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.
Spring 2023 | ||||
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Paper | Room |
| 3/9/23 | Andrei Hagiu | Boston University Questrom | Marketplace Leakage | Virtual |
| 3/30/23 | Daniel Grodzicki | Dept. of Treasury | Competition and Customer Acquisition in the US Credit Card Market | H332 |
| 4/13/23 | Raluca Ursu | NYU Stern | Online Advertising as Passive Search | H332 |
| 4/20/23 | Sophie Calder-Wang | Penn Wharton | The Market Impact of Algorithmic Pricing: Evidence from the Multifamily Rental Housing Market | H332 |
| 4/27/23 | Emel Filiz-Ozbay | University of Maryland | Progressive Random Choice | H332 |
| 5/4/23 | Tai Lam | UCLA Anderson | Platform Search Design and Market Power | H332 |
| 5/11/23 | Imke Reimers | Northeastern | TBD | H332 |
| 5/18/23 | Joel Waldfogel | University of Minnesota | Platform Power and Relationships with Suppliers and Spotify and Amazon | H332 |
| 5/25/23 | Michael Luca | Harvard Business School | Black Ownership Matters: Does Revealing Race Increase Demand For Minority-Owned Businesses? | H332 |
| 6/1/23 | Michael Rubens | UCLA | Oligopsony Power and Factor-Biased Technology Adoption | H332 |
| 6/8/23 | Alex Imas | University of Chicago Booth | Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field | H332 |
| 6/15/23 | Jeff Qiu | Dept. of Justice | Win/Loss Data, Consumer Switching Costs: Measuring Diversion Ratios and the Impact of Mergers | H332 |
| 6/29/23 | Amalia Miller | University of Virginia | Algorithmic Bias and Historical Injustice: Race and Social Media Advertising | H332 |
Fall 2022 | ||||
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Paper | Room |
| 9/14/22 | Yves Gueron | Seoul National University | Innovation, Learning, and Killer Acquisitions | H332 |
| 9/29/22 | Navdeep Sahni | Stanford GSB | Sophisticated Consumers with Inertia: Long-Term Implications from a Large-Scale Field Experiment | H332 |
| 10/6/22 | Renata Gaineddenova | Yale/MIT | Pricing and Efficiency in a Decentralized Ride-Hailing Platform | H332 |
| 10/13/22 | Cristobal Cheyre Forestier | Cornell | The Impact of the GDPR on Content Providers: A Longitudinal Analysis, plus some preliminary GDPR results | H332 |
| 10/20/22 | Ambar LaForgia | Berkeley Haas | Growing Networks and Growing Families: The Impact of Alliances and Acquisitions on Fertility Clinic Outcomes | H332 |
| 10/27/22 | Jonathan Wallen | Harvard Business School | Many Markets Make Good Neighbors: Multimarket Contact and Deposit Banking | H332 |
| 11/10/22 | Guy Aridor | Northwestern Kellogg | Drivers of Digital Attention: Evidence from a Social Media Experiment | H332 |
| 11/17/22 | Timothy Simcoe | Boston University Questrom | Complementary Multi-sided platforms | H332 |
| 11/30/22 | Kirby Nielsen | Cal Tech | The Gender Gap in Confidence: Expected But Not Accounted For | H332 |
| 12/1/22 | Benjamin Vatter | Stanford/MIT | Quality Disclosure and Regulation: Scoring Design in Medicare Advantage | H332 |
| 12/8/22 | Tobit Gamp | Humboldt Berlin | Guided Search | H332 |
Spring 2022 | |||
| Date | Speaker | Paper | Room |
| 3/3/2022 | Andrew Sweeting | Should we expect uncertain merger synergies to be passed on to consumers? | Hosted by FTC |
| 3/17/22 | Paul Scott | Market Structure, Investment and Technical Efficiencies in Mobile Telecommunications | Hosted by FTC |
| 3/31/22 | Luyi Yang | Right to Repair: Pricing, Welfare, and Environmental Implications | Hosted by FTC |
| 3/31/22 | Tom Wollman | Does entry remedy collusion? Evidence from the generic prescription drug cartel | Hosted by FTC |
| 4/7/22 | Chiara Farronato | Customer Reviews and Regulation: Evidence from NYC restaurants | Hosted by FTC |
| 4/14/22 | Alex MacKay | Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences | Hosted by FTC |
| 4/21/22 | Josh Feng | Consolidation in Drug Markets: Impact on Pricing and Access | Hosted by FTC |
| 4/28/22 | Sike Forbes | Does Competition Benefit Complements? Evidence from Airlines and Hotels | Hosted by FTC |
| 5/12/22 | A Tale of Two Networks: Common Ownership and Product Market Rivalry | Bruno Pellegrino | Hosted by FTC |
| 5/19/22 | Cailin Slattery | Market Structure and Political Influence: Estimating the Causal Effect of Concentration on Lobbying in the Auto Retail Industry | Hosted by FTC |
| 5/26/22 | Sebastian Fleitas | TBD | Hosted by FTC |
| 6/2/22 | Jonathan Roth | What’s Trending in Difference-in-Differences? | Hosted by FTC |
Fall 2021 | |||
