Diego Puga (University of Toronto)

From sectoral to functional urban specialisation

Monday, October 1 2001 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Tom Ross (University of British Columbia)

Cooperating Upstream while Competing Downstream: a Theory of Input Joint Ventures (joint with Zhiqi Chen)

Thursday, October 11 2001 16:10–17:30, Front Conference Room

Phillip Leslie (UCLA)

The Effects of Disclosure Regulation: Evidence from Restaurants (joint with G. Jin)

Monday, October 15 2001 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Joe Harrington (Johns Hopkins University)

Optimal Cartel Pricing in the Presence of an Antitrust Authority

Monday, October 22 2001 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Gary Biglaiser (University of North Carolina)

Price and Quality Competition under Adverse Selection: Market Organization and Efficiency (joint with C.A. Ma)

Monday, October 29 2001 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Aidan Hollis (University of Calgary)

On Rewarding Teamwork (joint with Curtis Eaton)

Monday, November 5 2001 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Amil Petrin (Chicago GSB)

The Consumer Gains from Direct Broadcast Satellites and the Competition with Cable TV (joint with Austan Goolsbee)

Monday, November 12 2001 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Mark Melitz (Harvard)

Productivity in a differentiated products market equilibrium (joint with Jim Levinsohn)

Tuesday, November 13 2001 16:10–17:30, Front Conference Room

Diego Puga (University of Toronto)

Knowledge creation and control in organizations

Tuesday, November 20 2001 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Marie Rekkas (UofT)

Estimation of a Structural Model of Multiparty Elections: Canadian Evidence

Monday, November 26 2001 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Rob Clark (University of Western Ontario)

Advertising and Coordination in Markets with Consumption Scale Effects (joint with Ig Horstmann)

Wednesday, November 28 2001 16:00–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Martin Pesendorfer (Yale University)

Combination bidding in multi-unit auctions (joint with E. Cantillon)

Monday, December 3 2001 03:30–05:00, Coach House Conference Room

Peter Davis (Sloan MIT)

Entry, Cannibalization and Bankruptcy in the U.S. Motion Picture Exhibition Market

Monday, March 4 2002 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Eduardo Engel (Yale University)

Highway Franchising and Real Estate Values (joint with R. Fisher and A. Galetovich)

Tuesday, March 12 2002 02:00–03:30, Coach House Conference Room

Jeff Church (University of Calgary)

Specification Issues and Confidence Intervals in Unilateral Price Effects Analysis (joint with O. Capps and A. Love)

Monday, March 18 2002 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

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

Patrick Bayer (Yale University)

Exploring the Causes of Residential Segregation: an Equilibrium Analysis of Neighborhood Sorting

Monday, March 25 2002 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Matthew Shum (Johns Hopkins University)

Estimating Search Costs Using Equilibrium Models

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

Pascal Courty (London Business School)

Real Time Pricing (joint with M. Pagliero)

Monday, April 8 2002 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

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

Rohan Pitchford (ANU)

Coming to the Nuisance: an Economic Analysis from an Incomplete Contracts Perspective (joint with C. Snyder)

Monday, September 23 2002 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Peter Zemsky (INSEAD)

Strategy Dynamics through a Demand-Based Lens: The evolution of market boundaries, resource rents and competitive positions

Friday, October 4 2002 01:30–03:00, Rotman, room 147

Gautam Gowrisankaran (BU)

Learning and the Value of Information: The Case of Health Plan Report Cards

Monday, October 21 2002 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Marius Schwartz (Georgetown)

Same Price, Cash or Card: Vertical Control by Payment Networks (joint with D. Vincent)

Monday, October 28 2002 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Scott Stern (Northwestern)

Climbing Atop the Shoulders of Giants: the Economics of Cumulative Knowledge Hubs

Friday, November 8 2002 12:30–14:00, Rotman, room 157

Victor Aguirregabiria (BU)

Price dispersion and intertemporal price discrimination in supermarkets: Evidence from the estimation of a dynamic game

Monday, November 25 2002 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Heski Bar-Isaac (Northwestern)

Something to prove: Reputational incentives in teams

Monday, January 20 2003 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Maksymilian Kwiek (Northwestern)

Reputation and Collusion in the Repeated Second-price Auctions

Wednesday, January 29 2003 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Jinwoo Kim (Wisconsin)

Interdependent Value Auctions with Insider Bidders

Friday, January 31 2003 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Leonardo Rezende (Stanford)

Biased Procurement

Wednesday, February 12 2003 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

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

Ed Leamer (UCLA)

Episodic Forecasting of the US Economy: What Episode Now?

