Applied Microeconomics Seminars

The GSB Applied Microeconomics Seminar is held on Fridays from 12:00-1:30 pm , unless otherwise indicated.  Should you have any other questions or special requests, please contact our seminar organizer: Ali Yurukoglu

Please select the Meet the Speaker link below to view the schedule or e-mail Miriam Torres for an appointment (GSB faculty only).

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Spring 2013

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

Meet the Speaker 

April 12 Till von Wachter
UCLA 
Job Displacement in Recessions: Evidence and Explanations 12:00-1:30 PM 
G102 
    (•)
April 19 Peter Arcidiacono
Duke University
Pharmaceutical Followers 12:00-1:30 PM
G102 
   (•)
April 26 Paul Niehaus
UCSD 
The Marginal Rate of Corruption in Public Programs  12:00-1:30 PM
G102 
    (•)
May 3 Hugh Macartney
Duke University 
The Dynamic Effects of Educational Accountability 12:00-1:30 PM
G102 
    (•)
May 10 Greg Lewis
Harvard University Department of Economics
Buy-it-now or Take-a-chance: Price Discrimination through Randomized Auctions 12:00-1:30 PM
G102 
   (•)
May 17 Frank Wolak
Stanford University
Testing for Market Efficiency with Transactions Costs: An Application to Convergence Bidding in Wholesale Electricity Markets 12:00-1:30 PM
G102 
  
May 24 Sofia Villas-Boas
UC Berkeley 
The Impact of Retail Mergers on Food Prices: Evidence from France 12:00-1:30 PM
G102 
   (•)
May 31 Jim Schmitz
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis 
What Ever Happened to the Puerto Rican Sugar Manufacturing Industry? 12:00-1:30 PM
G102 
   (•)

Winter 2013

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

Meet the Speaker

March 1 Brian Jacob
University of Michigan - Visiting Stanford
The Effects of Family Income on Youth Outcomes: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Program 12:00-1:30 PM
M105 
March 8 Leila Agha
Boston University
Negative Tests and the Efficiency of Medical Care: Investigating the Determinants of Imaging Overuse 12:00-1:30 PM
M105 
(*)
March 13 Ron Goettler
University of Rochester 
Joined with Marketing  
12:00-1:15 PM
W332 
(•)

Autumn  2012

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

September 28 Eric Budish
University of Chicago Booth School of Business 
Primary-Market Auctions for Event Tickets: Eliminating the Rents  of “Bob the Broker” 12:00-1:30 PM
M105 
October 5 Larry Katz
Harvard University Department of Economics
Do Neighborhoods Matter for Disadvantaged Families? Lessons from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment 12:00-1:30 PM
M105 
October 12 Mitsuru Igami
Yale Department of Economics (Joined with Marketing)
Estimating the Innovator's Dilemma: Structural Analysis of Creative Destruction in the Hard Disk Drive Industry  12:00-1:30 PM
M105 
October 19 Vicente Cunat
LSE (visiting Stanford) 
Say Pays! Shareholder Voice and Firm Performance 12:00-1:30 PM
M105 
October 26 Matthew Backus
Cornell University (visiting eBay)  
Why is Productivity Correlated with Competition?* 12:00-1:30 PM
M105 
November 2 Francesco Decarolis
Boston University
What does Medicare D Share with LIBOR and Procurement Auctions? The Distortionary Effects of the Low Income Subsidy 12:00-1:30 PM
M105 
November 9 Danielle Li
Northwestern University
Kellogg School of Management 
Information, Bias, and Efficiency in Expert Evaluation: Evidence from the NIH 12:00-1:30 PM
M105 
November 16 Jakub Kastl
Stanford University 
12:00-1:30 PM
M105 
November 30 Patrick Kline
UC Berkeley (Visiting Stanford) 
12:00-1:30 PM
M105 
December 7 Greg Lewis
Harvard University Department of Economics (CANCELLED)
Buy-it-now or Take-a-Chance: Price Discrimination through Randomized Auctions 12:00-1:30 PM
M105 
December 14 Francine Lafontaine (visiting Stanford)
Michigan Ross School of Business
Franchisees' Financial Constraints and Franchisors' Franchising  12:00-1:30 PM
M105