Industrial Organization Seminar, 2000/01 - 2003/04
Formerly Applied Microeconomics Workshop
| 2000/01 | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 |
To find the Archives for more recent years, go to the Events/Seminars page and scroll to the bottom, Past Events
2003/04 | |
Sep. 11 | Susan Athey, Stanford University, "Dynamic Auctions with Persistent Private Information" (with Kyle Bagwell) [Paper] Joint with Micro Theory Workshop |
Sep. 18 | Amy Finkelstein, Harvard University, "Health Policy and Technological Change: Evidence from the Vaccine Industry" [Paper] |
Sep. 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) [Paper] |
Oct. 2 | Sean Nicholson, The Wharton School, "Barriers to Medical Specialties" [Paper] |
Oct. 9 | Jesse Shapiro, Harvard University, "Is there a Daily Discount Rate? Evidence from the Food Stamp Nutrition Cycle" [Paper] |
Oct. 16 | Steven Tadelis, Stanford University, "Auctions versus Negotiations in Procurement: An Empirical Analysis" (with Patrick Bajari and Robert McMillan) [Paper] |
Oct. 23 | Holger Sieg, GSIA, Carnegie Mellon University, "Identification of Equilibrium Models of Local Jurisdictions" (with Dennis Epple) [Paper] |
Oct. 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) [Paper] |
Nov. 6 | Robert Gertner, University of Chicago GSB, "Organizing for Synergies" (with Wouter Dessein and Luis Garicano) [Paper] |
Nov. 13 | Juan Esteban Carranza, Yale University, "Product Innovation in Differentiated Durable Goods Markets" (with Juan Esteban) [Paper] |
Nov. 20 | Michael Riordan, Columbia University and Yale University, "Vertical Integration, Exclusive Dealing, and Ex Post Cartelization" (with Yongmin Chen) [Paper] Joint with Micro Theory Workshop |
Dec. 4 | Nancy Rose, MIT, "Has Restructuring Improved Operating Efficiency in the US Electricity Industry?" (with Kira Markiewicz and Catherine Wolfram) [Paper] |
Feb. 26 | Jonathan Levin, Stanford University, "Matching and Price Competition" (with Jeremy Bulow) [Paper] |
Mar. 4 | Steven Levitt, University of Chicago, "Why are Gambling Markets Organized So Differently than Financial Markets?" [Paper] |
Mar. 25 | Ariel Pakes, Harvard University, "Simple Estimators for Parameters of Discrete Dynamic Games with Entry/Exit Examples" (with Steven Berry and Michael Ostrovsky) [Paper] |
Apr. 1 | Philippe Février, ENSAE, "Econometrics of Share Auctions" (with Raphaële Préget and Michael Visser) [Paper] |
Apr. 8 | Jaap Abbring, Vrije Universiteit (Free University), "Social Experiments in Real Time" (with Gerard van den Berg) [Paper] Joint with Labor and Population Workshop |
Apr. 22 | Ali Hortacsu, University of Chicago, "Testing Strategic Models of Firm Behavior in Restructured Electricity Markets: A Case Study of ERCOT" (with Steven Puller) [Paper] |
Apr. 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) [Paper] |
2002/03 | |
Sep. 9 | Gene Grossman, Princeton University, "International Protection of Intellectual Property Rights" (with Edwin L.-C. Lai) [Paper] Joint with Trade and Development Workshop |
Sep. 19 | Marc Melitz, Harvard University, "Exports versus FDI" (with Elhanan Helpman and Stephen Yeaple) [Paper] Joint with Trade Development Workshop |
Sep. 26 | Joseph Harrington, Johns Hopkins University, "Equilibrium Cartel Pricing in the Presence of an Antitrust Authority" [Paper] |
Oct. 10 | Steven Berry, Yale, "Product Quality and Market Size" (with Joel Waldfogel) [Paper] |
Oct. 17 | Stephen Coate, Cornell University, "Power-hungry Candidates, Policy Favors, and Pareto Improving Campaign Contribution Limits" [Paper] Joint with Microeconomic Theory Workshop |
Oct. 24 | Todd Sinai, UPENN (Wharton School), "Network Effects, Congestion Externalities, and Air Traffic Delays" (with Christopher Mayer) [Paper] |
Nov. 6 | Tom Hubbard, University of Chicago GSB, "Specialization, Firms and Markets: The Division of Labor Within and Between Law Firms" (with Luis Garicano) [Paper] |
Nov. 14 | Sangin Park, SUNY Stony Broook, "An Empirical Evaluation of the 1986 Semiconductor Trade Arrangement" [Paper] |
Nov. 21 | Amil Petrin, Chicago GSB, "Improving Demand and Welfare Estimates with Utilization Data" [Paper] |
Dec. 12 | Elena Krasnokutskaya, Yale University, "Auction Models with Unobserved Auction Heterogeneity: Application to the Highway Procurement Auctions" [Paper] |
Dec. 19 | Paris Cleanthous, Yale University, "Patient Welfare Implicaitons of Innovation in the U.S. Antidepressant Market" [Paper] |
