| 2011 |
|
| February 18 |
Panle Jia, MIT, "The Cost of Free
Entry: Evidence from Real Estate Agents in Greater Boston." Joint with SOM Marketing
Seminar |
| March 3 |
Gautam Gowrisankaran, University of
Arizona, "Intermittency and the Value of Renewable
Energy" (with Stanley S. Reynolds and Mario Samano) |
| March 24 |
Jon Levin, Stanford University, visiting
Cowles, "Learning from Seller Experiments in Online Markets" |
| March 31 |
Jeremy Fox, University of Michigan,
visiting Cowles, "Estimating Matching Games with
Transfers" |
| April 7 |
Pasquale Schiraldi, London School of
Economics and Political Science, visiting Cowles, "Retail Competition with
Multi-stop Shopping: Who Competes with a Big Box Store?" |
| April 14 |
Pierre Dubois, Toulouse School of
Economics, "Price and Brand Competition between Differentiated Retailers: A
Structural Econometric Model" |
| April 21 |
Robin Lee, Stern School of Business, NYU,
"Markov Perfect Network Formation" |
| April 28 |
Ahmed Khwaja, Yale SOM, "Dynamic Entry with Cross Product Spillovers: An Application
to the Generic Drug Industry" |
| May 5 |
Dan Ackerberg, University of California,
visiting Cowles, "Timing Assumptions and Efficiency: Empirical Evidence in a
Production Function Context" |
| September 15 |
Philippe Fevrier, CREST,
"Nonparametric Identification Using Group Theory" |
| September 22 |
John Asker, NYU Stern, "Exclusionary Minimum Resale Price Maintenance" |
| September 29 |
Rosh hashanah- no meeting |
| October 6 |
Kei Kawai, NYU, visiting Cowles, ''Campaign
Finance and Electoral Competition in U.S. House Elections'' |
| October 13 |
Jan DeLoecker, Princeton University,
visiting Cowles, "Firm Performance and Trade Liberalization" (with
International Trade) |
| October 19 |
Chris Knittel, MIT Sloan School, "Cleaning the Bathwater with the Baby: The Health
Co-Benefits of Carbon Pricing in Transportation" (with Environmental)
Note: Wednesday, 4:00-5:30, Kroon Hall, Rm. 321 |
| October 27 |
Gregory Lewis, Harvard University, "Student Portfolios and the College Admissions
Problem" |
| November 3 |
Meredith Fowlie, UC Berkeley, "Designing Markets for Pollution when Damages Vary
Across Sources: What are the Gains From Differentiation?" (with Nick Muller) |
| November 17 |
Mar Reguant, Stanford University, "The
Welfare Effects of Complementary Bidding Mechanisms" |
| December 1 |
Michael Dickstein, Harvard University,
visiting Cowles, "Efficient Provision of
Experience Goods: Evidence from Antidepressant Choice" |
| December 8 |
Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues, Yale University -
Job Candidate, "Demand for Deforestation in the Amazon" |
| December 15 |
Jorge Balat, Yale University- Job
Candidate, ""Highway Procurement and the Stimulus Package: Identification
and Estimation of Dynamic Auctions with Unobserved Heterogeneity" |
| 2010 |
|
| February 25 |
Adam Copeland, Federal Reserve Bank of New
York, "The Impact of Competition on Technology
Adoption: An Apples-to-PCs Analysis" (with Adam Hale Shapiro) |
| March 4 |
Allan Collard-Wexler, New York University,
"Gender and Racial Biases: Evidence from Child
Adoption" (Mariagiovanna Baccara, Leeat Yariv and Leonardo Felli) |
| March 25 |
Ariel Pakes, Harvard University, "Finite State
Dynamic Games with Asymmetric Information: A Framework for Applied Work" (with
Chaim Fershtman) |
| April 1 |
Clinton Levitt, Copenhagen Business School,
"Learning Through Oil and Gas Exploration" |
| April 8 |
Jessica Stahl, Federal Reserve Board of
Governors, "A Dynamic Analysis of Consolidation in
the Broadcast Television Industry" |
| April 15 |
Thomas Hubbard, Northwestern University, The Economics of "Radiator Springs": Industry
Dynamics, Sunk Costs, and Spatial Demand Shifts (with Jeffrey Campbell) |
| April 22 |
Panle Jia, MIT, "Entry and Exit in the
Real Estate Brokerage Industry" |
| April 29 |
Daniel McFadden, UC Berkeley, "Sick Insurance: Lessons from Medicare Part D for
Regulation of Private Health Insurance Markets" (with Florian Heiss and Joachim
Winter) |
| May 6 |
Joshua Gans, University of Melbourne
(visiting Harvard), "Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?" |
| September 9 |
Brent Hickman, University of Chicago,
"Effort,
Race Gaps and Affirmative Action: A Structural Policy Analysis of US College Admissions" |
| September 16 |
Jakub Kastl, Stanford University,
"Risk in the Canadian Banking Sector during the Financial Crisis," with Jason
Allen and Ali Hortacsu |
| September 30 |
Harikesh Nair, Stanford University, "A
Structural Model of Sales-Force Compensation Dynamics: Estimation and Field Implementation,"
with Sanjog Misra. (joint with SOM Marketing Seminar) |
| October 7 |
Joachim Groeger, Carnegie Mellon
University, "Participation in Dynamic Auctions" |
| October 14 |
Jaap Abbring, Tilburg University,
"Simple Markov-Perfect Industry Dynamics" (with Jeffrey R. Campbell and Nan
Yang) |
| October 21 |
Amit Gandhi, University of Wisconsin,
"Identification
and Testing in Ascending Auctions with Unobserved Heterogeneity" (with Andrés
Aradillas-López and Daniel Quint) |
| October 28 |
Timothy Derdenger, Carnegie Mellon
University, "Technological
Tying and the Intensity of Competition: An Empirical Analysis of the Video Game Industry"
CANCELLED |
| November 4 |
Mariano Tappata, University
of British Columbia, "Consumer Search
and Dynamic Price Dispersion: An Application to Gasoline Markets" (with Ambarish
Chandra) |
| November 11 |
Brett Gordon, Columbia University, "Structual Equilibrium Analsysis of
Poltical Advertising," (with Wesley R. Hartmann) |
| November 18 |
Alvin Murphy, Washington University St.
