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2016 Peder Sather Conference on
Industrial Organization and Health Economics
Monday May 23th
Auditorium Karl Borch
09.00 Coffee
09.20 Welcome
09.30-11.15 Session 1
Jonathan Kolstad (UCB):
Discussant: Malin Arve (NHH)
Information Frictions and Adverse Selection:
Policy Interventions in Health Insurance Markets
Chiara Canta (NHH)
Discussant: Ben Handel (UCB)
Does Reference Pricing Drive Out Generic
Competition in Pharmaceutical Markets? Evidence
from a Policy Reform
11.15 – 11.30 Break
11.30-12.30 Session 2
Ben Handel (UCB)
Discussant: Morten Sæthre (NHH)
What does a deductible Do? The Impact of CostSharing on Health Care Prices, Quantities, and
Spending Dynamics
12.30 -13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.15 Session 3
Paul J. Gertler (UCB):
Discussant: Aline Bütikofer (NHH)
Long-Term Effects of Temporary Incentives on
Productivity in Medical Care Clinics
Morten Sæthre (NHH)
Discussant: Paul Gertler (UCB)
Responses to Quality Standards in the
Pharmaceutical Market
15.15 – 15.30 Break
15.30 – 17.15 Session 4
Jacopo Bizzotto (UiO)
Discussant: Jonathan Kolstad (UCB)
Fees, Reputation, and Rating Quality
Steve Tadelis (UCB)
Discussant: Ola Kvaløy (UiS)
The Limits of Reputation in Platform Markets:
An Empirical Analysis and Field Experiment
19.30 Dinner at “Restaurant 1877” for presenters and discussants
Tuesday May 24th
Auditorium Karl Borch
09.30 - 11.15 Session 5
Richard Gilbert (UCB)
Discussant: Steffen Juranek (NHH)
Licensing and Innovation with Imperfect
Contract Enforcement
Carl Shapiro (UCB):
Discussant: Tommy Staahl Gabrielsen (UiB)
Property Rules vs. Liability Rules for Patent
Infringement
11.15 – 11.30 Break
11.30-12.30 Session 6
Tore Ellingsen (SSE and NHH)
Discussant: Steve Tadelis (UCB)
Competitive Compensation Contracts:
The Role of Specific Human Capital
12.30 -13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.15 Session 7
Christian Riis (BI)
Discussant: Richard Gilbert (UCB)
Patent Design
Tore Nilssen (UiO)
Discussant: Carl Shapiro (UCB)
Delegation of Regulation
15.15 – 15.30 Break
15.30 – 17.15 Session 8
Bjørn Olav Johansen (UiB)
Discussant: Aaron Edlin (UCB)
Platform Price Parity Clauses with Direct Sales
Aaron Edlin (UCB)
Discussant: Thomas de Haan (NHH)
Hunting Unicorns? Experimental Evidence on
Predatory Pricing Policies
17.30 Reception
General information
Academic Program
The conference starts 9:00 am Monday May 23th and ends at 5.15 pm Tuesday May 24th. Presenters
should plan 30 minutes to describe their papers. Following each presentation, there will be 10 minutes for
discussion, introduced by a discussant (10 minutes). The conference will take place at the Norwegian
School of Economics (NHH), Auditorium Karl Borch.
Sponsors and Organizers
This conference is jointly sponsored by Peder Sather Foundation for Advanced Study, the Norwegian
School of Economics (NHH), the Centre for Applied Research (SNF), the Bergen Center for Competition
Law and Economics (BECCLE), and the UC Berkeley Competition Policy Center. The conference
organizers are Ben Handel (UC Berkeley), Richard Gilbert (UC Berkeley), Eirik Gaard Kristiansen
(NHH/LEMO), Steffen Juranek (NHH/LEMO) and Morten Sæthre (NHH/BECCLE). The conference is coorganized with Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics (BECCLE).