Alberto Galasso (Rotman)

Market Outcomes and Dynamic Patent Buyouts (joint with Matt Mitchell and Gabor Virag)

Thursday, July 4 2013 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Liz Lyons (University of Toronto)

Do Higher Salaries Lead to Higher Performance? Evidence from State Politicians (joint with Mitch Hoffman)

Tuesday, July 9 2013 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Kristina McElheran (Harvard Buisness School)

The Digital Erosion of Firm Boundaries: Complementarities between IT Use and Production Chain Organization in US Manufacturing (joint with Chris Forman (Georgia Tech))

Thursday, July 11 2013 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Lei Tang (University of Toronto)

Conscientiousness and Academic Achievement

Tuesday, July 16 2013 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Kenneth Corts (Rotman)

The Effects of Platform MFNs on Competition and Entry (joint with Andre Boik (Toronto))

Thursday, July 18 2013 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Peter Cziraki (University of Toronto)

CEO Horizon and Equity Ownership

Tuesday, July 23 2013 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

James Campbell (Rotman)

A model of coordination in the fashion industry (joint with Avi Goldfarb and Kitty Wang)

Thursday, July 25 2013 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Nicola Lacetera (Rotman)

Bid Takers or Market Makers? The Effect of Auctioneers on Auction Outcomes (joint with Brad Larsen, Devin Pope and Justin Sydnor)

Thursday, August 1 2013 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ding Ding (University of Toronto)

Belief Differences and Investment Composition

Tuesday, August 6 2013 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Yao Luo (Toronto)

Asymmetric Information and Network Effects in Yellow Pages (joint with Liang Chen (Calgary))

Thursday, August 8 2013 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Eric Mak (University of Toronto)

The Road to Maturation

Tuesday, August 13 2013 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Mitchell Hoffman (Rotman)

The Facts About Referrals: Toward an Understanding of Employee Referral Networks (joint with Stephen Burks, Bo Cowgill, and Michael Housman)

Thursday, August 15 2013 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Matthew Osborne (Rotman)

Market Power, Adjustment Costs, and Risk in the Measurement of Banking Services (joint with Kyle Hood (Bureau of Economic Analysis))

Thursday, August 22 2013 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Elizabeth Lyons (Toronto)

Multinational Teams: Experimental Evidence from the Field

Tuesday, September 10 2013 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ludo Visschers (University of Edinburgh)

Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle (joint with Carlos Carrillo-Tudela)

Thursday, September 12 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Rema Hanna (Harvard)

Ordeal Mechanisms in Targeting: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia (joint with V. Alatas, A. Banerjee, B. A. Olken, R. Purnamasari, M. Wai-Poi)

Friday, September 13 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Leeat Yariv (California Institute of Technology)

Collective Self-Control

Monday, September 16 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1010

Pedro Rodenas (U Alicante (visiting UofT))

Terrorism and Infant Health: (Some) Evidence from Spain

Tuesday, September 17 2013 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Philipp Strack (University of Bonn)

Optimal Stopping with Private Information (joint with Thomas Kruse)

Tuesday, September 17 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1025

Joris Pinkse (Pennsylvania State University)

Estimating a Nonparametric Triangular Model with Binary Endogenous Regressors (joint with Sung Jae Jun and Haiqing Xu)

Friday, September 20 2013 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jonathan Guryan (Northwestern University)

Reducing Juvenile Delinquency by Improving Self-Regulation: Experimental Evidence from Juvenile Detention

Friday, September 20 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Mitsuru Igami (Yale)

Cannibalization and Preemptive Entry (joint with Nathan Yang)

Monday, September 23 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1065

Lisa Stockley (Toronto)

Reference Point Determination and Effort Provision: Proposal for a Field Experiment

Tuesday, September 24 2013 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Dov Samet (Tel Aviv University)

Non-Bayesian Rationality (two papers) (joint with John Hillas)

Tuesday, September 24 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1025

Shmuel Baruch (University of Utah, David Eccles School of Business)

Fleeting Orders (joint with Larry Glosten)

Wednesday, September 25 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Swati Dhingra (LSE)

Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity Under Firm Heterogeneity (joint with John Morrow (LSE))

Wednesday, September 25 2013 16:30–18:00, Rotman, room 142

Marianna Kudlyak (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)

