Yale Department of Economics

Industrial Organization Seminar, 2011–2011
(formerly Applied Microeconomics Workshop)

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