Ig Horstmann (Rotman UofT)

Notes on Coordination, Specialization and Incentives in the Theory of the Firm

Wednesday, March 20 2002 00:00–05:30, Rotman, room 157

Matthew Shum (Johns Hopkins University)

Estimating Search Costs Using Equilibrium Models

Wednesday, March 27 2002 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Dennis Epple (Carnegie-Mellon University)

Admission and Financial Aid Policies in the Market for Higher Education in Equilibrium

Wednesday, April 17 2002 02:00–03:30, Woodsworth, room 119

Dan Vincent (University of Maryland)

Bundling as an Optimal Selling Mechanism for a Multiple Good Monopolist

Monday, April 22 2002 11:00–12:30, Rotman, CIBC room

Iain Cockburn (Boston University)

University Research, Technology Commercialization and the Anchor Tenant Hypothesis

Friday, April 26 2002 12:00–01:30, Rotman, room 157

Tom Holmes (Minnesota)

The Role of Cities: Evidence from the Placement of Sales Offices

Monday, October 7 2002 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Will Strange (University of Toronto)

The Urban Rat Race

Monday, November 4 2002 16:00–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Ken Corts (Harvard)

The Effect of Relationships on Contract Choice: Evidence from Offshore Drilling

Monday, December 2 2002 16:00–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Francine Lafontaine (University of Michigan)

Contracting in the Absence of Specific Investments and Moral Hazard: Understanding Carrier-Driver Relations in US Trucking

Monday, March 17 2003 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 134

Andrew Ching (Ohio State)

Consumer Learning and Heterogeneity: A Dynamic Oligopoly Structural Model of Demand for Prescription Drugs after Patent Expiration

Monday, March 24 2003 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 134

Richard Romano (University of Florida)

Cancelled

Monday, March 24 2003 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 134

Nitin Mehta (University of Toronto)

A Structural Estimable Model of Forgetting in Memory-Based Choice Decisions

Monday, April 28 2003 16:00–17:30, Rotman, room 134

Richard Romano (University of Florida)

The Practice and Proscription of Affirmative Action in Higher Education: An Equilibrium Analysis

Friday, October 3 2003 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 151

Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto)

The (Teaching) Role of Universities in the Diffusion of the Internet

Monday, November 24 2003 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Tom Davidoff (Berkeley)

Positive Selection in the US Reverse Mortgage Market

Friday, March 26 2004 02:00–03:30, Rotman, room 133

Joel Waldfogel (University of Pennsylvania)

Piracy on the High C's: Music Downloading, Sales Displacement and Social Welfare in a Sample of College Students

Monday, April 26 2004 16:00–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Ashish Arora (Carnegie-Mellon)

R&D and the Patent Premium

Monday, September 20 2004 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Marc Rysman (Boston University)

Coordination vs. Differentiation in a Standards War: 56K Modems

Monday, September 27 2004 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Matt Kahn (Tufts University)

Forging a New Identity: The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen

Monday, October 18 2004 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Ali Hortacsu (University of Chicago)

Testing Strategic Models of Firm Behavior in Restructured Electricity Markets: A Case Study of ERCOT

Monday, October 25 2004 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Neil Gandal (Tel Aviv University)

Ain't it Suite: Bundling in the PC Office Software Market

Monday, November 1 2004 14:10–15:30, Coach House Conference Room

Bernardo Blum (University of Toronto)

Is the Internet Above the Law of Gravity?

Monday, November 8 2004 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Pai-Ling Yin (Harvard Business School)

Economic and Technical Drivers of Technology Choice: Browsers

Monday, November 22 2004 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Nitin Mehta (University of Rochester)

Postponed

Monday, November 29 2004 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Toshi Iizuka (Vanderbilt University)

An Empirical Analysis of Planned Obsolescence

Monday, December 6 2004 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Michael Mazzeo (Northwestern University)

Competition, Quality Differentiation and Quality Provision: An Empirical Equilibrium Analysis of Bank Branching Decisions

Monday, December 13 2004 16:10–17:30, Rotman, CIBC room

Marc Gersovitz (Johns Hopkins University)

The Corporate Income Tax under Imperfect Competition

Monday, February 28 2005 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Vernon Henderson (Brown University)

Networking Off Madison Avenue

Monday, March 7 2005 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 151

Dan Ackerberg (University of Arizona)

TBA

Monday, March 14 2005 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Lanier Benkard (Stanford University)

Cancelled

Monday, March 21 2005 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Justine Hastings (Yale University)

Parental Preferences and School Competition: Evidence from a Public School Choice Program

Monday, April 4 2005 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Scott Stern (Northwestern University)

Do Formal Intellectual Property Rights Hinder the Free Flow of Scientific Knowledge? An Empirical Test of the Anti-Commons Hypothesis.

Friday, April 22 2005 02:00–04:00, Rotman, room 151

Lanier Benkard (Stanford University)

Markov Perfect Industry Dynamics with Many Firms

Monday, September 12 2005 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 151

R. Preston McAfee (CalTech)

Dynamic Pricing in the Airline Industry

Monday, September 19 2005 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Stuart Rosenthal (Syracuse University)

Old Homes, Externalities and Poor Neighborhoods: A Model of Urban Decline and Renewal

Monday, September 26 2005 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Austan Goolsbee (Chicago)

How Do Incumbents Respond to the Threat of Entry? Evidence from the Major Airlines

Monday, October 17 2005 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Carlos Rosell (University of Toronto)

Are University and Firm Inventions Really that Different? Exploring the Market Structure of Knowledge Flows

Thursday, October 20 2005 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Andrew Sweeting (Northwestern University)

Coordination Games, Multiple Equilibria, and the Timing of Radio Commercials

Monday, October 24 2005 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Ezra Zuckerman (MIT)

Do Firms and Markets Look Different?