Systematic Job Search: New Evidence from Individual Job Application Data (joint with Damba Lkhagvasuren, Roman Sysuyev)

Thursday, September 26 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Nathaniel Hendren (Harvard University)

The Policy Elasticity

Friday, September 27 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Xianwen Shi (University of Toronto)

TBA

Monday, September 30 2013 12:30–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Dave Donaldson (MIT)

Railroads and American Economic Growth: A "Market Access" Approach (joint with Richard Hornbeck)

Monday, September 30 2013 14:30–16:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Judith Chevalier (Yale SOM)

Promotional Reviews: An Empirical Investigation of Online Review Manipulation

Monday, September 30 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1065

Hidenori Takahashi (Toronto)

The Effect of Uncertain Evaluations on Procurement Costs: Theory and Evidence from Design/Build Auctions

Tuesday, October 1 2013 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Mehmet Ekmekci (University of Pittsburgh)

Information in tender offers with a large shareholder (joint with Nenad Kos)

Tuesday, October 1 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ing-Haw Cheng (Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business)

Wall Street and the Housing Bubble (joint with Sahil Raina and Wei Xiong)

Wednesday, October 2 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jeremy Lise (University College London)

The Macro-dynamics of Sorting between Workers and Firms (joint with Jean-Marc Robin)

Thursday, October 3 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Robert Miller (Carnegie Mellon University)

Identifying Dynamic Discrete Choice Models off Short Panels (joint with Peter Arcidiacono)

Friday, October 4 2013 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Prashant Bharadwaj (UCSD)

Perverse Consequences of Well-Intentioned Regulation: Evidence from India's Child Labor Ban (joint with Leah Lakdawala)

Friday, October 4 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Martin Schmalz (University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business)

Fund Flows in Rational Markets (joint with Francesco Franzoni)

Monday, October 7 2013 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Myrto Kalouptsidi (Princeton)

Understanding Industrial Subsidies: The Case of World Shipbuilding

Monday, October 7 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1010

Theodore Papageorgiou (Penn State University)

Worker Sorting and Agglomeration Economies

Monday, October 7 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Wing Suen (The University of Hong Kong)

Multi-sender disclosure of verifiable information.

Tuesday, October 8 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

John List (University of Chicago)

Life as a Laboratory: Using Field Experiments in Economics

Wednesday, October 9 2013 16:30–18:00, George Ignatieff Theater, Trinity College

John List (University of Chicago)

Field Experiments in the Economics of Crime

Thursday, October 10 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Laura Grigolon (McMaster University)

A discrete choice model for ordered nests

Friday, October 11 2013 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Matthew J. Notowidigdo (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

Manufacturing Decline, Housing Booms, and Non-Employment (joint with Kerwin Kofi Charles and Erik Hurst)

Friday, October 11 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Marco GonzalezNavarro (Toronto)

The Effects of Road Quality on Rural Labor Markets: Evidence from Indonesia's Highways

Tuesday, October 15 2013 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Antonio Penta (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Strategic Thinking and Value of Reasoning: Theory and Applications to Five Little Treasures of Game Theory (joint with Larbi Alaoui)

Tuesday, October 15 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1025

Shakeeb Khan (Duke University)

On Uniform Inference in Nonlinear Models with Endogeneity (joint with Denis Nekipelov)

Friday, October 18 2013 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Eric Mak (Toronto)

TBD

Friday, October 18 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Lanier Benkard (Stanford GSB)   Cancelled

TBA

Monday, October 21 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1065

Ding Ding (Toronto)

Belief Differences and Investment Composition

Tuesday, October 22 2013 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Andre Boik (University of Toronto)

Intermediaries in Two-Sided Markets: an Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Cable Television Industry

Tuesday, October 22 2013 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Alexey Kushnir (University of Zurich)

A Geometric Approach to Mechanism Design

Tuesday, October 22 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Haoxiang Zhu (MIT Sloan)

Dynamic Ex Post Equilibrium, Welfare, and Optimal Trading Frequency in Double Auctions (joint with Songzi Du)

Wednesday, October 23 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Guido Menzio (University of Pennsylvania)

Shopping Externalities and Self-Fulfilling Unemployment Fluctuations (joint with Greg Kaplan (Princeton))

