3rd Padova IO Workshop

Welcome address

Fabio Manenti (dSEA, University of Padua)

Network Externalities and Consumer Behavior

Chair: Marco Buso (dSEA, University of Padua)

• Gianni De Fraja (University of Nottingham), “Moving to the Frontier: Network Externality Determinants of Technology Adoption” (with Toshihiro Okubo and James Rockey).
• Luca Sandrini (dSEA, University of Padua), “Evolution of Consumer Naivete in Markets with Network Externalities” (with Roberto Rozzi).
• Michela Boldrini (Bocconi), “The Choices of Others: An Experiment on Social Search” (with Maria Bigoni, Niccolo Lomys, and Emanuele Tarantino).

Lunch

Keynote address

Chair: Paola Valbonesi (dSEA, University of Padua)

Uri Gneezy (UC San Diego)

Coffee break

Public Procurement

Chair: Riccardo Camboni (dSEA, University of Padua)

• Luca Corazzini (University of Milan Bicocca), “Procuring Innovation Through Bid Preference: An Experiment” (with Riccardo Camboni, Stefano Galavotti, and Paola Valbonesi).
• Audinga Baltrunaite (Banca d’Italia), “Subcontracting in Public Works: Contract Performance and Workplace Safety” (with Marco Visentin).

Innovation and Competition

Chair: Shiva Shekhar (Tilburg School of Economics and Management)

• Heiko Karle (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management), “Moon-Shot versus Incremental: Innovation, Competition, and Product Ranges” (with Markus Reisinger and Johannes Schneider).
• Marc Bourreau (Telecom Paris), “Platform Interoperability and Innovation”.
• Leonardo Madio (dSEA, University of Padua), “Platform Tying and its Effects” (with Fabio Manenti and Massimo Motta).

Coffee break

Market Structure

Chair: Gianluca Antonecchia (University of Milan Bicocca)

• Anastasia Leontiou (University of Wien), “Limited-availability bargains in vertical markets” (with Fabio Antoniou).
• Salvatore Piccolo (University of Bergamo), “Merger Control, Information Leakage and Decision Bias” (with Neil Dryden, Sander Heinsalu, and Jorge Padilla).

Lunch