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Nemmers Prize Conference

"Conference in Honor of Ariel Pakes"

Friday and Saturday, October 13-14, 2023
Kellogg Global Hub
 White Auditorium

Conference schedule

Friday October 13, 2023
Time Title
9:00

Welcome - Robert Porter (Northwestern University)
9:05

Richard Blundell (University College London): Durables and Lemons: Private Information and the Market for Cars (joint with Ran Gu - University of Essex, Soren Leth-Petersen - University of Copenhagen, Hamish Low - University of Oxford and Costas Meghir - Yale University)
9:50

Myrto Kalouptsidi (Harvard University): Port Technology and Investment in Infrastructure (joint with Giulia Brancaccio - New York University and Theodore Papageorgiou -Boston College)
10:35 Break
11:00

Rebecca Diamond (Stanford University): A Contractarian CPI (joint with Ariel Pakes - Harvard University)
11:45

Elie Tamer (Harvard University): Inference on Counterfactuals in Simple Games
12:30 Lunch
2:00

Matthew Gentzkow (Stanford University): What Drives Risky Prescription Opioid Abuse? Evidence from Migration (joint with Amy Finkelstein - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dean Li - Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Heidi Williams - Stanford University)
2:45

Kate Ho (Princeton University): Contracting Over Rebates: Formulary Design and Pharmaceutical Spending (joint with Robin Lee - Harvard University)
3:30 Break
4:00

Nemmers Prize lecture

Ariel Pakes (Harvard University): Pharmaceutical Advertising in Dynamic Equilibrium (joint with Pierre Dubois  - Toulouse School of Economics)

Introduced by Steven Berry (Yale University)
5:30 Adjournment
Saturday October 14, 2023
Time Title
9:00

Parag Pathak (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Who Gets What May Not Matter: Understanding School Match Effects (joint with Atila Abdulkadiroglu - Duke University and Christopher Walters - University of California, Berkeley).  
9:45

Costas Meghir (Yale University): Marriage, Divorce and Child Development (joint with Pierre-André Chiappori - Columbia University, Monica Costa Dias - University of Bristol and Pengpeng Xiao - Duke University)
10:30 Break
11:00

Rachel Griffith (Institute for Fiscal Studies): The Effects of Sin Taxes and Advertising Restrictions in Dynamic Equilibrium (joint with Rossi Abi-Rafeh - Toulouse School of Economics, Pierre Dubois - Toulouse School of Economics and Martin O'Connell - University of Wisconsin, Madison)
11:45

Liran Einav (Stanford University): Selling Subscriptions (joint with Ben Klopack - Texas A&M University and Neale Mahoney (Stanford University)
12:30 Adjournment and lunch

Registration

Free registration by October 5 at Eventbrite.

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