Thursday, October 24 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Paul Grieco (Pennsylvania State University)

Productivity and Quality in Health Care: Evidence from the Dialysis Industry (joint with Ryan McDevitt)

Friday, October 25 2013 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Brian Knight (Brown)

Evaluating Competing Explanations for The Midterm Gap: A Unified Econometric Approach with Microfoundations

Friday, October 25 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Byung Soo Lee (University of Toronto, Rotman SM)   Cancelled

Generalizing subjective probability

Monday, October 28 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Arthur Campbell (Yale SOM)

TBA

Monday, October 28 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1065

Yosh Halberstam (Toronto)

Ideological Segregation and Communication in Social Media: Evidence from Twitter (joint with Brian Knight)

Tuesday, October 29 2013 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern University)

Attention, Coordination, and Bounded Recall

Tuesday, October 29 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Greg Spanos (University of Toronto)

Analysis of French Production Hierchies

Wednesday, October 30 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Ding Ding (University of Toronto)

Belief Differences and Investment Composition

Wednesday, October 30 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Liang Chen (University of Calgary)

Managerial Talent Misallocation and the Cost of Moral Hazard

Thursday, October 31 2013 14:00–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Steven Durlauf (University of Wisconsin at Madison)

Linear Social Interactions Models (joint with Lawrence Blume, William Brock and Rajshri Jayaraman)

Friday, November 1 2013 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ayesha Ali (Toronto)

From Home to Market? Credit and the Demand for Rice in Rural Thailand

Friday, November 1 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Xin Zhao (University of Toronto)

Auction design by an informed seller

Monday, November 4 2013 12:30–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Michael D. Grubb (Boston College)

Consumer Inattention and Bill-Shock Regulation

Monday, November 4 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1065

Michael Gilraine (Toronto)

TBA

Tuesday, November 5 2013 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Bruno Strulovici (Northwestern University)

Contract Negotiation and the Coase Conjecture

Tuesday, November 5 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1025

Robert W. Staiger (Wisconsin)

Trade Disputes and Settlement (joint with Giovanni Maggi (Yale))

Wednesday, November 6 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Eli Berman (UC-San Diego)

Do Fair Elections Enhance Government Legitimacy? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan (joint with Michael Callen, Clark Gibson and James Long)

Thursday, November 7 2013 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Fatih Guvenen (University of Minnesota)

What Do Data on Millions of US Workers Say About Life Cycle Income Risk?

Thursday, November 7 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Mario Samano (HEC Montreal)

Conditional Average Treatment Effects and Decision Making

Friday, November 8 2013 14:00–15:20, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Tom Vogl (Princeton)

Estimating Habit Formation in Voting (joint with Thomas Fujiwara and Kyle Meng)

Friday, November 8 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Soren Anderson (Michigan State University)

The Intergenerational Transmission of Automobile Brand Preferences: Empirical Evidence and Implications for Firm Strategy

Monday, November 11 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1010

Louise Grogan (Guelph)

Geology, household formation rules and the demand for sons in Vietnam

Tuesday, November 12 2013 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Luminita Stevens (University of Maryland)   Cancelled

Investor Polarization, Trading Volume, and Return Dynamics (joint with Marcin Kacperczyk and Jaromir Nosal)

Wednesday, November 13 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Kim Ruhl (New York University-Stern School of Business)

(Micro and Macro) Trade Adjustment Dynamics and the Welfare Gains from Trade (joint with George Alessandria (Philadelphia Fed) and Horag Choi (Monash))

Wednesday, November 13 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Amalia Miller (University of Virgina)

Do Female Officers Improve Law Enforcement Quality? Effects on Crime Reporting and Domestic Violence Escalation (joint with Carmit Segal)

Thursday, November 14 2013 14:40–16:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Zheng Michael Song (Chicago Booth)   Cancelled

Grasp the Large, Let Go of the Small: The Transformation of the State Sector in China (joint with Chang-Tai Hsieh)

Thursday, November 14 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Mathieu Marcoux (University of Toronto)

Bias reduction techniques for two-step semiparametric estimators: application to dynamic discrete choice structural models

Friday, November 15 2013 14:00–15:20, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Juan Carlos Escanciano (Indiana University)