Louis, "A
Dynamic Model of Demand for Houses and Neighborhoods" (with Patrick Bayer, Robert
McMillan, and Christopher Timmins) |
| December 2 |
Myrto Kalouptsidi, Yale University, "Time to Build
and Shipping Prices" |
| December 9 |
Jean-Francois Houde, University of
Wisconsin, "Collusion with Asymmetric Retailers: Evidence from a Gasoline
Price-Fixing Case" (with Rob Clark) |
| 2009 |
|
| March 5 |
Alan Sorensen, Stanford University, "The Welfare Effects of Ticket Resale" (with
Phillip Leslie) |
| April 2 |
Brian Viard, Cheung Kong Graduate School of
Business, "The Effect of Content on Global Internet Adoption" |
| April 9 |
Ulrich Doraszelski, Harvard University,
"R&D and Productivity: Estimating
Endogenous Productivity" (with Jordi Jaumandreu) |
| April 16 |
Kuznets Lecture |
| April 23 |
Patrick Bajari, University of Minnesota,
"Nonparametric and Semiparametric Analysis of a
Dynamic Discrete Game" (with Victor Chernozhukov, Han Hong, and Denis Nekipelov) |
| April 30 |
Erich Muehlegger, Harvard University,
"Fuel Tax Incidence, Supply Conditions and Tax
Evasion" (with Justin Marion) |
| May 7 |
Jeremy Fox, University of Chicago, "Indentifying Heterogeneity in Economic Choice and Selection
Models Using Mixtures" (with Amit Gandhi) |
| May 14 |
Severin Borenstein, University of
California-Berkeley, "To What Electricity Price
Do Consumers Respond? Residential Demand Elasticity Under Increasing-Block Pricing" |
| September 3 |
Ali Yurukoglu, Stanford University, "The Welfare Effects of Bundling in Multi-Channel Television
Markets" (with Greg Crawford) |
| September 10 |
Stéphane Straub, University of Toulouse,
"'La Patria Contratista': Public Procurement and
Rent-Seeking in Paraguay" (with Emmanuelle Auriol and Thomas Flochel) |
| September 17 |
Jonathan Gruber, MIT, "Consumer Inconsistencies Among the Elderly: Evidence from
Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program" (with Jason Abaluck). This seminar is
joint with the Labor and
Population Workshop |
| September 24 |
Joseph Cullen, Harvard University, "Dynamic Response to Environmental Regulation in the
Electricity Industry" |
| October 1 |
Jun Ishii, Amherst College, "Consumer Perception of Warranty as a Signal of Quality: An
Empirical Study of Power Train Warranties" (with Busik Choi) |
| October 8 |
Michael Whinston, Northwestern University,
"Dynamic Merger Review" (with Volker
Nocke) |
| October 15 |
Pierre Azoulay, MIT, "Super Star Extinction" (with Joshua S. Graff Zivin
and Jialan Wang) |
| October 22 |
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University, "Trade induced technical change? The impact of Chinese imports
on innovation, diffusion and productivity" (with Mirko Draca and John Van Reenen) |
| October 29 |
Pasquale Schiraldi, London School of
Economics, "Automobile Replacement: a Dynamic
Structural Approach" |
| November 5 |
Wouter Dessein, Columbia University, "Organize to Compete" (with Ricardo Alonso and Niko
Matouschek) |
| November 12 |
Gregory Lewis, Harvard University, "An Estimable Demand System for a Large Auction Platform
Market" (with Matthew Backus) |
| November 19 |
Juan Esteban Carranza, University of
Wisconsin, "Estimating Dynamic Models with
Aggregate Shocks and an Application to Mortgage Default in Colombia" (with
Salvador Navarro) |
| December 3 |
Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford University,
"Reserve Prices in Internet Advertising Auctions: A Field Experiment" (with
Michael Schwarz) Abstract |
| December 10 |
Alex Shcherbakov, Yale University, "The Effect of Consumer Switching Costs on Market Power
of Cable Television Providers" |
| December 17 |
Christopher Conlon, Yale University,
"A Dynamic Model of Costs and Margins in the LCD TV Industry" |
| 2008 |
|
| February 21 |
Jean-Francois Houde, University of
Wisconsin, "Spatial Differentiation in Retail Markets
for Gasoline" |
| February 28 |
Ricard Gil, University of California-Santa
Cruz, " Why Does Popcorn Cost So Much at the Movies? An
Empirical Analysis of Metering Price Discrimination" (with Wesley R. Hartmann) |
| March 6 |
Emir Kamenica, University of Chicago,
"Contextual Inference in Markets: On the
Informational Content of Product Lines" |
| March 27 |
Eugenio Miravete, University of Texas,
"Constrained Monopoly Pricing with Random
Participation" (with Gabriel Basaluzzo) |
| April 3 |
Joseph Harrington, Johns Hopkins
University, "Collusion with Monitoring of
Self-Reported Sales" (with Andrzej Skrzypacz) |
| April 10 |
Jean-Pierre Dubé, University of Chicago,
"Tipping and Concentration in Markets with Indirect
Network Effects" (with Günter Hitsch and Pradeep Chintagunta) |
| April 17 |
Philip Haile, Yale University, "Nonparametric Identification of Multinomial Choice
