Program and Speakers

 

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MCO Conference Program

Please note the program is subject to change without notice

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

 
The OEW is optional, and will take place at ANU
9:00 AM – 5:00 PMOrganisational Economics Workshop (OEW)
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5:30 PM – 7:30 PMWelcome Reception at Parliament House

Thursday, June 29, 2023

 
Room: CBE LT1
Room: CBE LT2
Room CBE LT3
Room: CBE LT4
Room: Arndt LT1
 HEALTH I
Convenors: Damien Eldridge and Rohan Pitchford
INDUSTRIAL ORGANISAITION
Convenor: Rohan Pitchford
PUBLIC ECONOMICS I
Convenor: Rohan Pitchford
ELECTRICITY MARKETS
Convenor: David Stern
FIRMS AND CONTRACTING I
Convenor: Rohan Pitchford
9:00 AM – 9:30 AMThe Morning After: Prescription-Free Access to Emergency – Gregor PfeiferRegulating platform fees – Chengsi WangUneven Growth, Redistribution and Inequality: Lessons from Australia’s Three Decades of Uninterrupted Growth – Chung TranCan Real-Time Pricing Be Progressive? Identifying Cross-Subsidies under Fixed-Rate Electricity Tariffs – Gordon Leslie
Nothing But the Truth? Information and Reporting on Corporate Social Responsibility – Jean De Bettignies
9:30 AM – 10:00 AMA shirking theory of referrals – Damien EldridgeCollusion and Price Discrimination with Dominant Retailers – Heiko GerlachExternalities induced education subsidy – Cagri KumruElectrifying public transportation: the charging dilemma – Kelvin SayImage-Building Persuasion – Shuo Liu
10:00 AM – 10:30 AMContagion Management through Information Disclosure – Carlos OyarzunGas Games with Electricity – Kelly NeillWhat role for markets in the clean electricity transition? – Frank JotzoI’ll Pay You Later: Backloading to Sustain Opportunistic Relationships – Marta Troya-Martinez
10:30 AM – 11:00 AMOld Docs, New Tricks – Rebecca McKibbinCompany-level GHG emissions and an institutionalinvestor’s active ownership objective: Long-term shareholder, socially responsible investor, common owneror stakeholder-oriented shareholder? – Robert AnnabelWelfare Comparison of School Choice Mechanisms – Isa HafalirElectricity markets with speculative storage and stochastic generation and demand – Akshay ShankerOptimal Retail Contracts – Xiaojian Zhao
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Morning tea (Thursday)
 HEALTH II
Convenors: Damien Eldridge and Rohan Pitchford
MECHANISM DESIGN – APPLICATIONS I
Convenor: Larry Samuelson
PUBLIC ECONOMICS: TAXATION
Convenor: Ashley Craig
THE ECONOMICS OF WORKING CONDITIONS I
Convenor: Kieron Meagher
 
11:30 AM – 12:25 PMKeynote Presentation – Stability of Preferences: The Case of COVID-19 Vaccines in Australia – Emily LancsarKeynote presentation – Robust Implementation with Costly Information – Harry PeiKeynote Presentation -Tax Knowledge and Tax Manipulation: A Unifying Model – Ashley CraigKeynote Presentation – A simple model of burnout – Arghya Ghosh 
12:25 PM – 12:55 PM
Subs and comps – Yanan Wu
Dynamic Monopoly with Malleable Preferences – Juan Carlos Carbajal
Cost of income sheltering behaviors and Elasticity of taxable income for high-income individuals – Arezou Zaresani 
12:55 PM – 1:25 PMHealth Shocks, Health Insurance, and the Dynamics of Earnings and Health – Elena CapitanaCompeting Sellers in security-bid auctions under risk-averse bidders – Allan Hernandez ChantoUnderstanding Program Complementarities: Estimating the Dynamic Effects of Head Start with Multiple Alternatives – Marc ChanThe Impact of Working from Home on the Nature of Work, Well-being and Job Performance – Aeson Dela Cruz 
1:25 PM – 2:30 PM
Lunch (Thursday)
2:30 PM – 3:30 PMPLENARY ADDRESS – Swan Lecture – Exit vs Voice: The economics of socially responsible investment, Sir Oliver Hart (Manning Clark Hall, Kambri)
3:30 PM – 3:50 PM
Afternoon tea (Thursday)
 INCOMPLETE INFORMATION INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION IO (Session 1)
Convenor: Simon Loertscher
SMART CONTRACTING
Convenor: Richard Holden
 THE ECONOMICS OF WORKING CONDITIONS II
Convenor: Kieron Meagher
 