Set Inferences and Sensitivity Analysis in Semiparametric Conditionally IdentifiÂ…ed Models (joint with Lin Zhu (Tsinghua University))

Friday, November 15 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

David Goldreich (Rotman)

Auctions as Coordination Games: Focal Equilibria in Discrete Common-Value Auctions (joint with Hanna Halaburda)

Monday, November 18 2013 12:30–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Erik Hurst (University of Chicago Booth)

Regional Risk Sharing Through the U.S. Mortgage Market (joint with Ben Keys, Amit Seru and Joe Vavra)

Monday, November 18 2013 14:40–16:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Emanuele Tarantino (University of Bologna)

TBA

Monday, November 18 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1065

Johannes Schmeider (Boston U)

The Welfare Effects of Welfare and Tax Reform during the Great Recession (joint with Kory Kroft and Kavan Kucko)

Tuesday, November 19 2013 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Roberto Serrano (Brown University)

The Appeal of Information Transactions (joint with Antonio Cabrales and Olivier Gossner)

Tuesday, November 19 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Michael Brolley (University of Toronto)   Cancelled

Intermediation in the Dark: Impact on Market Quality and Investor Welfare

Wednesday, November 20 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Li Li (University of Toronto)

Sovereign Defaults and Interest Rate Spread in the Presence of a Self-Control Problem

Thursday, November 21 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Shiny Zhang (University of Toronto)

Managerial Human Capital, Skill Matching and Firm Performance

Friday, November 22 2013 12:10–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Yonghong An (University of Connecticut)

Identifying Structural Models of Committee Decisions with Heterogeneous Tastes and Ideological Bias (joint with Xun Tang)

Friday, November 22 2013 14:00–15:20, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Emir Kamenica (UChicago)

Gender identity and relative income within households (joint with Marianne Bertrand and Jessica Pan)

Friday, November 22 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Nathaniel Baum-Snow (Brown)

Urban Transport Expansions, Employment Decentralization, and the Spatial Scope of Agglomeration Economies

Monday, November 25 2013 14:40–16:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Michael Powell (Kellogg School of Management)

TBA

Monday, November 25 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1065

Mitch Hoffman (Toronto)

Discretion in Hiring

Tuesday, November 26 2013 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Rohan Dutta (McGill University)

Inferring Rationales from Choice: Identification for Rational Shortlist Methods (joint with Sean Horan)

Tuesday, November 26 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Yiming Xu (University of Toronto)

Financial Leverage and Investment

Tuesday, November 26 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 168

John Romalis (University of Sydney)

International Prices and Endogenous Quality (joint with Robert Feenstra (UC Davis))

Wednesday, November 27 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

David Cimon (University of Toronto)

Exchange Traded Funds and Their Impact on Volatility

Wednesday, November 27 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ashique Habib (University of Toronto)

Adverse Selection, Directed Search and Credit Ratings

Thursday, November 28 2013 12:30–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

John Maheu (McMaster University)

Risk, Return and Volatility Feedback: A Bayesian Nonparametric Analysis (joint with Mark Jensen)

Friday, November 29 2013 14:00–15:20, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Fabian Lange (McGill University)

Fertility Transitions Along the Extensive and Intensive Margins (joint with Daniel Aaronson and Bhashkar Mazumder)

Friday, November 29 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Liyan Yang (Rotman)

Good Disclosure, Bad Disclosure

Monday, December 2 2013 12:30–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Alvin Murphy (Arizona State University)

Incorporating Dynamic Behavior into the Hedonic Model (joint with Kelly Bishop)

Monday, December 2 2013 14:40–16:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

John Asker (NYU Stern)

Dynamic Inputs and Resource (Mis)Allocation (joint with Allan Collard-Wexler and Jan De Loecker)

Monday, December 2 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1065

Jessica Burley (Toronto)

Socializing in the City: the Environmental Impact on Social Interactions

Tuesday, December 3 2013 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Takuo Sugaya (Stanford GSB)

TBA

Tuesday, December 3 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Kala Krishna (Pennsylvania State University)

How You Export Matters: Export Mode, Learning and Productivity in China (joint with Xue Bai (Penn State) and Hong Ma (Tsinghua University))

Wednesday, December 4 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Chaoran Chen (University of Toronto)

TBA

Thursday, December 5 2013 12:30–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Qiao Yang (University of Toronto)