Feb. 13 | James Levinsohn, University of Michigan, "Productivity in a Differentiated Products Market Equilibrium" (with Marc Melitz) [Paper] |
Feb. 20 | Gautam Gowrisankaran, Visitor, Yale, "Quantifying Equilibrium Network Externalities in the ACH Banking Industry" (with Daniel Ackerberg) [Paper] |
Mar. 6 | James Poterba, MIT, "Adverse Selection in Insurance Markets: PolicyHolder Evidence from the U.K. Annuity Market" (with Amy Finkelstein) [Paper] Joint with Labor and Population Workshop |
Mar. 27 | Victor Aguirregabiria, Boston University, "Sales Promotions in Supermarkets: Estimating Their Effect on Profits and Consumer Welfare" [Paper] |
Apr. 3 | Roland Fryer, Jr., University of Chicago, "An Economic Approach to Cultural Capital" [Paper] |
Apr. 10 | Sofronis Clerides, University of Cyprus/Visitor,Yale, "Price and Quality in International Tourism" (with Paris Nearchou and Panos Pashardes) [Paper] |
Apr. 17 | Orley Ashenfelter, Princeton University, "Using Mandated Speed Limits to Measure the Value of a Statistical Life" (with Michael Greenstone) [Paper] Joint with Environmental Economics Seminar |
Apr. 24 | Daniel Raff, University of Pennsylvania, What Happened at Highland Park: A Microeconomic History of the Coming of Mass Production [Paper] 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) [Paper] |
May 8 | Julie Holland Mortimer, Harvard University, "Price Discrimination and Copyright Law: Evidence from the Introduction of DVDs" [Paper] |
2001/02 | |
Sep. 6 | John Sutton, London School of Economics, "The Variance of Firm Growth Rates: The Scaling Puzzle" [Paper] |
Sep. 20 | Hanming Fang, Yale University, "Government-Mandated Discriminatory Policies" (with Peter Norman) [Paper] |
Sep. 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) [Paper] |
Oct. 4 | Patrick Bayer, Yale University, "The Causes and Consequences of Residential Segregation: An Equilibrium Analysis of Neighborhood Sorting" (with Robert McMillan and Kim Rueben) [Paper] |
Oct. 11 | Hiu Man Chan, Yale University, "The Effect of Bargaining on Price and Profit: A Case Study on a U.S. Steel Service Center" [Paper] |
Oct. 18 | Peter Zemsky, INSEAD, "Disruptive Technologies and the Emergence of Competition" (with Ron Adner) [Paper] |
Oct. 25 | Matthew White, Stanford GSB, Household Electricity Demand, Revisited (with Peter Reiss) [Paper] |
Nov. 1 | Antonio Merlo, University of Pennsylvania, "What Accounts for the Decline in Crime?" (with Ayse Imrohoroglu and Peter Rupert) [Paper] |
Nov. 8 | Sung-Jin Cho, Yale University, "An Empirical Model of Mainframe Computer Investment" [Paper] |
Nov. 15 | Paul Joskow, MIT, "California's Electricity Crises" [Paper] and "A Quantitative Analysis of Pricing Behavior in California's Wholesale Electricity Market During Summer 2000" [Paper] |
Dec. 6 | Gautam Gowrisankaran, University of Minnesota, "Bayesian Inference for Hospital Quality in a Selection Model" (with John Geweke and Robert J. Town) [Paper] |
Dec. 13 | Han Hong, Princeton University, "Rates of Conversion in Common Value Auctions" (with Matthew Shum) [Paper] |
Feb. 19 | Christopher Timmins, Yale University, "Endogenous Land Use and the Ricardian Valuation of Climate Change" [Paper] |
Feb. 27 | Sara Ellison, MIT, "Countervailing Power in Wholesale Pharmaceuticals" (with Christopher Snyder) [Paper] |
Mar. 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) [Paper] |
Mar. 27 | Justine Hastings, Dartmouth College, "Vertical Integration and Competition in Gasoline Markets" [Paper] |
Apr. 4 | Eduardo Engel, Yale University, "Highway Franchising and Real Estate Deals" (with Ronald Fischer and Alexander Galetovic) [Paper] |
Apr. 10 | Valerie Suslow, University of Michigan GSB, "International Cartels in the 1990s: Implications for Theory and Policy" (with Margaret Levenstein and Lynda Oswald) [Paper] |
Apr. 25 | Martin Pesendorfer, Yale University, "Combination Bidding in Multi-Unit Auctions" (with Estelle Cantillon) [Paper] |
May 1 | Severin Borenstein, University of California, Berkeley, "Measuring Market Inefficiencies in California's Restructured Wholesale Electricity Market" (with James Bushnell and Frank Wolak) [Paper] |
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) [Paper] Joint with Microeconomic Theory Workshop |
2000/01 | |
Sep. 6 | Tom Hubbard, University of Chicago GSB, "Make Versus Buy in Trucking: Asset Ownership, Job Design, and Information" (with George Baker) [Paper] |