| Date | Speaker | Paper | Room |
| 9/9/2021 | Jimbo Brand (Microsoft Research) | Differences in Differentiation: Raising Variety and Markups in Retail Food Services | Hosted by FTC |
| 9/14/2021 | Allan Collard Wexler (Duke) | TBD | Hosted by UMD |
| 9/16/2021 | Mathias Reynaert (Toulouse) | Colluding Against Environmental Regulation | Hosted by FTC |
| 9/30/2021 | Kelsey Owsley (Univ. of Denver) | Understanding the Relationship between Nonprofit Hospital Community Benefit Spending and System Membership: An Analysis of Independent Hospital Acquisitions | Hosted by FTC |
| 10/5/2021 | Sylvia Hristakeva (UCLA) | TBD | Hosted by UMD |
| 10/7/2021 | Chenyu Yang (UMD) | Merger, Product Variety and Firm Entry: the Retail Craft Beer Market in California | Hosted by FTC |
| 10/12/2021 | Lesley Chiou (Occidental) | TBD | Hosted by UMD |
| 10/14/2021 | Jonathan Zinman (Dartmouth) | TBD | Hosted by FTC |
| 10/21/2021 | Maggie Chen (GWU) | TBD | Hosted by FTC |
| 10/26/2021 | Bob Town (UT Austin) | TBD | Hosted by UMD |
| 10/28/2021 | Brigham Frandsen (BYU) | TBD | Hosted by FTC |
| 11/2/2021-11/4/2021 | FTC MICROECONOMICS CONFERENCE | Hosted by FTC | |
| 11/9/2021 | Karl Shutter (PSU) | TBD | Hosted by UMD |
| 11/16/21 | Emily Cuddy (Duke) | TBD | Hosted by UMD |
| 11/18/2021 | Hunt Allcot (Microsoft Research) | TBD | Hosted by FTC |
| 11/30/2021 | Robin Lee (Harvard) | TBD | Hosted by UMD |
| 12/2/2021 | Shi Qi (William and Mary) | Cinema Digitization and Movie Industry Concentration | Hosted by FTC |
| 12/9/2021 | Laura Blattner (Stanford GSB) | TBD | Hosted by FTC |
| 12/16/2021 | Mark Duggan (Standford) | Getting the Price Right? The Impact of Competitive Bidding in the Medicare Program | Hosted by FTC |
Spring 2021 | |||
| Date | Speaker | Paper | Room |
| 2/9/2021 | Myrto Kalouptsidi (Harvard) | Search Frictions and Efficiency in Decentralized Transport Markets | Hosted by UMD |
| 2/16/2021 | Mike Ostrovsky (Stanford GSB) | Choice Screen Auctions | Hosted by UMD |
| 2/25/2021 | Michael Whinston (MIT) | Concentration Screens for Horizontal Mergers | Hosted by FTC |
| 3/4/2021 | Ariel Pakes (Harvard) | A Helicopter Tour of Some Underlying Issues in Empirical Industrial Organization | Hosted by FTC |
| 3/9/2021 | Alessandro Gavazza (LSE) | Mortgage Pricing and Monetary Policy | Hosted by UMD |
| 3/11/2021 | Jose Azar (Navarra) | Revisiting the Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership | Hosted by FTC |
| 3/18/2021 | Anna Stansbury (Harvard) | Employer Concentration and Outside Options | Hosted by FTC |
| 3/23/2021 | Ben Shiller (Brandeis) | Are Coarse Ratings Fine? Applications to Crashworthiness Ratings | Hosted by UMD |
| 4/8/2021 | Nayoung Rim (USNA) | The Black-White Recognition Gap in Award Nominations | Hosted by FTC |
| 4/15/2021 | Javier Donna (Florida) | Direct-to-Consumer Sales by Manufacturers and Bargaining | Hosted by FTC |
| 4/20/2021 | Thomas Wollmann (Chicago Booth) | How to Get Away with Merger: Stealth Consolidation and Its Real Effects on US Healthcare | Hosted by UMD |
| 4/27/2021 | John Asker (UCLA) | Artificial Intelligence and Pricing: The Impact of Algorithm Design | Hosted by UMD |
| 5/6/2021 | Jonathan Guryan (Northwestern) | The Effects of Sexism on American Women: The Role of Norms vs. Discrimination | Hosted by FTC |
| 5/11/2021 | Alan Sorenson (Wisconsin) | Embeddings and Distance-based Demand for Differentiated Products | Hosted by UMD |
| 5/13/2021 | Nicholas Tilipman (UIC) | Regulating Out-of-Network Hospital Payments: Disagreement Payoffs, Negotiated Prices, and Access | Hosted by FTC |
| 5/27/2021 | David Byrne (Melbourne) | Price Discrimination, Search, and Negotiation in an Oligopoly: A Field Experiment in Retail Electricity | Hosted by FTC |
| 6/3/2021 | Judy Chevalier (Yale) | Distributional Impacts of Retail Vaccine Availability | Hosted by FTC |
| 6/17/2021 | Nathan Miller (Georgetown) and Gloria Sheu (FRB) | Mergers, Entry, and Consumer Welfare | Hosted by FTC |
Fall 2020 | |||
| Date | Speaker | Paper | Room |
| 9/15/2020 | Chiara Farronato (HBS) | Dog Eat Dog: Measuring Network Effects Using a Digital Platform Merger | Hosted by UMD |
| 9/22/2020 | Hui Li (CMU Tepper) | Market Shifts in the Sharing Economy: The Impact of Airbnb on Housing Rentals | Hosted by UMD |
| 9/24/2020 | Pietro Tebaldi (Chicago) | Market Design in Regulated Health Insurance Markets : Risk Adjustment vs Subsidies | Hosted by FTC |
| 9/29/2020 | Mo Xiao (Arizona) | Narrowing the Digital Divide: Political Incentives and Provider Competition | Hosted by FTC (12pm Tuesday) |