TBA

Friday, December 6 2013 14:00–15:20, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Miguel Urquiola (Columbia)

The big sort: College reputation and labor market outcomes

Friday, December 6 2013 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Matt Mitchell (University of Toronto, Rotman SM)

TBA

Monday, December 9 2013 12:30–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Andrea Galeotti (University of Essex)

Trading in Networks: Theory and Experiment

Monday, December 9 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1065

Adam Lavecchia (Toronto)

Contributions to Tax-Preferred Savings Accounts, Contribution Limits and Crowd-Out: Evidence from the "Catch-Up" Limit Reform

Tuesday, December 10 2013 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Philip Reny (University of Chicago)

Nash Equilibrium in Discontinuous Games

Tuesday, December 10 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1025

Eric (Jincheng) Zhi (Toronto)

Realtor Effects

Tuesday, January 14 2014 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Zhe Yang (Queen's University)

Search, Asset Liquidity and Business Cycles

Wednesday, January 15 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Eliav Danziger (Princeton University)

Skill Acquisition and the Dynamics of Trade-Induced Inequality

Thursday, January 16 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Roberto Robatto (University of Chicago)

Financial Crises and Systemic Bank Runs in a Dynamic Model of Banking

Monday, January 20 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Kevin Devereux (Toronto)

Risk Sharing and On-the-Marriage Search

Tuesday, January 21 2014 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Michaela Pagel (UC Berkeley)

A News-Utility Theory for Inattention and Rebalancing in Portfolio Choice

Tuesday, January 21 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Michael Kuhn (UC San Diego)

Curing the Calorie Crunch: The Effect of EBT on Household Present Bias

Wednesday, January 22 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Arthur T Blouin (University of Warwick)

Culture and Contracts: The Historical Legacy of Forced Labour

Friday, January 24 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Shengxing Zhang (New York University)

Collateral Risk, Repo Rollover and Shadow Banking

Monday, January 27 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jonathan Daines Hall (Northwestern University)

Lexus Lanes and Pareto Improvements: The case for value pricing on heavily congested highways

Tuesday, January 28 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Shu Lin Wee (University of Maryland, College)

Born Under a Bad Sign: The Cost of Entering the Job Market During a Recession

Thursday, January 30 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Lori Timmins (University of British Columbia)

How do Hospitals Respond to Financial Pain? Evidence from Hospital Markets in Texas

Friday, January 31 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Juliana Salomao (Stanford Economics Department)

Sovereign Debt Renegotiation and Credit Default Swaps

Monday, February 3 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ryan Webb (New York University)

Rationalizing Context-Dependent Preferences: Divisive Normalization and Neurobiological Constraints (joint with Paul W. Glimcher (NYU) and Kenway Louie (NYU))

Tuesday, February 4 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Joan Monras (Columbia University)

Immigration and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis

Wednesday, February 5 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Victoria Vanasco (UC Berkeley)   Cancelled

Information Acquisition vs. Liquidity in Financial Markets

Thursday, February 6 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Swati Dhingra (London School of Economics)

Contracting and the Division of the Gains from Trade (joint with Andrew Bernard (Dartmouth))

Friday, February 7 2014 11:00–12:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Victoria Vanasco (UC Berkeley)

Information Acquisition vs. Liquidity in Financial Markets

Friday, February 7 2014 15:15–16:35, Robarts Library, Media Commons (3rd floor)

Yigitcan Karabulut (Goethe University Frankfurt)   Cancelled

Can Facebook Predict Stock Market Activity?

Friday, February 7 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ilse Lindenlaub (European University Institute)

Sorting Multidimensional Types: Theory and Application

Friday, February 7 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jonathan Halket (University of Essex)

Home Ownership and the Scarcity of Rentals (joint with Matteo Pignatti)

Monday, February 10 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Douglas Hanley (University of Pennsylvania)

Innovation, Technological Interdependence, and Economic Growth

Tuesday, February 11 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Sebastian Sotelo (The University of Chicago)

Trade Frictions and Agricultural Productivity: Theory and Evidence from Peru

Wednesday, February 12 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

John Morrow (London School of Economics)

Productivity As If Space Mattered: An Application to Factor Markets Across China

Thursday, February 13 2014 11:00–12:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Baolian Wang (Hong Kong University of Science)

