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Triangle Micro Conference

 

We are pleased to announce that the Department of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host the annual Triangle Micro Conference, which will take place at the Koury Auditorium, Kenan Flagler Business School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on March 28-29, 2025.  The goal of this conference is to provide a forum for economists to present and discuss recent research in industrial organization, quantitative marketing, and microeconomic theory.  For more information, see our list of presenters for past conferences.

Registration

Please follow this link to register for the conference.  If you have any questions, please contact Fei Li or Jonathan Williams.

Speakers for 2025 Conference

Alex MacKay, University of Virginia

Panle Jia Barwick, UW – Madison

Sylvia Hristakeva, Cornell

Aviv Nevo, University of Pennsylvania

Jingyuan Wang, University of Michigan

Zi Yang Kang, University of Toronto

Maren Vairo, University of Pennsylvania

Alex Smolin, Toulouse School of Economics

Nageeb Ali, Penn State University

Frank Yang, Stanford University

Nate Miller, Georgetown University

 

Schedule for 2025 Conference

Friday, March 28 in Koury Auditorium at Kenan Flagler School of Business

  • 8:00am-9:00am
    Breakfast and Welcome
  • 9:00am-9:45am
    Jingyuan Wang, University of Michigan
    Paper: “Subsidizing Industry Growth in a Market with Lemons: Evidence from the Chinese Electric Vehicle Market”
  • 9:45am-10:30am
    Alex Smolin, Toulouse School of Economics
    Paper: “The Economics of Large Language Models: Token Allocation, Fine-Tuning, and Optimal Pricing”, with Dirk Bergemann and Alessandro Bonatti
  • 10:30am-10:50am
    Coffee Break
  • 10:50am-11:35am
    Nageeb Ali, Penn State University
    Paper: “When Colleges Compete: Signals, Noise, and Equilibrium Outcomes”, with Salvador Candelas and Ran Shorrer
  • 11:35am-12:20pm, Graduate Student Presentations:
    • Tirza Angerhofer, Duke University
    • Seungwhan Chun, UNC
    • Xuyang Xia, Duke University
    • Dihan Zou, UNC
    • Luke Zhao, Duke University
  • 12:20pm-1:50pm
    Lunch
  • 1:50pm-2:35pm
    Sylvia Hristakeva, Cornell
    Paper: “Retailer Price Competition and Assortment Differentiation: Evidence from Entry Lotteries“, with Brett Hollenbeck and Kosuke Uetake
  • 2:35pm-3:20pm
    Maren Vairo, University of Pennsylvania
    Paper: “Robustly Optimal Income Taxation”
  • 3:20pm-3:40pm
    Coffee Break
  • 3:40pm-5:00pm
    Aviv Nevo, University of Pennsylvania and Nate Miller, Georgetown University
    Paper: Antitrust Policy Discussion moderated by Allan Collard-Wexler

 

Saturday, March 29 in Koury Auditorium at Kenan Flagler School of Business

  • 8:00am-9:00am
    Breakfast and Welcome
  • 9:00am-9:45am
    Panle Jia Barwick, UW – Madison
    Paper: “Drive Down the Cost: Learning by Doing and Government Policies in the Global EV Battery Industry“
  • 9:45am-10:30am
    Frank Yang, Stanford University
    Paper: “Nested Bundling”
  • 10:30am-10:50am
    Coffee Break
  • 10:50am-11:35am
    Alex MacKay, University of Virginia
    Paper: “Vertical Integration and Consumer Choice: Evidence from a Field Experiment”
  • 11:35am-12:20pm
    Zi Yang Kang, University of Toronto
    Paper: “Optimal In-Kind Redistribution” w/ Mitchell Watt
  • 12:20pm-1:50pm
    Lunch

 

Travel information

For more information on traveling to our department, please see our travel and accommodations page.

Questions?

If you have any questions, please contact Fei Li or Jonathan Williams.