Demand Models with Heterogeneous Consumers" (with Steven Berry) |
| April 24 |
Keith Chen, Yale University, "Do Choices Affect or Reflect Preferences? A Summary of
Existing Evidence and a New Experiment" |
| May 1 |
John Vickers, University of Oxford, "A Model of Delegated Project Choice" (with Mark
Armstrong) |
| May 8 |
Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School,
"With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends:
Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship" (with Ulrike
Malmendier) |
| September 11 |
Liran Einav, Stanford University, "Estimating Welfare in Insurance Markets Using Variation in
Prices" (with Amy Finkelstein and Mark R. Cullen) |
September 18
|
Martin Browning, University of Oxford,
"Dynamic Binary Outcome Models with Maximal
Heterogeneity" (with Jesus Carro) |
| September 25 |
Isabelle Perrigne (with Quang Vuong),
Pennsylvania State University, "Nonparametric
Identification on Incentive Regulation Models" |
| October 2 |
Aviv Nevo, Northwestern University, "Identification with Imperfect Instruments" (with Adam
M.Rosen) |
| October 9 |
Jeroen Swinkels, Washington University, St.
Louis, "First and Second Price Mechanisms in
Procurement and other Asymmetric Auctions" (with Vlad Mares) |
| October 16 |
Stephen Ryan, MIT, "A Simple Nonparametric Estimator for the Distribution of
Random Coefficents in Discrete Choice Models" (with Patrick Bajari, Jeremy Fox,
and Kyoo il Kim) |
| October 23 |
Meghan Busse, UC Berkeley, "Pain at the Pump: How Gasoline Prices Affect Automobile
Purchasing" (with Chris Knittel and Florian Zettelmeyer) |
| October 30 |
Daniel Ackerberg, UCLA, "The Buy-it-now Option, Risk Aversion, and Impatience in
an Empirical Model of eBay Bidding" (with Keisuke Hirano and Quazi Shahriar) |
| November 6 |
Lanier Benkard, Stanford University,
"The Long Run Effects of U.S. Airline Mergers" (with Aaron Bodoh-Creed and John
Lazarev) |
| November 13 |
Michael Noel, UC San Diego, "The Evolving Food chain: Competitive Effects of Wal-Mart's
Entry into the Supermarket Industry" (with Emek Basker) |
| November 27 |
No Meeting (Thanksgiving) |
December 4
|
Ying Fan, Yale University, "Market Structure and Product Quality in the U.S. Daily
Newspaper Market" |
December 9*
|
Alon Eizenberg, Yale University, "Upstream Innovation and Product Variety in the Home PC
Market" |
| December 11 |
Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Brown University,
"Understanding the City Size Wage Gap"
(with Ronni Pavan) |
December 16*
|
Jacob Gramlich, Yale University, "Gas Prices and Endogenous Product Selection in the U.S.
Automobile Industry" |
| 2007 |
|
| February 22 |
Igal Hendel, Northwestern University,
"Matching in the Housing Market: FSBO vs MLS" |
| March 1 |
Christine Jolls, Yale Law School, "Mandated Medical Leave in the Workplace" |
| March 8 |
Andrzej Skrzypacz, Stanford University,
"Bargaining with Arrival of New Traders"
(with William Fuchs) |
| March 29 |
Matthew Gentzkow, University of Chicago,
"What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily
Newspapers" (with Jesse Shapiro) |
| April 5 |
Tong Li, Vanderbilt University, "Entry and Competition Effects in First-Price Auctions: Theory
and Evidence from Procurement Auctions" (with Xiaoyong Zheng) |
| April 12 |
Nathaniel Keohane, Yale University SOM, and
Erin Mansur, Yale University SOM, "Averting
Enforcement: Strategic Response to the Threat of Environmental Regulation" (with
Andrey Voynov) |
| April 19 |
Peter Rossi, University of Chicago, "Do Switching Costs Make Markets Less Competitive?"
(with Jean-Pierre Dubé and Günter Hitsch) |
| May 3 |
Christopher Snyder, Dartmouth College,
"The Economics of Open-Access Journals"
(with Mark McCabe) |
| September 6 |
Steven Berry, Yale University, "Optimal Product Variety in Radio Markets" (with Alon
Eizenberg and Joel Waldfogel) |
| September 13 |
Jan De Loecker, New York University, "Product Differentiation, Multi-Product Firms and
Estimating the Impact of Trade Liberalization on Productivity" |
| September 20 |
Matthew Lewis, Ohio State University,
"When Do Consumers Search?" (with Howard P.
Marvel) |
| September 27 |
Tanjim Hossain, Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology, "Learning by Bidding" |
| October 4 |
Ignacio Esponda, New York University,
"Behavioral Equilibrium in Economies with Adverse
Selection" |
| October 11 |
Mark Schankerman, LSE, University of
Arizona (Visitor), "Identifying Technology
Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry" (with Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen) |
| October 18 |
Bharat Anand, Harvard Business School,
"Spatial Competition in
Cable News: Where are Larry King and O'Reilly Located in Latent Attribute Space?"
