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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 in the conference room on the bottom floor of Bell Hall, Kenan Flagler Business School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on April 24/25 of 2026.  The goal of this conference is to provide a forum for economics and marketing students and faculty 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 2026 Conference

Jeff Gortmaker, Princeton University

Kevin Williams, Yale University

Ying Fan, University of Michigan

Andrei Hagiu, Boston University

Giulia Brancaccio, NYU – Stern

Heski Bar-Isaac, University of Toronto

Michele Bisceglia, Yale University

Federico Ciliberto, University of Virginia

Jeanine Miklos-Thal, University of Rochester

Gaston Illanes, Northwestern University

 

Schedule for 2026 Conference

Friday, April 24 at Kenan Flagler School of Business

  • 8:15am-9:00am
    Breakfast and Welcome
  • 9:00am-9:45am
    Jeff Gortmaker, Princeton University
    Paper: “Open Source Software Policy in Industry Equilibrium“
  • 9:45am-10:30am
    Andrei Hagiu, Boston University
    Paper: “Personalization, Data Portability and Competitive Dynamics”
  • 10:30am-11:00am
    Coffee Break
  • 11:00am-11:45am
    Giulia Brancaccio, NYU – Stern
    Paper: “Inefficiencies in Local Infrastructure: Evidence from Drinking Water in California”
  • 11:45am-12:30pm, Graduate Student Presentations:
    • Drew Van Kuiken, UNC
    • Tirza Angerhofer, Duke
    • Dihan Zou, UNC
    • Xuyang Xia, Duke
    • Andrew Capron, UNC
    • Luke Zhao, Duke
  • 12:30pm-2:00pm
    Lunch
  • 2:00pm-2:45pm
    Jeanine Miklos-Thal, University of Rochester
    Paper: “Price Randomization and Dynamic Market Share Re-Allocation in Imperfect Cartels“
  • 2:45pm-3:30pm
    Federico Ciliberto, University of Virginia
    Paper: “Bridging Quasi-Experimental and Structural Approaches for Robust Evaluation of US Airline Mergers“
  • 3:30pm-4:00pm
    Coffee Break
  • 4:00pm-4:45pm
    Michele Bisceglia, Yale University
    Paper: “Labor Market Power and Collusive Behavior“

 

Saturday, April 25 at Kenan Flagler School of Business

  • 8:15am-9:00am
    Breakfast and Welcome
  • 9:00am-9:45am
    Ying Fan, University of Michigan
    Paper: “Subsidy Design, Price Setting, and Quality Provision: A Study of Medicare Advantage“
  • 9:45am-10:30am
    Heski Bar-Isaac, University of Toronto
    Paper: “Ranking Algorithms, Learning, and Pricing“
  • 10:30am-11:00am
    Coffee Break
  • 11:00am-11:45am
    Kevin Williams, Yale University
    Paper: “Willingness to Travel with Endogenous Distance: Evidence from the Changing Retail Landscape” 
  • 11:45am-12:30pm
    Gaston Illanes, Northwestern University
    Paper: “A Large Scale Evaluation of Merger Simulations” 
  • 12:30pm-1:30pm
    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.