3:50 PM – 4:45 PMKeynote presentation – Triple-IO: A (P)review – Simon LoertscherKeynote Presentation – Mechanism Design and Smart Contracts – Richard Holden Keynote Presentation – Employer vs Government Parental Leave: Labour Market Effects – Maria Racionero 
4:45 PM – 5:15 PM Worse Than You Think: Quantile Analysis of Gender Differences in Work Related Depression-Anxiety – Kieron Meagher 
5:15 PM – 5:45 PM
Search and Price Formation with Incomplete Information SL – Aaron Barkley / James Hansen
Score Disclosure – Mikhail Drugov  
6:30 PM – 10:30 PMConference Dinner at The Marion
DINNER SPEAKER : Michael Brennan, Chair, Productivity Commission

Friday, June 30, 2023

 
Room CBE LT1
Room CBE LT2
Room CBE LT3
Room CBE LT4
  LAW AND ECONOMICS
Convenor: Jose Neto
FIRMS AND CONTRACTING II
POLITICAL ECONOMY
Convenor: Ralph-Christopher Bayer
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Reconciling Fairness and Efficiency: Bargaining under the Shadow of Eminent Domain – Dugyu YenginRenegotiation with Ex-Post Competition in Procurement – Ruitian LangThe Wisdom of the Crowd: Uninformed Voting and the Efficiency of democracy – Ralph-Christopher Bayer
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Cross-Country Tax Differentials and Profit Shifting in the Extractives Sector – Devika BhatiaInformational Rents and Residual Control Rights – Murali AgastyaCompeting for Attention – The Effect of Talk Radio on Elections and Political Polarization in the US- Paul Raschky
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Delayed Punishment – Jose NetoAssignment mechanisms with public preferences and independent types – Francisco SilvaThe Civil War and Anti-Black Narratives: The Effect of War Casualties on Racial Violence and Attitudes in the US South – Federico Masera
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Contracts, Data Control and Market Power – Anil KavuriInstructions and Incentives in Organizations – Suraj PrasadDecay of Long-established Democracies – Weijia Li
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Morning tea (Friday)
 
INCOMPLETE INFORMATION INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION IO (Session 2)
MECHANISM DESIGN – APPLICATIONS II
FIRMS AND CONTRACTING III
Convenor: Rohan Pitchford
SEARCH IN IO
Convenor: Sephorah Mangin
11:30 AM – 12:25 PMKeynote Presentation – Paying to overbid – Idione MeneghelKeynote Presentation – Equilibrium Selection: A Unified Approach – Dave FrankelKeynote Presentation – Personalized Pricing and Competitive Dispersion – Sephorah Mangin
12:25 PM – 12:55 PM(In)complete information bargaining – Toan LeHierarchy formation – Mert KimyaStrategic Limitation of Market Accessibility: Search Platform Design and Welfare – Christopher Teh
12:55 PM – 1:25 PMValuing Privacy And Safety In Central Bank Digital Currency – June MaOptimal task design: production and learning with moral hazard and adverse selection – Alexander RodivilovPandora with Multi-Unit Search – Tono Carrasco
1:25 PM – 2:30 PM
Lunch (Friday)
2:30 PM – 3:30 PMPLENARY ADDRESS – Gruen Lecture – Smart Contracting in Practice, Stephanie Hurder (Copland Theatre)
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Afternoon tea (Friday)

Saturday, July 1, 2023

 
The Canberra sightseeing tour is optional, and departs from ANU (corner of University Avenue and Childers Street
10:00 AM – 1:30 PM
Canberra sightseeing tour