Thursday, April 3 2003 00:00–06:15, Rotman, room 134

John Ries (UBC)

FDI versus Exports: A Test of the Selection Hypothesis

Monday, April 7 2003 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Sofronis Clerides (University of Cyprus)

International Trade in Used Goods: The case of Automobiles

Monday, April 14 2003 04:10–05:40, Coach House Conference Room

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

Will Strange (University of Toronto)

Agglomeration, Opportunism and the Organization of Production

Monday, September 8 2003 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Mihkel Tombak (University of Toronto)

Marketing of Innovations: Discrimination vs. Bargaining Power

Monday, September 15 2003 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Mark Israel (Northwestern)

Consumer Learning About Established Firms: Evidence from Automobile Insurance

Monday, September 22 2003 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Luis Garicano (Chicago GSB)

Organization and Inequality in a Knowledge Economy

Friday, September 26 2003 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 151

Thomas Hubbard (Chicago GSB)

Hierarchies and the Organization of Specialization (joint with Luis Garicano)

Monday, September 29 2003 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Jasmin Kantarevic (University of Toronto)

Outsourcing in the market for legal services

Wednesday, October 8 2003 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Noriko Ozawa (University of Toronto)

Determinants of Corporate Ownership: Evidence in Japanese Trading Groups

Monday, October 20 2003 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 133

Gunter Hitsch (Chicago GSB)

An Empirical Model of Advertising Dynamics (joint with Jean-Pierre Dube and Puneet Manchanda)

Monday, October 27 2003 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Michael Riordan (Columbia)

Vertical Integration, Exclusive Dealing and Ex Post Cartelization. (joint with Yongmin Chen (U.Colorado-Boulder))

Monday, November 3 2003 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Christopher Snyder (GWU)

Are Drugs More Profitable Than Vaccines? (joint with Michael Kremer, Harvard)

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

Jean Eid (University of Toronto)

Interregional Price Differences in the New Orleans Slave Auction Market

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

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

Gabor Virag (Princeton University)

Repeated Common Value Auctions

Monday, January 19 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Jing Li (University of Wisconsin)

Unawareness

Tuesday, February 3 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Jun Xue (Pennsylvania State University)

Endogenous Timing and Efficiency in Coordination Games with Incomplete Information

Wednesday, February 4 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Navin Kartik (Stanford University)

Information Transmission with Cheap and Almost-Cheap Talk

Monday, February 9 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Simon A Board (Stanford University)

Dynamic Monopoly

Monday, March 8 2004 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Peter Norman (University of Wisconsin)

An efficiency rationale for bundling of public goods

Wednesday, March 17 2004 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

Junji Xiao (University of Toronto)

The Effect of Ease of Use on Market Demand: the case of digital cameras.

Monday, April 19 2004 04:10–00:00, Coach House Conference Room

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

Carlos J Serrano (University of Minnesota)

The Market for Intellectual Property: Evidence from the Transfer of Patents

Thursday, January 27 2005 11:10–12:30, Coach House Conference Room

Alessandro Gavazza (New York University)

Leasing and Secondary Markets: Theory and Evidence from Commercial Aviation

Friday, January 28 2005 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

Lu Han (Stanford University)

Effects of Price Uncertainty on Housing Demand in the Presence of Lumpy Transaction Costs

Tuesday, February 1 2005 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Philipp Schmidt-Dengler (Yale University)

The Timing of New Technology Adoption: The Case of MRI

Friday, February 4 2005 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference 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

Eugenio J. Miravete (University of Pennsylvania)

Constrained Monopoly Pricing with Endogenous Participation (joint with Gabriel Basaluzzo)

Monday, April 11 2005 16:10–17:30, Coach House Conference Room

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

Victor Aguirregabiria (Boston University)

Sequential Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Games (joint with Pedro Mira)

Wednesday, October 19 2005 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

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

Eid Jean (University of Toronto)

Entry Deterrence Between Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Hospitals

Monday, November 28 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

JunJi Xiao (University of Toronto)

Markov Perfect Equilibrium in the US Digital Camera Market

Monday, December 12 2005 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

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

April Franco (Iowa)

The Tortoise and the Hare: The moderating Effects of Technological Capabilities on the Market Pioneering-Firm Survival Relationship. (joint with MB Sarkar, R. Agarwal and R. Echambadi)

Thursday, January 25 2007 10:00–11:30, Woodsworth, room 123

Alberto Galasso (LSE)

Broad Cross-Licensing Agreements in the Semiconductor Industry: Waiting to Persuade?

