The SUFE-IESR China Virtual Industrial Organization Seminar (China-VIOS) provides an online research community to help disseminate IO research in China. This IO seminar series is co-hosted by SUFE College of Business and Jinan University Institute for Economic and Social Research.
All the seminars will take place on Wednesdays from 9am to 10:15am Beijing Time. One-paper sessions will have a 45-minute presentation, a 15-minute discussion and a 15-minute Q&A. For two-paper sessions, each paper will have a 25-minute presentation, a 10-minute discussion and a 10-minute Q&A. The meetings will take place weekly on Zoom.
Please click on "sign in" on the top-right corner to register for this seminar series. We will send out the zoom meeting ID and password on every Tuesday night before each seminar meeting.
- Jun 9, 2021
Panel Session: Antitrust Policy and Platform Economics
Chair: Mark Roberts
Presenters:
Ginger Jin (University of Maryland): "Platform as A Rule Maker: Evidence from Airbnb Cancellation Policy"
Heng Ju (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics):“ IO in recent AML Enforcements”
Guofu Tan (University of Southern California):“Modeling and Data Works in Antitrust Enforcement”
- Jun 16, 2021
Chair: Mo Xiao
Yufeng Huang (University of Rochester) - Seller-Pricing Frictions and Platform Remedies
Discussant:
Zach Brown (University of Michigan)
- Jun 23 ,2021
Chair: Daniel Xu
Yushi Peng (University of Zurich) - Mortgage Credit and Housing Markets
Discussant:
Shaoteng Li (Jinan University)
Chao Ma (Xiamen University) - Spatial Competition with Online Platforms: Theory and Evidence
Discussant:
Qihong Liu (University of Oklahoma)
- Jun 30, 2021
Chair: Heng Ju
Kohei Kawaguchi (HKUST)- Merger Analysis in the App Economy: An Empirical Model of Ad-Sponsored Media
Discussant:
Yi Xin (California Institute of Technology)
- Jul 7, 2021
Chair: Daniel Xu
Yating Jiang (Hong Kong University) - Epidemics, Inventory, and Markup: Evidence from the 2003 SARS Shock in China
Discussant:
Devesh Raval (The U.S. Federal Trade Commission)
- Jul 14, 2021
Chair: Mo Xiao
Lei Xu (Bank of Canada) - Algorithmic Pricing and Competition: Empirical Evidence from the German Retail Gasoline Market
Discussant:
David Byrne (The University of Melbourne)
- Jul 21, 2021
Chair: Heng Ju
Han Yuan (University of Arizona)- Competing for Time: A Study of Mobile Applications
Discussant:
Ao Wang (the University of Warwick)
Yu Hao (The University of British Columbia)- How do firms build up mutual trust in a dynamic game: A study on collusive pricing in the Chilean pharmacy retailing industry
Discussant:
Jia Xiang (Harvard University)
- Jul 28, 2021
Panel Session: Economics and Economists in Big Tech
Chair: Mark Roberts
Presenters:
Nan Yang (Amazon)
Gracie Lin (Grab)
Miaoyu Yang (Kuaishou Tech)
Harikesh Nair (Stanford/JD.com)
Organizing Committee (in alphabetical order):
Shuaizhang Feng, Jinan IESR
Heng Ju, SUFE College of Business
Mark Roberts, Pennsylvania State University
Mo Xiao, University of Arizona
Daniel Xu, Duke University