| 10/1/2020 | Anita Rao (Chicago Booth) | Industry-funded Research and Bias in Food Science | Hosted by FTC |
| 10/6/2020 | David Yang (Harvard) | Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from AI Firms in China | Hosted by UMD |
| 10/13/2020 | Marc Rysman (BU) | Demand for Performance Goods: Import Quotas in the Chinese Movie Market | Hosted by UMD |
| 10/21/2020 | Hanming Fang (Penn) | Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence | Hosted by UMD (3:30pm Wednesday) |
| 10/29/2020 | Frank Verboven (KU Leuven) | Market Entry, Fighting Brands and Tacit Collusion: Evidence from the French Mobile Telecommunications Market | Hosted by FTC |
| 11/5/2020 | No Seminar | FTC Microeconomics Conference | |
| 11/12/2020 | Rani Spiegler (Tel Aviv) | Complexity, competition and market regulation: Ideas from behavioral IO |
Hosted by FTC |
| 11/16/20 | Amit Gandhi (Penn) | Estimating Flexible Models of Product Differentiated Demand with Aggregate Data | Hosted by UMD |
| 11/19/2020 | Kyle Herkenhoff (UMN) | Labor Market Power | Hosted by FTC |
| 11/24/2020 | Tobias Salz (MIT) | Auto Dealer Loan Intermediation: Consumer Behavior and Competitive Effects | Hosted by UMD |
| 12/3/2020 | Isaac Sorkin (Stanford) | Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages | Hosted by FTC |
| 12/8/2020 | Mike Abito (Penn) | Estimation Production Functions with Fixed Effects | Hosted by UMD |
| 12/17/2020 | Daniel Ershov (Toulouse) | Algorithmic Pricing and Competition: Empirical Evidence from the German Retail Gasoline Market | Hosted by FTC |
Spring 2020 | |||
| Date | Speaker | Paper | Room |
| CANCELLED | Richard Lindrooth (UC Denver) | TBD | H332 |
| CANCELLED | Hui Li (CMU Tepper) | TBD | H332 |
| CANCELLED | Anita Rao (Chicago Booth) | TBD | H332 |
| CANCELLED | Maryam Saeedi (CMU Tepper) | TBD | H332 |
| CANCELLED | Serguei Netessine (Penn Wharton) | TBD | H332 |
| CANCELLED | Kyle Herkenhoff (NY Fed) | TBD | H332 |
| CANCELLED | Ali Yurukoglu (Stanford GSB) | TBD | H332 |
| CANCELLED | Jonathan Guryan (Northwestern) | The Effects of Sexism on American Women: The Roles of Norms vs. Discrimination | H332 |
| CANCELLED | Lee Lockwood (UVA) | TBD | H332 |
| CANCELLED | Mark Duggan (Stanford) | TBD | H332 |
| CANCELLED | Aditi Sen (JHU Bloomberg) | TBD | H332 |
| CANCELLED | Isaac Sorkin (Stanford) | Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages | H332 |
| CANCELLED | Judith Chevalier (Yale SOM) | TBD | H332 |
Fall 2019 | |||
| Date | Speaker | Paper | Room |
| 9/12/2019 | Matt Knepper (BEA) | Employment Discrimination across the Business Cycle | H332 |
| 9/19/2019 | Elizabeth Weber Handwerker (BLS) | Megafirms and Monopsonists: Not the same employers, not the same workers | H332 |
| 9/26/2019 | Anna Tuchman (Kellogg) | The Impact of Soda Taxes: Pass-Through, Tax Avoidance, and Nutritional Effects | H332 |
| 10/3/2019 | Stefania Albanesi (Pittsburgh) | Predicting Consumer Default: A Deep Learning Approach | H332 |
| 10/10/2019 | Lauren Russell (Penn) | Price Effects of Non-Profit College and University Mergers | H332 |
| 10/17/2019 | Josh Feng (Utah Eccles) | Pricing Intermediaries in Prescription Drug Markets: Impact and Policy Implications | H332 |
| 10/24/2019 | Greg Lewis (Microsoft Research) | The Welfare Impact of Online Reviews: A Case Study of the Hotel Industry | H332 |
| 10/31/2019 | Chris Conlon (NYU Stern) | Testing the Common Ownership Hypothesis | H432 |
| 11/7/2019 | Kate Ho (Princeton) | Health Insurance Menu Design: Managing the Spending-Coverage Tradeoff | H332 |
| 11/14/2019 | No seminar | FTC Microeconomics Conference | H332 |
| 11/28/2019 | No seminar (Thanksgiving) | ||
| 12/5/2019 | Susana Vasserman (Stanford) | Voluntary Disclosure and Personalized Pricing | H332 |
| 12/19/2019 | Katja Seim (Yale) | Taxes or Broadband Networks | H332 |
Spring 2019 | |||
| Date | Speaker | Paper | Room |
| 2/28/2019 | Jason Abaluck (Yale SOM) | Less is more: Improving choices by limiting choices in health insurance markets | H332 |
| 3/7/2019 | Garrett Johnson (BU Questrom) | The online impact of privacy regulation: An early look at Europe's GDPR (CANCELED) | H332 |
| 3/14/2019 | Marshall Steinbaum (Utah) | Labor market concentration | H332 |
| 3/21/2019 | Matt Grennan (Wharton) | Mergers and marginal costs: New evidence on hospital buyer power | H332 |
| 3/28/2019 | Abe Dunn (BEA) | Are medical care prices still declining? A systematic examination of quality-adjusted price index alternatives for medical care | H332 |