Monday, October 31 2005 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Ron Borzekowski (Fed Board of Governors)

Estimating Strategic Complementarities in Credit Unions' Outsourcing Decisions

Monday, November 7 2005 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Ron Borzekowski (Fed Board of Governors)

Estimating Strategic Complementarities in Credit Unions' Outsourcing Decisions

Monday, November 7 2005 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Luis Rayo (University of Chicago)

Peer Comparisons and Consumer Debt

Monday, November 14 2005 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Nicholas Economides (NYU)

Vertical Leverage and the Sacrifice Principle: Why The Supreme Court Got Trinko Wrong

Monday, November 21 2005 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Stephen Ryan (MIT)

The Cost of Environmental Regulation in a Concentrated Industry

Monday, December 5 2005 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Leemore Dafny (Northwestern University)

Cancelled

Monday, December 12 2005 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Catherine deFontenay (University of Melbourne)

Bilateral Bargaining with Externalities

Wednesday, March 8 2006 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Gillian Hadfield (USC)

On Public vs. Private Provision of Corporate Law

Monday, March 13 2006 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Martin Perry (Rutgers University)

Preferred Suppliers and Vertical Integration in Auction Markets

Monday, April 3 2006 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Severin Borenstein (Berkeley)

How Do Airline Markets Work? Or Do They? (Cancelled)

Monday, April 10 2006 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Albert Ma (Boston University)

Moonlighting: Public Service and Private Practice

Monday, April 17 2006 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Leemore Dafny (Northwestern)

Do Report Cards Tell Consumers Anything They Don't Already Know? The Case of Medicare HMO's

Monday, April 24 2006 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Julie Mortimer (Harvard University)

Price Discrimination, Copyright Law and Technological Innovation: Evidence from the Introduction of DVD's

Monday, September 11 2006 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Jo Van Biesebroeck (University of Toronto)

Outsourcing and Technological Intensity

Monday, September 18 2006 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Matthew Genskow (University of Chicago)

What Drives News Media Slant? Evidence from US Newspapers

Monday, September 25 2006 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Helen Weeds (University of Essex)

TBA

Monday, October 2 2006 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Pat Bajari (University of Minnesota)

Bidding for Incomplete Contracts: An Empirical Analysis

Monday, October 16 2006 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Philip Leslie (Stanford GSB)

Incomplex Alternatives to Mixed Bundling

Monday, October 23 2006 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto)

Electronic Commerce and Local Competition

Monday, October 30 2006 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Severin Borenstein (UC Berkeley)

How the Airline Market Works, or Does It?

Monday, November 6 2006 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Jack Mintz (University of Toronto)

Taxation and the Financial Structure of German FDI

Monday, November 13 2006 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Glenn MacDonald (Washington University St. Louis)

Do new competitors, new customers, new suppliers,... , sustain, destroy, or create competitive advantage?

Monday, November 20 2006 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Georg Goetz (Vienna)

Diffusion of New Technology: The case of multiple generations

Monday, November 27 2006 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Victor Aguirregabiria (University of Toronto)

POSTPONED

Monday, December 4 2006 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Todd Sinai (Wharton)

TBA

Monday, December 11 2006 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

John Sutton (LSE)

Quality, Trade and the Moving Window:The Globalisation Process

Monday, March 12 2007 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Yongmin Chen (Colorado)

Dynamic Pricing: When to Entice Brand Switching and When to Reward Consumer Loyalty

Monday, March 19 2007 16:00–17:30, Rotman, room 133

David Genesove (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Broadcasting Competition and Programming Costs

Monday, March 26 2007 16:00–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Steve Davis (Chicago)

Electricity Pricing to US Manufacturing Plants, 1963-2000 (joint with Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger, and Mary Streitwieser)

Monday, April 2 2007 16:00–17:30, Rotman, room 133

François Ortalo-Magné (Wisconsin)

TBA

Monday, April 16 2007 16:00–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Jon Levin (Stanford)

Liquidity Constraints and Their Causes: Evidence from Subprime Lending (joint with William Adams and Liran Einav)

Monday, April 23 2007 16:00–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Pat Bajari (Steve Berry)

The Rotman School of Management and the Institute for Policy Analysis Conference on Dynamic Models of Industry Evolution

Friday, May 4 2007 13:00–00:00, Rotman, room 147

Mara Lederman (Rotman Toronto)

Does Vertical Integration Affect Performance? Evidence from the Airline Industry (joint with Silke Januszewski Forbes)

Monday, September 17 2007 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Ben Jones (Kellogg, Northwestern)

Age and Great Invention

Monday, September 24 2007 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Joe Gyourko (Wharton, Upenn)

Do Political Parties Matter? Evidence from U.S. Cities

Monday, October 1 2007 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Chris Mayer (Columbia Business School and NBER)

Private Information and Market Making in Secondary Mortgage Markets (joint with Steven Drucker (Columbia Business School))

Monday, October 15 2007 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Sang-Seung Yi (Seoul National University)

Microsoft's antitrust saga from Washington DC to Brussels to Seoul: a brief overview & analysis on tying issues

Monday, October 22 2007 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Chad Syverson (Chicago and NBER)

Vertical Integration and Production: Some Plant-Level Evidence (joint with Ali Hortacsu (Chicago and NBER))

Monday, October 29 2007 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Andrew Ching (Rotman Toronto)

Quantifying the Impacts of Limited Supply: The Case of Nursing Homes

Monday, November 5 2007 16:10–17:30,

Mark McCabe (Michigan)

Academic Journal prices in a Digital Age: A Two-Sided Market Model (joint with Christopher M. Snyder)

Monday, November 12 2007 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Lee Branstetter (Carnegie Mellon)

Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence (joint with Raymon Fisman, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi)

Monday, November 19 2007 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Megan MacGarvie (Boston and NBER)

Entry and Patenting in the Software Industry (joint with Iaian Cockburn (Boston and NBER))

Monday, November 26 2007 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Aviv Nevo (Northwestern)

TBA

Monday, December 3 2007 16:10–17:30,

Matt Shum (Johns Hopkins)

Estimating First-Price Auctions with Unknown Number of Bidders: A Misclassification Approach (joint with Yingyao Hu (Johns Hopkins))

Monday, December 10 2007 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Jennifer Brown (University of Califormia, Berkeley)

Quitters Never Win: The (Adverse) Incentive Effects of Competing with Superstars

Monday, January 14 2008 14:30–16:00, Rotman, room 151

Gautam Gowrisankaran (University of Arizona)

Government policy and the dynamics of market structure: evidence from Critical Access Hospitals (joint with Claudio Lucarelli, Phillip Schmidt-Dengler, and Robert Town)

Monday, March 3 2008 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 134

Aviv Nevo (Northwestern)

Identification with Imperfect Instruments (joint with Adam Rosen)

Monday, March 17 2008 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 134

Glenn Ellison (MIT)

Position Auctions with Consumer Search

Monday, March 31 2008 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 134

Werner Antweiler (UBC - Sauder)

Internal and External Distance: Gravity Depends on It!

