2012 Utah Winter Business Economics Conference Program (Last Update: 10 Feb)
Thursday, March 1
4:00 - 6:00 pm Arrival & Check in
7:00 - 9:00 pm Welcome Reception (Wasatch Room)
Friday, March 2
6:30 am to 7:30 am --- Breakfast (Superior Lobby)
7:30 am to 9:15 am --- Session 1: Social Learning / Health Reform (Superior)
"Social Learning/Health Reform"
Navin Kartik ("Congested Observational Learning" with Erik Eyster, Andrea Galeotti, and Matthew Rabin)
Amanda Kowalski ("Mandate Based Health Reform and the Labor Market: Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform" with Jonathan Kolstad)
9:30 am to 5:00 pm --- Ski or Spa
5:00 pm to 5:30 pm --- Snack (Superior Lobby)
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm --- Session 2: Personnel/Labor Economics
Chris Stanton ("The Value of Bosses" with Edward Lazear and Kathryn Shaw)
Matthew Notowidigdo ("Duration Dependence and Local Labor Market Conditions: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment" with Kory Kroft and Fabian Lange)
7:30 pm to 9:00 pm --- Dinner (Wasatch Room)
Saturday, March 3
6:30 am to 7:30 am --- Breakfast
7:30 am to 9:15 am --- Session 3: Contracts / Bargaining
Niko Matouschek ("Managing Conflicts in Relational Contracts" with Jin Li)
Ilya Segal ("Property Rights and the Efficiency of Bargaining" with Mike Whinston)
9:30 am to 5:00 pm --- Ski or Spa
5:00 pm to 5:30 pm --- Snack
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm --- Session 4: Industrial Organization
Patrick Rey ("Loss Leading as an Exploitative Practice" with Zhijun Chen)
Alessandro Lizzeri ("A Quantitative Analysis of the Used Car Market" with Alessandro Gavazza and Nikita Roketskiy)
7:30 pm to 9:00 pm --- Dinner