Seminar Series Calendar Archive
The Bureau of Economics periodically hosts seminars given by scholars and practitioners in economic fields related the Federal Trade Commission's missions. Listed here are the presenters and topics from previous seminar series. To view the schedule for the current seminar series, go to the seminar series homepage.
Fall 2012 |
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| Date | Speaker |
Paper | Building | Room | Notes |
| 28-Sep | Glen Weyl (Univ. of Chicago) | Pass-Through as an Economic Tool | NJ | NJB | This is a Friday. |
| 11-Oct | Eric Zitzewitz | Figure Skating/Corruption | NJ | NJ4100 | |
| 18-Oct | Brian McManus | Quality Certification, Competition, and Performance in an Online Marketplace | NJ | NJ4100 | |
| 25-Oct | Randall Lewis (Yahoo) | Advertising Externalities | NJ | NJC | |
| 7-Nov | Dirk Bergemann (Yale) | M Street | M8089 | This is a Wed. | |
| 15-Nov & 16-Nov | FTC MICROECONOMICS CONFERENCE | ||||
| 29-Nov | Amy Finkelstein (MIT) | Estimating Welfare in Lemons Markets | NJ | NJ4100 | |
| 6-Dec | Chuck Thomas (Economic Science Institute, Chapman University) | An Alternating-Offers Model of Multilateral Negotiations | NJ | NJ4100 | |
| 13-Dec | James Adams (Rensselaer) | Research Joint Ventures: Reference Points, Moral Hazards, and Uncertainty | M Street | M8089 | |
| 18-Dec | Amit Gandhi (Wisconsin) | Estimating Discrete Choice Demand Models with a "Small" Number of Consumers | NJ | NJB | This is a Tuesday. |
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will take place on Thursdays at 2:30pm in the ground floor Conference Center located at 601 New Jersey Ave. NW. Prior to attending seminars or for other inquiries, please contact Christopher Metcalf (cmetcalf@ftc.gov) or Tammy John (tjohn@ftc.gov).
For seminars held in the 1800 M street building, proceed directly from the lobby of the building to the 8th floor. Security clearance is required upon arrival at the 8th floor. Seminars in the 1800 M street building begin at 2:30pm unless otherwise noted. Updated: December 12, 2012 Click on the lecture title to view an Acrobat PDF copy of the presented paper. |
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Spring 2012 |
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Date |
Speaker/Affliliation/Paper |
| Mar 1 | Avi Goldfarb (Toronto) Technology, Age, and Shifting Privacy Concerns? Seminar will be held in 601 NJ Avenue Building, Room 4100 |
| Mar 8 | Paul Niehaus (UCSD) Managing Self-Confidence: Theory and Experimental Evidence Seminar will be held in 601 NJ Avenue Building, Room 4100 |
| Mar 15 | Jeffrey Prince (Indiana) Does Service Bundling Reduce Churn? Seminar will be held in 601 NJ Avenue Building, Conference Room B |
| Mar 22 | Matthew Lewis (OSU) Diagnosing Hospital System Bargaining Power in Managed Care Networks Seminar will be held in 601 NJ Avenue Building, Room 4100 and Video Teleconferencing (VTC) 1800 M Street Building, Room 8084 |
| Mar 29 | Mike Sinkinson (Harvard) Seminar will be held in 601 NJ Avenue Building, Conference Room B |
| Apr 5 | Jay Shimshack (Tulane) Seminar will be held in 601 NJ Avenue Building, Room 4100 and Video Teleconferencing (VTC) 1800 M Street Building, Room 8084 |
| Apr 12 | Carl Davidson (Michigan State) Pigou, Becker, and the Regulation of Punishment-Proof Firms Seminar will be held in 1800 M Street Building, Room 8089 |
| May 3 | Justin Sydnor (Wisconsin) Seminar will be held in 601 NJ Avenue Building, Room 4100 |
| May 10 | Dmitry Lubensky (Indiana School of Business) Seminar will be held in 601 NJ Avenue Building, Conference Room B and Video Teleconferencing (VTC) 1800 M Street Building, Room 8084 |
| May 17 | Andrew Sweeting (Duke) Seminar will be held in 601 NJ Avenue Building, Conference Room B |
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will take place on Thursdays at 2:30pm in the ground floor Conference Center located at 601 New Jersey Ave. NW. No prior security clearance is necessary except for the seminars held in room 4100. Address inquiries to Loren Smith (lsmith2@ftc.gov) or Tammy John (tjohn@ftc.gov). For seminars held in the 1800 M street building, proceed directly from the lobby of the building to the 8th floor. Security clearance is required upon arrival at the 8th floor. Seminars in the 1800 M street building begin at 2:30pm unless otherwise noted. Updated: March 1, 2012 Click on the lecture title to view an Acrobat PDF copy of the presented paper. |