Monday, February 5 2007 10:30–12:00, Rotman, room 157

Natarajan Balasubramanian (UCLA)

Industry Learning Environments and theHeterogeneity of Firm Performance

Wednesday, February 7 2007 14:00–15:30, Rotman, room 134

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

James A. Schmitz (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)

Does Competition Spur Productivity Growth?: Evidence From Post-WWII (joint with Tim Dunne (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland) and Shawn Klimek (U.S. Census Bure)

Friday, November 30 2007 12:10–13:00, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

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

Junichi Suzuki (University of Minnesota)

Land Use Regulation as a Barrier to Entry: Evidence from the Texas Lodging Industry

Thursday, January 31 2008 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

Joshua D Lustig (Yale University)

The Welfare Effects of Adverse Selection in Privatized Medicare

Tuesday, February 5 2008 16:10–17:30, Sidney Smith, room 5017A

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

Dhanoos Sutthiphisal (McGill University)

Does it Matter Who Has the Right to Patent: First-to-Invent or First-to-File? Lessons from Canada (joint with Shih-tse Lo)

Friday, September 26 2008 10:10–11:30, Sidney Smith, room 3041

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

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

Arthur Donald Campbell (MIT)

Tell Your Friends! Word of Mouth and Percolation in Social Networks

Wednesday, January 28 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Francesco Decarolis (The University Chicago)

When the Highest Bidder Loses the Auction: Theory and Evidence from Public Procurement

Wednesday, February 4 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Sandro Shelegia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Multiproduct Pricing in Oligopoly

Thursday, February 5 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Marina Halac (UC Berkeley)

Relational Contracts and the Value of Relationships

Friday, February 6 2009 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

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

Hui Wang (University of Toronto)

Branch Network Benefits in the US Banking Industry

Thursday, October 1 2009 12:10–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Ufuk Akcigit (University of Pennsylvania)

State-dependent Intellectual Property Rights Policy

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

Arvind Magesan (University of Toronto)

Human Rights Treaty Ratification of Developing Countries

Thursday, October 8 2009 12:30–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Henry Thille (University of Guelph)

Imperfect Competition with Competitive Speculation

Thursday, October 15 2009 12:30–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Masako Ueda (University of Wisconsin)

Skewed Businesses

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

Pedro Bento (University of Toronto)

Competition as a Discovery Procedure: Hayek in a Model of Innovation

Thursday, October 22 2009 12:30–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

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

David P Byrne (Queen's University)

Deregulation as Stimulus for Acquisition Behaviour: Evidence from the Cable Television Industry

Thursday, October 29 2009 12:30–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

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

Andrew Ching (University of Toronto - Rotman)

Does Publicity Matter in Determining Consumer Demand? The Case of Anti-cholesterol Drugs (joint with Ig Horstmann, Rob Clark, and Hyunwoo Lim)

Thursday, November 5 2009 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

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

Masakazu Ishiha (University of Toronto - Rotman)

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

Thursday, November 12 2009 12:30–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Robin S Lee (New York University, Stern)

Markov Perfect Network Formation

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

Nathan Yang (University of Toronto)

TBA

Thursday, November 26 2009 12:30–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

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

Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto - Rotman)

TBA

Thursday, December 10 2009 12:30–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Dimitrios Dimitropoulos (University of Toronto)

Sticks and Carrots: Is Retail Price Maintenance Necessary?

Thursday, December 17 2009 12:10–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Joachim Ryohei Groeger (London School Of Economics)

Estimation of a Dynamic Auction with Endogenous Participation

Friday, January 29 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Gaston Llanes (Harvard University)

Industry Equilibrium with Open Source and Proprietary Firms (joint with Ramiro de Elejalde)

Thursday, February 11 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Rahul Deb (Yale University)

Intertemporal Price Discrimination with Stochastic Values

Friday, February 12 2010 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

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

Jimmy Teng (Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica Taiwa)

The Bayesian Theory of Games:: A Statistical decision theoretic based analysis of strategic interactions

Thursday, September 9 2010 12:10–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

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

Yi Xu (New York University)

