Fall 2019
The IO Seminar meets Wednesdays at 3:45pm in 7142 Social Sciences
9/11: Marc Rysman, Boston University – “Demand for Performance Goods: Import Quotas in the Chinese Movie Market”
10/9: Robert Town, UT-Austin – “Optimal Managed Competition Subsidies”
10/16: Ying Fan, University of Michigan – “Firms and Collective Reputation: a Study of the Volkswagen Emissions Scandal”
10/23: Giulia Brancaccio, Cornell – “Efficiency in Decentralized Transport Markets”
10/30: Yue Qiu, UW-Madison
11/13: Yu Ding, UW-Madison – “Consolidation for Cost Savings? Hospital Mergers and Service Repositioning”
11/20: Adam Smith, UW-Madison – “Product Visibility on Digital Goods Platforms”
12/4: Ignacio Cuesta, Stanford
12/11: Christopher Neilson, Princeton
Spring 2019
3/13: Adam Dearing, Ohio State University – “Pseudo-Value Functions and Closed-Form CCP Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models”
3/27: Alejandro Molnar, Vanderbilt “The Marginal Congestion of a Taxi in New York City”
4/3: Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota – “Personalized Pricing on Campus”
4/10: Andrew Sweeting, University of Maryland – “Dynamic Oligopoly Pricing with Asymmetric Information”
4/17: Dan Goetz, University of Toronto – “Dynamic Bargaining and Scale Effects in the Broadband Industry”
4/24: Lauren Bergquist, University of Michigan – “Pass-through, Competition, and Entry in Agricultural Markets: Experimental Evidence from Kenya”
5/1: Brad Larsen, Stanford
5/13: Daniel Xu, Duke: “Notching R&D Investment with Corporate Income Tax Cuts in China”