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Fall 2011 |
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Date |
Speaker/Affliliation/Paper |
| Sep 29 | Mark Dean (Brown) Search and Satisficing (with Andrew Caplin and Daniel Martin) Seminar will be held in 601 NJ Avenue Building, Room NJ-B |
| Oct 13 | Yi Qian (Northwestern) |
| Oct 17 | Mo Xiao (Arizona) Entry under Subsidy: the Competitive U.S. Local Telephone Industry (with Ying Fan) Note: This seminar is on a Monday. |
| Oct 20 | Andrew Toole (ERS) The R&D Investment-Uncertainty Relationship: Do Strategic Rivalry and Firm Size Matter? Seminar will be held in 1800 M Street Building, Room 8089 |
| Oct 31 | John Asker (NYU Stern) Exclusionary Minimum Resale Price Maintenance (with Heski Bar-Isaac) NJ Conference Room A and Simulcast to M Street Note: This seminar is on a Monday at 12:00 |
| Nov 10 | Abe Dunn (BEA) Physician Market Power and Medical-Care Expenditures (with Adam Hale Shapiro) Seminar will be held in 1800 M Street Building, Room 8089 |
| Nov 17 | John Driscoll (Federal Reserve Board of Governors) Seminar will be held in 601 NJ Avenue Building, Room 4100 |
| Dec 1 | Michael Salinger (Boston University) Tying and Bundling in a Nearly Contestable Market Seminar will be held in 601 NJ Avenue Building, Room 4100 |
| Dec 8 | Paul Ellickson (Rochester) Density versus Differentiation: The Impact of Wal-Mart on the Grocery Industry (with Paul L. E. Grieco) Seminar will be held in 601 NJ Avenue Building, Room 4100 |
| Dec 15 | Mark Duggan (Wharton) Will Risk-Adjustment Decrease Health Care Costs? New Evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program (joint with Jason Brown, Ilyana Kuziemko, and William Woolston) Seminar will be held in 1800 M Street Building, Room 8089 |
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will take place on Thursdays at 2:30pm in the ground floor Conference Center located at 601 New Jersey Ave. NW. No prior security clearance is necessary except for the seminars held in room 4100. Address inquiries to Loren Smith (lsmith2@ftc.gov) or Tammy John (tjohn@ftc.gov). For seminars held in the 1800 M street building, proceed directly from the lobby of the building to the 8th floor. Security clearance is required upon arrival at the 8th floor. Seminars in the 1800 M street building begin at 2:30pm unless otherwise noted. Updated: September 14, 2011 Click on the lecture title to view an Acrobat PDF copy of the presented paper. |
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Spring 2011 |
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Date |
Speaker/Affliliation/Paper |
| Mar 3 | Henry Schneider (Cornell) |
| Mar 10 | Joel Waldfogel (Minnesota) Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie? The Supply of New Recorded Music since Napster Seminar will be held in 1800 M Street Building, Room 8089 |
| Mar 17 | Zahi Ben-David (Ohio State) Do Financial Counseling Mandates Improve Mortgage Choice and Performance? Evidence from a Legislative Experiment |
| Mar 24 | Allen Blackman (RFF) Does Eco-Certification Boost Regulatory Compliance in Developing Countries? |
| Mar 31 | Rachel Croson (NSF, UT-Dallas) The seminar topic is public radio contributions and is partly based on: A Field Experiment in Charitable Contribution Seminar will be held in 1800 M Street Building, Room 8089 |
| Apr 7 | Emir Kamenica (Chicago) |
| Apr 14 | Liran Einav (Stanford) Seminar will be based on the following 3 papers: - Contract Pricing in Consumer Credit Markets - The Impact of Information Technology on Consumer Lending - Liquidity Constraints and Imperfect Information in Subprime Lending |
| Apr 21 | Brian Melzer (Northwestern) Competition in Consumer Lending: Payday Loans and Overdraft Credit |
| Apr 28 | Patrick McAlvanah (FTC) Impatience, Incentives, and Obesity Seminar Postponed |
| May 5 | Przemek Jeziorski (JHU) Estimation of Cost Synergies from Mergers Without Cost Data: Application to U.S. Radio |
| May 12 | Bob Hunt (Philadelphia Fed) The Democratization of U.S. Research and Development After 1980 Seminar will be held in 1800 M Street Building, Room 8089 |
