Bureau of Economics Seminar Series Calendar Archive

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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 2024
Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper	Room
Thursday, March 7, 2024	Thomas Graeber	Harvard	Lost in Transmission	HQ-332
Thursday, March 14, 2024	Ioana Marinescu	Upenn	TBA	HQ-332
Thursday, March 21, 2024	Amy Pei	Northeastern	Can Curation Algorithms Amplify the Effect of Trolls?	HQ-332
Thursday, March 28, 2024	Dmitry Taubinsky	UC Berkeley	When Do "Nudges" Increase Welfare?	HQ-332
Thursday, April 11, 2024	Michael Salinger	Boston University	The Complicated Simple Economics of Vertical Megers	HQ-332
Thursday, April 18, 2024	Ian McCarthy	Emory University	TBA	HQ-332
Thursday, May 2, 2024	Andrew Caplin	New York University	TBA	HQ-332
Wednesday, May 8, 2024	Farasat Bakhari (May 8 seminar)	University of East Anglia	Merger Review using Online Experiments	HQ-332
Thursday, May 9, 2024	Kevin Williams	Yale SOM	Distributional Impacts of the Changing Retail Landscape	HQ-332
Thursday, May 16, 2024	Aviv Nevo	UPenn / FTC	TBA	HQ-332
Thursday, May 23, 2024	Lynn Wu	UPenn Wharton	The Double-edged Sword of Banning Generative AI on Online Question-and-Answer Communities: Evidence from Stack Exchange	HQ-332
Thursday, May 30, 2024	Karam Kang	University of Wisconsin	Policy Deterrence: Strategic Investment in U.S. Broadband	HQ-332
Thursday, June 6, 2024	Tesary Lin	Boston University	Data Sharing and Website Competition: The Role of Dark Patterns	HQ-332
Thursday, June 13, 2024	Anne Burton	UT Dallas	Negative Externalities of Temporary Reductions in Cognition: Evidence from Particulate Matter Pollution and Fatal Car Crashes	HQ-332

Fall 2023
Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper	Room
9/7/2023	Neale Mahoney	Stanford University	Selling Subscriptions	H332
9/14/2023	David Stillerman	American University	Merger Effects and Antitrust Enforcement: Evidence from US Retail	H385
9/21/2023	Leon Musolff	University of Pennsylvania	Algorithmic Pricing Facilitates Tacit Collusion	H332
9/28/2023	Ryan Westphal	Brandeis University	What You Don't Know Can't Pass Through	H332
10/5/2023	Huan Tang	University of Pennsylvania	The Supply and Demand for Data Privacy: Evidence from Mobile Apps	H332
10/11/2023	Gloria Sheu	Federal Reserve Board of Governors	The Welfare Effects of Complex Integration	H332
10/19/2023	Nick Buchholz	Princeton University	Rethinking Reference Dependence: Wage Dynamics and Optimal Taxi Labor Supply	H332
10/26/2023	Felix Montag	Dartmouth College	Mergers, Foreign Competition, and Jobs: Evidence from the U.S. Appliance Industry	H332
11/09/2023	Yizhou Jin	University of Toronto	Entry Barrier and Entrepreneurial Training on Digital Platforms	H332
11/26/2023	Suresh Naidu	Columbia University	TBD	H332
12/7/2023	Emiliano Huet-Vaughn	Pomona College	TBD	H332
12/14/2023	Danna Kang Thomas	University of South Carolina	License Quotas and the Inefficient Regulation of Sin Goods	H332

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 (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
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"