| 2009 |
|
| February 17 |
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING |
| February 24 |
Jorge Balat, Yale University,
"Set Identification in Multi-Unit Auctions"
Elan Fuld, Yale University, "Testing for Differential Information in Common
Value Auctions" |
| March 24 |
Frank Limbrock, Yale University,
"Demand for Prescription Pharmaceuticals" |
| March 31 |
Christopher Conlon, Yale University,
An MPEC Approach to Empirical Likelihood Demand Estimation" |
| April 7 |
No meeting |
| April 14 |
Myrto Kalouptsidi, Yale
University, "A Dynamic Analysis of the World Shipbuilding Industry" |
| April 21 |
No meeting |
| April 28 |
Fabian Duarte, Yale University,
"Essays on Health Insurance" |
| May 5 |
Jorge Balat, Yale University,
"Set Identification in Multi-Unit Auctions"
Eric Becker, Yale University, TBA |
| May 12 |
Elan Fuld, Yale University,
"Juking the Stats: The Effect of Elections on the Measurement of Crime"
Ted Rosenbaum, Yale University, "The Economics of Site Selection: The Case of
the Auto Industry'' |
| May 19 |
Steven Bednar, Yale University,
"Demand for Politicians" |
| 2008 |
|
| March 25 |
Frank Limbrock, Yale University,
"Demand for Prescription Pharmaceuticals" |
| April 1 |
Ying Fan, Yale University,
"Product Choice in the U.S. Daily Newspaper Market" |
| April 8 |
Jake Gramlich, Yale University, "Automotive Fuel Efficiency: A Model of Firm Choice" |
| April 15 |
Chris Conlon, Yale University, TBA |
| April 22 |
Alon Eizenberg, Yale University,
"Upstream Innovation and Product Selection in the Home PC Market" |
| April 29 |
Taeyoung Kim, Yale University,
"Endogenous Switching Costs" |
| May 6 |
Fabian Duarte, Yale University,
"Identification and Estimation of a Dynamic Auction Game"
Myrto Kalouptsidi, Yale University, "From Market Shares to Consumer Types:
Duality in Differentiated Product Demand Estimation" |
| September 9 |
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING |
| September 30 |
Ying Fan, Yale University,
"Market Structure and Product Quality in the U.S. Daily Newspaper Market" |
| October 7 |
Alon Eizenberg, Yale University,
"Upstream Innovation and Product Selection in the Home PC Market" |
| October 14 |
Jake Gramlich, Yale University,
"Gas Prices and Endogenous Product Selection in the US Auto Industry" |
| October 21 |
Frank Limbrock, Yale University,
"Demand for Pharmaceuticals" |
| October 28 |
Christopher Conlon, Yale University,
"An Algorithm for Improved Numerical and Statistical Performance of Demand
Estimation" |
| November 4 |
Myrto Kaloupsidi, Yale University,
"The Bulk Shipping Industry (and China)" |
| November 11 |
Taeyoung Kim, Yale University,
"Store Choice with Correlated Preferences and Search Costs"
Fabian Duarte, Yale University, TBA |
| November 18 |
Ted Rosenbaum, Yale University,
"The Economics of Site Selection: The Case of the Automotive Industry" |
December 2
|
Eric Becker, Yale University,
"Identification and Estimation of Consumer Heterogeneity in Multinomial Choice Models
of Demand" |
| 2007 |
|
| February 20 |
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING |
| February 27 |
Laure Athias, University of Paris
Sorbonne, "The More the Merrier? Number of Bidders,
Information Dispersion, Renegotiation and Winner's Curse in Toll Road Concessions"
(with Antonio Nuņez) |
| March 6 |
Luis Cabral, New York University and
Visitor, Yale, "Dynamic Price Competition With
Network Effects" |
| March 27 |
Joshua Lustig, "Competition
between Medicare HMOs and Product Variety" |
| April 3 |
Xiaolan Zhou, "Mergers with
Changes of Product Qualities: An Empirical Study of the Banking Industry" |
| April 10 |
Ying Fan, "Product Choice in
the U.S. Daily Newspaper Market" |
| April 17 |
Jake Gramlich, "Automobile Fuel
Efficiency: A Model of Firm Choice" |
| April 24 |
Frank Limbrock, "Hospital
Specialization and Competition" |