| May 19 | Daniel O’Brien (FTC) All-units Discounts and Double Moral Hazard Seminar will be held in 601 NJ Avenue Building, Room 4100 Seminar Cancelled |
| Jun 2 | Patrick McAlvanah (FTC) Impatience, Incentives, and Obesity |
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will take place on Thursdays at 2:30pm in the ground floor Conference Center located at 601 New Jersey Ave. NW. No prior security clearance is necessary except for the seminars held in room 4100. Address inquiries to Loren Smith (lsmith2@ftc.gov) or Tammy John (tjohn@ftc.gov). For seminars held in the 1800 M street building, proceed directly from the lobby of the building to the 8th floor. Security clearance is required upon arrival at the 8th floor. Seminars in the 1800 M street building begin at 2:30pm unless otherwise noted. Updated: January 31, 2011 Click on the lecture title to view an Acrobat PDF copy of the presented paper. |
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Fall 2010 |
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Date |
Speaker/Affliliation/Paper |
| Sep 16 | Tom Lyon (Michigan) Competing Eco Labels (with Carolyn Fischer) Seminar will begin at 10am |
| Sep 23 | Catherine Tucker (MIT Sloan) Privacy and Online Advertising (with Avi Goldfarb) |
| Oct 7 | Seminar Cancelled |
| Oct 14 | Seminar Rescheduled to Dec 9 |
| Oct 19 | Matt Osborne (BEA) please note this seminar is on Tuesday instead of Thursday Competition Among Spatially Differentiated Firms: An Empirical Model with an Application to Cement (with Nathan Miller) Seminar will be held in New Jersey Avenue Building room 4100 |
| Oct 28 | Emek Basker (Mizzou) Supersize It: The Growth of Chains and the Rise of the 'Big Box' Retail Format (with Shawn Klimek and Pham Hoang Van) Seminar will be held in 1800 M Street Building, Room 8089 |
| Nov 4 | Mary Beth Deily (Lehigh) Quality Information and Quality Competition: Evidence from the Pennsylvania CABG Market Seminar will be held in 1800 M Street Building, Room 8089 |
| Dec 2 | Thomas Jeitschko (DOJ) Pro and Anti-Competitive Effects of Certification in Markets with Asymmetric Information (with Tony Creane and Jinhua Zhao) |
| Dec 9 | Wally Mullin (GWU) Diversity, Social Goods Provision, and Performance in the Firm (with Sara Fisher Ellison and Jeffrey Greenbaum) Seminar will be held in 1800 M Street Building, Room 8089 |
| Dec 16 | Francine Lafontaine (Michigan) Scale, Scope and Performance (with Renata Kosova and Bo Zhao) Seminar will be held in New Jersey Avenue Building room 4100 |
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will take place on Thursdays at 2:30pm in the ground floor Conference Center located at 601 New Jersey Ave. NW. No prior security clearance is necessary except for the seminars held in room 4100. Address inquiries to Loren Smith (lsmith2@ftc.gov) or Tammy John (tjohn@ftc.gov). For seminars held in the 1800 M street building, proceed directly from the lobby of the building to the 8th floor. Security clearance is required upon arrival at the 8th floor. Seminars in the 1800 M street building begin at 2:30pm unless otherwise noted. Updated: September 20, 2010 Click on the lecture title to view an Acrobat PDF copy of the presented paper. |
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Spring 2010 |
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Date |
Speaker/Affliliation/Paper |
| Mar 4 | Scott Hemphill (Columbia Law) Bhaven Sampat (Columbia) Generic Drug Challenges Prior to Patent Expiration Seminar will be held in New Jersey Avenue Building, Room 4100 |
| Mar 11 | Aviv Nevo (Northwestern) A Simple Model of Demand Anticipation |
| Mar 18 | Ken Corts (Toronto) Inducing Information Provision through Competition Policy: Prohibitions on False and Unsubstantiated Claims |
| Mar 24 | Simon Anderson (Virginia) Aggregative Games with Entry Seminar will be held in New Jersey Avenue Building, Room 4100 |
| Mar 25 | Chuck Romeo (DOJ) Filling Out the Instrument Set in Mixed Logit Demand Systems for Aggregate Data Seminar will be held in New Jersey Avenue Building, Room 4100 |
| Apr 8 | Tim Brennan (UMBC) Exclusion vs. Predation: Drawing Lines Between Easy and Hard Abuse Cases |
| Apr 15 | Annamaria Lusardi (Dartmouth) Debt Literacy, Financial Experiences, and Over-indebtedness |
