Keynote Speakers
Susan Athey
Susan Athey is The Economics of Technology Professor at the
Stanford Graduate School of Business. Her current research
focuses on the design of auction-based marketplaces and the
economics of the internet, primarily on online advertising
and the economics of the news media. She has also studied
dynamic mechanisms and games with incomplete information,
comparative statics under uncertainty, and econometric
methods for analyzing auction models. She won the John Bates
Clark Medal in 2007.
Steve Tadelis
Steven Tadelis is Professor of Economics, Business and
Public Policy, Joe Shoong Chair in International Business,
at the Haas School of Business, University of California
Berkeley. His research focuses on firm reputation; the
effects of contract design and organizational form on firm
behavior; public and private sector procurement and award
mechanisms; and, most recently, the economics of e-commerce.
John Sutton
John Sutton is the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at
the London School of Economics. His research focuses on
market structure and industrial evolution, most recently
applied to developing countries. He is the current President
of EARIE.