Past Guest Seminars Schedule

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Paper Title
Fall 2011
Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Paper Title
9/28	Matthew Grennan	Rotman School of Management	"Price Discrimination and Bargaining: Empirical Evidence from Medical Devices"
10/5	L. Kamran Bilir	University of Wisconsin	"Patent Laws, Product Lifecycle Lengths, and the Global Sourcing Decisions of U.S. Multinationals"
10/19	Guy Arie	Kellogg School of Management	"Dynamic Costs and Moral Hazard"
10/26	Binxiao Wu	Kellogg School of Management	“Moral Hazard in Expert Service Market - Evidence from an Intervention to Reduce Health Care Spending in China”
11/2	Mark Jacobsen	UC/San Diego	"Fuel Economy and Safety: The Influences of Vehicle Class and Driver Behavior"
11/9	Fernando Ferreira	Wharton	"Anatomy of the Beginning of the Housing Boom: U.S. Neighborhoods and Metropolitan Areas, 1993-2009"
11/16	Lucas Davis	UC/Berkeley	"Deregulation, Consolidation, and Efficiency: Evidence from U.S. Nuclear Power"
11/30	Ryan Kellogg	University of Michigan	"The Effect of Uncertainty on Investment: Evidence from Texas Oil Drilling"
*Spring 2011*
3/30	Devin Pope	University of Chicago	"Heuristic Thinking and Limited Attention in the Car Market" (PDF 3020 KB)
4/6	Simon Board	UCLA	“Relational Contracts and On-the-job Search” (PDF 356 KB)
4/13	Joao Montez	London Business School	"The Worth of Binding Contracts in One-to-Many Bargaining" (PDF 328 KB)
4/20	Erik Brynjolfsson	MIT	"The Extroverted Firm: How External Information Practices Affect Innovation and Productivity" (PDF 743 KB)
4/27	Xavier Vives	IESE/University of Navarra	"Strategic Supply Function Competition With Private Information" (PDF 739 KB)
5/4	Paul Oyer	Stanford	"The Returns to Attending a Prestigious Law School" (PDF 234 KB)
5/11	Kathryn Shaw	Stanford	"The Teachers Who Leave: Pulled by Opportunity or Pushed by Accountability?" (PDF 918 KB)
5/18	Erin M. Johnson	MIT	"Ability, Learning and the Career Path of Cardiac Specialists" (PDF 533 KB)
5/25	Kyle Bagwell	Stanford	"The Theory of Optimal Delegation with an Application to Tariff Caps" (PDF 5290 KB)
6/1	Benjamin J. Keys	Federal Reserve Bank	"Lender Screening and the Role of Securitization: Evidence from Prime and Subprime Mortgage Markets" (PDF 750 KB)

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Paper Title
Fall 2010
9/22	Justin Wolfers	Wharton	"Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google(PDF 462 KB)
9/23	Patrick Rey	Toulouse	"Mobile Call Termination Revisited" (PDF 246 KB)
9/29	Maria Guadalupe	Columbia	"Innovation and Foreign Ownership"
10/6	Mike Roach	Northwestern	"Explaining the Performance Gap Between Indigent Defense Counsel Systems: Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard Effects"
10/13	Guy Arie	Kellogg	"Learning From Trying and Dynamic Moral Hazard"
10/20	Jie Gong	Kellogg	"Information Disclosure and Motivation in Tournaments: Evidence from Personnel Data"
10/27	Mauricio Varela	Kellogg	"The Cost of Growth: Estimating Entry Costs During Roll Outs"
11/3	Brent Hickman	University of Chicago	“Effort, Race Gaps, and Affirmative Action: Theory and Evidence” (PDF 1260 KB)
11/10	Michael Grubb	MIT	"Penalty Pricing: Optimal Price-Posting Regulation with Inattentive Consumers" (PDF 562 KB)
11/17	Tracy Lewis	Duke	"A Theory of Advocates: Trading Information for In‡uence" (PDF 296 KB)
12/1	Heski Bar-Isaac	NYU-Stern	"Exclusionary Minimum Retail Price Maintenance" (PDF 296 KB)