| Apr 22 | Kitt Carpenter (UC Irvine) The Drinking Age, Alcohol Consumption, and Crime |
| Apr 29 | Dan O'Brien & Dave Schmidt (FTC) Predicting Merger Effects Using Price Pressure Indices: Some Preliminary Results |
| May 6 | Stephan Meier (Columbia) Seminar will be held in New Jersey Avenue Building, Room 4100 |
| May 13 | David Prentice (La Trobe) An Empirical Analysis of a Merger in the Australian Cigarette Industry Seminar will be held in 1800 M Street Building, Room 8089 |
| May 20 | Baba Shiv (Stanford) |
| May 27 | Adair Morse (Chicago-Booth) |
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will take place on Thursdays at 2:40pm in the ground floor Conference Center located at 601 New Jersey Ave. NW. No prior security clearance is necessary except for the seminars held in room 4100. Address inquiries to Loren Smith (lsmith2@ftc.gov) or Tammy John (tjohn@ftc.gov). Updated: January 20, 2010 Click on the lecture title to view an Acrobat PDF copy of the presented paper. |
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Spring 2009 |
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Date |
Speaker/Affliliation/Paper |
| Feb 19 | Patrick Rey (Toulouse School of Economics) Resale Price Maintenance and Interlocking Relationships |
| Mar 12 | Jay Shimshack Mercury Advisories and Household Health Trade-Offs Seminar will be held in New Jersey Avenue Building, Room 4100 |
| Mar 26 | Charlie Holt (University of Virginia) Collusion in Auctions for Emission Permits: An Experimental Analysis Seminar will be held in New Jersey Avenue Building, Room 4100 |
| Apr 9 | Stefano DellaVigna (UC Berkeley and NBER) The Effect of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity |
| Apr 16 | Ken Hendricks (Texas) Information and the Skewness of Music Sales Seminar will be held in New Jersey Avenue Building, Room 4100 |
| Apr 23 | C. Lanier Benkard (Stanford) Simulating the Dynamic Effects of Horizontal Mergers: U.S. Airlines Seminar will be held in New Jersey Avenue Building, Room 4100 |
| Apr 30 | Amalia Miller (University of Virginia) Electronic Discovery and Electronic Medical Records: Does the Threat of Litigation Affect Firm Decisions to Adopt Technology? |
| May 7 | Jonathan Levin (Stanford) |
| May 14 | John Thanasoullis (Oxford) Upstream Competition and Downstream Buyer Power Seminar will be held in New Jersey Avenue Building, Room 4100 |
| May 19 | Luke Froeb (Vanderbilt University) Bernhard Ganglmair (University of Zurich) An Equilibrium Analysis of Antitrust as a Solution to the Problem of Patent Hold-Up Seminar will be held in New Jersey Avenue Building, Conference Room A at 10:30 |
| May 21 | Chris Knittel Estimation of Random Coefficient Demand Models: Challenges, Difficulties and Warnings (University of California, Davis) |
| June 4 | Devin Pope (University of Pennsylvania) Is Tiger Woods Loss Averse? Persistent Bias in the Face of Experience, Competition, and Large Stakes Seminar will be held in New Jersey Avenue Building, Conference Room C |
Spring 2008 |
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Date |
Speaker/Paper/Host |
| Feb. 7 | Ben Atkinson (Competition Bureau Canada) “Price Cycling” NJ Avenue Conference Center Room B |
| Feb. 21 | Robert Clark (HEC) "Market Structure and the Diffusion of Electronic Banking” NJ Avenue Conference Center Room B |
| Feb. 28 | Kim Sau Chung (University of Minnesota) “Loopholes” |
| Mar. 6 | CANCELLED Bob Hall (Stanford University) “The Incentive to Start New Companies: Evidence from Venture Capital” NJ Avenue Conference Center Room A |
| Mar. 13 | Rachel Soloveichik (Bureau of Economic Analysis) “Family Transfers in Rural Mexico, An Application to Risk Sharing and Labor Supply Elasticity” NJ Avenue Conference Center Room A |
| Mar. 27 | Jeff Prince (Cornell University) Measuring Welfare and the Effects of Regulation in a Government-Created Market: The Case of Medicare Part D Plans NJ Avenue Conference Center Room A |
| Apr. 10 | Chris Garmon (Federal Trade Commission) "An Empirical Test of Bargaining Theory: Major League Baseball's Rule IV Draft" NJ Avenue Conference Center Room B |
| Apr. 17 | Joe Farrell (Berkeley) “What Is (or Isn’t) the Competitive Process?” |
| Apr. 24 | Emily Oster (University of Chicago) “Routes of Infection: Exports and HIV Incidence in Sub-Saharan Africa” NJ Avenue Conference Center Room B |