| May 1 |
Alon Eizenberg, "Upstream
Innovation and Vertical Contracting in the Home PC Market"
Chris Conlon, "Share Buybacks and Tender Auctions" |
| October 2 |
Joshua Lustig, "Adverse
Selection and Risk in Privatized Medicare" |
| October 9 |
Xiaolan Zhou, "Estimation of
the Impact of Mergers in the Banking Industry" |
| October 16 |
Frank Limbrock, "Demand for
Prescription Pharmaceuticals" |
| October 23 |
Jake Gramlich |
| October 30 |
Ying Fan, "Product Choice in
the U.S. Daily Newspaper Market" |
| November 6 |
Alon Eizenberg, "Upstream
Innovation in the Home PC Market: An Empirical Analysis" |
| November 13 |
Christopher Conlon, "Investment
in Retail Outlets" |
| November 27 |
Myrto Kalouptsidi, "From Market
Shares to Consumer Types: Duality in Differentiated Products Demand Estimation" |
| December 4 |
Taeyoung Kim, "Costly Search
with Heterogeneous Preferences"
Fabian Duarte, "Nonparametric Estimation of a Dynamic Auction" |
| 2006 |
|
| February 28 |
Special lecture by Michael Whinston,
Northwestern University, "Principles of Vertical Contracting" |
| March 3-17 |
Spring Break |
| March 28 |
Ariel Pakes, Harvard University,
"Simple Estimators for the Parameters of Discrete
Dynamic Games" (with Steve Berry and Michael Ostrovsky) |
| April 4 |
Gustavo Soares, "Inference
for Partially Identified Models with Inequality Moment Constraints" |
| April 11 |
Garry Gabison, "Effect of
Competition on Menus in the Medication Industry in France"
Xianwen Shi, "Monopoly Pricing with Information Acquisition" |
| April 18 |
Ying (Emily) Zhao, "Estimation
of Demand for Durable Goods Using Both Macro and Micro Data"
Xiaolan Zhou, "Estimation of a Model Entry with Multiple Location Choices"
|
| April 25 |
Frank Limbrock, "Airline
Competition: The Role of Flight Frequency"
Amit Khandelwal, "The Long and Short (of) Quality Ladders" |
| May 2 |
Ying Fan, "Estimating Dynamic
Oligopoly Models with Serially Correlated Private Shocks
Jake Gramlich, "Product Characteristics" |
| May 9 |
Ulrich Wagner, "Estimating a
Dynamic Game of Coalition Formation: The Case of the Montreal Protocol"
Josh Lustig, "A Proposal to Study Screening in Competitive Insurance
Markets" |
| 2005 |
|
| March 1 |
Ulrich Wagner, "Assessing
Global Collective Action under the Montreal Protocol" |
| March 22 |
Henry Schneider,
"Induced-Demand in Auto Repair: A Field Experiment" and "Moral Hazard in
New York City Taxicabs" |
| March 29 |
Emily Zhao, "A Study of the
Photo Printing Industry" |
| April 5 |
Gustavo Soares, "Learning about
Market Structure with Partially Identified Models" |
| April 12 |
Kyle Hood |
| April 19 |
Panle Jia, "Quantifying the
Competition Effects and Network Effects — An Empirical Analysis of the Discount
Industry" |
| April 26 |
Xiaolan Zhou, "A Dynamic Model
of Endogenous Product Characteristics" |
| May 3 |
Frank Limbrock |
| September 20 |
Panle Jia, "What Happens When
Wal-Mart Comes into Town — An Empirical Analysis of the Discount Retail
Industry" |
| September 27 |
Henry Schneider, "Information
Asymmetry and Reputation in Auto Repair" |
| October 4 |
Ulrich Wagner, "Assessing Global Collective Action Under the Montreal Protocol" |
| October 11 |
Amit Khandelwal, "Product
Quality and Competition in International Trade" |
| October 18 |
Ying Zhao, "Demand Estimation
of the Emerging Photo Printer Market" |
| October 25 |
Gustavo Soares, "Inference with
Inequality Moment Restrictions" |
| November 1 |
Xiaolan Zhou, "Retail
Agglomeration" |
| November 8 |
Ying Fan, "Estimating
Discrete-Continuous Models with Aggregate Data" and
Garry Gabison, "Effect of Competition on Choice Menus: the case of savings
accounts" |
| November 15 |
Marek Weretka, "Endogenous
Market Power" |
| November 29 |
Xianwen Shi, "Measuring Peer
Effect in Academic Achievement" (work with Seik Kim) |
| December 6 |
Jake Gramlich, "Endogenous