| 4/4/2019 | Molly Schnell (Northwestern) | Physician behavior in the presence of a secondary market: The case of prescription opiods | H332 |
4/8/2019 (Monday) | Gabrielle Rovigatti (Bank of Italy) | From mad men to maths men: Concentration and buyer power in online advertising | H332 |
| 4/18/2019 | Andrey Simonov (Columbia Business School) | Competitive advertising on brand search: Traffic stealing, adverse selection, and customer confusion | H332 |
| 4/25/2019 | John Haltiwanger (Maryland) | The life-cycle growth of plants: The role of productivity, demand, and wages | H332 |
| 5/2/2019 | Patrick McAlvanah (FTC) | Pay every subject or pay only some? | H332 |
| 5/9/2019 | Constantine Yannelis (Chicago Booth) | Loan guarantees and credit supply | H332 |
| 5/16/2019 | Itai Ater (Tel Aviv University) | The effects of mandatory disclosure of supermarket prices | H332 |
| 5/23/2019 | Dan Bjorkegren (Brown) | Competition in network industries | H332 |
| 5/30/2019 | Salvador Navarro (Western Ontario) | Human capital and migration: A cautionary tale | H332 |
| 6/6/2019 | Eric Sager (Fed) | What are the price effects of trade? Evidence from the U.S. | H332 |
| 6/13/2019 | John Asker (UCLA) | A computational framework for analyzing dynamic procurement auctions: The market impact of information sharing | H332 |
| 6/20/2019 | Avi Goldfarb (Toronto) | Could Machine Learning be a General Purpose Technology? Evidence from Online Job Postings | H332 |
6/27/2019 10:30am | Florian Ederer (Yale) | Killer acquisitions | H332 |
Fall 2018 | |||
| Date | Speaker | Paper | Room |
| 8/2/2018 | Itay Fainmesser (JHU) | The market for online content | H294 |
| 9/6/2018 | Brent Hickman (Queens) | How efficient are decentralized auction platforms? | H332 |
| 9/13/2018 | Jack Mountjoy (Booth) | Community colleges and upward mobility | H332 |
| 9/20/2018 | Desire Kedgani (Iowa State) | Identifying treament effects in the presence of confounded types | H332 |
| 9/27/2018 | Katalin Springel (Georgetown) | Network externality and subsidy structure in two-sided markets: Evidence from electric vehicle incentives | H294 |
| 10/4/2018 | Elie Prager (Kellogg) | Consumer responsiveness to simple health care prices: Evidence from tiered hospital networks | H294 |
| 10/11/2018 | Nathan Miller (Georgetown) | Oligopolistic price leadership: An empirical model of the U.S. beer industry | H332 |
| 10/18/2018 | Dan Grodzicki (Penn State) | The credit consequences of unpaid medical bills | H332 |
| 10/25/2018 | Peter Blair (Harvard) | Job market signaling through occupational licensing | H332 |
| 11/1/2018 | No seminar | FTC Microeconomics Conference | |
| 11/8/2018 | Alice Chen (USC) | Physician fraud deterrence | H332 |
| 11/15/2018 | Thomas Wollmann (Booth) | How to get away with merger: Stealth consolidation and its effect on US healthcare | H332 |
| 11/22/2018 | No seminar (Thanksgiving) | H332 | |
| 11/29/2018 | Simha Mummalaneni (Washington) | How effective is product placement as a marketing tool? | H332 |
| 12/6/2018 | Mo Xiao (Arizona) | License complementarity and package bidding: The U.S. spectrum auctions | H332 |
12/11/2018 11:00am | Leslie Marx (Duke Fuqua) | Coordinated effects | H332 |
| 12/13/2018 | Michael Dickstein (NYU) | Take up, drop-out, and spending in ACA marketplaces | H332 |
Spring 2018 | |||
| Date | Speaker | Paper | Room |
| 3/1/2018 | Michael Darden (GWU) | Hospital pricing and public payments | H332 |
| 3/8/2018 | Alberto Galasso (Toronto) | The diffusion of new institutions: evidence from renaissance Venice's patent system | H332 |
| 3/15/2018 | Guillermo Marshall (Illinois) | Search and wholesale price discrimination | H332 |
| 3/22/2018 | Thomas Hubbard (Kellogg) | When demand increases cause shakeouts | H332 |
| 3/29/2018 | Daniel Martin (Kellogg) | Complex disclosure | H332 |
| 4/5/2018 | Sarah Moshary (Penn) | Market structure and product variety: Evidence from a natural experiment in liquor licensure | H332 |
| 4/12/2018 | Matt Schmitt (UCLA) | Is pharmaceutical demand sensitive to new clinical evidence? Estimates from pediatric labeling changes | H332 |
| 4/19/2018 | Scott Nelson (Chicago Booth) | Private information and price regulation in the US credit card market | H332 |
| 4/26/2018 | Effi Benmelech (Kellogg) | Strong employers and weak employees: how does employer concentration affect wages? | H332 |