Monday, April 7 2008 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 134

Mark Schankerman (LSE and University of Arizona)

Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry (joint with Nicholas Bloom (Stanford) and John Van Reenen (LSE))

Monday, April 14 2008 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 134

Jan Zabojnik (Queens University)

Disobedience and Authority (joint with Anthony Marino and John Matsusaka)

Monday, April 21 2008 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 134

George Alessandria (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

Do Falling Iceberg Costs Account for U.S. Export Growth (joint with Horag Choi)

Monday, September 15 2008 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

William Kerr (Harvard Business School)

Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

Monday, September 22 2008 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton)

Housing Externalities: Evidence from Spatially Concentrated Urban Revitalization Programs

Monday, September 29 2008 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

John Asker (NYU - Stern)

A Study of the Internal Organisation of a Bidding Cartel

Monday, October 6 2008 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Adriano Rampini (Duke - Fuqua)

Collateral, Financial Intermediation, and the Distribution of Debt Capacity (joint with S. Viswanathan)

Monday, October 20 2008 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Robert Clark (HEC Montreal)

Market Structure and the Diffusion of E-Commerce: Evidence from the Retail Banking Industry (joint with Jason Allen and JF Houde)

Monday, October 27 2008 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Nick Bloom (Stanford University)

Trade induced technical change? The impact of Chinese imports on IT and innovation (joint with Mirko Draca and John Van Reenen)

Monday, November 3 2008 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Albert Saiz (Wharton)

City Beautiful

Monday, November 10 2008 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Dennis Yao (Harvard Business School)

Delay as Agenda Setting

Monday, November 17 2008 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Thomas Hellmann (UBC - Sauder)

How do founders split the equity?

Monday, November 24 2008 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Peter Thompson (Florida International University)

Employee Spin-outs and the Solipsistic Entrepreneur

Monday, December 1 2008 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Ramon Casadesus (Harvard Business School)

Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social Efficiency (joint with Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda)

Monday, March 2 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Meredith Fowlie (University of Michigan)

Allocating Emissions Permits: Theory and (Preliminary) Evidence

Monday, March 9 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Susumu Imai (Queens)

A Quantile-based Test of Protection for Sale Model (joint with Hajime Katayama and Kala Krishna)

Monday, March 16 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Giorgio Primiceri (Northwestern University)

Learning and the Wealth of Nations [CANCELED] (joint with Francisco Buera and Alexander Monge-Naranjo)

Monday, March 30 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Robert Gibbons (MIT)

No Firm is an Island: The Institutional Structure of Production in the Presence of the Price Mechanism

Monday, April 6 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jean-Etienne de Bettignies (Queen's School of Business)

Product Market Competition and the Financing of New Ventures [POSTPONED] (joint with Anne Duchene)

Monday, April 13 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Steven Tadelis (Haas School of Business - University of California, Berkeley)

TBA

Monday, April 20 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Daniel Ackerberg (UCLA)

The Buy-it-now Option, Risk Aversion, and Impatience in an Empirical Model of eBay Bidding (joint with Keisuke Hirano and Quazi Shahriar)

Monday, April 27 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Thomas Holmes (University of Minnesota)

An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution with an Application to Trade (joint with John Stevens)

Monday, May 4 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Hanna Halaburda (HBS)

Limiting Choice as Strategic Differentiator

Monday, September 21 2009 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Connan Snider (UCLA)

Predatory Incentives and Predation Policy: The American Airlines Case

Monday, September 28 2009 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Ufuk Akcigit (University of Pennsylvania)

State-dependent Intellectual Property Rights Policy

Monday, October 5 2009 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Masako Ueda (University of Wisconsin)

Skewed Businesses

Monday, October 19 2009 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Sevin Yeltekin (Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper)

Dynamic Strategic Interaction: Dynamic Oligopolies and Endogenous Capacity

Monday, October 26 2009 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Katja Seim (University of Pennsylvania, Wharton)

Public Monopoly & Economic Efficiency: Evidence from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board's Entry (joint with Joel Waldfogel)

Monday, November 2 2009 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Jean-Etienne de Bettignies (Queen's School of Business)

On the Diffusion of Information in the Organization

Monday, November 9 2009 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Robin S Lee (New York University, Stern)

Markov Perfect Network Formation

Monday, November 16 2009 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Mariano Tappata (UBC, Sauder)

A Theory of Automatic Markdowns

Monday, November 30 2009 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Christian Riis (Norwegian School of Management)

Cumulative Innovation and Exclusive Patent Policy (joint with Xianwen Shi)

Monday, December 7 2009 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Alvin Murphy (Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis)

A Dynamic Model of Housing Supply

Monday, March 1 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Andrew Sweeting (Duke University)

Entry and Selection in Auctions (joint with James W. Roberts)

Monday, March 8 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Joshua Gans (University of Melbourne)

Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?

