Industrial Organization Fall 2008
Tuesdays, 2:15-3:45 p.m.
1027 International Affairs Building
420 West 118th St., New York, NY
Fall Semester 2008
| September 9th |
Brett Gordon (Columbia), “Durable Goods Oligopoly with Innovation: Theory and Empirics” (with Ron Goettler). |
| September 16th |
Cancelled [Ran Spiegler, "Consideration Sets and Competitive Marketing" (with Kfir Eliaz).] |
| September 23rd |
Steve Berry (Yale), "Nonparametric Identification of Multinomial Choice Demand Models with Heterogeneous Consumers" (with Philip Haile). Joint with Econometrics. |
| September 30th |
TBD |
| October 7th |
Sergei Koulayev (Columbia), "Estimating Search with Learning." |
| October 14th |
Xavier Vives (IESE/University of Navarra), "Strategic Supply Function Competition with Private Information." |
| October 21st (At NYU) TIME: 4:00 |
Severin Borenstein (Univ. of California at Berkeley), "Equity (and some efficiency) Effects of Increasing-Block Electricity Pricing." Joint with NYU/Stern School. Address: 44 West 4th St., Rm. 7-191 |
| October 28th |
Phillip Leslie (Stanford), "The Welfare Effects of Ticket Resale" (with Alan Sorensen). |
| November 4th |
[Election Day -- no seminar] |
| November 11th |
Julie Mortimer (Harvard), "Demand Estimation Under Incomplete Product Availability" (with Christopher T. Conlon). |
| November 18th |
Robert Pindyck (MIT), "Sunk Costs and Risk-Based Barriers to Entry." |
| November 24th (Monday - extra seminar date) |
Matt Gentzkow (University of Chicago), "The Effect of Newspaper Exits on Political Participation: A Regression Discontinuity Approach" (with Jesse Shapiro and Michael Sinkinson). Joint with Theory. Time: 2:30-4:00, IAB 1027 |
| November 25th | Uli Doraszelski (Harvard), "Lumpy Capacity Investment and Disinvestment Dynamics" (with David Besanko, Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu and Mark Satterthwaite). Joint with Theory |
| December 2nd (At NYU) Time: 4:00 |
Tom Hubbard (Kellogg/Northwestern), "The Economics of 'Radiator Springs': Industry Dynamics, Sunk Costs, and Spatial Demand Shifts" (with Jeffrey R. Campbell). Joint with NYU/Stern School/ |
| December 9th |
Jerome Pouyet (Ecole Polytechnique), "Anticompetitive Vertical Mergers Waves" (with Johan Hombert and Nicolas Schutz). |
| December 16 | Catherine Thomas (Columbia), "Organizational Form, Information Asymmetry, and Market Prices." |
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Previous Schedules:
Spring 2008
Fall 2007
Spring 2007
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