| 5/3/2018 | Heski Bar-Isaac (Toronto) | Vertical information restraints: Pro- and anti-competitive impacts of minimum advertsied price | H332 |
| 5/10/2018 | Hanming Fang (Penn) | Partial rating area offering in the ACA marketplaces: Facts, theory and evidence | H332 |
| 5/17/2018 | Gaurab Aryal (Virginia) | Public communication and collusion in the airline industry | H332 |
| 5/24/2018 | Eric Barrette (HCCI) | Markups versus discounts? Implications of the structure of hospitals' managed care contracts | H332 |
| 5/31/2018 | Justin Johnson (Cornell) | The agency and wholesale models in electronic content markets | H332 |
| 6/7/2018 | Robert McMillan (Toronto) | Education reform in general equilibrium: Evidence from California's class size reduction | H332 |
| 6/21/2018 | Gloria Sheu and Charles Taragin (DOJ) | Simulating mergers in a vertical supply chain with bargaining | H294 |
Fall 2017 | |||
| Date | Speaker | Paper | Room |
| 8/17/2017 | Michael Kummer (Georgia Tech) | When Private Information Settles the Bill: Money and Privacy in Google's Market for Smartphone Applications | H332 |
| 8/31/2017 | Kerry Tan (Loyola) | Mergers and Product Quality: A Silver Lining from De-Hubbing in the U.S. Airline Industry | H432 |
| 9/7/2017 | Sandro Ambuehl (Toronto) | For They Know Not What They Do. Incentives with Costly Information Acquisition | H332 |
| 9/14/2017 | H332 | ||
| 9/21/2017 | Stephen Ryan (Wash U) | Classification Trees for Heterogeneous Moment-Based Models | H332 |
| 9/28/2017 | Dan O'Brien (Bates White) | The Competitive Effects of Common Ownership: Economic Foundations and Empirical Evidence | H332 |
| 10/5/2017 | Zach Brown (Columbia) | An Empirical Model of Price Transparency and Markups in Health Care | H332 |
10/11/2017 (Wednesday) | Kurt Lavetti (Ohio State) | Physician Concentration and Negotiated Prices: Evidence from State Law Changes | H332 |
| 10/19/2019 | Nolan Pope (Maryland) | The Unintended Impact of Pretrial Detention on Case Outcomes: Evidence from NYC Arraignments | H332 |
| 10/26/2017 | Soheil Ghili (Yale) | Network Formation and Bargaining in Vertical Markets: The Case of Narrow Networks in the Health Insurance Industry | H332 |
| 11/2/2017 | FTC Microeconomics Conference | ||
| 11/9/2017 | Mitsuru (Michi) Igami (Yale) | Measuring the Incentive to Collude: The Vitamin Cartels, 1990–1999 | H332 |
| 11/16/2017 | Fernando Luco (Texas A&M) | Who Benefits from Information Disclosure? The Case of Retail Gasoline | H332 |
| 11/23/2017 | Thanksgiving | ||
| 11/30/2017 | Tobias Salz (Columbia) | Intermediation and competition in search markets: An empirical case study | H332 |
| 12/7/2017 | Will Dobbie (Princeton) | Discretion and Bias in Consumer Lending | H332 |
| 12/14/2017 | Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez (Yale) | Playing Checkers in Chinatown | H332 |
Spring 2017 | ||||
| Date | Speaker | Paper | Room | Notes |
| 3/2/2017 | Sylvia Hristakeva (UCLA) | How Do Vertical Contracts Affect Product Availability? An Empirical Study of the Grocery Industry | H294 | |
| 3/9/2017 | H294 | |||
| 3/16/2017 | Ying Fan (Michigan) | Competition, Product Proliferation and Welfare: A Study of the U.S. Smartphone Market | H294 | |
| 3/23/2017 | Michael Sinkinson (Wharton) | Ask Your Doctor? Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Pharmaceuticals | H294 | |
| 3/30/2017 | Emily Wang (UMass) | Demand for 'Healthy' Products: False Claims in Advertising | H332 | |
| 4/6/2017 | Andrew Sweeting (Maryland) | Dynamic Oligopoly Pricing with Asymmetric Information: Implications for Mergers | H294 | |
| 4/13/2017 | Emek Basker (Census) | Customer-Employee Substitution: Evidence from Gasoline Stations | H332 | |
| 4/20/2017 | Brad Larsen (Stanford) | A Mechanism Design Approach to Identification and Estimation | H432 | |
| 4/27/2017 | Andrew Butters (Indiana) | What Drives Market Integration? Evidence From the Electric Power Market | H332 | |
| 5/4/2017 | Yesim Orhun (Michigan) | Reaching for the Gold: The Impact of Status Incentives on Airline Loyalty | H332 | |
| 5/11/2017 | TI Kim (Emory) | Hospital Advertising | H332 | |
| 5/18/2017 | Nathan Miller (Georgetown) | Finding Mr. Schumpeter: An Empirical Study of Competition and Technology Adoption | H294 | |
| 5/24/2017 (Wednesday) | David Chan (Stanford) | Price Setting by Committee in Medicare | H294 | |
| 6/1/2017 | Federico Ciliberto (Virginia) | Price Discrimination in International Airline Markets | H332 | |
| 6/8/2017 | Ashley Swanson (Wharton) | Betting on Your Health: How Uncertainty Affects Physician Decisions | H294 | |