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Paper Title
Spring 2010
3/31	Joseph Harrington	John Hopkins University	"The Impact of a Corporate Leniency Program on Antitrust Enforcement and Cartelization" (PDF 469 KB)
4/07	Jesse Shapiro	University of Chicago	"Ideological Segregation Online and Offline" (with Matthew Gentzkow) (PDF 627 KB)
4/14	Phillip Leslie	Stanford	"Calorie Posting in Chain Restaurants" (PDF 627 KB)
4/21	Matthew Shum	California Institute of Technology	"To Elect or to Appoint? Bias, Information, and Responsiveness of Bureaucrats and Politicians" (with Matias Iaryczower & Garrett Lewis).(PDF 1.41 MB)
4/28	Alan Sorensen	Stanford	"Observational Learning and Demand for Search Goods" (PDF 401 KB)
5/05	Avi Goldfarb	University of Toronto/Rotman	"Who thinks about the competition? Managerial ability and strategic entry in US local telephone markets" (PDF 372 KB)
5/12	Aprajit Mahajan	Stanford	"Does Management Matter? Evidence From India" (PDF 1150 KB)
5/19	Victor Stango	University of California/Davis	“Limited Attention, Salience and Checking Overdraft Fees.”
5/26	Jacob Gramlich	Georgetown	"Gas Prices, Fuel Efficiency, and Endogenous Product Choice in the U.S. Automobile Industry" (PDF 1256 KB)

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Paper Title
Winter 2010
2/23	Jeroen Swinkels	Northwestern	"Moral Hazard, Minimum Payments, Outside Options and Market Outcomes"(PDF 262 KB)
3/2	Alessandro Pavan	Northwestern	"Managerial Turnover" (PDF 262 KB)
3/9	Fabian Duarte	Yale	"Price Elasticity of Expenditure Across Health Care Services" (PDF 905 KB)
3/17	Frank Limbrock	Yale	"Pecuniary and Non-pecuciary Incentives in Prescription Pharmaceuticals: The Case of Statins" (PDF 262 KB)

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Paper Title
Fall 2009
9/23	John Vickers	Oxford	"A Model of Delegated Project Choice" (PDF 283 KB)
9/30	Joseph Doyle	MIT	"Returns to Physician Human Capital: Analyzing Patients Randomized to Physician Teams." (PDF 407 KB)
10/07	Pai-Ling Yin	MIT	"Competition between Exchanges: Lessons from the Battle of the Bund" (PDF 1250 KB)
10/14	Michael Waldman	Cornell	“The Signaling Role of Promotions: Further Theory and Empirical Evidence” (PDF 304 KB)
10/21	Ryan McDevitt	Kellogg	"Gender Disparity in Urology: Competition, Preferences, and Quality of Care" (PDF 387 KB)
11/04	Uli Doraszelski	Harvard	"R&D and Productivity: Estimating Endogenous Productivity" (PDF 759 KB)
11/11	Ginger Jin	Maryland	"Learning by Doing with Asymmetric Information" (PDF 485 KB)
12/02	Canice Prendergast	University of Chicago/Booth	"Contracts and Conflict in Organizations" (PDF 367 KB)

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Paper Title
Spring 2009
4/1	George-Levi Gayle	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	"Identifying and Testing Generalized Moral Hazard Models of Managerial Compensation" (PDF 407 KB)
4/8	Fiona Scott Morton	Yale School of Management	"Complementarity Among Organizational Design, Technology Adoption, and Product Market Strategy: the Case of Auto Dealerships" (253 KB)
4/15	Massimo Morelli	Columbia	"Can Market Failure Cause Political Failure?" (253 KB)
4/22	Preston McAfee **	California Institute of Technology	"Let the Punishment Fit the Crime: Enforcement with Error" (PDF 170 KB)
5/6	Francois Ortalo-Magne	Wisconsin	"Spatial Asset Pricing: A First Step" (325 KB)
5/13	Richard Holden	MIT/University of Chicago	"Firms and Markets Under Uncertainty" (300 KB)
5/20	David Stromberg	Stockholm University	"Press Coverage and Political Accountability" (759 KB)
5/27	Mara Lederman	University of Toronto (Rotman)	“Does Vertical Integration Affect Firm Performance? Evidence from the Airline Industry” (455 KB)
6/3	Katja Seim	University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)	“Public Monopoly and Economic Efficiency: Evidence from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board’s Entry Decisions” (569 KB)

