| 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 |