Industrial Organization Spring 2008
Tuesdays, 2:15-3:45 p.m.
1027 International Affairs Building
420 West 118th St., New York, NY
Spring Semester 2008
| January 22 |
Robin Lee (Harvard), "Vertical Integration and Exclusivity in Platform and Two-Sided Markets." |
| February 12 |
Joshua Lustig (Yale), "The Welfare Effects of Adverse Selection in Privatized Medicare." |
| February 19 |
Greg Lewis (Harvard), "Asymmetric Information, Adverse Selection and Seller Disclosure: The Case of eBay Motors." |
| February 26 |
Andrei Hagiu (Harvard Business School), "Designing a Two-Sided Platform: When To Increase Search Costs?" (with Bruno Jullien). |
| March 4 |
Michael Riordan (Columbia), "Low-Income Demand for Local Telephone Service: Effects of Lifeline and Linkup" (with Daniel Ackerberg, Greg Rosston and Brad Wimmer). |
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March 11 |
David Martimort (IDEI - Toulouse) (Joint with NYU - Will be held at the Stern School, at 4:00 p.m.), "Mechanism Design with Bilateral Contracting" (with Vianney Dequiedt). |
| March 18 |
SPRING BREAK |
| March 25 |
Kate Ho (Columbia), “The Effects of Full-line Forcing Contracts" (with Justin Ho and Julie Mortimer). |
| April 1 |
Curtis Taylor (Duke), "Subjective Performance and the Value of Blind Evaluation" (with Huseyin Yildirim). |
| April 8 |
Amit Gandhi (Wisconsin), "Rational Expectations at the Racetrack: Testing Expected Utility Using Prediction Market Prices." |
| April 15 |
Jon Levin (Stanford), "Contract Pricing in Consumer Credit Markets" (with Liran Einav and Mark Jenkins). |
| April 22 |
Michael Schwarz (Yahoo), "Towards an Efficient Mechanism for Prescription Drug Procurement" (with Kyna Fong). |
| April 29 |
John Vickers (Oxford), "A Model of Delegated Project Choice with Application to Merger Policy" (with Mark Armstrong). |
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Previous Schedules:
Fall 2007
Spring 2007
Fall 2006