(with Dmitri Byzalov) |
| October 25 |
Botond Koszegi, University of California,
Berkeley, "Exploiting Naivete about Self-Control in the Credit Market" (with
Paul Heidhues) |
| November 1 |
Steven Puller, Texas A&M University,
"Measuring Evidence of Peak-Load Pricing and Consumer Heterogeneities in Airline
Pricing" (with Anirban Sengupta and Steven Wiggins) |
| November 8 |
Wei Tan, State University of New York at
Stony Brook, "Predatory Advertising: Theory and
Evidence in the Pharmaceutical Industry" (with Yutian Chen) |
| November 15 |
Ali Hortacsu, University of Chicago, "Testing for Common Values in Multi-Unit Auctions: Evidence
from Canadian Treasury Auctions" (with Jakub Kastl) |
| November 29 |
Stephen Redding, London School of
Economics, "Multi-product Firms and Product
Switching" (with Andrew Bernard and Peter Schott) |
| December 6 |
Xiaolan Zhou, Yale University,
"Estimation of the Impact of Mergers in the Banking Industry" |
| December 13 |
Joshua Lustig, Yale University, "The Welfare Effects of
Adverse Selection in Privatized Medicare" |
| 2006 |
|
| February 23 |
Hanming Fang and Michael Keane, Yale
University, "Sources of Advantageous Selection:
Evidence from the Medigap Insurance Market'' (with Dan Silverman) |
| March 2 |
Keith Chen, Yale University, "Bundling
Essential Complements" (with Barry Nalebuff) |
| March 20-23 |
Simon Kuznets Memorial
Lectures (Tim Besley, London School of Economics) |
| March 30 |
Liran Einav, Stanford University, "Production Targets" (with Guillermo Caruana) |
| April 6 |
Rajiv Sharma, Portland State University,
"Short-term Fluctuations in Hospital Demand:
Implications for Admission, Discharge, and Discriminatory Behavior" Slide Presentation |
| April 13 |
Michelle Goeree, Claremont Mckenna College,
“Advertising in the US Personal Computer Industry" |
| April 20 |
Estelle Cantillon, Harvard University and
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ECARES), "How and When Markets Tip? Lessons from the
Battle of the Bund" (with Pai-Ling Yin) |
| April 27 |
Joy Ishii, Stanford University, "Compatibility, Competition, and Investment in Network
Industries: ATM Networks in the Banking Industry" |
| May 4 |
Glenn MacDonald, Washington University-St.
Louis, "Do New Competitors, New Customers, New
Suppliers,... Sustain, Destroy or Create Competitive Advantage?" (with Michael
Ryall) |
| September 21 |
Luis Cabral, New York University, "A Theory of Asymmetric Price Adjustment" (with
Arthur Fishman) |
| September 28 |
Marc Rysman, Boston University, "Dynamics of Consumer Demand for Durable Goods"
(with Gautam Gowrisankaran) |
| October 5 |
Jakub Kastl, Northwestern University,
"Discrete Bids and Empirical Inference in Divisible
Good Auctions" |
| October 12 |
Amil Petrin, University of Chicago, "Job Security Does Affect Economic Efficiency:
Theory, A New Statistic, and Evidence from Chile" |
| October 19 |
Kathryn Shaw, Stanford University, "Reaching for the Stars: Who Pays for Talent in Innovative
Industries?" (et al) |
| October 26 |
Allan Collard-Wexler, New York University,
"Plant Turnover and Demand Fluctuations in the
Ready-Mix Concrete Industry" |
| November 2 |
Nick Bloom, Stanford University, "Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms
and Countries" (with John Van Reenen) |
| November 9 |
John Rust, University of Maryland, "Models of Bargaining and Price Determination of Residential
Real Estate, with and without Real Estate Agents" (with Antonio Merlo and
Francois Ortalo-Magné) |
| November 16 |
Joshua Gans, University of Melbourne,
"Bilateral Bargaining with Externalities" 1
2 (with Catherine de Fontenay) |
| November 30 |
Emily Zhao, Yale University, "Why are Prices Falling Fast? An Empirical Study of the US
Digital Camera Market" |
| December 7 |
Andrew Sweeting, Northwestern University,
"The Costs of Product Reconditioning: The Case of
Format Switching in the Commercial Radio Industry" |
| December 14 |
Leemore Dafny, Northwestern University,
"Estimation Identification of Merger Effects: An
Application to Hospital Mergers" |
| 2005 |
|
| February 17 |
Adam Copeland, Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve and Visitor, Yale, "Prices,
Production, and Inventories over the Automotive Model Year" (with Wendy Dunn and
George Hall) |
| February 24 |
Patrick Bajari, Duke University, "Identification and Estimation of Discrete Games of Complete
Information" (with Han Hong and Stephen Ryan) |
| March 3 |
Judith Chevalier, Yale University School of
Management, "Are Durable Goods Consumers Forward
Looking? Evidence from College Textbooks" (with Austan Goolsbee) |
| March 24 |
Robert Porter, Northwestern University and
Visitor, Yale, "A Structural Analysis of Bidding in Ohio School Milk Auctions" |
| March 31 |
Rosa Matzkin, Northwestern University,
"Identification and Estimation in Structural
Nonparametric Models" Joint with Econometrics
Research Seminar |
| April 7 |
Keith Chen, Yale University School of
Management, "The Evolution of Our Preferences:
Evidence from Capuchin-Monkey Trading Behavior" (with Venkat Lakshminarayanan and
Laurie Santos) |
| April 14 |
Daniel Benjamin, Harvard University, "Does Cognitive Ability Reduce Psychological Bias?"