Monday, March 15 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Greg Lewis (Harvard University)

Procurement Contracting with Time Incentives: Theory and Evidence

Monday, March 22 2010 15:10–16:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Andrea Moro (Vanderbilt University)

The Empirical Content of Models with Multiple Equilibria in Economies with Social Interactions (joint with Alberto Bisin and Georgio Topa)

Monday, April 12 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ariel Pakes (Harvard University)

Finite State Dynamic Games with Asymmetric Information: A Framework for Applied Work (joint with Chaim Fershtman)

Monday, April 19 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ariel Pakes (Harvard University)

Alternative Models for Moment Inequalities

Tuesday, April 20 2010 10:30–11:50, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Masakazu Ishihara (Toronto)

Dynamic Demand for New and Used Durable Goods without Physical Depreciation: The Case of Japanese Video Games

Tuesday, September 7 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Boyan Jovanovic (New York University)

Extensive and Intensive Investment over the Business Cycle (joint with Peter L. Rousseau)

Monday, September 20 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn (UCLA)

A Reputational Theory of Firm Dynamics (joint with Simon Board)

Monday, September 27 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Ambarish Chandra (University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business)

Consumer Search & Dynamic Price Dispersion: An Application to Gasoline Markets (joint with Mariano Tappata)

Monday, October 4 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Matthew Spiegel (Yale University School of Management)

Dynamic Competition, Valuation and Merger Activity (joint with Heather Tookes)

Monday, October 18 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Adam Copeland (New York Fed)

The Impact of Competition on Technology Adoption: An Apples-to-PCs Analysis (joint with Adam Hale Shapiro)

Monday, November 8 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Elena Pastorino (Univesity of Iowa)

Nonlinear Pricing in Village Economies: An Empirical Assessment of Food Prices in Rural Mexico and Colombia (joint with Orazio Attanasio)

Monday, November 15 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Luis Cabral (IESE Business School (University of Navarra) and NYU)

Aftermarket Power and Basic Market Competition (joint with Aftermarket Power and Basic Market Competition)

Monday, November 22 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Allan Collard-Wexler (New York University, Stern)

Mergers and Sunk Costs: An Application to the ready-mix concrete industry

Monday, November 29 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

David P. Byrne (University of Melbourne)

The Welfare Effects of Mergers and Product Repositioning in the Cable Television Industry

Monday, December 6 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Uli Doraszelski (Wharton, UPENN)

Efficiency or Predation: What Drives Pricing When There is Learning-by-Doing

Monday, March 28 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Glen Weyl (Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University)

Materialistic Genius & Market Power: Uncovering the Best Innovations (joint with Jean Tirole)

Monday, April 4 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Simon Board (University of California, Los Angeles)

Revenue Management with Forward Looking Buyers (joint with Andy Skrzypacz)

Monday, April 11 2011 15:30–16:50, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ron Goettler (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business)

Does AMD spur Intel to innovate more? (joint with Brett Gordon)

Monday, April 18 2011 15:10–16:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Nathan Yang (University of Toronto)

An Empirical Model of Industry Dynamics with Common Uncertainty and Learning from the Actions of Competitors

Monday, September 19 2011 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Ben Handel (University of California, Berkeley)

Adverse Selection and Switching Costs in Health Insurance Markets: When Nudging Hurts

Monday, October 3 2011 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Jacob Short (University of Western Ontario)

Bankruptcy, Incorporation, and the Nature of Entrepreneurial Risk (joint with Andy Glover)

Monday, October 17 2011 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Jeremy Fox (University of Michigan)

Unobserved Heterogeneity in Matching Games (joint with Chenyu Yang)

Monday, October 24 2011 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

John Van Reenen (London School of Economics and Centre for Economic Performance)

The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals (joint with Nicholas Bloom, Carol Propper and Stephan Seiler *** Note early start time ***)

Monday, October 31 2011 16:00–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Joel Waldfogel (University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management)

Copyright Protection, Technological Change, and the Quality of New Products: Evidence from Recorded Music since Napster

Monday, November 7 2011 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Joshua Gans (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)

Collusion at the Extensive Margin (joint with Martin C. Byford)

Monday, November 21 2011 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Andre Boik (University of Toronto)

Most-Favored-Nation Clauses in Health Care Provider Contracts

Sunday, November 27 2011 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Andre Boik (University of Toronto)

Most-Favored-Nation Clauses in Health Care Provider Contracts

Monday, November 28 2011 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Juan Carlos Hallak (Universidad de San Andrés)

Lifting the Domestic Veil: The Challenges of Exporting Differentiated Goods Across the Development Divide (joint with Alejandro Artopoulos and Daniel Friel)

Monday, December 5 2011 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Panle Jia (MIT)

The Costs of Free Entry: An Empirical Study of Real Estate Agents in Greater Boston (joint with Parag A. Pathak)

Monday, March 12 2012 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Luigi Guiso (European University Institute)

Understanding the size and profitability of firms: The role of a biological factor (joint with Aldo Rustichini)

Monday, April 2 2012 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Michelle Sovinsky (University of Zurich)

Marijuana on Main Street: What if? (joint with Liana Jacobi)

Monday, April 16 2012 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jeff Thurk (University of Notre Dame)

TBA

Monday, April 23 2012 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Diego Comin (Harvard Business School)

If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why Has Income Diverged? (joint with Marti Mestieri, TSE)

Thursday, February 14 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1065

Sonia Jaffe (Harvard University & Becker Friedman Institute)

Taxation in Matching Markets (joint with Scott Kominers)

Monday, March 18 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 374C

Leeat Yariv (California Institute of Technology)

Collective Self-Control

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

Mitsuru Igami (Yale)

Cannibalization and Preemptive Entry (joint with Nathan Yang)

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

Judith Chevalier (Yale SOM)

Promotional Reviews: An Empirical Investigation of Online Review Manipulation

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

Myrto Kalouptsidi (Princeton)

Understanding Industrial Subsidies: The Case of World Shipbuilding

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

Lanier Benkard (Stanford GSB)   Cancelled

TBA

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

Arthur Campbell (Yale SOM)

TBA

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

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

Michael D. Grubb (Boston College)

Consumer Inattention and Bill-Shock Regulation

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

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

Emanuele Tarantino (University of Bologna)

TBA

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

Michael Powell (Kellogg School of Management)

TBA

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

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

Andrea Galeotti (University of Essex)

Trading in Networks: Theory and Experiment

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

Jeanine Miklos-Thal (Rochester Simon)

Naked Exclusion with Private Offers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kenneth Corts (University of Toronto)

Diversity in Teams

Thursday, June 19 2014 12:00–13:00, 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