Firm Quality, Productivity, and Capability Among Chinese Exporters (joint with Mark Roberts and Xiaoyan Fan)

Wednesday, April 13 2011 16:10–17:30, 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

Matthew Mitchel (Rotman)

Measuring Team Inputs: Harold Zurcher Plays in the NBA

Tuesday, May 10 2011 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Masakazu Ishihara (Rotman)

Bayesian Estimation of Non-stationary Dynamic Discrete Choice Models

Tuesday, May 17 2011 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

David Soberman (Rotman)

TBA

Tuesday, May 24 2011 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Carlos Rosell (Department of Finance, Canada)

TBA

Tuesday, May 31 2011 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

James Campbel (Rotman)

TBA

Tuesday, June 7 2011 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Alberto Galasso (Rotman)

Trading and Enforcing Patent Rights (joint with Carlos Serrano and Mark Schankerman)

Tuesday, June 14 2011 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Nathan Yang (University of Toronto - Dept. Economics)

Industry Dynamics with Vicarious Learning

Tuesday, June 21 2011 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

April Franco (Rotman)

TBA

Tuesday, June 28 2011 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Andrew Ching (Rotman)

TBA

Tuesday, July 5 2011 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Lu Han (Rotman)

TBA

Tuesday, July 12 2011 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Mikhel Tombak (Rotman)

TBA

Tuesday, July 19 2011 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Junichi Suzuki (University of Toronto - Dept. Economics)

TBA

Tuesday, July 26 2011 12:00–13:00, 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

Tanjim Hossain (Rotman)

TBA (joint with Migiwa Tanaka)

Tuesday, May 15 2012 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Avi Goldfarb (Rotman)

When to exit: limited rationality in firm decisions

Tuesday, May 22 2012 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Matt Mitchell (Rotman)

A Theory of Competing Patent Pools, Evolving Standards, and Patent Thickets

Tuesday, May 29 2012 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Victor Aguirregabiria (Toronto)

Some implications of the non-identification of scrap values in dynamic models of market entry and exit (joint with Junichi Suzuki)

Tuesday, June 5 2012 12:00–13:00, Rotman, room LL1010

Joshua Gans (Rotman)

Markets for Scientific Attribution

Tuesday, June 12 2012 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ajay Agrawal (Rotman)

The Knowledge Burden Hypothesis: Evidence from the Collapse of the Soviet Union

Tuesday, June 19 2012 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Mara Lederman (Rotman)

Competition and Price Discrimination in the Airline Industry: Evidence from Border Airports (joint with Ambarish Chandra)

Tuesday, June 26 2012 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ambarish Chandra (Rotman)

TBA

Tuesday, July 3 2012 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Michael Ryall (Rotman)

TBA

Tuesday, July 10 2012 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

James Campbell (Rotman)

TBA

Tuesday, July 24 2012 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Christopher Liu (Rotman)

TBA

Tuesday, July 31 2012 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ron `Borkovsky (Rotman)

TBA

Tuesday, August 7 2012 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Alberto Galasso (Rotman)

TBA

Tuesday, August 14 2012 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Andrew Ching (Rotman)

TBA

Tuesday, August 21 2012 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Matthew Grennan (Rotman)

TBA

Tuesday, August 28 2012 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Vicente Cuñat (London School of Economics)

“Say” Pays: The Effect of Say-on-Pay on Firm Performance (joint with Maria Guadalupe (Columbia) and Mireia Gine (Wharton))

Monday, September 10 2012 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Ghazala Azmat (Queen Mary - University of London)

The Distribution of Talent across Contests (joint with Marc Moller)

Tuesday, September 11 2012 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1025

Justin P. Johnson (Cornell)

The Agency and Wholesale Models in Electronic Content Markets

Monday, September 17 2012 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Ralph B. Siebert (Purdue)

The Impact of Patent Life on Total Welfare: A Policy Experiment (joint with An-Hsiang Liu and Christine Zulehner)

Monday, October 15 2012 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Christopher Snyder (Dartmouth College)

TBA

Monday, October 22 2012 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Marc Rysman (Boston University)

Payment Choice with Consumer Panel Data (joint with Michael Cohen)

Monday, December 3 2012 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Zhe Yuan (University of Toronto)

Entry and Incumbent Response in the Airline Industry

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

Mark Chicu (Northwestern University)

Dynamic Investment and Deterrence in the U.S. Cement Industry

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

Yao Luo (Pennsylvania State University)