(with Jesse M. Shapiro) |
| April 21 |
Daniel Ackerberg, University of Arizona,
"Structural Identification of Production
Functions" (with Kevin Caves and Garth Frazer) |
| April 28 |
Dan Levin, Ohio State University, "The Origin of the Winner's Curse: A Laboratory Study"
(with Gary Charness) |
| September 8 |
Ali Hortacsu, University of Chicago,
"What Makes You Click? An Empirical Analysis of Online Dating" (with Dan Ariely
and Guenter Hitsch) |
| September 15 |
Mark Israel, Northwestern University,
"Who Can See the Future? Information and
Consumer Reactions to Future Price Discounts" |
| September 22 |
Erin Mansur, Yale School of Management,
"The Value of Scarce Water: Measuring the
Inefficiency of Municipal Regulations" (with Sheila Olmstead) |
| September 29 |
Michael Whinston, Northwestern University,
"Antitrust in Innovative Industries"
(with Ilya R. Segal) |
| October 6 |
Hao Li, University of Toronto, "Competing for Talents" (with Ettore Damianoo and Wing
Suen) Joint with Microeconomic
Theory Workshop |
| October 13 |
Brian Viard, Stanford University (Visitor,
Yale School of Management), "Quantity-Based Price Discrimination using Frequency
Reward Programs" (with Wesley Hartmann) |
| October 20 |
Lanier Benkard, Stanford University, "Markov Perfect Industry Dynamics with Many Firms"
(with Gabriel Weintraub and Benjamin Van Roy) |
| October 27 |
Antonio Merlo, University of Pennsylvania,
"Political Careers or Career Politicians?"
(with Andrea Mattozzi) |
| November 3 |
Thomas Holmes, University of Minnesota,
"The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density" |
| November 10 |
Panle Jia, Yale University, "What
Happens when Wal-Mart Comes to Town: An Empirical Analysis of the Discount Industry" |
| November 17 |
Matthew Shum, Johns Hopkins University,
"Interpreting Intra-firm Wage Differentials Using
Tournament Models" |
| December 1 |
Vernon Henderson, Brown University, "Networking off Madison Avenue" (with Mohammad
Arzaghi) |
| December 7 |
Luis Rayo, University of Chicago, "Evolutionary Efficiency and Happiness" (with Gary
Becker) Joint with Microeconomic
Theory Workshop |
| December 8 |
Henry Schneider, Yale University, "Estimating the Effects of Adverse Selection in the Used
Car Market" |
| December 15 |
Bernard Salanie, Columbia University,
"Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?"
(with Guy Laroque) |
| 2004 |
|
| February 26 |
Jonathan Levin, Stanford University, "Matching and Price Competition" (with Jeremy Bulow) |
| March 4 |
Steven Levitt, University of Chicago,
"Why are Gambling Markets Organized So Differently
than Financial Markets?" |
| March 25 |
Ariel Pakes, Harvard University, "Simple Estimators for Parameters of Discrete Dynamic Games
with Entry/Exit Examples" (with Steven Berry and Michael Ostrovsky) |
| April 1 |
Philippe Février, ENSAE, "Econometrics of Share Auctions" (with Raphaële
Préget and Michael Visser) |
| April 8* |
Jaap Abbring, Vrije Universiteit (Free
University), "Social Experiments in Real Time" (with Gerard van den Berg)
Joint with Labor
and Population Workshop |
| April 15* |
Alessandro Lizzeri, New York University,
"The Storable Good Monopolist" (with Igal Hendel and Aviv Nevo) Joint with
Microeconomic Theory Workshop
CANCELLED |
| April 22 |
Ali Hortacsu, University of Chicago,
"Testing Strategic Models of Firm Behavior in Restructured Electricity Markets: A
Case Study of ERCOT" (with Steven Puller) |
| April 29 |
Steven Berry, Yale University, "Confidence Regions for Parameters in
Discrete Games with Multiple Equilibria, with an Application to Discount Chain Store
Location" (with Don Andrews and Panle Jia) |
| September 9* |
Alessandro Lizzeri, New York University,
"Storable Monopoly: The Role of Commitment"
(with Paolo Dudine and Igal Hendel) Joint with Microeconomic Theory Workshop |
| September 16 |
John List, University of Maryland, "The Behavioralist Meets the Market: Measuring Social
Preferences and Reputation Effects in Actual Transactions" |
| September 22 |
Mark Armstrong, University College London,
"Competition in Two-sided Markets"
Joint with Microeconomic
Theory Workshop |
| September 30 |
Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago GSB,
"How Do Incumbents Respond to the Threat of Entry?
The Case of Major Airlines" (with Chad Syverson) |
| October 7 |
Emmanuel Saez, University of California at
Berkeley, "Do Dividend Payments Respond to Taxes?