| May 1 | Phillip Leslie (Stanford University) The Welfare Effects of Ticket Resale NJ Avenue Conference Center Room C |
| May 8 | Claudio Lucarelli (Cornell University) Government Policy and the Dynamics of Market Structure: Evidence from Critical Access Hospitals NJ Avenue Conference Center Room B |
| June 19 | CANCELLED Greg Crawford (FCC) NJ Room 4100 |
Fall 2007 |
| Date | Speaker/Paper/Host |
| Sept. 6 | Michael Baye (FTC and Indiana) “Clicks, Discontinuities, and Firm Demand Online” |
| Sept. 13 | John Rust (University of Maryland) “Pricing and Selling Decisions by Rental Car Companies” |
| Sept. 20 | Ana Aizcorbe (Bureau of Economic Analysis) “Intermittent Purchases and Welfare-Based Price Deflators for Durable Goods” Seminar will be held in room 4100. |
| Oct. 4 | David Prentice (LaTrobe and Lehigh) "The origins of American industrial success: Evidence from the US portland cement industry." |
| Oct. 11 | Sean Nicholson (Cornell University) "Is Early Childhood Television Viewing an Environmental Trigger for Autism?" Seminar will be held in room 4100. |
| Oct. 18 | Brian Krauth (Simon Fraser University) "Bounding a linear causal effect using relative correlation restrictions." |
| Oct. 25 | Jeremy Fox (University of Chicago) “Measuring the Efficiency of an FCC Spectrum Auction.” |
| Nov. 1 | Jacques Cremer “The Value of Switching Costs” Seminar will be held in room 4100. |
| Nov. 15 | Matt Shum (Johns Hopkins University) "Estimating First-Price Auctions with Unknown Number of Bidders: A misclassification approach" (with Yingyao Hu) |
| Nov. 29 | Oz Shy “Market Dominance and Behavior-Based Pricing Under Horizontal and Vertical Differentiation.” |
| Dec. 6 | Gautam Gowrisankaran (University of Arizona) “Dynamics of Consumer Demand for New Durable Goods” Seminar will be held in room 4100. |
| Dec. 13 | Kathy Zeiler (Georgetown Law) Seminar will be held in room 4100. |
Spring 2007 |
| Date | Speaker/Paper/Host |
| Jan. 18 | Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto Rotman School of Business) Geography and Electronic Commerce: Measuring Convenience, Selection, and Price (with Chris Forman and Anindya Ghose) |
| Feb. 8 | Elizabeth Kiser and Ron Borzekowski (Federal Reserve Board of Governors) The Choice at the Check Out: Quantifying demand across payment instruments |
| Feb. 15 | Victor Aguirregabiria (University of Toronto) Dynamic Spatial Competition between Multi-Store Firms (with Gustavo Vicentini) |
| Mar. 8 | Aviv Nevo (Northwestern) Intermediation in Real Estate Markets: Evidence from Fsbomadison.com (with Igal Hendel and Francois Ortalo-Magne) Notes: In rm NJ 4100 |
| Mar. 15 | Michael Nicholson (Transylvania University) Technical Assistance for Law and Economics: An empirical analysis in antitrust/competition policy. (with Daniel Sokol and Kyle Stiegert) Notes: In rm NJ 4100 |
| Mar. 22 | Justin Wolfers (U Penn Wharton) Financial Markets and Politics: Evidence from Prediction Markets (with Erik Snowberg Eric Zitzewitz) [PDF 1] [PDF 2 ] |
| Apr. 16 | Ali Hortacsu (Chicago) What Makes You Click? Mate Preferences and Matching Outcomes in Online Dating (with Guenter Hitsch and Dan Ariely) |
| Apr. 26 CANCELED |
Steve Berry (Yale) Horizontal and Vertical Product Variety in Radio Broadcasting (with Joel Waldfogel) |
| May 11 | Chuck Thomas (Clemson) Horizontal Product Differentiation in Auction and Multilateral Negotiations (with Bart J. Wilson) |
| May 17 | Michelle Goeree (Claremont McKenna) Was Mr. Hewlett Right? Mergers, Advertising, and the PC Industry |
| May 31 | Brendan Cunningham (Naval Academy and FTC) Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Exposure and the Demand for Drugs |
Fall 2006 |
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| Date |
Speaker/Paper/Host |
Sept. 14 |
Michael Salinger (FTC) The Role of Cost in Determining When Firms Offer Bundles (with D. Evans) |
Sept. 28 |
Stan Liebowitz (Texas,Dallas) The Effect of Radio Play on Record Sales |
| Oct. 5 | Judith Chevalier (Yale) State Casket Sales Restrictions: A Pointless Undertaking? (with Fiona Scott Morton) |
Oct. 12 |
Gary Fournier (Florida State) What does Willingness-to-Pay reveal about hospital market power in merger cases? |
Oct. 17 (Tues.) |
James Eales (Purdue) Demand Elasticities for Fresh Fruit at the Retail Level (with C. Durham) |