Bundling and Nonlinear Pricing in Telecommunications

Thursday, January 31 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Kosuke Uetake (Northwestern University Departme)

Strategic Network Formation and Performance in the Venture Capital Industry

Friday, February 1 2013 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Bernardo Santos da Silveira (New York University)

Bargaining with Asymmetric Information: an Empirical Study of Plea Negotiations

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

Sonia Jaffe (Becker Friedman Institute)

Taxation in Matching Markets (joint with Scott Duke Kominers)

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

Luis Cabral (NYU - Stern)

'We're Number 1': Price Wars for Market Share Leadership

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

Yuya Takahashi (Mannheim)

Estimating a Dynamic Game of Spatial Competition: The Case of the UK Supermarket Industry (joint with Pasquale Schiraldi and Howard Smith.)

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

Yongmin Chen (Colorado-Boulder)

Monopoly Differential Pricing and Welfare (joint with Marius Schwartz)

Monday, April 8 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1065

Pedro Bento (Toronto - Economics)

Standing on the Knees of Giants: Patents as a Tax on Competition and Innovation

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

Ali Yurukoglu (Stanford GSB)

Vertical Integration in Multichannel Television (joint with Gregory Crawford, Robin Lee, and Michael Whinston)

Monday, April 22 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 374C

Tom Holmes (Minnesota)

Measuring the Joint Production of Goods and Ideas

Monday, April 29 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1065

John Asker (NYU Stern)   Cancelled

Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle? (joint with Joan Farre-Mensa, and Alexander Ljungqvist)

Monday, May 6 2013 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room LL1065

Matthew Mitchell (Rotman)

Mechanism Design for Designs: Principals with Good (and Bad) Taste

Thursday, May 9 2013 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Hidenori Takahashi (University of Toronto)

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

Thursday, May 16 2013 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Lu Han (Rotman)

In-House Transactions in the Real Estate Brokerage Industry: Matching Outcome or Strategic Promotion? (joint with Seung-Hyun Hong (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign))

Thursday, May 23 2013 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Heski Bar Isaac (Rotman)

Reputation and the Client Mix (joint with Joyee Deb (NYU))

Thursday, May 30 2013 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Liyan Yang (Rotman)

Loss Aversion, Survival and Asset Prices (joint with David Easley (Cornell))

Thursday, June 6 2013 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Junichi Suzuki (Toronto)

A Dynamic Structural Model of Price and Inventory Decisions by Multiproduct Retailers and Brand Manufacturers

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

Tanjim Hossain (Rotman)

"Set the Tone” and “Draw the Line”: Auctioneers as Emcees in Chittagong Tea Auctions (joint with Fahad Khalil (Washington) and Matt Shum (CalTech))

Thursday, June 20 2013 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Isabelle Perrigne (Rice University)

A General Framework for Nonlinear Pricing Data (joint with Yao Luo, Quang Vuong)

Thursday, September 25 2014 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Simon Anderson (University of Virginia)

Search Direction

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

Julie Mortimer (Boston College)

TBA

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

Alon Eizenberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Timing is everything? An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Service Quality Provision (joint with Olivier Chatain)

Thursday, October 23 2014 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ralph Boleslavsky (University of Miami)

TBA

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

Artyom Shneyerov (Concordia University)

Foreclosure Auctions: Theory and Evidence

Thursday, October 30 2014 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Bernhard Ganglmair (University of Texas at Dallas)

Efficient Material Breach of Contract

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

Eduardo Souza Rodrigues (University of Toronto)

Resale Prices and Unobservable Market States in Dynamic Discrete Choice Models

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

Yao Luo (University of Toronto)

TBA

Thursday, November 20 2014 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

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 Ershov (University of Toronto)

Competition in the Alcohol Retail Market

Thursday, December 4 2014 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Carlos J. Serrano (Pompeu Fabra)

Patent Collateral, Investor Commitment, and the Market for Venture Lending (joint with Yael Hochberg (MIT) and Rosemarie Ziedonis (Oregon))

Monday, December 8 2014 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Daniel Martin (Paris School of Economics)

Failures of Unraveling in Disclosure Experiments

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

Erhao Xie (University of Toronto)

Identification and Estimation of Utility and Beliefs in Games using Experimental Data

Thursday, December 11 2014 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Limin Fang (University of Toronto)