Preliminary Evidence from the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut" (with Raj Chetty) |
| October 14 |
Amitabh Chandra, Dartmouth College, "Testing a Roy Model with Productivity Spillovers: Evidence
from the Treatment of Heart Attacks" (with Douglas Staiger) |
| October 21 |
Joel Waldfogel, Wharton School, "Piracy on the High C's: Music Downloading, Sales
Displacement, and Social Welfare in a Sample of College Students" (with Rafael
Rob) |
| October 28 |
Patrick Bajari, Duke University, "Identification and Estimation of Discrete
Games of Complete Information" (with Han Hong and Stephen Ryan) CANCELLED |
| November 4 |
Kenneth Train, University of
California-Berkeley, "Vehicle Choice Behavior and the
Declining Market Share of U.S. Automakers" (with Clifford Winston) |
| November 11 |
David Laibson, Harvard University, "Shrouded Attributes and Information Suppression in
Competitive Markets" (with Xavier Gabaix) Additional paper: "Gaussian Noise, Consumer Confusion, and Asymptotic Markups" |
| November 18 |
Monika Schnitzer, University of Munich and
Yale School of Management (Visitor), "Global
versus Local: The Financing of Foreign Direct Investment" (with Dalia Marin) |
| December 2 |
Ken Hendricks, University of Texas at
Austin (Visitor, Princeton), "An Empirical Study
of the Impact of New Album Releases on Sales of Old Albums by the Same Recording Artist"
(with Alan Sorensen) |
| December 9 |
Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, Yale University,
"The Timing of New Technology Adoption: The Case
of MRI" |
| 2003 |
|
| February 13 |
James Levinsohn, University of Michigan,
"Productivity in a Differentiated Products Market
Equilibrium" (with Marc Melitz) |
| February 20 |
Gautam Gowrisankaran, Visitor, Yale, "Quantifying Equilibrium Network Externalities in the
ACH Banking Industry" (with Daniel Ackerberg) |
| March 6 |
James Poterba, MIT, "Adverse Selection in Insurance Markets: PolicyHolder
Evidence from the U.K. Annuity Market" Also joint with Labor and Population Workshop |
| March 27 |
Victor Aguirregabiria, Boston University,
"Sales Promotions in Supermarkets: Estimating Their
Effect on Profits and Consumer Welfare" |
| April 3 |
Roland Fryer, Jr., University of Chicago,
"An Economic Approach to Cultural Capital"
(with Steve Levitt) |
| April 10 |
Sofronis Clerides, University of Cyprus and
Visitor,Yale, "Price and Quality in International
Tourism" |
| April 17* |
Orley Ashenfelter, Princeton University,
"Using Mandated Speed Limits to Measure the
Value of a Statistical Life" Joint with Environmental Economics
Seminar |
| April 24 |
Daniel Raff, University of Pennsylvania, What Happened at Highland Park: A Microeconomic History of the
Coming of Mass Production Joint with Economic History Workshop |
| May 1 |
Paul Oyer, Stanford University GSB, "Why Do Some Firms Give Stock Options to All Employees?: An
Empirical Examination of Alternative Theories" (Scott Schaefer) |
| May 8 |
Julie Holland Mortimer, Harvard University,
"Price Discrimination and Copyright Law: Evidence
from the Introduction of DVDs" |
| September 11 |
Susan Athey, Stanford University, "Dynamic Auctions with Persistent Private Information"
(with Kyle Bagwell, Columbia University) Joint with Micro Theory Workshop |
| September 18 |
Amy Finkelstein, Harvard University, "Health Policy and Technological Change: Evidence from
the Vaccine Industry" |
| September 25 |
Robert E.Hall, Hoover Institution/Stanford
University, "Potential Competition and the Prices of
Network Goods: Desktop Software" (with Jimmy Royer and Marc Van Audenrode) |
| October 2 |
Sean Nicholson, The Wharton School, "Barriers to Medical Specialties" |
| October 9 |
Jesse Shapiro, Harvard University, "Is there a Daily Discount Rate? Evidence from the Food
Stamp Nutrition Cycle" |
| October 16 |
Steven Tadelis, Stanford University, "Auctions versus Negotiations in Procurement: An Empirical
Analysis" (with Patrick Bajari and Robert McMillan) |
| October 23 |
Holger Sieg, GSIA, Carnegie Mellon
University, "Identification of Equilibrium Models of
Local Jurisdictions" (with Dennis Epple) |
| October 30 |
Fiona Scott Morton , Yale School of
Management, "The Effect of Information and
Institutions on Price Negotiations: Evidence from Matched Survey and Auto Transaction Data"
(with Florian Zettelmeyer and Jorge Silva-Risso) |
| November 6 |
Robert Gertner, University of Chicago GSB,
"Organizing for Synergies" (with Wouter
Dessein and Luis Garicano) |
| November 13 |
Juan Esteban Carranza, Yale University,
"Product Innovation in Differentiated Durable
Goods Markets" |
| November 20 |
Michael Riordan, Columbia University and
Yale University, "Vertical Integration, Exclusive
Dealing, and Ex Post Cartelization" (with Yongmin Chen)
Joint with Micro Theory
Workshop |
| December 4 |
Nancy Rose, MIT, "Has Restructuring Improved Operating Efficiency in the US
Electricity Industry?" (with Kira Markiewicz and Catherine Wolfram) |
| 2002 |
|
| February 19 |
Christopher Timmins, Yale University,
"Endogenous Land Use and the Ricardian Valuation of
Climate Change" |
| February 27 |
Sara Ellison, MIT, "Countervailing Power in Wholesale Pharmaceuticals"
(with Christopher Snyder) |
| March 7 |
Moshe Buchinsky, Brown University, "Interim Mobility, Wages, and the Returns to Seniority and
Experience in the U.S." (with Denis Fougere, Francis Kramarz, Rusty Tchernis) |
