2012 International Conference on Industrial Economics
Saturday, June 9, 2012----Sunday, June 10, 2012
Center for Research of Private Economy, Zhejiang University
Zhejiang University School of Economics
Hangzhou, China
Conference Location: ------ Hangzhou JinXi Hotel
Saturday, June 9
8:45-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:30 Welcome
Donggang Zhang, Vice-director of Social Science Department,the Chinese Ministryof Education
Jinchuan Shi,Dean of School of Economics, Zhejiang University
Introduction to the Conference
Yongmin Chen, University of Colorado at Boulder and ZJU
9:30-9:50 Group Photo
10:00-11:40 Session One
Chair: Ruqu Wang, Queen’s University and ZJU
The Impact of Advertising on Media Bias
Esther Gal-Or, University of Pittsburgh
Resale and Rent-seeking: An Application to Ticket Markets
Alan Sorensen, University of Wisconsin
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12:00-1:15 Lunch(Xiang XueXuan Coffee Bar, Hangzhou Jinxi Hotel)
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1:30-3:10 Session Two
Chair: Xinzhu Zhang,The Chinese Academy of Social Science
Product Innovation Incentives: Monopoly vs. Competition
Marius Schwartz, Georgetown University
All-Units Discounts under Oligopoly with Capacity Constraint
Guofu Tan, University of Southern California
3:10-3:30 Break
3:30-5:10 Session Three
Chair: Yongmin Chen, University of Colorado at Boulder and ZJU
Private Information in the Life Insurance Market
Li Gan, Texas A&M University
Commute Costs and Labor Supply: Evidence from a Satellite Campus
V. Brian Viard, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
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Sunday, June 10
8:00-9:40 Session Four-I, Conference Room One
Chair: MiaojunWang, Zhejiang University
Sequential Innovation and Optimal Patent Design
Xianwen, Shi, University of Toronto
A General Method for Solving Principal-Agent Problems
Rongzhu, Ke, Chinese University of Hongkong
8:00-9:40 Session Four-II, Conference Room Two
Chair: Zibing Zhang, Zhejiang University
On Disclosure Policy in Tullock Contests with Asymmetric Entry
Jun Zhang, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Competitive Contracts with Productive Information Gathering
Bin Ye, Zhejiang University
9:40-10:00 Break
10:00-12:15 Session Five-I, Conference Room One
Chair: Chuanhai Jiang, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
An Empirical Analysis of Strategic Contracts
Xinyu Hua, HKSTU
Selective Memory and Motivated Delusion: Theory and Experiment
Xiaojian Zhao, HKSTU
The Paper Circulation by Banks and Central Banking
Tianxi Wang,University of Essex
10:00-12:15 Session Five-II, Conference Room Two
Chair: ShiyuanPan, Zhejiang University
A Structural Model of Demand, Cost, and Export MarketSelection
Yi Xu, Duke University
Agglomeration and Markup
Yi Lu, National University of Singapore
Export Intensity and Input Trade Liberalization: Firm-Level Evidence from China
Miaojie Yu, National School Development
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12:15-1:30 Adjourn and Lunch
(Xiang XueXuan Coffee Bar, Hangzhou Jinxi Hotel)