Mara Lederman (University of Toronto)

How Does Competition Affect Price Discrimination? Evidence from the Canadian Airline Industry (joint with Ambarish Chandra)

Thursday, July 3 2014 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Yao Luo (University of Toronto)

Strategic Play among Investment Banks in the IPO market

Thursday, July 10 2014 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Andrew Ching (University of Toronto)

Identification and Estimation of Forward-looking Behaviour

Thursday, July 17 2014 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Karen Bernhardt-Walth (University of Toronto)

A Tale of Two Teams: How Uncertainty and Complexity Drive Team Formation

Thursday, July 24 2014 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Joshua Gans (University of Toronto)

Permission to Exist

Thursday, July 31 2014 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ryan Webb (University of Toronto)

Dynamic Constraints on the Distribution of Stochastic Choice: Drift Diffusion Implies Random Utility

Thursday, August 7 2014 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Mitch Hoffman (University of Toronto)

The Determinants of Managerial Productivity Around the World

Thursday, August 14 2014 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Lu Han (University of Toronto)   Cancelled

TBA

Thursday, August 21 2014 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto)

The Role of College Students in Entrepreneurial Experimentation: Evidence from Crowdfunding (joint with Christian Catalini and Ajay Agrawal)

Thursday, August 21 2014 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Kevin Bryan (University of Toronto)

The Impact of Open Access of Invention

Thursday, August 28 2014 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Itay Fainmesser (Johns Hopkins)

The Value of Network Information (joint with Andrea Galeotti)

Monday, September 8 2014 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1010

Maisy Wong (Wharton)

Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development: Evidence from Population Resettlement in Indonesia

Monday, September 15 2014 16:00–17:30, Rotman, room LL1010

Simon Anderson (University of Virginia)

Search Direction

Monday, September 29 2014 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1010

Elliot Anenberg (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)

A More Timely House Price Index (joint with Steven Laufer)

Monday, October 6 2014 16:00–17:30, Rotman, room LL1010

Julie Mortimer (Boston College)

TBA

Monday, October 20 2014 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1010

Ralph Boleslavsky (University of Miami)

TBA

Monday, October 27 2014 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1010

Bernhard Ganglmair (University of Texas at Dallas)

Efficient Material Breach of Contract

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

Jen Brown (Kellogg School of Management)

Boarding a Sinking Ship: an Investigation of Job Applications to Distressed Firms

Monday, November 24 2014 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1010

Gautam Gowrisankaran (University of Arizona)

Myopia and Complex Dynamic Incentives: Evidence from Medicare Part D (joint with Christina M. Dalton and Robert Town)

Monday, December 1 2014 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1010

Daniel Martin (Paris School of Economics)

Failures of Unraveling in Disclosure Experiments

Monday, December 8 2014 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1010

Jean-Etienne De Bettignies (Queen's)

When Is Social Responsibility Socially Desirable? (joint with David T. Robinson (Duke Fuqua and NBER))

Monday, March 9 2015 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1065

Matt Nagler (City College of New York)

Assisted Self-Persuasion: Choice, Complementary Adjustment, and the Role of Advertising

Monday, March 23 2015 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1010

Gabor Virag (University of Toronto)

Dynamic adverse selection with many types

Monday, March 30 2015 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1065

Daniel Gottlieb (Wharton (U Penn))

Perfect Competition in Markets with Adverse Selection

Monday, April 13 2015 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1065

Steve Tadelis (Haas (Berkeley))

Cheap talk, round numbers, and the economics of negotiation (joint with Matt Backus, Tom Blake)

Monday, April 20 2015 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1025

Robin Lee (Harvard)

Insurer Competition in Health Care Markets (joint with Kate Ho)

Monday, April 27 2015 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1025

Kevin Williams (Yale SOM)

Product Variety, Across-Market Demand Heterogeneity and the Value of Online Retail (joint with Thomas Quan)

Monday, May 4 2015 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1025

Jacques Thisse (Université Catholique de Louvain)

Toward a theory of monopolistic competition (joint with Matthieu Parenti and Philip Ushchev)

Monday, October 5 2015 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1020

Zhe Yuan (University of Toronto)

Network Competition in the Airline Industry: A Framework for Empirical Policy Analysis

Thursday, October 15 2015 13:00–14:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Alessandro Gavazza (LSE)

A Quantitative Analysis of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs (joint with Manolis Galenianos)

Monday, October 19 2015 12:00–13:30, Rotman, room LL1030

Gerard Llobet (CEMFI)

The Licensing of Complementary Innovations under the Threat of Litigation

Thursday, October 22 2015 13:10–14:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

James Roberts (Duke)

A Model of Dynamic Limit Pricing with an Application to the Airline Industry (joint with Christopher Gedge; Andrew Sweeting)

Monday, October 26 2015 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Paul T. Scott (Toulouse School of Economics)

Estimating Market Power: Evidence from the US Beer Industry (joint with Jan De Loecker)

Thursday, October 29 2015 13:10–14:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Silvana Krasteva (Texas A&M)

Information Acquisition and Strategic Sequencing in Bilateral Trading: Is Ignorance Bliss? (joint with Huseyin Yildirim)

Monday, November 2 2015 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

David Martinez-Miera (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)

Search for Yield (joint with Rafael Repullo (CEMFI))

Thursday, November 5 2015 13:10–14:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Brendan Daley (Fuqua)

Bargaining and News (joint with Brett Green)

Monday, November 9 2015 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Rob Porter (Northwestern)

Testing Competition in US Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Auctions (joint with Andres Aradillas-Lopez, Phil Haile and Ken Hendricks)

Monday, November 16 2015 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Mike Abito (Wharton)

On the Relevance of Probability Distortions in the Extended Warranties Market (joint with Yuval Salant)

Monday, November 23 2015 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Rick Harbaugh (Kelley School of Business)

Consistent Good News and Inconsistent Bad News (joint with John Maxwell and Kelly Shue)

Monday, November 30 2015 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Guido Friebel (Goethe University Frankfurt)

How bad is a pay cut? and why? (joint with Miriam I. Krueger)

