Finance: Industrial Organization
Tuesdays, 2:15-3:45 p.m.
1027 International Affairs Building
420 West 118th St., New York, NY
Fall Semester 2007
| September 11 |
Jeremy Bulow (Stanford) (Joint with Theory), "When Are Auctions Best?" (with Paul Klemperer). |
| September 14 (FRIDAY) |
IO Day at NYU (New York Commuter Industrial Organization Workshop). For more information, click here. |
| September 18 |
Mike Whinston (Northwestern), "Sequential Merger Review" (with Volker Nocke). |
| September 25 |
Leemore Dafny (Northwestern, Kellogg School), "Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive? A Test of Direct Price Discrimination." |
| October 2 |
Thomas Wiseman (Univ. Texas, Austin) (Joint with Theory), "Reputation and Exogenous Private Learning." |
| October 9 |
Frank Wolak (Stanford), "A Comparison of Ex Ante versus Ex Post Vertical Market Power: Evidence from the Electricity Supply Industry" (with Joshua Gans). |
| October 16 |
(Seminar cancelled) |
| October 23 |
Ting Wu (Columbia), "Competition in the Payday Lending Industry - Evidence from Colorado." |
| October 30 |
Wouter Dessein (University of Chicago), "The Delegation Principle Revisited" (Joint with Theory). See related paper, "Centralization Versus Decentralization: An Application to Price Setting by a Multi-Market." |
| November 6 |
[University Holiday] |
| November 13 |
Joy Ishii (Stanford), "Compatibility, Competition and Investment in Network Industries: ATM Networks in the Banking Industry" |
| November 20 |
Stephen Ryan (MIT), "A Simple Nonparametric Estimator for the Distribution of Rrandom Coefficients in Discrete Choice Models" (with Patrick Bajari, Jeremy Fox, and Kyoo il Kim). |
| November 27 | Susan Athey (Harvard), "Position Auctions with Consumer Search" (with Glenn Ellison). Joint with NYU, at Columbia. |
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December 4 |
Jeremy Fox (University of Chicago), "Measuring the Efficiency of an FCC Spectrum Auction" (with Patrick Bajari). |
| December 11 |
Andrew Sweeting (Duke University), "Dynamic Product Repositioning in Differentiated Product Markets: The Case of Format Switching in the Commercial Radio Industry" |
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