| March 27 |
Justine Hastings, Dartmouth College, "Vertical Integration and Competition in Gasoline Markets" |
| April 4 |
Eduardo Engel, Yale University, "Highway Franchising and Real Estate Deals" (with
Ronald Fischer and Alexander Galetovic) |
| April 10 |
Valerie Suslow, University of Michigan GSB,
"International Cartels in the 1990s: Implications
for Theory and Policy" (with Margaret Levenstein) |
| April 25 |
Martin Pesendorfer, Yale University, "Combination Bidding in Multi-Unit Auctions"
(with Estelle Cantillon) |
| May 1 |
Severin Borenstein, University of
California, Berkeley, "Measuring Market
Inefficiencies in California's Restructured Wholesale Electricity Market" |
| May 9 |
Alvin Roth (Harvard University), "Last-minute Bidding and the Rules for Ending Second-prize
Auctions: Evidence from eBay and Amazon Auctions on the Internet" (with Axel
Ockenfels) Joint with Microeconomic Theory Workshop |
| September 9 |
Gene Grossman, Princeton University, International Protection of Intellectual Property Rights
Joint with Trade and Development Workshop |
| September 19 |
Marc Melitz, Harvard University, "Exports versus FDI" (with Elhanan Helpman and
Stephen Yeaple) Joint with Trade
Development Workshop |
| September 26 |
Joseph Harrington, Johns Hopkins
University, "Equilibrium Cartel Pricing in the
Presence of an Antitrust Authority" |
| October 10 |
Steven Berry, Yale, "Product Quality and Market Size" (with Joel
Waldfogel) |
| October 17 |
Stephen Coate, Cornell University, "Power-hungry Candidates, Policy Favors, and Pareto Improving
Campaign Contribution Limits" Joint with Microeconomic Theory Workshop |
| October 24 |
Todd Sinai, UPENN (Wharton School), "Network Effects, Congestion Externalities, and Air Traffic
Delays" |
| November 1-2 |
Cowles Conference on Estimation of Dynamic Demand
Models |
| November 6 |
Tom Hubbard, University of Chicago GSB,
"Specialization, Firms and Markets: The Division of
Labor Within and Between Law Firms" |
| November 14 |
Sangin Park, SUNY Stony Broook, "An Empirical Evaluation of the 1986 Semiconductor Trade
Arrangement" |
| November 21 |
Amil Petrin, Chicago GSB, "Improving Demand and Welfare Estimates with Utilization Data" |
| December 12 |
Elena Krasnokutskaya, Yale University,
"Auction Models with Unobserved Auction
Heterogeneity: Application to the Highway Procurement Auctions" |
| December 19 |
Paris Cleanthous, Yale University, "Patient Welfare Implicaitons of Innovation in the U.S.
Antidepressant Market" |
| 2001 |
|
| March 21 |
Jeremy Bulow, FTC, Stanford, "Selling
a Company: When to Run an Auction" Joint with Microeconomic
Theory Workshop |
| March 21 |
Phillip Leslie, University of California,
LA, "The Effects of Disclosure Regulation: Evidence
from Restaurants" (with Ginger Jin) |
| March 27 |
Joachim Winter, University of Mannheim,
"Time Preference and Decision Rules in a Price
Search Experiment" |
| March 29 |
Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago GSB,
"Does the Internet Make Markets More Competitive:
Evidence from Life Insurance" (with Jeffrey R. Brown) |
| April 5 |
Aviv Nevo, University of California,
Berkeley, "Sales and Consumer Inventory"
(with Igal Hendel) |
| April 12 |
Christopher Flinn, New York University,
"Minimum Wage Effects on Employment and Earnings in
the Presence of Search and Matching" |
| April 19 |
Lanier Benkard, Stanford GSB, "Demand Estimation with Heterogeneous Consumers and
Unobserved Product Characteristics: A Hedonic Approach" (with Pat Bajari) |
| April 26 |
Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University, "Affirmative Action in Higher Education: How Do
Admission and Financial Aid Rules Affect Future Earnings?" |
| May 3 |
Michael Whinston, Northwestern, "Robust Predictions for Bilateral Contracting with
Externalities" (with Ilya Segal) Joint with Microeconomic
Theory Workshop |
| May 10 |
Walter Beckert, University of Florida,
"Estimation of Stochastic Preferences: An
Empirical Analysis of Demand for Internet Services" AND "On Specification and Identification of Stochastic Demand
Models" |
| May 16 |
George Hall and John Rust, Yale University,
"Middle Men vs. Market Makers: A Theory of Competitive
Exchange" |
| September 6 |
John Sutton, London School of Economics,
"The Variance of Firm Growth Rates: The Scaling
Puzzle" |
| September 20 |
Hanming Fang, Yale University, "Government-Mandated Discriminatory Policies" (with
Peter Norman, University of Wisconsin) |
| September 27 |
Fiona Scott Morton, Yale SOM, "Consumer Information and Price Discrimination: Does the
Internet Affect the Pricing of New Cars to Women and Minorities?" (with Florian
Zettelmeyer and Jorge Silva-Risso) |
| October 4 |
Patrick Bayer, Yale University, "The Causes and Consequences of Residential Segregation: An
Equilibrium Analysis of Neighborhood Sorting" (with Robert McMillan and Kim
Rueben) |
| October 11 |
Hiu Man Chan, Yale University, "The Effect of Bargaining on Price and Profit: A Case Study on
a U.S. Steel Service Center" |
| October 18 |
Peter Zemsky, INSEAD, "Disruptive Technologies and the Emergence of Competition"
(with Ron Adner) |
| October 25 |
Matthew White, Stanford GSB, Household Electricity Demand, Revisited (with Peter
Reiss) |
| November 1 |
Antonio Merlo, University of Pennsylvania,
"What Accounts for the Decline in Crime?"
