm, Hynes Convention Center, Room 204 
American Economic Association

Recent Advances in the Analysis of Auction Data (L1, D4)

Presiding: KEN HENDRICKS (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

The Bidder Exclusion Effect

DOMINIC COEY (eBay Research Labs)

BRADLEY LARSEN (Stanford University)

KANE SWEENEY (eBay Research Labs)

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Collusion and Reciprocity in First-Price Procurements

PAULO SOMAINI (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Simultaneous First-Price Auctions with Preferences over Combinations

MATTHEW GENTRY (London School of Economics)

TATIANA KOMAROVA (London School of Economics)

PASQUALE SCHIRALDI (London School of Economics)

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A Simple Test for Moment Inequality Models with an Application to English Auctions

ANDRES ARADILLAS-LOPEZ (Pennsylvania State University)

AMIT GANDHI (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

DANIEL QUINT (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

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Discussants:

TATIANA KOMAROVA (London School of Economics)

SERAFIN GRUNDL (Federal Reserve Board)

PAULO SOMAINI (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

ALEJANDRO MOLNAR (Vanderbilt University)

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an 04, 2015 2:30 pm, Sheraton Boston, Beacon F 
Econometric Society

Advances in Collusion and Antitrust Policy (K2, L4)

Presiding: JUDITH CHEVALIER (Yale University)

Co-Opetition: Some Antitrust of Arrangements Between Competitors

JEAN TIROLE (Toulouse School of Economics)

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Effects of Antitrust Leniency on Concealment Effort by Colluding Firms

LESLIE MARX (Duke University)

CLAUDIO MEZZETTI (University of Melbourne)

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Cooperation, R&D Spillovers and Antitrust Policy

ANGEL LOPEZ (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

XAVIER VIVES (IESE Business School)

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Discussants:

BARRY NALEBUFF (Yale University)

JOSEPH E. HARRINGTON (University of Pennsylvania)

LUIS CABRAL (New York University)

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Jan 05, 2015 8:00 am, Sheraton Boston, Constitution Ballroom B 
American Economic Association

Patent Economics (K2, O3)

Presiding: JOSHUA LERNER (Harvard University)

Standard-Essential Patents

JOSHUA LERNER (Harvard University)

JEAN TIROLE (Toulouse School of Economics)

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Do Firms Underinvest in Long-Term Research? Evidence from Cancer Clinical Trials

ERIC BUDISH (University of Chicago)

BENJAMIN ROIN (Harvard University)

HEIDI WILLIAMS (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Innovation: Evidence from TRIPS

MARGARET KYLE (Toulouse School of Economics)

YI QIAN (Northwestern University)

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Discussants:

UFUK AKCIGIT (University of Pennsylvania)

PETRA MOSER (Stanford University)

PIERRE AZOULAY (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

LOUIS KAPLOW (Harvard University)

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Jan 05, 2015 8:00 am, Sheraton Boston, Beacon G 
Econometric Society

Theory of Matching Markets (C1)

Presiding: RAMESH JOHARI (Stanford University)

Stable Matching in Large Economies

YEON-KOO CHE (Columbia University)

JINWOO KIM (Seoul National University)

FUHITO KOJIMA (Stanford University)

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Efficiency and Stability in Large Matching Markets

YEON-KOO CHE (Columbia University)

OLIVIER TERCIEUX (Paris School of Economics)

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Managing Congestion in Dynamic Matching Markets

NICK ARNOSTI (Stanford University)

RAMESH JOHARI (Stanford University)

YASH KANORIA (Columbia University)

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Matching with Peers in School Choice

ATILA ABDULKADIROGLU (Duke University)

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Discussants:

PARAG A. PATHAK (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

ITAI ASHLAGI (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

JOHN JOSEPH HORTON (New York University)

JACOB LESHNO (Columbia University)

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