The 1st Padova IO Workshop will take place on 29 May 2024 in the Seminar Room of the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Padua (via del Santo 33, Padua).

Local organizers:
Riccardo Camboni
Leonardo Madio
Fabio Manenti
Paola Valbonesi

Please register here before May 21 to attend the event.

Programme

10:45 Registration

10:50 Welcome, Paola Valbonesi, Head of Department (dSEA Unipd)

Chair: Stefano Comino (University of Udine)
11:00 Olga Chiappinelli (University of Barcelona) “The greener, the better? Evidence from government contractors” (w. Giuffrida L. and Dalò A.)
11:30 Riccardo Camboni (dSEA Unipd) “Bid-preference as incentive for innovation: experimental evidence” (w. Corazzini L., Galavotti S., and Valbonesi P.)
12:00 Fabio Manenti (dSEA Unipd) “Vertical relations in a platform ecosystem” (w. Madio L. and Sandrini L.)

12:50 - 14.00 Light Lunch (Garden)

Chair: Gianluca Antonecchia (KU Leuven)
David Ronayne (ESMT Berlin) “Finding a Good Deal: Stable Price Dispersion with Robust Search”
Pavel Andreyanov (dSEA Unipd & HSE Moscow) “Scoring and Favoritism in Optimal Procurement Design” (w. Suzdaltsev A. and Krasikov I.)
Gegam Shagbazian (dSEA Unipd) “Trade Sanctions, Import Substitution and Innovation: Evidence from Russia” (w. Camboni R., Spagnolo G., Valbonesi P.)

15.50 - 16.20 Coffee break

Chair: Clara Graziano (UNIUD)
Jacopo Gambato (ZEW & University of Mannheim) “Search on a grid: Directed consumer search with correlated products”
Leonardo Madio (dSEA Unipd) “Design and governance of quality on a digital platform” (w. Bedre-Defolie Ö and Johansen B..)

17:40 Conclusions

18:15 Aperitif at Eroica Caffé (Padua)

Presentations: 50 minutes for externals; 30 minutes for internals