2nd Padova IO Workshop

Welcome address

Paola Valbonesi (Head of Department)

Session 1: Patents & Standards

• Gianluca Antonecchia (KU Leuven), “Patent Expirations and Product Scope Evolution in Pharmaceuticals” (with Ajay Bhaskarabhatla, Surabhi Ghai, and Eric Verhoogen).
• Michela Bonani (UPF Barcelona), “Uniform vs. Competing Standards: A Structural Analysis of the US Wireless Telecommunications Industry”.
• Luca Sandrini (ZEW Mannheim), “Patentability Requirements and the Direction of Innovation with Technology Licensing” (with Fabio Manenti).

Lunch

Common Room, Via del Santo 33

Session 2: Digital Economics

• Leonardo Madio (dSEA UNIPD), “Transparency of Add-on Fees on Peer-to-Peer Platforms: Evidence from Airbnb” (with Kevin Ducbao Tran, Michelangelo Rossi, and Mark J. Tremblay).
• Robert Somogyi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics), “Nested Platforms” (with Luca Sandrini).
• Fabio Manenti (dSEA UNIPD), “Cyber(in)security in Digital Services: The Unintended Effects of Interoperability” (with Stefano Comino and Alessandro Fedele).

Coffee break

Session 3: Applied Theory

• Fabio Michelucci (Ca' Foscari Venice), “Markets for (Concealable) Information” (with Topi Miettinen).
• Markus Reisinger (Frankfurt School of Management), “Sequencing Bilateral Negotiations with Externalities” (with Johannes Munster).

Dinner

By invitation, Cafe Letterario Treccani

Session 4: Public Contracts

• Marco Buso (dSEA UNIPD), “Optimal Public-Private Partnerships with Endogenous Financial Constraints” (with Luciano Greco).
• Riccardo Camboni (dSEA UNIPD), “Backlog Orders and Weather Suspensions: New Evidence from Procurement Contracts” (with Andrea Bafundi, Camilla Ciappei, and Claudia Imperatore).

Coffee break

Keynote address

Massimo Motta (ICREA-UPF, Barcelona School of Economics), “Supply chain disruption and precautionary industrial policy” (with Michele Polo).

Session 5: Other Topics in Industrial Organization

• Maria Rosa Battaggion (University of Bergamo), “Restricting Demand to the Happy Few: Pricing Strategy with Word-of-Mouth and Heterogeneous Consumers” (with Alessandro Vaglio).
• Marta Castellini (dSEA UNIPD), “Welfare-enhancing Public Energy Communities in the Digital Age” (with Dirk Bergemann, Marina Bertolini, Michele Moretto, and Sergio Vergalli).

Farewell lunch