Product Characteristics"
Josh Lustig, "Estimating Demand for Status Goods" |
| 2004 |
|
| February 17 |
George Hall, "Price Discrimination in the Steel Market" |
| Febuary 24 |
Henry Schneider, "Adverse
Selection in the Used Car Market" |
| March 2 |
Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, "Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Games"
(with Martin Pesendorfer) |
| March 8-19 |
Spring Break |
| March 30 |
Penny Goldberg, "The Effects of Extending Intellectual Property
Rights Protection to Developing Countries: A Case Study of the Indian Pharmaceutical
Market" (Part II) |
| April 6 |
Calixto Lopez Castanon,
"Competition in the Mexican Pension System" |
| April 13 |
Ying Zhao "Internet, TV and
Other Offline Media" |
| April 20 |
Ulrich Wagner, "Assessing
Collective Action for the Protection of the Stratospheric Ozone Layer" |
| April 27 |
Yavor Efremov, "Insider
Trading: No Longer Only for the Rich and Famous" |
| May 4 |
Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, "The
Timing of New Technology Adoption" |
| September 7 |
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING |
| September 21 |
Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, "The
Timing of New Technology Adoption: The Case of MRI" |
| September 28 |
Fiona Scott Morton, Yale School of
Management, "A Test of Bargaining Theory in the
Auto Retailing Industry" (with Florian Zettelmeyer and Jorge Silva-Risso) |
| October 5 |
Guy Berger, "The Impact of
Preferential Trade Agreements on Multilateral Trade Liberalization: Building Blocs or
Stumbling Blocs?" |
| October 12 |
Randi Pintoff, "The Impact of Incarceration on Juvenile Crime: A Regression
Discontinuity Approach" |
| October 19 |
Ulrich Wagner, "Assessing
Collective Action for the Protection of the Stratospheric Ozone Layer" |
| November 2 |
Xiaolan Zhou, "A Dynamic Model
of Endogenous Product Quality"
Rossella Argenziano, "Differentiated Networks: Equilibrium and
Efficiency" |
| November 16 |
Panle (Pam) Jia, "What Happens
When Wal-Mart Comes to Town: The Empirical Entry/Exit Patterns in the 90s for the Discount
Retail Industry" |
| November 30 |
Gustavo Soares, "Nonparametric
Inference on First-Price Auctions"
Kyle Hood, TBA |
| December 7 |
Frank Limbrock, "Why Mail-In
Rebates?"
Garry Gabison, "USMC: Lease Only Policy the Other Commitment Mechanics" |
| 2003 |
|
| February 11 |
Juan Carranza, Empirical Analysis of
Quality Formation in Durable Goods Markets |
| February 18 |
Shamena Anwar, "Racial Customer
Discrimination in the Labor Market: Evidence from the National Basketball Association
(NBA)" |
| February 25 |
Andrew Lemon, "The Peril of Implementing Export Subsidies in the Presence of
Special Interests" |
| March 4 |
Sofronis Clerides (University of
Cyprus and Visitor, Yale), "International Textbook Pricing" |
| March 25 |
Marco Oviedo, "Optimal Bidding
in the Mexican Treasury Securities Primary Auctions: A Structural Econometrics
Approach" |
| April 1 |
Henry Schneider, "Vehicle
Choice with Dynamics: VERY Preliminary Results" |
| April 8 |
Guy Berger, "Trade Agreements
with Sunk Costs and Uncertainty" |
| April 15 |
Panle Jia, "Chain Store's
Location Choice"
Matthias Schuendeln, "Firm Dynamics in the Presence of Credit
Constraints" |
| April 22 |
Brian Dineen, "Irish Insurance
Puzzles" |
| April 29 |
Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, "Entry
over Time and Across Industries in Two Austrian Towns"
Shamena Anwar, "Racial Profiling in Motor Vehicle Stops and Searches" |
| May 6 |
John Mirikitani, "Entry by
Charter Schools in Houston" |
| September 23 |
Juan Carranza, "Product
Innovation and Market Structure in Durable Goods' Markets" |
| September 30 |
Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, "The
Timing of Adoption of a New Technology" |
| October 7 |
Matthias Schuendeln, "Firm
Dynamics in the Presence of Financing Constraints: Ghanaian Manufacturing Firms" |
| October 14 |
Mainak Sarkar, "Estimating
Diffusion Models Using Repeated Cross-sections: Quantifying the Digital Divide" |
| October 28 |
Panle Jia, "The Effects of
Extending Intellectual Property Rights Protection to Developing Countries: A Case
Study of the Indian Pharmaceutical Market" |
| November 4 |
Henry Schneider, "Adverse
Selection and Recent Changes in Information Asymmetry in the Used Car Market" |
| November 11 |
John Mirikitani, "Entry by
Charter Schools in Houston" |
| November 18 |
Brian Dineen, "Identifying
Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection in the Irish Motor Insurance Market" |
| December 2 |
Calixto Lopez Castanon, "An
Analysis of the Recording Industry" |
| December 9 |
Daniel Monte, "The Amenity
Costs of Marginal Climate Change: A Wage-Hedonic Analysis of Brazilian Cities" |
| December 16 |
Ying (Emily) Zhao, "Analysis of
Cross Category Purchases" |
| 2002 |
|
| February 12 |
Elena Krasnokutskaya,
"Identification of Auction Models with Unobserved Heterogeneity" |
| February 26 |
Luis Madrazo, "Institutional
Inertia: Ideology" |
| March 5 |
Juan Carranza, "Durable Goods
and Innovation: Stylized Facts from the Market of Digital Photo Cameras"
Marco Oviedo, "Marginal Cost Recovering from Optimal Bidding Behavior: The PJM
Electricity Market Case" |
| March 26 |
Paris Cleanthous, "Estimating
the Welfare Implications of New Product Introduction in the Pharmaceutical Industry: The
Case of Antidepressants" |
| April 2 |
Mainak Sarkar, "A Structural
Model of Technology Diffusion" |
| April 9 |
Anat Bracha, "Self-Confidence
and Insurance Decision" |
| April 16 |
Xia Li, "A Topic About Women's
Wage Gap"
Matthias Schuendeln, "Firm Dynamics in the Presence of Credit Constraints:
Tanzanian Manufacturing Firms" |
| April 30 |
Nancy Epling, "Switching Costs
and Price Discrimination in Long Distance Telephone Resale" |
| September 17 |
Steven Berry, "How to Write a
Thesis in Applied Microeconomics" |
| October 1 |
Elena Krasnokutskaya, "Auction
Models with Unobserved Auction Heterogeneity: Application to the Highway Procurement
Auctions" |
| October 8 |
Paris Cleanthous, "Demand
Estimation and Welfare Implications of Innovation and Diffusion in the U.S. Antidepressant
Market" |
| October 15 |
Nancy Epling, "Price
Discrimination and Exploitation of Heterogeneous Switching Costs: Survival Tactics of the
Endangered Telephony Resale Fringe" |
| October 22 |
Minchul Kim, "The Determinants
of Internet Retailer Location in the United States" |
| October 29 |
Randi Pintoff, "What is the
Effect of the 1996 Welfare Reform on Crime Rates?"
Guy Berger, "Trade Agreements, Trade Disputes and Reputation" |
| November 5 |
Harsha Thirumurthy, "Returns to
Apprenticeship Training in West Africa"
Andrew Lemon, "Bounded Rationality and Redistributive Trade Policies" |
| November 12 |
Philipp Schmidt-Dengler,
"Estimation of Discrete Games"
Panle Jia, "Fixed Cost Distribution Estimation in Entry Models" |
| November 19 |
Steven Nafziger, "Landlords,
Peasants, and Communal Institutions in 19th Century Russia"
Farooq Naseer, "Government Policy and Market Structure: Pakistan's Sugar
Industry over the Last Two Decades" |
| December 3 |
Henry Schneider, "Estimating a
Dynamic Model of Household Vehicle Purchases"
Talia Bar, "Defensive Publications in a Patent Race" |
| December 10 |
Will Bunting, TBA
Brian Dineen, "Testing for Asymmetric Information and Learning Effects in
Insurance Markets: The Irish Experience" |
| December 17 |
Nancy Epling, "Price Discrimination amid Heterogeneous Switching Costs: A
Competitive Tactic of the Telephony Resale Fringe" |
| 2001 |
|
| February 13 |
Hanming Fang, "Measuring Time Inconsistency: Evidence from Work-Welfare
Decisions in NLSY" (with Dan Silverman) |
| February 20 |
Rupa Athreya, "Price Dispersion
in the Wholesale Market for Steel" |
| February 27 |
Jennifer Murdock, "A Panel
Discrete Choice Model of Outdoor Recreation Behavior: Capturing Taste Heterogeneity,
Variety Seeking Behavior, and Unobserved Site Characteristics" |
| April 3 |
Elena Krasnokutskaya, "Pricing
Auctions in the Deregulated Electricity Market" |
| April 17 |
Yi Deng, "Private Value of
European Patents" |
| April 24 |
Nancy Epling, TBA |
| May 1 |
Yavor Efremov, (1)
"Pharmaceutical Mergers and Acquisitions - Synergies or Another Case of
Hubris?" AND (2) "Insider Trading — No Longer Only for the Rich and
Famous" |
| May 8 |
Paris Cleanthous and Matt Johnson,
"Introduction of New Pharmaceutical Products" |
| May 15 |
John Mirikitani, "School Based
Management in Texas: Flaws in a Bush Education Policy for the US?" |
| May 22 |
Garth Frazer, "Workers are
Employees: Returns to Education and Experience in the Ghanaian Manufacturing Sector" |
| October 2 |
Sungjin Cho, "An Empirical Model of Mainframe Computer Investment" |
| October 9 |
Jennifer Murdock, "Valuing
Recreational Fishing Opportunities in Wisconsin: Accounting for Unobserved Characteristics
in a Discrete Choice Model of Demand" |
| October 16 |
Karine Van der Straeten,
"Electoral Competition Under Imperfect Information" |
| October 30 |
Mainak Sarkar, "Diffusion
Models of Internet Demand"
Luis Madrazo, "Institutional Inertia and Ideology" |
| November 13 |
Ana Fernandes, "Trade Policy,
Trade Volumes and Plant-level Productivity in Colombian Manufacturing Industries" |
| November 27 |
Garth Frazer, "Linking Firms and Workers: Heterogeneous Labor and Returns
to Education in Ghana" |
| November 28 |
Anat Bracha, "Self-Confidence
and Insurance Decision"
Xia Li, "Advertisement as a Tool for Coordination Games"
Matthias Schuendeln, "Dynamic Decision Problems of Rural Households in
Developing Economies" |
| December 4 |
Marco Oviedo, "The PJM
Electricity Market"
Juan Carranza, "Estimating the Incentives of Firms to Innovate in Durable
Goods Markets" |
| December 11 |
Jennifer Murdock, "Valuing Recreational Fishing While Catching Unobserved
Characteristics" |
| December 18 |
Minchul Kim, "The Determinants
of Internet Retailer Location in the U.S." |
| 2000 |
|
| September 12 |
Chris Timmins, "Measuring the
Value of High Yielding Variety Seed Attributes in Brazilian Agriculture" |
| September 19 |
Steve Berry, "How to Present a
Thesis Topic" |
| October 3 |
Oleg Melnikov, "Demand for Differentiated Durable Products: The Case of
the U.S. Computer Printer Market" |
| October 10 |
Katja Seim, "Market Structure
and Geographic Differentiation in Retail Markets" |
| October 24 |
Marcela Melendez, "Estimating a
Dynamic Model of Vertical Integration" |
| October 26 |
Eugene Choo, "Rational Addiction and Rational Cessation: A Dynamic
Structural Model of Cigarette Consumption" |
| November 7 |
Guenter Hitsch, "Estimating a
Model of Product Introduction" |
| November 14 |
Nickolay Moshkin, "Competition
in the Natural Gas Pipeline Industry After Deregulation" |
| November 16 |
Oleg Melnikov, "Demand for Differentiated Durable Products: The Case of
the U.S. Computer Printer Market" |
| November 28 |
Katja Seim, "Market Structure
and Geographic Differentiation in Retail Markets" |
| November 30 |
Clement Chan, "A Continuous Choice, Differentiated Products Model with Corner
Solutions Applied to the Demand for Soft Drinks" |
| December 5 |
Eugene Choo, "Rational Addiction and Rational Cessation: A Dynamic
Structural Model of Cigarette Consumption" |
| December 8 |
Sung-Jin Cho, "An Empirical Model of Mainframe Computer Replacement" |
| December 12 |
Nick DeRoos, "A Model of Collusion Timing" |
| December 14 |
Guenter Hitsch, "Estimating a
Model of Product Introduction" |
| December 19 |
Nickolay Moshkin, "Competition
in the Natural Gas Pipeline Industry After Deregulation" |
