Summer Workshop in Industrial Organization and Management Strategy

Summer Workshop in Industrial Organization and Management Strategy 2009
Sponsored by
National Institute for Fiscal Studies, Tsinghua University
School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University

June 16, 2009

8:30—10:00am  

Session 1 (Plenary Session, Multi-function Hall)

Jay Pil Choi, Michigan State University
“Net Neutrality and Investment Incentives”
 
Thomas Ross, University of British Columbia
“Public-Private Partnerships and the Privatization of Financing: An Incomplete Contracts Approach”

10:15－12:30am Session 2 (Parallel Sessions, Room 404 and Multi-function Hall)

Session 2A   

Andrei Hagiu, Harvard Business School
“Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search?”

Jimmy Chan, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
“A Self-Reporting Mechanism for Collusion Enforcement”

Chengzhong Qin, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Bargaining in Strategic Form Games and Applications”

Session 2B   

Haizhen Lin, Indiana University
“Quality Choice and Market Structure: A Dynamic Analysis of Nursing Home Oligopolies”

Travis Ng, Chinese University of Hong Kong
“Vertical Integration, Product Quality, and Contract Enforcement”

Mitsukuni Nishida, University of Chicago
“Estimating a Model of Strategic Network Choice: the Convenience-Store Industry in Okinawa”

Policy Afternoon: Enforcement of Competition Policy in China 

1:30-3:00   Session 3 (Presentations, Multi-function Hall)

Wang Xiaoye: Institute of Law, CASS 

Huang Yong: Law School, University of International Business and Economics
  Lin Ping: Lingnan University, Hong Kong 

3:15-5:15   Session 4 (Panel Discussion, Multi-Function Hall)

Shang Ming: General Director, Antitrust Bureau，Ministry of Commerce
Kong Xiang Jun: The Supreme Court     

June 17，2009

8:30-10:00   Session 5 (Parallel Sessions, Room 404 and Multi-function Hall)

Session 5A   

Zhigang Tao, University of Hong Kong
“Exporting Behavior of Foreign Affiliates: Theory and Evidence”

Xiaoyong Zheng, North Carolina State University
“Homogenous and Heterogenous Contestants in Piece Rate Tournaments: Theory and Empirical Analysis”

Session 5B   

Lixin Ye, Ohio State University
“Competitive Nonlinear Taxation and Constitutional Choice”

Qiang Fu, National University of Singapore
“How to Motivate Innovation: Subsidies or Prizes?”

10:15-11:45   Session 6 (Parallel Sessions, Room 404 and Multi-function Hall)

Session 6A   

Hongbin Cai, Peking University
“China's Land Market Auctions: Evidence of Corruption?”

Lixin Xu, World Bank
“Return to R&D in Chinese Firms”

Session 6B   

Wen Zhou, University of Hong Kong
“Globalization, Acquisitions and Endogenous Firm Structure”

Reiko Aoki, Hitotsubashi University
“Product Customization in the Spokes Model”

1:00-2:30   Session 7(Plenary Session)

Zhe Jin, University of Maryland & NBER 
“The Gender of Trust: Evidence from Eachnet.com”

Ivan Png, NUS Business School 
“Patent Rights and Economic Growth: Cross-Country Evidence”