Monday, December 7 2015 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Michael Richter (Yeshiva University)

Aspiration-Based Choice

Thursday, January 21 2016 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1025

Youssef Benzarti (University of California at Berkeley)

How Taxing is Tax Filing? Leaving Money on the Table Because of Hassle Costs

Monday, January 25 2016 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1025

Alisa Tazhitdinova (UC Berkeley)

Adjust Me if I Can't: The Effect of Firm Incentives on Labor Supply Responses to Taxes

Tuesday, January 26 2016 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1025

Elliot Lipnowski (New York University)

Repeated Delegation (joint with Joao Ramos)

Thursday, January 28 2016 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 368

Sandro Ambuehl (Stanford University)

An Offer You Can't Refuse? Incentives Change How We Think

Friday, January 29 2016 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1025

Francesco Decarolis (Boston University)

Common Agency and Coordinated Bids in Sponsored Search Auctions (joint with Maris Goldmanis, Antonio Penta)

Monday, February 29 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jean-François Houde (Wharton)

Measuring Substitution Patterns in Differentiated Products Industries (joint with Amit Gandhi)

Monday, March 7 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Robert Clark (HEC Montreal)

Bid rigging and entry deterrence: Evidence from an anti-collusion investigation in Quebec (joint with Decio Coviello, Jean-Francois Gauthier, and Art Shneyerov)

Monday, March 14 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Paulo Somaini (Stanford GSB)

Identification in Auction Models with Interdependent Costs

Monday, March 21 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Amit Gandhi (University of Wisconsin, Madison)   Cancelled

TBA

Monday, March 28 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Matthew Gentzkow (Stanford)

Measuring Polarization in High-dimensional Data: Method and Application to Congressional Speech (joint with Jesse Shapiro and Matt Taddy)

Monday, April 4 2016 16:00–17:30, Rotman, room LL1010

Ali Hortacsu (Chicago)

Deposit Competition and Financial Fragility: Evidence from the U.S. Banking Sector (joint with Mark Egan and Gregory Matvos)

Monday, April 25 2016 15:10–16:30, Rotman, room LL1020

Federico Ciliberto (University of Virginia)

Market Structure and Competition in Airline Markets

Monday, September 12 2016 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Pierre Dubois (Toulouse School of Economics)

On the Role of Parallel Trade on Manufacturers and Retailers Profits in the Pharmaceutical Sector

Monday, September 19 2016 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Daniel Ershov (University of Toronto)

The Effect of Consumer Search on Entry and Quality in the Mobile App Market

Monday, September 26 2016 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Nathan Miller (Georgetown University)

The Market Power Effects of a Merger: Evidence from the U.S. Brewing Industry

Monday, October 17 2016 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Kate Ho (Columbia University)

Equilibrium Provider Networks: Exclusion and Steering in Health Care Markets (joint with Robin Lee)

Monday, October 24 2016 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Devin Pope (University of Chicago)

What Motivates Effort? Evidence and Expert Forecasts (joint with Stefano DellaVigna)

Monday, November 7 2016 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Michael Waldman (Cornell University)

Lateral Moves, Promotions, and Task-Specific Human Capital: Theory and Evidence (joint with Xin Jin)

Monday, November 14 2016 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Meghan Busse (Northwestern University)   Cancelled

TBA

Monday, November 21 2016 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Steve Puller (Texas A&M University)

Does Strategic Ability Affect Efficiency? Evidence from Electricity Markets

Monday, December 5 2016 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Ying Fan (University of Michigan)

Competition, Product Proliferation and Welfare: A Study of the U.S. Smartphone Market (joint with Chenyu Yang)

Monday, March 13 2017 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Jason Allen (Bank of Canada)   Cancelled

Macroprudential Policies and Household Borrowing Constraints.

Monday, March 20 2017 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Hanming Fang (University of Pennsylvania)

The Dynamics of Adjustable-Rate Subprime Mortgage Default: A Structural Estimation (joint with You S. Kim, Wenli Li)

Monday, April 24 2017 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

James Dana (Northeastern University)

Oligopoly Price Discrimination: The Role of Inventory Controls (joint with Kevin Williams)

Monday, May 1 2017 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Alexander MacKay (Harvard Business School)

An Empirical Model of Dynamic Price Competition

Monday, October 2 2017 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Matthew Shum (Cal Tech)

To Score or Not to Score? Estimates of a Sponsored Search Auctions Model (joint with Yu-Wei Hsieh (USC), Sha Yang (USC))

Thursday, October 12 2017 13:10–14:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Corina Boar (Princeton/NYU)

Dynastic Precautionary Savings

Thursday, October 12 2017 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Nicolas Gendron-Carrier (University of Toronto)

Work Experience and Entrepreneurship: The Careers of Young Entrepreneurs

Monday, October 16 2017 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Sara Moreira (Northwestern (Kellogg))

Firm Dynamics, Persistent Effects of Entry Conditions, and Business Cycles

Monday, October 23 2017 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1030

Erhao Xie (University of Toronto)

Inference in Games without Nash Equilibrium: An Application to Restaurants Competition in Opening Hours

Monday, October 30 2017 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Alan Sorensen (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

The Impact of Information Technology on the Diffusion of New Pharmaceuticals

Monday, November 13 2017 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 374C

Henry Schneider (Queen's University (Smith))

Promoting Best Practices in a Multitask Workplace: Experimental Evidence on Checklists

Monday, November 20 2017 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Heikki Rantakari (University of Rochester)

Relational Influence

Monday, November 27 2017 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 374C

Simon Board (UCLA)

An Inspection Model of Learning in Networks (joint with Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn)

Monday, December 4 2017 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Mariagiovanna Baccara (Washington University (Olin))

Optimal Dynamic Matching (joint with SangMok Lee and Leeat Yariv)

Monday, December 11 2017 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Lin Tian (Columbia University)

Division of Labor and Extent of the Market: Theory and Evidence from Brazil

Monday, January 22 2018 16:10–17:40, Rotman, room 127

Jesse Perla (UBC)