Exploiting Multiplicity of Equilibria for Counterfactuals of Spatial Preemption

Monday, January 19 2015 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

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

Otto Toivanen (KU Leuven)

Cartels Uncovered

Thursday, April 16 2015 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

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

Karen Bernhardt-Walth (University of Toronto)

TBA

Wednesday, May 6 2015 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Kristina McElheran (University of Toronto)

TBA

Wednesday, May 13 2015 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ryan Webb (University of Toronto)

TBA

Wednesday, May 20 2015 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto)

TBA

Wednesday, May 27 2015 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Matthew Osborne (University of Toronto)

TBA

Wednesday, June 3 2015 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Gabor Virag (University of Toronto)

TBA

Wednesday, June 10 2015 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Yao Luo (University of Toronto)

TBA

Wednesday, June 17 2015 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Alberto Galasso (University of Toronto)

TBA

Wednesday, June 24 2015 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Junichi Suzuki (University of Toronto)   Cancelled

TBA

Wednesday, July 8 2015 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Natalie Bau (University of Toronto)

TBA

Wednesday, July 15 2015 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Tanjim Hossain (University of Toronto)

TBA

Wednesday, July 22 2015 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Joanne Oxley (University of Toronto)

TBA

Wednesday, July 29 2015 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Andrew Ching (University of Toronto)

TBA

Wednesday, August 5 2015 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jonathan Hall (University of Toronto)

TBA

Wednesday, August 12 2015 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

April Franco (University of Toronto)   Cancelled

TBA

Wednesday, August 26 2015 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Aloysius Siow (University of Toronto)

Preliminary ideas on "Reliability in the labor market"

Wednesday, August 26 2015 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Mitch Hoffman (University of Toronto)

TBA

Wednesday, September 2 2015 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

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

Ruli Xiao (Indiana University)

Identification of Dynamic Games with Multiple Equilibria and Unobserved Heterogeneity

Thursday, November 12 2015 13:10–14:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

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

Jan Victor Dee (University of Toronto)

Identification of Dynamic Models of Market Entry/Exit with a Decision to Buy/Lease Fixed Inputs

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

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

Aloysius Siow (University of Toronto)

Occupational Choice and Matching

Wednesday, May 11 2016 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Nico Lacetera (University of Toronto)

Efficiency-morality trade-offs in repugnant transactions: A choice experiment (joint with Julio Elias and Mario Macis)

Wednesday, May 18 2016 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Matt Mitchell (University of Toronto)

Free (Ad)vice

Wednesday, May 25 2016 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Mathieu Marcoux (University of Toronto)

Games with unobservable heterogeneity and multiple equilibria: An application to mobile telecommunications

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

Lu Han (University of Toronto)

Employment Networks in the Professions

Wednesday, June 1 2016 12:00–13:00, Rotman, room 133

Matt Osborne (University of Toronto)

TBA

Wednesday, June 8 2016 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Heski Bar-Isaac (University of Toronto)

TBA

Wednesday, June 15 2016 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Erhao Xie (University of Toronto)

Identifying Incomplete Information Discrete Games without Bayesian Nash Equilibrium

Monday, June 20 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

April Franco (University of Toronto)

Inventor Break-ups

Wednesday, June 22 2016 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Daniel Ershov (University of Toronto)

TBA

Friday, June 24 2016 14:00–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Victor Aguirregabiria (Univerisy of Toronto)

The Geographic Flow of Bank Funding: The Role of Branch Networks and Local Market Power

Wednesday, June 29 2016 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ambarish Chandra (University of Toronto)

Disentangling Price Discrimination and Scarcity Pricing in Advance Purchase Markets

Wednesday, July 6 2016 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Avi Goldfarb (Univerisy of Toronto)

Transitory Shocks, Limited Attention, and a Firm’s Decision to Exit

Wednesday, July 13 2016 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ron N. Borkovsky (Univerisy of Toronto)

Learning in the U.S. Presidential Primaries

Wednesday, July 20 2016 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Tanjim Hossain (Univerisy of Toronto)

Delayed Actions

Wednesday, July 27 2016 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Hongsong Zhang (University of Hong Kong)

Non-Neutral Technology, Firm Heterogeneity, and Labor Demand

Wednesday, August 3 2016 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Mitchell Hoffman (Univerisy of Toronto)

One in a Million: Field Experiments on Perceived Closeness of the Election and Voter Turnout

Wednesday, August 10 2016 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Karen Bernhardt-Walth (University of Toronto)