(with Ayse Imrohoroglu, USC and Peter Rupert, FRB, Cleveland) |
| November 8 |
Sungjin Cho, Yale University, "An Empirical Model of Mainframe Computer Investment" |
| November 15 |
Paul Joskow, MIT, "California's Electricity Crises" AND "A Quantitative Analysis of Pricing Behavior in California's
Wholesale Electricity Market During Summer 2000" |
| December 6 |
Gautam Gowrisankaran, University of
Minnesota, "Bayesian Inference for Hospital
Quality in a Selection Model" (with John Geweke and Robert J. Town) |
| December 13 |
Han Hong, Princeton University, "Rates of Conversion in Common Value Auctions" (with
Matthew Shum) |
| 2000 |
|
| January 13 |
Donald J. Brown and Marten Wegkamp, Yale
University, "Asymptotics in Minimum Distance from Independence Estimation" |
| February 3 |
Paul MacAvoy, Yale SOM, "Strategy,
Governance and Management" |
| February 10 |
Robert Miller, Carnegie Mellon University,
"An Empirical Analysis of Limit Order Markets" (with
Burton Hollifield and Patrik Sandas) |
| February 24 |
Marc Rysman, Boston University, "Competition Between Networks: A Study of the Market for
Yellow Pages" |
| March 2 |
Sara Ellison, Stanford/Hoover Institution,
"Strategic Entry Deterrence and the Behavior of Pharmaceutical Incumbents Prior to
Patent Expiration" (with Glenn Ellison) |
| March 23 |
Ronald Cotterill, University of
Connecticut, "Cost Pass Through in the Case of
Sequential Oligopoly: an Empirical Study of the Fluid Milk Market" (with Tirtha
Pratirn Dhar) |
| March 30 |
Fiona Scott Morton, Yale SOM, "Love or Money? The Effect of Owner Motivation in the
California Wine Industry" |
| April 6 |
Michael Baker, University of Toronto,
"Comparable Worth Comes to the Private Sector: The
Case of Ontario" Joint with Labor and
Population Seminar |
| April 7 |
Vesna Prasnikar, University of Pittsburgh
and Robert Miller, Carnegie Mellon University, "Comlabgames: Internet Software for
Research and Teaching Strategy" |
| April 13 |
Gregory Crawford, Duke University, "Bidding Asymmetries in Multi-Unit Auctions: Implications
of Bid Function Equilibria in the British Spot Market for Electricity" (with
Joseph Crespol) |
| April 20 |
Douglas Brown, Georgetown University, Solo
vs. Group Practice: The Impact of Demand Uncertainty on Physician Behavior (with Harvey
Lapan) |
| April 27 |
P.A. Chiappori, University of Chicago,
"Econometric Models of Insurance under Asymmetric
Information" b Joint with Microeconomic Theory
Workshop and Workshop in Trade and Development |
| September 6 |
Tom Hubbard, University of Chicago GSB,
"Make Versus Buy in Trucking: Asset Ownership, Job
Design, and Information" (with George Baker) |
| September 28 |
Dmitriy Stolyarov, University Michigan,
"Turnover of Used Durables in a Stationary
Equilibrium: Are Older Goods Traded More?" |
| October 5 |
Jerry Hausman, MIT, "The Competitive
Effects of a New Product Introduction" |
| October 12 |
Philip Haile, University Wisconsin, "Inference with an Incomplete Model of English Auctions"
(with Elie T. Tamer) |
| October 19 |
Roni Shachar, University of Tel Aviv,
"Advertising, the Matchmaker" and "Informative Advertising can be Persuasive"
(supplementary) |
| October 26 |
Eugene Choo, Yale University, "Rational Addiciton and Rational Cessation: A Dynamic
Structural Model of Cigarette Consumption" Joint with Prospectus
Workshop in Microeconomics |
| November 1 |
Peter Davis, MIT, New Parametric Demand Systems for Market Level Demand Studies
|
| November 2 |
Jean-Marc Robin, INRA-LEA and CREST-INSEE,
"An Equilibrium Job Search Model for Matched
Employer-Employee Data" (with Fabien Postel-Vinay) |
| November 16 |
Oleg Melnikov, Yale University, "Demand for Differentiated Durable Products: The Case of
the U.S. Computer Printer Market" Joint with Prospectus
Workshop in Microeconomics |
| November 29 |
Rafael Thomadsen, Columbia University,
"Price Competition and Geographic Product Differentiation" |
| November 30 |
Clement Chan, Yale University, "Demand for for Soft Drinks: Characteristics, Corners, and
Continuous Choice" Joint with Prospectus Workshop in
Microeconomics |
| December 6 |
Amil Petrin, University of Chicago GSB,
"Consumer Gains from Direct Broadcast Satellite and
the Market Power of Cable" |
| December 7 |
David Genesove, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, "Why Are There so Few (and Fewer and
Fewer) Two-Newspaper Towns?" |
| December 14 |
Sung-Jin Cho, Yale University, "An Empirical Model of Mainframe Computer Replacement"
Joint with Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics |
