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Micro/Strategy Seminar, 2000-2003

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2003 (All 2003 Micro/Strategy seminars are joint with Applied Micro.)
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"  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" (with Scott Schaefer)
May 8 Julie Holland Mortimer, Harvard University, 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) [abstract]  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"
October 2 Sean Nicholson, The Wharton School, "Barriers to Entering Medical Specialties"
October 16 Steven Tadelis, Stanford University, "Auctions versus Negotiations in Procurement: An Empirical Analysis" (with Patrick Bajari, Robert McMillan)
October 23 Holger Sieg, GSIA, Carnegie Mellon University, "Identification of Equilibrium Models of Local Jurisdictions"
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, 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 19 Michael Riordan, Columbia University GSB 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)
December 11 Douglas Staiger, Dartmouth, "Changing School Assignments and Housing Values"  Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop & Labor and Population Workshop
2002  
February 27 Sara Ellison, MIT, "Countervailing Power in Wholesale Pharmaceuticals" (with Christopher Snyder)
March 6 Ray Fisman, Columbia University, "Tax Rates and Tax Evasion: Evidence from Missing Imports in China"
March 27 Justine Hastings, Dartmouth, "Vertical Integration and Competition in Gasoline Markets"
April 10 Valerie Suslow, University of Michigan GSB, "International Cartels in the 1990s: Implications for Theory and Policy" (with Margaret Levenstein)
April 17 Beata Smarzynska, World Bank, "Pollution Havens and Foreign Direct Investment: Dirty Secret or Popular Myth?"
May 1 Severin Borenstein, University of California, Berkeley, "Measuring Market Inefficiencies in California's Restructured Wholesale Electricity Market"  Joint with Applied Microeconomics Seminar
September 11 Luis Rayo, Chicago GSB, "Relational Team Incentives and Ownership"  Joint with Micro Theory Workshop
September 26 Joseph Harrington, Johns Hopkins University, "Equilibrium Cartel Pricing in the Presence of an Antitrust Authority"  Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop
October 2 Fritz Foley, University of Michigan GSB, "International Joint Ventures and the Boundaries of the Firm"
October 16 Alma Cohen, NBER, "Asymmetric Information and Learning: Evidence from the Automobile Insurance Agency"
October 30 John Fingleton, Trinity College, Dublin, "Designing and Enforcing Antitrust Law in Ireland" Joint with LEO Workshop
November 6 Thomas Hubbard, University of Chicago GSB, "Specialization, Firms and Markets: The Division of Labor Within and Between Law Firms"  Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop
November 21 Amil Petrin, University of Chicago GSB, "Improving Demand and Welfare Estimates with Utilization Data"  Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop
December 4 Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago GSB, "Are Emily and Brendan More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination"   Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop
2001  
March 21 Phillip Leslie, University of California, LA, "The Effects of Disclosure Regulation: Evidence from Restaurants"  Joint with Applied Microeconomics Seminar
April 5 Aviv Nevo, University of California, Berkeley, "Sales and Consumer Inventory"  Joint with Applied Microeconomics Seminar
September 6 John Sutton, London School of Economics, The Variance of Firm Growth Rates: The Scaling Puzzle  Joint with Applied Microeconomics Seminar
September 19 Paul Seabright, IDEI Toulouse, "Competition and the Spread of Knowledge in Economic Growth" CANCELLED*
October 18 Peter Zemsky, INSEAD, "Disruptive Technologies and the Emergence of Competition"  Joint with Applied Microeconomics Seminar
October 24 Julie Mortimer, Harvard University, "The Effect of Revenue-Sharing Contracts on Welfare in Vertically-Separated Markets: Evidence from the Video Rental Industry"
October 25 Matthew White, Stanford University, GSB, "Household Electricity Demand, Revisited"  Joint with Applied Microeconomics Seminar
October 31 Barry Nalebuff, Yale SOM, will comment on the GE Honeywell attempted merger
November 7 Christopher Avery, Harvard University, "Early Offers in Matching Markets: Theory and Evidence from College Admissions and Legal Clerkships"
November 28 Nina Pavnik, Dartmouth, "Trade Protection and Wages: Evidence from the Colombian Trade Reforms"
December 5 Keith Head, University of British Columbia, "Vertical Networks and U.S. Auto Parts Exports: Is Japan Different?"
2000  
February 15 Brigitte Madrian, University of Chicago, "The Power of Suggestion: Inertia in 401(k) Savings Behavior"
February 29 Daniel Spulber, Northwestern University, Market Microstructure and Incentives to Invest"
March 20 Luis Garicano, University of Chicago, "Organizing the allocation of Ideas, Clients and Tasks
March 27 Chris Avery, Harvard University, "How the Early Bird Gets the Worm: Perspectives on Early Applications in the College Admissions Process"
April 4 Scott Stern, MIT, "When Does Start-Up Innovation Spur the Gale of Creative Destruction?"
April 7 Vesna Prasnikar, University of Pittsburgh and Robert Miller, Carnegie Mellon University, "Comlabgames: Internet Software for Research and Teaching Strategy"  Joint with Applied Microeconomics Seminar
April 17 Leslie Marx, University of Rochester, "Oppurtunism and Nondiscrimation Clauses"
April 24 Paul Ellickson, University of Rochester, "Vertical Product Differentiation and Concentration in the Supermarket Industry"
September 6 Tom Hubbard, University of Chicago GSB, "Make Versus Buy in Trucking: Asset Ownership, Job Design, and Information"  Joint with Applied Microeconomics Seminar
September 20 George Baker, Harvard Business School, "Distortion and Risk in Optimal Incentive Contracts"
October 4 Michael Ryall, University of Rochester Simon School, "A Theory of Value Appropriation:  Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Abnormal Returns"
October 18 Thomas Hellmann, Stanford GSB, "Contracting about Future Ownership Choices: IPOs, Acquisitions and Convertible Securities in Venture Capital"
November 1 Peter Davis, MIT Sloan, "New Parametric Demand Systems for Market Level Demand Studies"
November 15 Rob Gertner, University of Chicago GSB, "Explaining Vertical Integration Practices"
December 6 Amil Petrin, University of Chicago GSB, "Consumer Gains from Direct Broadcast Satellite and the Market Power of Cable"  Joint with Applied Microeconomics Seminar