Oct. 26 |
David Warsh (Economic Principals) Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations |
Nov. 2 |
Matt Lewis (Ohio State) Temporary Wholesale Gasoline Price Spikes have Long-lasting Retail Effects: The Aftermath of Hurricane Rita |
Nov. 9 Room 4100 |
Christopher R. Knittel (California, Davis) Strategic Incompatibility in ATM Markets (with Victor Stango of The Tuck School) |
Nov. 13 (Mon.) |
James C. Miller III (Chairman, Board of Governors USPS ) TBA |
Nov. 16 |
Pai-Ling Yin (Harvard Business School) Economic and Technical Drivers of Technology Choice: Browsers. (with Timothy F. Bresnahan) |
Dec. 1 (Fri.) |
Nicholas Souleles (Wharton) Do Consumers Choose the Right Credit Contracts? (with S. Agarwal, S. Chomsisengphet, and C. Liu) |
| Dec. 6 (Wed.) |
Erich J. Muehlegger (Harvard) Measuring Illegal Activity and the Effect of Regulatory Innovation: A Study of Diesel Fuel Tax Evasion |
Winter/Spring 2006 |
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Date |
Speaker/Paper/Host |
Jan. 19 |
Mark Nadel (FCC) How the Standard Residential Real Estate Broker Commission Rate Structure Costs Home Buyers & Sellers Billions |
Feb. 16 |
Mark Skidmore (Wisconsin-Whitewater) Do State Motor Fuel Sales-below-cost Laws Lower Prices? (with James Peltier and James Alm) |
| March 8 (Wed.) |
Adam Copeland (Federal Reserve) Prices, Production and Inventories over the Automotive Model Year (with Wendy Dunn and George Hall) |
April 6 |
Chris Dellarocas (Maryland) The Sound of Silence in Online Feedback: Estimating Trading Risks in the Presence of Reporting Bias (with C. Wood) |
April 13 Cancelled |
Andrew Fallow (Oxford) The G8's Vaccine Development Plan: Will it work? |
April 27 Cancelled |
Ginger Jin (Maryland) Direct to Consumer Advertising and Prescription Choice (with T. Iizuka) |
May 4 |
Shane Frederick (MIT) Cognitive Reflection and Decision Making |
May 18 Cancelled |
Debra Holt (FTC) Television Advertising: Content and Exposure |
May 25 |
Jonathan Zinman (Dartmouth) What Monthly Payment Gets You in This Car: Payment/Interest Bias and the Market for Consumer Loans (with Victor Stango) |
June 8 |
Leslie Marx (FCC/Duke) Quantitative Analysis of Coordinated Effects with Bill Kovacic, Bob Marshall, and Steve Schulenberg |
| June 15 | Tim Brennan (UMBC/ Canadian Competition Bureau) Three 'mini' essays on bundling New Jersey Ave. - Room 4100 |
June 27 |
J. Stephen Clark (Nova Scotia Agricultural College), Will Fat Taxes Cause Americans to Become Fatter? Some Evidence From US Meats (with J. Levedahl) |
July 13 |
Marc Rysman (Boston University) Patents and Performance of Voluntary Standard Setting Organizations (with Tim Simcoe) |
| Date | Speaker/Paper |
| Sept 21 | Yossi Spiegel (Tel-Aviv University) |
| Oct. 6 | Chad Syverson (Chicago) Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions (with S. Levitt) |
Nov. 3* |
Charles Manski (Northwestern) Room 4100 |
| Nov. 10 | Susan Athey (Stanford) |
Nov. 17* |
Jesse Shapiro (Chicago) Room 4100 |
| Dec. 1 | Jonathan Zinman (Dartmouth) |
Dec. 8 |
Andrew Sweeting (Northwestern) |
Dec. 15 |
Amil Petrin (Chicago) |
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will take place on Thursdays at 2:30pm in the ground floor Conference Center located at 601 New Jersey Ave. NW No prior security clearance is necessary. */ Seminar will take place in Room 4100 of the 601 New Jersey Ave. building. Please call or email ahead for security clearance. Contacts: Bernadette Harmon 202 326-3449 bharmon@ftc.gov |
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| Date | Speaker/Paper |
| Sept 21 | Yossi Spiegel (Tel-Aviv University) |
| Oct. 6 | Chad Syverson (Chicago) Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions (with S. Levitt) |
Nov. 3* |
Charles Manski (Northwestern) Room 4100 |
| Nov. 10 | Susan Athey (Stanford) |
Nov. 17* |
Jesse Shapiro (Chicago) Room 4100 |
| Dec. 1 | Jonathan Zinman (Dartmouth) |
Dec. 8 |
Andrew Sweeting (Northwestern) |
Dec. 15 |
Amil Petrin (Chicago) |
Seminar Series - Fall 2005 |
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| Date |
Speaker/Paper |
Sept 21 |
Yossi Spiegel (Tel-Aviv University) Partial Cross Ownership and Tacit Collusion |
Oct. 6 |
Chad Syverson (Chicago) Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions (with S. Levitt) |
