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

Series: Business economics/Industrial organization, Organizer: Heski Bar-Isaac

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

Series: Industrial organization/Business economics, Organizer: Victor Aguirregabiria

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

Series: Business economics/Industrial organization, Organizer: Heski Bar-Isaac

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

Series: Industrial organization/Business economics, Organizer: Victor Aguirregabiria

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

Series: Business economics/Industrial organization, Organizer: Heski Bar-Isaac

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

Series: Industrial organization/Business economics, Organizers: Victor Aguirregabiria and Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues

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

Series: Business economics/Industrial organization, Organizer: Heski Bar-Isaac

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

Series: Industrial organization/Business economics, Organizer: Victor Aguirregabiria

Brendan Daley (Fuqua)

Bargaining and News (joint with Brett Green)

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

Series: Business economics/Industrial organization, Organizer: Heski Bar-Isaac

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

Series: Business economics/Industrial organization, Organizer: Heski Bar-Isaac

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

Series: Business economics/Industrial organization, Organizer: Heski Bar-Isaac

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

Series: Business economics/Industrial organization, Organizer: Heski Bar-Isaac

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

Series: Business economics/Industrial organization, Organizer: Heski Bar-Isaac

Michael Richter (Yeshiva University)

Aspiration-Based Choice

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

Series: Business economics, Organizers: Heski Bar-Isaac and Ambarish Chandra

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

Series: Business economics, Organizers: Heski Bar-Isaac and Ambarish Chandra

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics/Business economics, Organizers: Ambarish Chandra and Rahul Deb

Elliot Lipnowski (New York University)

Repeated Delegation (joint with Joao Ramos)

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

Series: Empirical microeconomics/Business economics, Organizers: Ambarish Chandra and Rahul Deb

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

Series: Business economics, Organizers: Heski Bar-Isaac and Ambarish Chandra

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

Series: Business economics/Industrial organization, Organizer: Victor Aguirregabiria

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

Series: Business economics/Industrial organization, Organizers: Heski Bar-Isaac and Junichi Suzuki

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

Series: Business economics/Industrial organization, Organizers: Heski Bar-Isaac and Junichi Suzuki

Paulo Somaini (Stanford GSB)

Identification in Auction Models with Interdependent Costs

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

Series: Business economics/Industrial organization, Organizers: Heski Bar-Isaac, Yao Luo, and Junichi Suzuki

Amit Gandhi (University of Wisconsin, Madison)   Cancelled

TBA

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

Series: Business economics/Industrial organization, Organizers: Heski Bar-Isaac and Junichi Suzuki

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

Series: Business economics/Industrial organization, Organizer: Heski Bar-Isaac

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

Series: Business economics/Industrial organization, Organizer: Heski Bar-Isaac