Reconciling Models of Diffusion and Innovation: A Theory of the Productivity Distribution and Technology Frontier (joint with Jess Benhabib (NYU) and Christopher Tonetti (Stanford))

Tuesday, January 23 2018 16:10–17:40, Rotman, room 157

Cian Ruane (Stanford University)

The Aggregate Importance of Intermediate Input Substitutability (joint with Alessandra Peter (Stanford University))

Wednesday, January 24 2018 16:10–17:40, Rotman, room LL1020

Aislinn Bohren (University of Pennsylvania)

Bounded Rationality and Learning: A Learning Framework and a Robustness Result (joint with Daniel N. Hauser)

Friday, February 9 2018 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Federico Rossi (Johns Hopkins University)

The Relative Efficiency of Skilled Labor across Countries: Measurement and Interpretation

Thursday, March 15 2018 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Daniel Barron (Northwestern University)

Markets for Rhetorical Services

Monday, March 19 2018 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Bradley Larson (Stanford)

A Mechanism Design Approach to Identification and Estimation

Monday, March 26 2018 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 151

Andrew Sweeting (University of Maryland)

Endogenous and Selective Service Choices After Airline Mergers

Monday, April 9 2018 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 151

Sarah Moshary (University of Pennsylvania)

Market Structure and Product Variety: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Liquor Licensure

Monday, April 23 2018 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Juan-Pablo Montero (PUC-Chile)   Cancelled

TBA

Monday, May 7 2018 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Luis Cabral (NYU Stern)

Mixed Bundling in Retail DVD Sales: Facts and Theories (joint with Gabriel Natividad)

Monday, May 14 2018 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Paul Ellickson (University of Rochester)

Private Labels and Retailer Profitability: Bilateral Bargaining in the Grocery Channel (joint with Pianpian Kong, Mitchell J. Lovett)

Monday, September 24 2018 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Juan-Pablo Montero (PUC-Chile)

Quality Choice and Price Discrimination in Markets with Search Frictions (joint with Natalia Fabra (Universidad Carlos III and CEPR))

Monday, October 1 2018 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Jan Victor Dee (University of Toronto)

Estimation of Pay to Bid Auctions when Bidders have Biased Beliefs

Monday, October 15 2018 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Ricard Gil (Queens University)

The Value of Relational Contracts in Outsourcing: Evidence from the 2008 shock to the US Airline Industry* (joint with Myongjin Kim, Giorgio Zanarone)

Monday, October 22 2018 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Ricardo Alonso (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Tampering with Information (joint with Odilon Camara)

Monday, November 19 2018 15:30–17:00, Rotman, room 157

Allan Collard-Wexler (Duke University)

Production Function Estimation with Measurement Error in Inputs (joint with Jan De Loecker)

Monday, November 26 2018 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Decio Coviello (HEC Montréal)

Minimum Wage and Individual Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Large US Retailer (joint with Erika Deserranno (Northwestern) and Nicola Persico (Northwestern))

Monday, December 10 2018 15:30–17:00, Rotman, room 157

Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez (Yale University)

Playing Checkers in Chinatown

Monday, March 4 2019 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Gaurab Aryal (University of Virginia)

Price Discrimination in International Airline Markets (joint with Charles Murry and Jonathan W. Williams)

Monday, March 11 2019 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Yi Xin (California Institute of Technology)

Asymmetric Information, Reputation, and Welfare in Online Credit Markets

Monday, March 18 2019 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Niko Matouschek (Northwestern University)

Modular Organization

Monday, April 8 2019 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Raffaella Sadun (Harvard Business School)

The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS (joint with Katharina Janke and Carol Propper)

Monday, April 29 2019 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Philip Haile (Yale University)

Common Values, Unobserved Heterogeneity, and Endogenous Entry in U.S. Offshore Oil Lease Auctions (joint with Giovanni Compiani and Marcelo Sant'Anna)

Monday, May 6 2019 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 151

Javier Donna (Ohio State University)

Measuring Long-Run Elasticities in Urban Travel Demand

Wednesday, January 15 2020 10:30–11:50, Rotman, room 147

Youngjoon Park (University of Maryland)

Structural Remedies in Network Industries: An Assessment of Slot Divestitures in the American/US Airways Merger

Monday, January 27 2020 14:40–16:00, Rotman, room 133

Angela Zheng (New York University)

Residential Sorting, School Choice, and Inequality

Tuesday, January 28 2020 10:40–12:00, Rotman, room 151

Michelangelo Rossi (Universidad Carlos III de madrid)

How Does Competition Affect Reputation Concerns? Theory and Evidence from Airbnb

Thursday, January 30 2020 10:40–12:00, Rotman, room 151

Aradhya Sood (University of Minnesota)

Land Market Frictions in Developing Countries: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in India

Friday, January 31 2020 10:40–12:00, Rotman, room 151

Ana Varela Varela (Columbia University)

Surge of Inequality: How Different Neighborhoods React to Flooding

Monday, February 3 2020 10:40–12:00, Rotman, room 147

Yue Yu (Columbia University)

Land-Use Regulation and Economic Development: Evidence from the Farmland Red Line Policy in China

Tuesday, February 4 2020 02:40–04:00, Rotman, room LL1065

Karam Kang (Carnegie Mellon University)

Understanding Disparities in Punishment: Regulator Preferences and Expertise (joint with Bernardo Silveira)

Monday, March 9 2020 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1065

Mini-Conference on Collusion (UofT & BofC)

Conference Program

Friday, December 4 2020 12:00–15:30, Online

Mini-Conference on Collusion (UofT & BofC)

Conference Program

Saturday, December 5 2020 12:00–15:30, Online

Alexander Frankel (Chicago Booth)

Information Hierarchies

Monday, September 20 2021 16:10–17:30, Online

Maxim Ivanov (McMaster University)

Cheap Talk with Stochastic Signal Structures

Monday, September 27 2021 16:10–17:30, Online

Rolando Campusano Garate (Rotman School of Management, PhD Candidate)

Startup Location, Local Spillovers and Neighborhood Sorting

Monday, October 4 2021 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Dorothea Kübler (WZB Berlin / TU Berlin)