| Nov. 3* | Charles Manski (Northwestern) Room 4100 Interpreting the Predictions of Prediction Markets |
Nov. 10 |
Susan Athey (Stanford) TBA |
| Nov. 17* | Jesse Shapiro (Chicago) Room 4100 Fooling Some of the People Some of the Time: Advertising and Limited Memory. |
Dec. 1 |
Jonathan Zinman (Dartmouth) What’s Psychology Worth? A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market (with M. Bertrand, D. Karlan, S. Mullainathan and E.Shafir ) |
| Dec. 8 | Andrew Sweeting (Northwestern) Uniting and Turning the Guns on the Enemy: A Micro Study of Station Ownership, Programming and Listenership in the Music Radio Industry |
| Dec. 15 | Amil Petrin (Chicago) Omitted Product Attributes in Differentiated Product Models |
Seminar Series - Winter/Spring 2005 |
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| Date |
Speaker/Paper |
Jan. 27 |
Leemore S. Dafny (Northwestern) Estimation and Identification of Merger Effects: An Application to Hospital Mergers |
Feb. 10 |
Greg Elliehausen (Georgetown) Mortgage Brokers and the Subprime Mortgage Market |
| March 3 | Andrew N. Kleit and James D. Reitzes (Penn State/The Brattle Group) Geographic Integration, Transmission Constraints, and Electricity Restructuring |
March 17 |
John Asker (NYU Stern) Diagnosing Foreclosure Due to Exclusive Dealing |
March 24 |
Mark Duggan (Maryland) The Distortionary Effects Of Government Procurement: Evidence from Medicaid Prescription Drug Purchasing (with Fiona Scott Morton) Seminar will be in NJ 4100 |
March 31 3pm |
Eric Posner (Chicago Law) Holding Internet Service Providers Accountable (with Douglas Lichtman) |
| April 14 | Carl Shapiro (California Berkeley) How Strong Are Weak Patents (with Joe Farrell) |
| April 21 | Alan Mathios (Cornell) Regulating Advertisements: The Case of Smoking Cessation Products |
| April 29 Friday |
Gregory Duncan (U.C. Berkeley) Unbiased Simulators For Analytic Functions and Maximum Unbiased Liklihood Estimation Seminar will be in NJ 4100 |
| May 5 | Marcus Asplund (Columbia) Pricing for Long-Run Profits: The Swedish Tobacco Monopoly 1916-1959 |
| May 12 | Florian Zettelmeyer (California Berkeley) $1000 Cash Back: Asymmetric Information in Auto Manufacturer Promotions |
May 20 2pm |
Michael Smith (Carnegie Mellon) Interest-Based Self-Organizing Peer-to-Peer Networks: A Club Economics Approach Seminar will be in NJ 4100 Conference Room B |
| May 26 | Robert McMillan (FTC) Different Flavor, Same Price: The Puzzle of Uniform Pricing for Differentiated Products |
| June 15 12pm |
Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota) Regulating Occupations: Does Occupational Licensing Increase Earnings and Reduce Employment Growth? Seminar will be in NJ 4100 |
Seminar Series - Fall 2004 |
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| Date |
Speaker/Paper |
Oct. 7 |
Jean-pierre H. Dube (Chicago) An Empirical Model of Advertising Dynamics. (with H.. Hitsch, P. Manchanda) |
Oct. 14 |
Emek Basker (Missouri) Selling a Cheaper Mousetrap: Entry and Competition in the Retail Sector |
| Oct. 27 (Wed.) |
Brian Knight (Brown) Are Policy Platforms Capitalized into Equity Prices? Evidence from the Bush/Gore 2000 Presidential Election |
Nov. 4 |
Raphael Thomadsen (Columbia) The Impact of Location on Prices: An Analysis in the Fast Food Industry |
Nov. 17 (Wed.) |
John Yun (FTC) Properties of Retail Product and Promotional Distribution (with Steven Tenn) |
Dec. 1 (Wed.) |
Eric Johnson (Columbia) Defaults, Framing and Privacy: Why Opting In Opting Out |
| Dec. 9 | Francine Lafontaine ( Michigan ) Beyond Entry: Examining McDonald's Expansion in International Markets |
| Dec. 16 Note New Time: 2:00pm |
David Laibson (Harvard) Shrouded Attributes and Information Suppression in Competitive Markets (with Xavier Gabaix) Seminar will be in NJ 4100 |
Seminar Series - Spring 2004 |
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| Date |
Speaker/Title |
Jan. 29 |
Luke Froeb and Steven Tenn (FTC) Merger Effects when Firms Compete on Price and Advertising (with Steven Tschantz) |
Feb. 5 |
Serge Moresi and Steve Salop (Charles Rivers Associates/Georgetown Law) Collusive Price Leadership by a Dominant Firm - Link to Seminar Slide Presentation |
Feb. 26 |
