Schedule of Speakers
Federal Trade Commission
Bureau of Economics Series
Spring 2008
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 |
| May 29 | Greg Crawford (FCC) NJ 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 Chris Adams (CADAMS@ftc.gov) or Tammy John (tjohn@ftc.gov). Updated: January 10, 2007 Click on the lecture title to view an Acrobat PDF copy of the presented paper. Previous seminar series calendars are available. |
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