Repugnant Transactions: The Role of Agency and Extreme Consequences

Monday, October 18 2021 16:10–17:30, Online

Hui Liu (University of Toronto, PhD Candidate)

Demand Estimation With Foldable Menu: A Case Study of China's Tobacco Industry

Monday, October 25 2021 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jan De Loecker (KU Leuven)

The Welfare Impact of Market Power: The OPEC Cartel

Monday, November 8 2021 14:10–15:30, Online

Nicola Persico (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University)

A Theory of Non-Democratic Redistribution and Public Good Provision

Monday, November 15 2021 16:10–17:30, Online

Cheok In Fok (University of Toronto, PhD Candidate)

Information Acquisition in Procurement Auctions

Monday, November 29 2021 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Cheok In Fok (University of Toronto, PhD Candidate)

TBA

Monday, November 29 2021 16:10–17:30, Online

Panle Jia Barwick (Cornell University)

Attribute-based Subsidies for Energy Efficient Products with Market Power

Monday, December 13 2021 16:10–17:30, Online

Michèle Belot (Cornell)

Changing Dietary Habits Early on in Life: A Field Experiment with Low Income Families

Monday, March 21 2022 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Paul Grieco (The Pennsylvania State University)

TBA

Monday, April 11 2022 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Tobias Salz (MIT)

Auto Dealer Loan Intermediation: Consumer Behavior and Competitive Effects

Monday, April 25 2022 16:10–17:30, Online

Lucas Lima (Harvard)

Demand Estimation with Zeros: Moving Costs in the US

Monday, May 2 2022 16:10–17:30, Online

Chiara Fumagall (Bocconi University)

Shelving or developing? The acquisition of potential competitors under financial constraints

Monday, May 9 2022 10:00–11:20, Online

Marc Rysman (Boston University)

Branch Location Strategies and Financial Service Access in Thai Banking

Monday, May 16 2022 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Luis Cabral (NYU Stern)

The Dynamics of Inventors, Employers and Innovation

Monday, September 12 2022 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Jordi Jaumandreu (Boston University)

The remarkable stability of the US manufacturing markups

Monday, September 19 2022 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Mitsuru Igami (Yale)

Collusion and Innovation: The Case of LCD Cartel, 2001–2006 with Jeff Qiu and Takuo Sugaya

Monday, September 26 2022 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Ruizhi Zhu (UT PhD Candidate)

Advertising Platforms and Privacy

Monday, October 3 2022 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Giulia Brancaccio (NYU Stern)

Search Frictions and Product Design in the Municipal Bond Market

Monday, October 17 2022 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Tommaso Alba (UT PhD Candidate)

Unsealing the settlements: Empirical investigation of patent litigation bargaining

Monday, October 24 2022 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Michelangelo Rossi (Télécom Paris)

Quality Disclosures and Disappointment: Evidence from the Academy Awards

Monday, October 31 2022 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Ashley Langer (University of Arizona)

Policy Uncertainty in the Market for Coal Electricity: The Case of Air Toxics Standards

Monday, November 7 2022 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim)

Consumer Search and Choice Overload (joint with Patrick Rey)

Monday, November 14 2022 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Jing Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Colluding Against Environmental Regulation

Tuesday, November 22 2022 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Milena Almagro (Chicago Booth School of Business)

Optimal Urban Transportation Policy: Evidence from Chicago

Monday, February 13 2023 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Flavio Toxvaerd (University of Cambridge)

Epidemics in Space: Control, Targeting and Delegation

Monday, February 27 2023 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Robert Clark (Queen's University)

Hub-and-spoke cartels: Theory and evidence from the grocery industry

Monday, March 20 2023 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Ellen Muir (Harvard University)

Optimal Hotelling auctions (joint with Simon Loertscher)

Monday, April 3 2023 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Chiara Margaria (Boston University)

Dynamic Limit Pricing and Entry Deterrence

Monday, April 17 2023 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Shane Greenstein (Harvard Business School)

Upgraded software and embedded improvements: Tracking vulnerabilities and bugs on the web (joint with Raviv Murciano-Goroff and Ran Zhuo)

Monday, May 1 2023 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Francis Guiton (University of Toronto)

Managerial Incentives, Misaligned Objectives, and Within-Firm Competition in Retail Chains

Monday, October 2 2023 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1030

Nicholas Buchholz (Princeton University)

Rethinking Reference Dependence: Wage Dynamics and Optimal Taxi Labor Supply (joint with Matthew Shum, Haiqing Xu)

Monday, October 16 2023 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1030

David Bryne (University of Melbourne)

Asymmetric Information Sharing in Oligopoly: A Natural Experiment in Retail Gasoline

Monday, October 23 2023 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1030

Michael Rubens (UCLA)

Colluding Against Workers (joint with Vincent Delabastita)

Monday, October 30 2023 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1030

Florian Ederer (Boston University)

Anonymity and Identity Online

Monday, November 13 2023 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1030

Thi Mai Anh Nguyen (NYU)

Long-Term Relationships and the Spot Market: Evidence from US Trucking

Monday, November 20 2023 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1030

Maximiliano Machado (University of Toronto)

Gender-parity policy in retail markets

Monday, December 11 2023 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1030

Sophie Calder-Wang (Wharton)

TBA

Monday, February 26 2024 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 151

Ariel Pakes (Harvard University)

Pharmaceutical Advertising in Dynamic Equilibrium (joint with Pierre Dubois)

Monday, March 11 2024 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Amanda Starc (Northwestern University)

Multidimensional Screening and Menu Design in Health Insurance Markets (joint with Hector Chade, Victoria Marone, and Jeroen Swinkels)

Monday, March 18 2024 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Chiara Farronato (Harvard Business School)

Vertical Integration and Consumer Choice: Evidence from a Field Experiment (joint with Andrey Fradkin and Alexander MacKay)

Monday, April 1 2024 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Mert Demirer (MIT Sloan School of Management)

TBA

Monday, April 29 2024 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Yi Xin (Caltech)

TBA

Monday, May 6 2024 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Mo Xiao (The University of Arizona)

TBA

Monday, May 13 2024 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157