Volker Nocke (Wharton) Do Vertical Mergers Facilitate Upstream Collusion? (with Lucy White) |
March 18 |
Il-Horn Hann (USC) The Value of Online Information Privacy: An Empirical Investigation (with Kai-Lung Hui, Tom S. Lee, and I.P.L. Png) |
March 25 |
Sean Nicholson (Wharton) Mergers and Acquisitions in the Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industries (with Patricia Danzon and Andrew Epstein) |
April 8 |
Paul Seabright (Université de Toulouse) A minimum of rivalry: evidence from transition economies on the importance of competition for innovation and growth |
April 22 |
Josh Lerner (Harvard) Cooperative Marketing Agreements Between Competitors: Evidence from Patent Pools” (with Marcin Strojwas and Jean Tirole) |
Cancelled |
John Cawley (Cornell) Obesity as a Barrier to the Transition from Welfare to Work (with Sheldon Danziger) |
May 6 |
Chris Adams (FTC) Digital Demand: Demand for Digital Cameras on eBay (with William Vogt) |
May 12 (Wed.) |
Patrick Bajari (Duke) Economic Insights from Internet Auctions: A Survey (with Ali Hortacsu) Slides From Presentation |
May 20 (Thurs.) |
A. Mitchell Polinsky (Stanford Law) Remedies for Price Overcharges: The Deadweight Loss of Coupons and Discounts (with D. Rubinfeld) |
June 10 |
Marshall van Alstyne (Michigan) Information Asymmetry and Thwarting Spam (with T.Loder and R. Wash) |
June 17 Note New Time: 1:30 |
Cass Sunstein (Chicago) Debiasing Through Law (with Christine Jolls) |
June 24 |
Haj Hadeishi and Dave Schmidt (FTC) "An Empirical Analysis of a Merger of Manufacturers of Complementary (?) Goods", Note: Seminar will be in NJ 4100 |
July 2 Note New Time: 12:00pm |
Glenn Woroch (Berkeley) Who Signed Up for the Do-Not-Call List? (with Hal Varian and Fredrik Wallenberg) |
Seminar Series - Fall 2003 |
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| Date |
Speaker/Title |
Oct. 2 (Thur.) |
Bart Wilson (George Mason) Experimental Gasoline Markets (with Cary Deck) |
Oct. 30 |
Resnick Seminar Cancelled |
Nov. 6 (Thur. at 1:30) |
Nicholas Economides (NYU) Competition Policy In Network Industries: An Introduction |
Nov. 13 (Thur. at 3:00) |
Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell (Maryland) Professions, Politicians, and Institutional Reforms |
Nov. 20 (Thur.) |
Abe Wickelgren (FTC) Media Mergers and the Ideological Content of Programming (with Dave Balan and Pat de Graba) |
Nov. 24 (Mon.) |
Kyle Bagwell (Columbia) Collusion with Persistent Cost Shocks (with Susan Athey) |
Dec. 1 (Mon.) |
Michael Whinston Antitrust in Innovative Industries (with Ilya Segal) |
Dec. 5 (Fri.) |
Jeff Perloff (Berkeley) Welfare, Market Power, and Price Effects of Product Diversity: Canned Juices(with Michael Ward) - Presentation slides available |
Seminar Series - Winter/Spring 2003 |
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Date |
Speaker/Title |
Thursday, January 9 |
Dan Kessler (Wharton) "Is More Information Better? The Effects of 'Report Cards' on Health Care Providers" (with David Dranove, Mark McClellan, and Mark Satterthwaite) [PDF 278K] |
Thursday, January 16 |
William Vogt and Hao Xu (FTC/Carnegie Mellon) "Optimal Bidding in Sequential Online Auctions" (with Ashish Arora and Rema Padman) [PDF 140K] |
Thursday, January 23 12:30 p.m. |
Daniel Rubinfeld (Berkeley) "Aligning the Interests of Lawyers and Clients" (with A. Mitchell Polinsky) |
Thursday, February 13 |
Mark Manuszak (Carnegie Mellon) "The Impact of Upstream Mergers on Retail Gasoline Markets" |
Tuesday, March 25 |
M. Christopher Auld (University of Calgary) Causal Effect of Early Initiation on Adolescent Smoking Patterns |
Wednesday, April 2 |
Igal Hendel (Wisconsin) "Sales and Consumer Inventory" (with Avi Nevo) |
Thursday, April 10 |
Erik Hurst (Chicago) "Grasshoppers, Ants and Pre-Retirement Wealth: A Test of Permanent Income Consumers" |
Monday, April 14 |
Jeremy Bulow (Stanford) "Matching and Price Competition" (with Jonathan Levin) |
Thursday, May 1 |
Dick Wittink (Yale) "Flexible Decompositions of Unit-sales Price Promotion Effects Based on Store Scanner Data" |
Thursday, May 22 |
Sofia Berto Villas-Boas (Berkeley) "Vertical Contracts Between Manufacturers and Retailers: An Empirical Analysis" |
Thursday, May 29 |
Michelle White (Cal-San Diego) "Explaining the Flood of Asbestos Litigation: Consolidation, Bifurcation, and Bouquet Trial" |