| 6/15/2017 | Dmitry Taubinsky (Dartmouth) | Attention Variation and Welfare: Theory and Evidence from a Tax Salience Experiment | H294 | |
Fall 2016 | ||||
| Date | Speaker | Paper | Room | Notes |
| 8/11/2016 | Bob Kulick (Maryland) | Horizontal Mergers, Prices, and Productivity | H332 | |
| 9/1/2016 | Nick Buchholz (Princeton) | Spatial Equilibrium, Search Frictions and Efficient Regulation in the Taxi Industry | H532 | |
| 9/8/2016 | H532 | |||
| 9/15/2016 | Leemore Dafny (HBS) | The Price Effects of Cross-Market Mergers: Theory and Evidence from the Hospital Industry | H532 | |
| 9/22/2016 | Chenyu Yang (Rochester) | Does Vertical Integration Increase Innovation? | H532 | |
| 9/29/2016 | Alan Sorensen (Wisconsin) | Information and Innovation Diffusion: The Case of Pharmaceuticals in the United States | H532 | |
| 10/6/2016 | Kevin Williams (Yale) | Zone Pricing and Strategic Interaction: Evidence from Drywall | H532 | |
| 10/13/2016 | Panle Jia Barwick (Cornell) | Local Protectionism, Market Structure, and Social Welfare: China's Automobile Market | H532 | |
| 10/20/2016 | Chiara Farronato (HBS) | Market structure with the entry of peer-to-peer markets: The case of hotels and Airbnb | H532 | |
| 10/27/2016 | Brett Hollenbeck (UCLA) | Horizontal Mergers and Innovation in Concentrated Industries | H532 | |
| 11/3/2016-11/4/2016 | FTC Micro Conference | |||
| 11/10/2016 | Eugenio Miravete (Texas) | Innovation, Emissions Policy, and Competitive Advantage in the Diffusion for European Diesel Automobiles | H532 | |
| 11/17/2016 | John Lazarev (NYU) | Input Allocation and Downstream Market Structure: Slot Control in the U.S. Airline Industry | H332 | |
| 11/24/2016 | No seminar (Thanksgiving) | |||
| 12/1/2016 | Ryan McDevitt (Duke) | Demand, Regulation, and Welfare on the Margin of Alternative Financial Services | H532 | |
| 12/8/2016 | Eric Nielsen (Fed Board) | Achievement Gap Estimates and Deviations from Cardinal Comparability | H532 | |
| 12/15/2016 | Devin Pope (Chicago Booth) | What Motivates Effort? Evidence and Expert Forecasts | H532 | |
Spring 2016 | ||||
| Date | Speaker | Paper | Room | Notes |
| 3/3/2016 | Thomas Jeitschko (Michigan State) | Bundling and Joint Marketing by Rival Firms | H332 | |
| 3/10/2016 | Paul Ellickson (Rochester) | Measuring Competition in Spatial Retail: An Application to Groceries | H332 | |
| 3/17/2016 | Mark Shepard (Harvard Kennedy) | Hospital Network Competition and Adverse Selection | H532 | |
| 3/24/2016 | Jon Krosnick (Stanford) | H332 | ||
| 3/31/2016 | Hunt Alcott (NYU) | The Welfare Effects of Nudges: A Case Study of Energy Use Social Comparisons | H332 | |
| 4/7/2016 | Jonathan Williams (UNC) | The Tragedy of the Last Mile: Congestion Externalities in Broadband Networks | H332 | |
| 4/14/2016 | Yunmi Kong (NYU) | Sequential Auctions with Synergy and Affiliation | H332 | |
| 4/21/2016 | Emily Nix (Yale) | Learning Spillovers in the Firm | H332 | |
| 4/28/2016 | Jeremy Tobacman (Wharton) | TBD | H332 | |
| 5/5/2016 | JF Houde (Wharton) | Measuring Substitution Patterns in Differentiated Products Industries | H332 | |
| 5/12/2016 | Zack Cooper (Yale) | Politics, Medicare Payments, and Hospital Behavior | H432 | |
| 5/19/2016 | Michael Falkenheim (OMB) | A Model of the Multiemployer Pension System | H332 | |
| 5/26/2016 | Nick Papageorge (JHU) | Positively Aware? Expert Drug Reviews and the Downside of Information | H332 | |
| 6/2/2016 | Navdeep Sahni (Stanford GSB) | TBD | H332 | |
Fall 2015 | ||||
| Date | Speaker | Paper | Room | Notes |
| August 13 | Mitsukuni Nishida (JHU) | Dynamic Franchising Decisions | H332 | |
| September 17 | Peter Newberry | Amazon Distribution Centers | H532 | |
| September 24 | Mark Shepard | Hospital Network Competition and Adverse Selection: Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange | H332 | |
| October 1 | Mike Abito | On the Relevance of Probability Distortions in the Extended Warranties Market | H332 | |
| October 5 | William Greene (NYU) | The world’s best healthcare | H332 | |
| October 14 | Amalia R. Miller (UVA) | Privacy Protection, Personalized Medicine and Genetic Testing | H332 | |
| October 22 | Brian Caplan (GMU) | The Selfish and Social Returns to Education | H332 | |
| October 29 | Petra Moser | Patents, Competition, and Innovation - Evidence from Compulsory Licensing during WWI | H332 | |
| November 5 | John Solow (Iowa) | Patent Pools and Cartel Stability | H332 | |
