Faculty Seminars

April 6

Oriana Bandiera
London School of Economics

Social Incentives: The Causes and Consequences of Social Networks in the Workplace

[ PDF 527KB]

Noon-1:30pm/L107

April 13

Adam Rosen
University College London

Identification and Estimation of Firms' Marginal Cost Functions with Incomplete Knowledge of Strategic Behavior

[ PDF 1.51MB]

Noon-1:30pm/L107

April 20

Aviv Nevo
Northwestern University

The Relative Performance of Real Estate Marketing Platforms: MLS versus FSBOMadison.com

Noon-1:30pm/L107

April 27

Andrew Sweeting
Northwestern University

The Cost of Product Repositioning: The Case of Format Switching in the Commercial Radio Industry

[ PDF 320KB]

Noon-1:30pm/L107

May 4

Matt White
University of Pennsylvania

Market Organization and Market Efficiency in Electricity Markets

[ PDF 664KB]

Noon-1:30pm/L107

May 11

Seema Jayachandran
Stanford University

Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Maternal Mortality Declines in Sri Lanka

[ PDF 426KB]

Noon-1:30pm/L107

May 18

Patricia Cortes
University of Chicago

The Effect of Low-skilled Immigration on U.S. Prices: Evidence from CPI Data

[ PDF 597KB]

Noon-1:30pm/L107

May 25

No seminar

Noon-1:30pm/L107

June 1

Michael Greenstone
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from "Million Dollar Plants"

Noon-1:30pm/L107

March 9

Muriel Niederle
Stanford University

Gender Differences in Competitive Attitudes, and the Effects of Affirmative Action

Related paper:
Do Women Shy Away from Competition? Do Men Compete too Much?

[ PDF 183KB]

Noon-1:30pm/L107

March 16

Douglas Bernheim
Stanford University

Beyond Revealed Preference: Towards Choice - Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Analysis

Noon-1:30pm/L107

September 22

Jesse Rothstein
Princeton University

Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation in Neighborhoods and Schools (Joint work with David Card and Alex Mas)

[ PDF 614KB]

Noon-1:30pm/Littlefield 107

September 29

Fiona Scott Morton
Yale School of Management

State Casket Sales Restrictions: A Pointless Undertaking (joint work with Judith A. Chevalier)

[ PDF 262KB]

Noon-1:30pm/Littlefield 107

October 6

Pam Jia
MIT

What Happens When Wal-Mart Comes to Town: An Empirical Analysis of the Discount Retailing Industry

[ PDF 537KB]

Noon-1:30pm/Littlefield 107

October 13

Phil Oreopoulos
University of Toronto

Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial (joint work with Joshua Angrist and Daniel Lang)

Noon-1:30pm/Littlefield 107

October 20

Catherine Wolfram
UC Bekeley

The Economics Effects of Vintage Differentiated Regulations: The Case of New Source Review (joint work with James Bushnell)

[ PDF 445KB]

Noon-1:30pm/Littlefield 107

October 27

QME Conference

November 10

John Sutton
The London School of Economics and Political Science

Market Share Dynamics and the 'Persistence of Leadership' Debate

[ PDF 909KB]

November 17

Paul Ellickson
Duke University

Supermarket Pricing Strategies (joint work with Sanjog Misra)

[ PDF 765KB]

Noon-1:30pm/Littlefield 107

December 1

Elena Krasnokutskaya
University of Pennsylvania

Bid Preference Programs and Participation in Highway Procurement Auctions

[ PDF 360KB]

Noon-1:30pm/Littlefield 107

December 8

Thomas Hubbard
Kellogg School of Management

The Return to Knowledge Hierarchies (joint work with Luis Garicano)

[ PDF 419KB]

Noon-1:30pm/Littlefield 107