Probability Weighting and Asset Prices: Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions

Thursday, February 13 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv University and New York University)

Complex Questionnaires (joint with Jacob Glazer)

Tuesday, February 25 2014 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1030

Zheng Michael Song (Chicago Booth)

Grasp the Large, Let Go of the Small: The Transformation of the State Sector in China (joint with Chang-Tai Hsieh)

Thursday, February 27 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Sebastian Galiani (Maryland)

The Effect of Aid on Growth: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

Friday, February 28 2014 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Daniel Quint (University of Wisconsin)

Indicative Bidding in Auctions with Costly Entry (joint with Ken Hendricks)

Tuesday, March 4 2014 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Daphne Chen (Florida State University)

Will A Decline in The Corporate Income Tax Rate Create Jobs?

Thursday, March 6 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Serdar Ozkan (Federal Reserve Board)

A User's Guide to Idiosyncratic Labor Income Risk: An Analysis of 200 Million Observations from Social Security Records (joint with Fatih Guvenen, Fatih Karahan, and Jae Song)

Friday, March 7 2014 11:10–12:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jim Rebitzer (Boston University School of Management)

Structuring Incentives within Accountable Care Organizations (joint with Brigham Frandsen)

Friday, March 7 2014 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jesper Breinbjerg (University of Southern Denmark (visiting University of Toronto))

Strategic Behavior and Social Outcomes in Bottlenecks: Experimental Evidence (joint with Alexander Sebald and Lars Peter Østerdal)

Monday, March 10 2014 12:30–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ben Sand (York University)

Industrial structure and the gender gap: evidence from US cities

Tuesday, March 11 2014 13:10–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Filip Matějka (CERGE-EI)

Rational Inattention to Discrete Choices: A New Foundation for the Multinomial Logit Model (joint with Alisdair McKay)

Tuesday, March 11 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Juan Carlos Hatchondo (Indiana University)   Cancelled

Debt Dilution and Sovereign Default Risk

Thursday, March 13 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Byoung Gun Park (State University of New York - Albany)

Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of the Extended Roy Model

Friday, March 14 2014 14:00–15:20, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Alessandra Voena (UChicago)

Prenuptial Contracts, Labor Supply and Household Investments (joint with Denrick Bayot)

Friday, March 14 2014 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jeanine Miklos-Thal (Rochester Simon)

Naked Exclusion with Private Offers

Monday, March 17 2014 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1010

Jin Li (Northwestern)

Managing Careers in Organizations

Tuesday, March 18 2014 13:10–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Alexander Wolitzky (Stanford University)

Mechanism Design with Maxmin Agents: Theory and an Application to Bilateral Trade

Wednesday, March 19 2014 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1025

Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern)

Unemployment and Business Cycles

Thursday, March 20 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Denis Nekipelov (University of California - Berkeley)

Encyption, Disclosure and Inference from Combined Data (joint with Tatiana Komarova)

Friday, March 21 2014 14:00–15:20, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Vincent Pohl (Queen's University)

Health Shocks, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes (joint with Christopher Neilson and Francisco Parro)

Friday, March 21 2014 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Allan Collard-Wexler (NYU Stern)

Reallocation and Technology: Evidence from the U.S. Steel Industry (joint with Jan De Loecker)

Monday, March 24 2014 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1065

Jidong Zhou (NYU Stern)

Competitive Bundling

Tuesday, March 25 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Beata Javorcik (Oxford University)

Grin and Bear It: Producer-Financed Exports from an Emerging Market (joint with Banu Demir (Bilkent University))

Wednesday, March 26 2014 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Amy Hongfei Sun (Queen's University)   Cancelled

A Search Theory of Asset Quality, Opacity and Pricing

Thursday, March 27 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Martha Bailey (Michigan)

The Long-term Effects of Family Planning on U.S. Children

Friday, March 28 2014 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Christina Felfe (University of St. Gallen)

Does Early Child Care Help or Hinder Children's Development

Tuesday, April 1 2014 13:10–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Balazs Szentes (London School of Economics)

Dynamic Contracting: An Irrelevance Result

Tuesday, April 1 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jonathan Eaton (Brown University)

Firm to Firm Trade (joint with Sam Kortum (Yale) and Francis Kramarz (CREST))

