| 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 |