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Faculty Seminars

 

Applied Microeconomics Seminars

The GSB Applied Microeconomics Seminar is held on Fridays from Noon to 1:30 PM, unless otherwise indicated. Should you have any other questions or special requests, please contact our seminar organizers: Paul Oyer or Liran Einav.

Please select the link above to view the schedule or e-mail Rochelle Bagalso for an appointment.

 

Spring 2008

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

April 4 Esther Duflo
MIT
Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School 12:00-1:30 PM
L107
April 11 Ginger Jin
University of Maryland
Information, Learning, and Drug Diffusion: the Case of Cox-2 Inhibitors 12:00-1:30 PM
L107
April 18 Harikesh Nair
Stanford University
Retail Competition and the Dynamics of Consumer Demand for Tied Goods 12:00-1:30 PM
L107
April 25 Radha Iyengar
Harvard University
An Analysis of the Performance of Federal Indigent Defense Counsel 12:00-1:30 PM
L107
May 2 Jakub Kastl
Stanford University
Testing for Common Valuation in the Presence of Bidders with Informational Advantage 12:00-1:30 PM
L107
May 9 Ben Jones
Northwestern University
The Burden of Knowledge and the 'Death of the Renaissance Man': Is Innovation Getting Harder? 12:00-1:30 PM
L107
May 16 Katherine Ho
Columbia University
The Effects of Full-Line Forcing Contracts 12:00-1:30 PM
L107
May 23 Joseph Altonji
Yale University
  12:00-1:30 PM
L107
May 30 Ryan Kellogg
UC Berkeley
Learning by Drilling: Inter-Firm Learning and Relationship Persistence in the Texas Oilpatch 12:00-1:30 PM
L107
June 6     12:00-1:30 PM
L107

 

Winter 2008

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

March 7 Ariel Pakes
Harvard University
An Experimental Component Index for the CPI: From Annual Computer Data to Monthly Data on Other Goods 12:00-1:30 PM
L107
March 14 Glenn Ellison
MIT
What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns 12:00-1:30 PM
S161

 

Fall 2007

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

September 28 Raj Chetty
UC Berkeley
Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence 12:00-1:30 pm/L107
October 5 No seminar   12:00-1:30 pm/L107
October 12 Alvin Roth
Harvard University
Recent Developments in Kidney Exchange

Related Paper: Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in Markets with Compatibility-Based Preferences
12:00-1:30 pm/L107
October 19 Eugene Choo
University of Calgary
Lifecycle Marriage Matching: Theory and Evidence 12:00-1:30 pm/L107
October 26 John Asker
New York University
A Study of the International Organization of a Bidding Cartel 12:00-1:30 pm/L107
November 2 David Card
UC Berkeley
School Competition and Efficiency with Publicly Funded Catholic Schools 12:00-1:30 pm/L107
November 9 Greg Lewis
Harvard University
Asymmetric Information, Adverse Selection and Seller Disclosure: The Case of eBay Motors 12:00-1:30 pm/L107
November 16 Ted Miguel
UC Berkeley
Spring Cleaning: A Randomized Evaluation of Source Water Quality Improvement 12:00-1:30 pm/L107
November 30 Ian Larkin
Harvard Business School
The Cost of High-Powered Incentives: Employee Gaming in Enterprise Software Sales 12:00-1:30 pm/L107
December 7 Estelle Cantillon
ECARES
Competition Between Exchanges: Lessons from the Battle of the Bund 12:00-1:30 pm/L107