| November 12 | FTC Microeconomics Conference | |||
| November 19 | Andrei Hagiu (HBS) | Enabling vs. Employing | H532 | |
| November 26 | Thanksgiving | |||
| December 3 | Jonathan Lafky (Lafayette) | TBD | H332 | |
| December 10 | Daniel Gross | Creativity Under Fire: The Effects of Competition on Creative Production | H332 | |
| December 17 | Gautam Gowrisankaran (Arizona) | Myopia and Complex Dynamic Incentives | H532 | |
Spring 2015 | ||||
| Date | Speaker | Paper | Room | Notes |
| March 5 | _snow_day | |||
| March 12 | Allan Collard-Wexler (Duke) | Bargaining in Bilateral Oligopoly | ||
| March 19 | Larry White (NYU) | The Credit Rating Agencies: An Analysis through the Lenses of Industrial Organization, Finance, and Regulation. | ||
| March 26 | Phillip Levine (Wellesley) | EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION BY MOOC: LESSONS FROM SESAME STREET | ||
| April 02 | Ethan Lieber | Moral Hazard in Search | ||
| April 09 | Charles Murry (Penn State) | Advertising in Vertical Relationships: An Equilibrium Model of the Automobile Industry | ||
| April 16 | Dominic Coey (ebay) | The Bidder Exclusion Effect | ||
| April 21 | Matthew Gentzkow | Sources of Geographic Variation in Health Care: Evidence from Patient Migration | ||
| April 30 | ||||
| May 07 | Nick Papageorge | The Economic Value of Breaking Bad Misbehavior, Schooling and the Labor Market | ||
| May 13 | Hal Varian | Google Tools for Data | ||
| May 21 | Tatiana Homonoff | Consumer Borrowing After Payday Loan Bans | ||
| May 28 | Nathan Miller | Mergers Facilitate Tacit Collusion: Empirical Evidence from the U.S. Brewing Industry | ||
| June 04 | Ilya Rahkovsky (USDA) | "What Drives Nutritional Disparities? Retail Access and Food Purchases Across the Socioeconomic Spectrum" | ||
Fall 2014 | ||||
| Date | Speaker | Paper | Room | Notes |
| August 28 | Patrick McAlvanah | Time Preferences and Consumer Behavior | H332 | |
| September 17 | Keith Ericson | When Consumers Do Not Make an Active Decision: Dynamic Default Rules and their Equilibrium Effects | H432 | Tuesday |
| September 23 | Matthew Eisenberg | The Impact of Competition on Quality in Physician Markets: Evidence from Cardiologists | H532 | |
| September 25 | Kelly Bedard (UCSB) | Making Nutritional Information Digestible: Effects of a Receipt-Based Intervention on Restaurant Purchases | H332 | |
| October 2 | Franklin Fisher (MIT) | Water for Peace: A Game Changer For Israel, Palestine, and The Middle East | H332 | |
| October 9 | Mark Rysman (Boston University) | TBD | H332 | |
| October 16 | MICRO CONFERENCE | ---- | ||
| October 23 | Jeff Perloff (Berkeley) | Do Supermarkets Adjust Prices Asymmetrically? | H332 | |
| October 30 | Peter Leeson (George Mason) | TBD | H332 | |
| November 6 | James Roberts (Duke) | An Empirical Model of Dynamic Limit Pricing: The Airline Industry | H332 | |
| November 13 | Mara Lederman | Competition and Price Discrimination When Consumers are Heterogeneous on Multiple Dimensions | H332 | |
| November 20 | Benjamin Shiller (Brandeis) | First-Degree Price Discrimination Using Big Data | H481 | |
| November 27 | Thanksgiving | ---- | ||
| December 4 | Ryan Conrad (FDA) | The Intersection of Shared Generic Exclusivity and Authorized Generics | H332 | |
| December 10 | Guido Imbens (Standford GSB) | Finite Population Causal Standard Errors | H332 | Wednesday |
| December 18 | Jesse Shapiro (Univ. of Chicago/Brown) | TBD | H481 | |
Spring 2014 | ||||
| Date | Speaker | Paper | Room | Notes |
| March 06 | Luke Froeb (Vanderbilt) | A Theory of Competitive Framing | NJ-B | |
| March 13 | David Friedman | NJ-B | Seminar starts at 3pm | |
| March 20 | Heidi Williams (MIT) | Do Fixed Patent Terms Distort Innovation? Evidence from Cancer Clinical Trials | NJ-4100 | |
| April 10 | Matthew Grennan (UPenn) | TBA | M-Street | |
| April 17 | Ernst Berndt (MIT) | The Regulation of Prescription Drug Competition and Market Responses: Patterns in Prices and Sales Following Loss of Exclusivity | NJ-B | |
| April 24 | Juha Siikamaki | Nudging Energy Efficiency Behavior: The Role of Information Labels | NJ-B | |
| May 01 | Avi Dor (George Washington) | Impact of Mortality-Based Performance Measures on Hospital Pricing: the Case of Colon Cancer Surgeries | NJ-B | |
| May 08 | Ralph Winter (University of British Columbia) | Exclusionary Contracts | NJ-B | |
| May 15 | Petra Persson | NJ-B | ||
| May 22 | Kevin Thom (NYU) | Smoking, Genes and Health | NJ-B | |