Wednesday, April 2 2014 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Derek Stacey (Ryerson University)

Neighborhoods, House Prices and Homeownership, (joint with Allen Head and Huw Lloyd-Ellis)

Thursday, April 3 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Lanier Benkard (Stanford GSB)

Simulating the Dynamic Effects of Horizontal Mergers: U.S. Airlines

Monday, April 7 2014 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1010

Matthew Melnyk (Toronto)

Between Labour and Marriage: More than Time

Tuesday, April 8 2014 13:10–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ben Faber (UC Berkeley)

Trade Liberalization, the Price of Quality, and Inequality: Evidence from Mexican Store Prices

Wednesday, April 9 2014 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Eric Budish (Chicago Booth)

The High-Frequency Trading Arms Race: Frequent Batch Auctions as a Market Design Response (joint with Peter Cramton and John Shim)

Monday, April 14 2014 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1010

Eric Ho Nam Mak (U Toronto)

TBA

Tuesday, April 15 2014 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Yuanyuan Wan (University of Toronto)

Testing LATE Assumptions (joint with Ismael Mourifie)

Tuesday, April 15 2014 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Jonathan Levin (Stanford)

Sales Mechanisms in Online Markets: What Happened to Internet Auctions? (joint with Liran Einav, Chiara Farronato, and Neel Sundaresan)

Thursday, April 24 2014 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1065

Anja Lambrecht (London Business School)

Pricing Online Content: Fee or Free? (joint with Kanishka Misra)

Thursday, May 8 2014 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Kei-Mu Yi (Minneapolis Fed)

How Much of South Korea's Growth Miracle can be Explained by Trade Policy?

Monday, May 12 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Fiona Scott Morton (Yale School of Management)

The Impact of Consumer Inattention on Insurer Pricing in the Medicare Part D Program (joint with Kate Ho)

Wednesday, May 14 2014 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1010

Pravin Krishna (Johns Hopkins S.A.I.S.)

Wage Effects of Trade Reform with Endogenous Worker Mobility (joint with Jennifer P. Poole (UCSC) & Mine Zeynep Senses (JHU SAIS))

Wednesday, May 14 2014 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Matthew Osborne (University of Toronto)

A New Estimator for Markets with Forward-Looking Consumers and Firms, with an Application to Storable Goods

Thursday, May 15 2014 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Fiona Scott Morton (Yale School of Management)

Patent Trolls: An Economic and Policy Analysis

Thursday, May 15 2014 16:00–17:00, Rotman, CIBC room

Aloysius Siow (University of Toronto)

Towards a theory of firm (team) specific human capital (joint with Kevin Devereux)

Wednesday, May 21 2014 13:10–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Takanori Adachi (Nagoya University)

Gender Differences in Insurance Purchase and Fee Payment: The Case of Extended Warranties for Personal Computers

Thursday, May 22 2014 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ambarish Chandra (University of Toronto)

Does Market Structure Affect Advertising? An Investigation of Beer Mergers (joint with Matthew Weinberg)

Thursday, May 29 2014 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Graham Beattie (University of Toronto)

Advertising, media coverage, and public opinion about climate change

Tuesday, June 3 2014 12:10–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Junichi Suzuki (University of Toronto)

Inventories and Stockouts in Multi-Product Retailers (joint with Victor Aguirregabiria)

Thursday, June 5 2014 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Lisa Stockley (University of Toronto)

Reference Dependence and Effort Provision - A framed field experiment.

Tuesday, June 10 2014 12:10–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Harry Krashins (University of Toronto)

Self-Employment, Employer Learning and Capital Accumulation

Thursday, June 12 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Gueorgui Kambourov (U of Toronto)

Local Economic Growth and the Legacy of SOEs in China

Tuesday, June 17 2014 12:10–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Kenneth Corts (University of Toronto)

Diversity in Teams

Thursday, June 19 2014 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Phil Oreopoulos (University of Toronto)

Improving Post Secondary Achievement Through Goal-Setting and Personal Assistance

Tuesday, June 24 2014 12:10–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Peter Landry (University of Toronto)

A Neuroeconomic Theory of Attention- and Task-Switching with Implications for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity and Autism Spectrum Disorders

Thursday, June 26 2014 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106