Sep. 28 | Dmitriy Stolyarov, University Michigan, "Turnover of Used Durables in a Stationary Equilibrium: Are Older Goods Traded More?" [Paper] |
Oct. 5 | Jerry Hausman, MIT, "The Competitive Effects of a New Product Introduction" |
Oct. 12 | Philip Haile, University Wisconsin, "Inference with an Incomplete Model of English Auctions" (with Elie T. Tamer) [Paper] |
Oct. 19 | Roni Shachar, University of Tel Aviv, "Advertising, the Matchmaker" (with Bharat N. Anand) [Paper] and "Informative Advertising can be Persuasive" (with Bharat N. Anand) [Paper] |
Oct. 26 | Eugene Choo, Yale University, "Rational Addiciton and Rational Cessation: A Dynamic Structural Model of Cigarette Consumption" [Paper] Joint with Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics |
Nov. 1 | Peter Davis, MIT, "New Parametric Demand Systems for Market Level Demand Studies" [Paper] |
Nov. 2 | Jean-Marc Robin, INRA-LEA and CREST-INSEE, "An Equilibrium Job Search Model for Matched Employer-Employee Data" (with Fabien Postel-Vinay) [Paper] |
Nov. 16 | Oleg Melnikov, Yale University, "Demand for Differentiated Durable Products: The Case of the U.S. Computer Printer Market" [Paper] Joint with Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics |
Nov. 29 | Rafael Thomadsen, Columbia University, "Price Competition and Geographic Product Differentiation" |
Nov. 30 | Clement Chan, Yale University, "Demand for for Soft Drinks: Characteristics, Corners, and Continuous Choice" [Paper] Joint with Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics |
Dec. 6 | Amil Petrin, University of Chicago GSB, "Consumer Gains from Direct Broadcast Satellite and the Market Power of Cable" (with Austan Goolsbee) [Paper] |
Dec. 7 | David Genesove, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "Why Are There so Few (and Fewer and Fewer) Two-Newspaper Towns?" [Paper] |
Dec. 14 | Sung-Jin Cho, Yale University, "An Empirical Model of Mainframe Computer Replacement" [Paper] Joint with Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics |
Mar. 21 | Jeremy Bulow, FTC, Stanford, "Selling a Company: When to Run an Auction" [Paper] Joint with Microeconomic Theory Workshop |
Mar. 21 | Phillip Leslie, University of California, LA, "The Effects of Disclosure Regulation: Evidence from Restaurants" (with Ginger Jin) [Paper] |
Mar. 27 | Joachim Winter, University of Mannheim, "Time Preference and Decision Rules in a Price Search Experiment" (with Daniel Houser) [Paper] |
Mar. 29 | Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago GSB, "Does the Internet Make Markets More Competitive: Evidence from Life Insurance" (with Jeffrey R. Brown) [Paper] |
Apr. 5 | Aviv Nevo, University of California, Berkeley, "Sales and Consumer Inventory" (with Igal Hendel) [Paper] |
Apr. 12 | Christopher Flinn, New York University, "Minimum Wage Effects on Employment and Earnings in the Presence of Search and Matching" [Paper] |
Apr. 19 | Lanier Benkard, Stanford GSB, "Demand Estimation with Heterogeneous Consumers and Unobserved Product Characteristics: A Hedonic Approach" (with Pat Bajari) [Paper] |
Apr. 26 | Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University, "Affirmative Action in Higher Education: How Do Admission and Financial Aid Rules Affect Future Earnings?" [Paper] |
May 3 | Michael Whinston, Northwestern, "Robust Predictions for Bilateral Contracting with Externalities" (with Ilya Segal) [Paper] Joint with Microeconomic Theory Workshop |
May 10 | Walter Beckert, University of Florida, "Estimation of Stochastic Preferences: An Empirical Analysis of Demand for Internet Services" [Paper] and "On Specification and Identification of Stochastic Demand Models" [Paper] |
May 16 | George Hall and John Rust, Yale University, "Middle Men vs. Market Makers: A Theory of Competitive Exchange" [Paper] |
Apr. 7 | Vesna Prasnikar, University of Pittsburgh and Robert Miller, Carnegie Mellon University, "Comlabgames: Internet Software for Research and Teaching Strategy" |
Apr. 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) [Paper] |
Apr. 20 | Douglas Brown, Georgetown University, Solo vs. Group Practice: The Impact of Demand Uncertainty on Physician Behavior (with Harvey Lapan) |
Apr. 27 | Pierre-André Chiappori, University of Chicago, "Econometric Models of Insurance under Asymmetric Information" [Paper] Joint with Microeconomic Theory Workshop and Workshop in Trade and Development |