Second Annual UTDT Economics Conference

 Conference Program 

The Second Annual UTDT Economics Conference will take place on December 16th and 17th 2013, at the university premises in Buenos Aires. 

December 16th

08:45-09:00 Opening Remarks

09:00-09:50 "Identification in Auction Models with Interdependent Costs" View Download

                   Paulo Somaini (MIT)

10:00-10:50 "Complements and Substitutes in Sequential Auctions :The Case of Water Auctions "  View Download

                   Javier Donna (The Ohio State University), and José Antonio Espín Sanchez (Northwestern

                   University)

10:50-11:10  COFFEE BREAK

11:10-12:00 "Dynamic Collective Choice with Endogenous Status Quo."  View Download 

                   Wioletta Dziuda (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) and Antoine Loeper

                   (Universidad Carlos III)

12:10-13:00 "Segregation, Informativeness and Lorenz Dominance" View Download 

                   Oscar Volij (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) and Cassilda Lasso de la Vega (University of the

                   Basque Country)

13:00-14:20 LUNCH

14:20-15:10 "Price Discrimination 2.0: The Case of Opaque Bookings in the Hotel Industry" View Download

                   Mariano Tappata (Sauder School of Business) and Mariano Cossa (Charles Rivers Associates) 

16:20-16:10 "Robust Nonparametric Confidence Intervals for Regression-Discontinuity Designs" View Download 

                   Matias Cattaneo (University of Michigan), Sebastian Calonicoy (University of Michigan) and

                   Rocio Titiunik (University of Michigan)

16:10-16:30 COFFEE BREAK

16:30-16:20 "External Integration and Internal Development: Evidence from Argentina , 1895-1914"  

                   Pablo Fajgelbaum (UCLA and NBER) and Stephen J. Redding (Princeton University and NBER)

17:30-18:20 "Non-Homothetic Import Demand: Firm Productivity and Quality Bias"

                   Joaquin Blaum (Brown University), Claire Lelarge (CREST) and Michael Peters (Yale University

                   and London School of Economics) 

We will go to a bar for drinks and then for dinner.

December 17th 

09:00-09:50 "Exchange Rates, Aggregate Productivity and the Currency of Invoicing of International Trade"

                  View Download 

                  Javier Cravino (UCLA)

10:00-10:50 "Knowing your Neighborhood: Asymmetric Information in Real Estate Markets". View Download

                   Pablo Kurlat (Stanford University) and Johannes Stroebel (NYU Stern)

10:50-11:10  COFFEE BREAK

11:10-12:00 "Product Market Competition and Industry Returns" View Download 

                   María Cecilia Bustamante (London School of Economics) and Andrés Donangelo (University of

                   Texas at Austin)

12:10-13:00 "Mandatory Disclosure and Financial Contagion" View Download

                   Fernando Alvarez (University of Chicago and NBER), and Gadi Barlevy (Federal Reserve Bank of

                   Chicago) 

13:00-14:20 LUNCH

14:20-15:10 "Trading and Information Diffusion in Over-the-Counter Markets" View Download

                   Ana Babus (Imperial College London) and Peter Kondor (Central European University)

15:20-16:10 "A Model of Monetary Exchange in Over-the-Counter Markets" View Download 

                   Ricardo Lagos (NYU) and Shengxing Zhang (NYU)

16:10-16:30 COFFEE BREAK

16:30-17:20 "Price Setting with Customer Retention Concerns" View Download

                   Nicholas Trachter (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond), Luigi Paciello (Einaudi Institute for

                   Economics and CEPR) and Andrea Pozzi (Einaudi Institute for Economics)

17:30-18:20 "Zero Lower Bound Depressions" View Download 

                   Martin Beraja (University of Chicago)