Cooperation as an Input

Wednesday, August 17 2016 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ryan Webb (Univerisy of Toronto)

A Theory of Multi-Attribute Choice

Wednesday, August 24 2016 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Sandro Ambuehl (Univerisy of Toronto)

Unraveling in Two-Sided Matching Markets

Wednesday, August 31 2016 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

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

Paul Lim (University of Toronto)

Mortgage Securitization and Bank Liquidity

Thursday, December 8 2016 13:10–14:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Marcin Peski (University of Toronto)   Cancelled

Welfare plus entropy in social interactions

Monday, December 12 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Mathieu GilbertGonthier (University of Toronto)

Disclosing Commissions Paid to Advisers

Thursday, December 15 2016 13:10–14:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Dhruv Sinha (University of Toronto)

NGO Activism, Technology Choice, and Window Dressing across Industries

Monday, December 19 2016 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

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

Jurre Thiel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

The welfare effects of history-based price discrimination: Evidence from the Dutch mortgage market

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

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

Peter Landry (University of Toronto)

Do Firms Overweight Direct Relative to Indirect Signals of a Job Candidate’s Value? Evidence from NBA transactions

Wednesday, May 10 2017 12:00–13:00, Rotman, room LL1010

Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto)

Exploring the impact of machine intelligence

Wednesday, May 17 2017 12:00–13:00, Rotman, room LL1010

Alberto Galasso (University of Toronto)

The Diffusion of New Institutions: Evidence from the Renaissance Venice’s Patent System

Wednesday, May 24 2017 12:00–13:00, Rotman, room LL1010

Lu Han (University of Toronto)

tba

Wednesday, June 7 2017 12:00–13:00, Rotman, room LL1010

Daniel Ershov (University of Toronto)

Mergers in a Model with Complementarity (joint with Scott Orr (Toronto), and Jean-William Laliberté (Toronto))

Wednesday, June 14 2017 12:10–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Mara Lederman (University of Toronto)

Quality Disclosure When Firms Set Their Own Quality Targets

Wednesday, June 21 2017 12:00–13:00, Rotman, room LL1010

Andrew Ching (University of Toronto)

The Importance of Career Networking: Evidence from Movie Actors

Wednesday, June 28 2017 12:00–13:00, Rotman, room LL1010

Yao Luo (University of Toronto)

Estimating Demand for Mobile Services under Three-Part Tariffs

Wednesday, July 5 2017 12:00–13:00, Rotman, room LL1010

Ryan Webb (University of Toronto)

The Neural Representation of Money and Prices

Wednesday, July 12 2017 12:00–13:00, Rotman, room LL1010

Tanjim Hossain (University of Toronto)

How Organizational Design Affects Fairness and Efficiency in Bargaining

Wednesday, July 19 2017 12:00–13:00, Rotman, room LL1010

Matthew Osborne (University of Toronto)

Obesity, Myopia and Self-Control: Evidence from Food Purchase Data

Wednesday, July 26 2017 12:00–13:00, Rotman, room LL1010

Mitchell Hoffman (University of Toronto)

How Do Managers Matter? Evidence from Performance Metrics and Employee Surveys in a Firm

Wednesday, August 2 2017 12:00–13:00, Rotman, room LL1065

Matthew Mitchell (University of Toronto)

Fake News in the Attention Economy

Wednesday, August 9 2017 12:00–13:00, Rotman, room LL1010

Joshua Gans (University of Toronto)

Storm Crowds: Evidence from Zooniverse on Public Good Contribution Design

Wednesday, August 16 2017 12:00–13:00, Rotman, room LL1065

Daniel Goetz (University of Toronto)

Competition and Product Misrepresentation

Wednesday, August 23 2017 12:00–13:00, Rotman, room LL1065

Zachary Zhong (University of Toronto)

The Economic Impact of China's Anti-Corruption Campaign

Wednesday, August 30 2017 12:00–13:00, Rotman, room 127

Alexander MacKay (Harvard Business School)

An Empirical Model of Dynamic Price Competition

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

Limin Fang (University of Toronto)

Evaluating the Dynamic Effects of Yelp on Restaurant Revenues, Consumer Learning and Welfare

Thursday, October 5 2017 13:10–14:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

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

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

Scott Orr (University of Toronto)

Productivity Dispersion, Import Competition, and Specialization in Multi-product Plants

Thursday, October 19 2017 13:10–14:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106