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Paper Title
Fall 2008
9/24	Jerome Adda	University College/London	"Career Choice and Fertility"
10/8	Joaquin Poblete	Kellogg	“Financing Start-Ups" (PDF 235 KB)
10/15	Phillip Leslie	Stanford	"The Welfare Effects of Ticket Resale" (PDF 1220 KB)
10/22	Brian Knight	Brown	"Media Bias and Influence: Evidence from Newspaper Endorsements" (PDF 234 KB)
10/29	Jonathan Guryan	University of Chicago	"Prejudice and the Economics of Discrimination" (PDF 357KB)
11/5	Antoinette Schoar	MIT	"The Importance of Holdup in Contracting: Evidence from a Field Experiment" (PDF 100 KB)
11/12	Jim Levinsohn	Michigan	"HIV Status and Labor Market Participation in South Africa" (PDF 226 KB)
11/19	Andrea Prat	London School of Economics	"Matching Firms with Managers: Theory and Evidence." (PDF 655KB)
12/3	Joel Waldfogel	Wharton	"Music for a Song: An Empirical Look at Uniform Song Pricing and its Alternatives" (PDF 1930 KB)

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Paper Title
Spring 2008
4/2	Christian Rojas	University of Massechusetts	“Price Competition in US Brewing” (PDF 364 KB)
4/9	Catherine Tucker	MIT	"Privacy Protection and Technology Diffusion: The Case of Electronic Medical Records" (PDF 561 KB)
4/16	Esther Duflo	MIT	"Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?" (PDF 242 KB)
4/23	Thomas Chaney	University of Chicago	"The Corporate Wealth Effect: From Real Estate Shocks to Corporate Investment" (PDF 260 KB)
4/30	Felix Oberholzer-Gee	Harvard	"Bidding for Business - A Field Experiment" (PDF 169 KB)
5/7	Bentley McLeod	Columbia	"Institutions and Contract Enforcement" (PDF 465 KB)
5/14	Marcus Asplund	Stockholm	“Do Firms Set Profit Maximizing Prices?” (PDF 387 KB)
5/21	Jeremy Fox	University of Chicago	"Estimating Matching Games with Transfers Applied to Automotive Suppliers"? (PDF 332 KB)
5/28	Xavier Gabaix	NYU	"Detail-Independent Optimal Contracts, with an Application to CEO Incentives" (PDF 346 KB)
6/4	David Merriman	University of Illinois (Chicago)	“The Micro-Geography of Tax Avoidance: Evidence From Littered Cigarette Packs in Chicago” (PDF 959 KB)

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Paper Title
Fall 2007
9/19	Meghan Busse	UC Berkeley	“The Best Price You’ll Ever Get”: The 2005 Employee Discount Pricing Promotions in the U.S. Automobile Industry (PDF 1.0 MB)
10/3	Susan Lu	Kellogg	"Multitasking, Information Disclosure, and Product Quality: Evidence from Nursing Homes"
*10/8 3:30*	Min Chen	Kellogg	"Vertical Differentiation and Factor Substitution: Evidence from Minimum Staffing Standards in the Nursing Home Industry" (PDF 407 KB)
10/10	Kristina Steffenson McElheran	Kellogg	"Strategic Capability Development: Productivity, Market Structure & Investment in Information Technology"
10/17	Priscilla Medeiros	Kellogg	"The Effects of Deal Patterns on Consumer Behavior"
*10/22 3:30*	Ron Borkovsky	Kellogg	“The Timing of Version Releases in R&D-intensive Industries: A Dynamic Duopoly Model”
10/24	Mian Dai	Kellogg	TBA
11/7	Sam Kortum	University of Chicago	"An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms" (joint with Jonathan Eaton and Francis Kramarz)
11/14	Kalina Manova	Stanford	"Credit constraints, heterogenous firms and internaitonal trade"
11/28	Marko Tervio	UC Berkeley	"Entry and Exit Options under Liquidity Constraints: Optimal Exercise Policies and Implications for Industry Equilibrium" (with Pauli Murto).
12/5	Bob Town	University of Minnesota	“The Dynamic Impact of Government Policy on Market Structure: An Analysis of the Critical Access Hospital Program.”

