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Spring 2014 Schedule

When: Every Monday 14:00-15:30
WhereMF323 (unless otherwise noted)

 Date Speaker Paper

March 10th

Allan Collard-Wexler (NYU)


"How do Electricity Shortages Affect Productivity? Evidence from India" (with H. Allcott and S. O'Connell)



March 17th

Ben Hermalin (Berkeley)

 
"At the Helm, Kirk or Spock? Why Even Wholly Rational Actors May Favor and Respond to Charismatic Leaders"
 

March 24th

Adriaan R. Soetevent (Amsterdam)

 
"Insurance, Risk Aversion and Loss Manipulation: An Experiment"

March 31st

Gary Biglaiser (UNC)

 
TBD

April 7th

Emeric Henry (Science Po Paris)

 
"Research and the Approval Process" (with M. Ottaviani)

April 14th

Hao Li (UBC)

 
"Discriminatory Information Disclosure" (with X. Shi)

April 21st

No seminar - Pacques

 

April 28th

No seminar - break

 

May 5th

No seminar - break

 

May 12th

Andrew Clausen (Edinburgh)

 

May 19th

Johannes Van Biesebroeck (Leuven)

 

May 26th

Frederic Warzinski (Aarhus)

 

June 2nd

No seminar - TIGER Forum

 

June 9

No seminar - pentecote

 





Fall 2013 Schedule

When: Every Monday 14:00-15:30
WhereMF323 (unless otherwise noted)

 Date Speaker  Paper Observation

September 16th


Relational Knowledge Transfers (with Luis Garicano)



September 23rd


Laurent Lamy (PSE)

Participation and Discrimination in Procurement Auctions (with Philippe Jehiel)



September 30th

Yassine Lefouili (TSE)


Cross-Licensing and Competition (with Doh-Shin Jeon)




October 7th



Pat Bayer (Duke)

Speculation, Contagion, and Bubbles: Theory and Evidence from the Housing Market (with C. Geissler and J. Roberts)



October 14th

Amit Ghandi (Wisconsin-Madison)

 
Estimating Demand for Differentiated Products with Error in Market Shares (with Z. Lu and X. Shi)
 

October 21st


Francine Lafontaine (Michigan)

Financial Constraints and Moral Hazard: The Case of Franchising (with Y. Fan and K-U Kuhn)
 

October 28th

NO SEMINAR - FALL BREAK




November 4th


Laurent Linnemer (CREST)
 
Nonlinear Pricing as Exclusionary Conduct (with P. Chone)

 

November 11th

NO SEMINAR - ARMISTICE





November 18th

Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College - University of Rome)


Unbundling the Incumbent: Evidence from UK Broadband (with M. Nardotto and F. Verboven)


November 25th


Is Intel Market Campaign Predatory? (with H. R. Lee and A. Pechy)



December 2nd


Optimal Design of Social Learning
(with Johannes Horner)




December 9th

 
Activity-Based Payments and Hospital Competition (with L. Wilner and E. Yilmaz)

 




Spring 2013 Schedule

When: Every Monday 14:00-15:30
WhereMF323 (unless otherwise noted)

 Date Speaker  Paper Observation
March 11th
March 18th
"Social Advertising"


March 25th
"The Dynamics of Bertrand Competition with Cost-Reducing Investments"
 

 
April 1st
NO SEMINAR - Lundi de Pâques


April 5th-6th
CSIO/IDEI, 12th joint Workshop on Industrial Organization
 

  
April 8th
"Vertical Practices Facilitating Exclusion"
 

 
April 15th
"Scarcity of Ideas and R&D Options: Use It, Lose It, or Bank It"


April 22nd
NO SEMINAR - holidays
  
April 29th
"Backward Integration, Forward Integration, and Vertical Foreclosure"

joint with the AFIO seminar

May 6th
“Mergers When Prices are Negotiated: Evidence from the Hospital Industry”
 


seminar takes place exceptionally on MS003 
May 13th
"Endogenous Public Information and Welfare in Market Games"


May 20th
NO SEMINAR -  Lundi de Pentecôte


May 27th TBD 
June 5th-7th
7th bi-annual conference on The Economics of Intellectual Property, Software and the Internet

  
 June 24th
 Steve Berry (Yale) 

 TBD 




Fall 2012 Schedule

When: Every Monday 14:00-15:30
WhereMF323 (unless otherwise noted)

 Date Speaker  Paper Observation
24th SeptemberMar Reguant (Stanford)  "Opportunity Costs and Pass-through of Emission Costs" 
1st OctoberAlessandro Pavan (Northwestern) "Information acquisition and welfare" 
8th OctoberMichael Riordan (Columbia) "The Copula Approach to Product Bundling"  
12th OctoberCristian Huse (Stockholm School of Economics)“Fast and Furious (and Dirty): How Asymmetric Regulation May Hinder Environmental Policy” Extra meeting - happens on FRIDAY 2:00PM
15th October Markus Reisinger (WHU Business) "Either or both competition: a two-sided theory of advertising with overlapping viewerships”  
26th OctoberHeidi Williams (MIT) "Do fixed patent terms distort innovation? Evidence from cancer clinical trials"seminar happens exceptionally on FRIDAY
29th October NO SEMINAR - VACATIONS  
5th November Heski Bar-Isaac (Toronto) "Reputation for a Servant of Two Masters"  
12th November Otto Toivanen (Leuven) “Anatomy of Cartel Contracts” seminar takes place exceptionally on MS003 
19th NovemberPasquale Schiraldi (LSE) "Supermarket Choice with multi-store shopping: Measuring Market Power and Policy Implications"joint with the Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization seminar 
26th November Jose Luis Moraga (Amsterdam) "Search Costs, Demand-Side Economics and the Incentives to Merge under Bertrand Competition"  
3rd DecemberChristian Fons-Rosen (Pompeu) TBD 
10th DecemberDavid Rahman (Minnesota)"Dynamic Information Management in Repeated Games with Frequent Action" 
17th-18th DecemberToulouse-UCL Workshop on Econometrics and IO of Food and Nutrition