| May 27 | Andrew Caplin | Revealed Preference, Rational Inattention and Costly Information Acquisition | NJ-B | |
| June 12 | James Sallee | NJ-4100 | ||
Fall 2013 | ||||
| Date | Speaker | Paper | Room | Notes |
| 10-Oct | Juha Siikamaki | “Nudging Energy Efficiency Behavior: The Role of Information Labels” | NJ-B | |
| 17-Oct | Petra Persson (Harvard Fellow) | "Attention Manipulation and Information Overload" | NJ-4100 | |
| 24-Oct | Steve Puller (Texas A&M) | “Behavioral Responses to Increased Household Fuel Economy: Regression Discontinuity Evidence” | NJ-4100 | |
| 7-Nov | FTC Microeconomics Conference | |||
| 8-Nov | FTC Microeconomics Conference | |||
| 14-Nov | Pedro Bordalo | "Salience and Consumer Choice" | NJ-C | |
| 21-Nov | Ayelet Gneezy | TBA | NJ-4100 | |
| 28-Nov | Thanksgiving Day | |||
| 5-Dec | Bart Hamilton (WUSTL) | "Health and the Option Value of Medical Innovation" | NJ-C | |
| 9-Dec | Larry Samuelson (Yale) | “Reputations in Repeated Games” | NJ-4100 | This is a Monday |
| 12-Dec | Christopher Knittel | "Who is Exposed to Gas Prices? How Gasoline Prices Affect Automobile Manufacturers and Dealerships" | NJ-C | |
| 19-Dec | Paul Rubin | TBA | M-8048 | |
Spring 2013 | ||||
| Date | Speaker | Paper | Room | Notes |
| Mar 07 | Ryan Lampe (DePaul) | Patent Pools, Competition, and Innovation – Evidence from 20 U.S. Industries under the New Deal | M8089 | |
| Mar 14 | Petra Persson (Harvard Fellow) | Attention Manipulation and Information Overload | NJ-A | |
| Mar 21 | Luis Cabral (Stern NYU) | Dynamic Pricing in Customer Markets with Switching Costs | NJ-C | |
| Mar 28 | Yongmin Chen (Colorado) | Monopoly Differential Pricing and Welfare | M8089 | |
| Apr 04 | Suhui Li (GWU) | How Do Hospitals Respond to Market Entry? Evidence from the Pennsylvania Cardiac Revascularzation Market | M8089 | |
| Apr 11 | Elena Patel (U.S. Treasury) | An Empirical Analysis of Mergers Between Nonprofit and For-Profit Firms: An Application in the Hospital Industry | NJ-A | |
| Apr 18 | Ginger Jin (Maryland) | TBA | NJ-A | |
| Apr 25 | Marc Remer (U.S. DOJ) | Approximating the Price Effects of Mergers: Numerical Evidence and an Empirical Application | NJ-A | |
| May 02 | Robert Letzler (FTC) | Everyone Believes in Redemption: Nudges and Overoptimism in Costly Task Completion | NJ-C | |
| May 09 | Steven Berry (Yale) | Identification in Differentiated Products Markets Using Market Level Data | NJ-A | |
| May 16 | Charles Manski (Northwestern) | Policy Evaluation in Uncertain World | NJ-A | |
| Jun 7 | Kate Ho & Robin Lee | Insurer Competition and Negotiated Hospital Prices | NJ-B | |
Fall 2012 | |||||
| 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. |
Spring 2012 | |
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 |
Fall 2011 | |
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 |
Spring 2011 | |
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 |
Fall 2010 | |
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 |
Spring 2010 | |
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) |
Spring 2009 | |
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 | |
Date | Speaker/Paper/Host |
| Feb. 7 | Ben Atkinson
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| 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
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| 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 | |
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 | |
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) |
Seminar Series - Fall 2005 | |
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 | |
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
Seminar Series - Fall 2004 | |
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
Seminar Series - Spring 2004 | |
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 |
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 | |
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 | |
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" |
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Exclusionary Minimum Resale Price Maintenance
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A Field Experiment in Charitable Contribution
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Impatience, Incentives, and Obesity
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A Simple Model of Demand Anticipation
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Upstream Competition and Downstream Buyer Power
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