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Paper Title
Spring 2007
03/28/07	Amil Petrin	U of Chicago GSB	Job Security Does Affect Economic Effiency: Theory, a New Statistic, and Evidence from Chile (PDF 496 KB)
04/04/07	Simon Board	U of Toronto	Relational Contracts and the Value of Loyalty (PDF 221 KB)
04/11/07	Betsey Stevenson	U of Penn, Wharton	The Impact of the Internet on Worker Flows (PDF 241 KB)
04/18/07	Oriana Bandiera	London School of Economics	Active and Passive Waste in Government Spending: Evidence from a Policy Experiment
04/25/07	Paul Milgrom	Stanford	Core-Selecting Auctions
05/02/07	Michael Raith	U of Rochester	Resource Allocation and Firm Scope (PDF 378 KB) (with Guido Friebel)
05/09/07	Holger Sieg	Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon U	A Flexible Approach to Estimating Production Functions When Output Prices and Quantities are Unobserved (PDF 420 KB)
05/16/07	Tracy Lewis	Duke	The Value of Information in Matching Markets (PDF 191 KB)
05/23/07	James Rebitzer	Case Western Reserve, Weatherhead School of Management	Information Technology and Medical Missteps: Evidence from a Randomized Trial (PDF 193 KB)
05/30/07	Brigitte Madrian	Harvard	Flypaper Effects in Asset Allocation (PDF 149 KB)

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Paper Title
Fall 2006
09/13/06	Alexei Alexandrov	Internal job candidate	Fat Products (PDF, 787 KB)
09/20/06	Lanier Benkard	Stanford	Markov Perfect Industry Dynamics with Many Firms (PDF, 384 KB)
09/27/06	Andres Rodriguez-Clare	Penn State	Trade, Diffusion, and the Gain from Openness (PDF, 264 KB)
10/04/06	Ricardo Alonso	Internal job candidate	Shared Control and Strategic Communication (PDF, 402 KB)
10/11/06	Subramaniam Ramanarayanan	Internal job candidate	Does Practice Make Perfect: An Empirical Analysis of Learning-by-Doing in Cardiac Surgery (PDF, 107 KB)
10/18/06	Seongwuk Moon	Internal job candidate	How Does the Division of Labor Affect the Distribution of Earnings? Implications of the Organization of Production
10/25/06	Enrico Moretti	U.C. Berkeley	Peers at Work (PDF, 2.00 MB)
11/01/06	Matthew Gentzkow	Chicago GSB	What Drives News Media Slant? Evidence from US Daily Newspapers (with Jesse M. Shapiro) (PDF, 447 KB)
11/08/16	Severin Borenstein	U.C. Berkeley, Haas	How the Airline Market Works... or does it? (PDF, 1.05 MB)
11/13/06	John van Reenan	London School of Economics	It Ain’t What you do, it’s the Way that you do it: Investigating the Productivity Miracle Using Multinationals (PDF, 535 KB)
11/15/06	Oliver Hart	Harvard	Contracts as Reference Points (PDF, 340 KB)
11/29/06	Jan Zabojnik	Queen's University	Disobedience and Authority (PDF, 321 KB)
12/1/06	John Sutton	London School of Economics	Market Share Dynamics and the ‘Persistence of Leadership’ Debate (PDF, 910 KB)

Date	Presenter	School	Paper Title
Spring 2006
Wednesday, March 29	Andrew Cohen	Federal Reserve Board of Governors	"Estimating Strategic Complementarities in Credit Unions’ Outsourcing Decisions"
Wednesday, April 5	Michael Ostrovsky	Stanford Graduate School of Business	"Internet Advertising and the Generalized Second Price Auction: Selling Billions of Dollars Worth of Keywords"
Wednesday, April 12	Emek Basker	University of Missouri	"Putting a Smiley Face on the Dragon: Wal-Mart as Catalyst to U.S.-China Trade"
Wednesday, April 19	Martin Gaynor	Carnegie Mellon	"A Competition Index for Differentiated Product Oligopoly With an Application to Hospitals"
Wednesday, April 26	Augustin Landier	NYU Stern School of Business	"Optimal Dissent in Organizations" and "Bottom-Up Corporate Governance"
Wednesday, May 3	Heski Bar-Isaac	NYU Stern School of Business	"Diversity and Demand Externalities: How Cheap Information C an Reduce Welfare"
Wednesday, May 10 Location: LEV 276	Alan Sorensen	Stanford Graduate School of Business	“Incomplex Alternatives to Mixed Bundling"
Wednesday, May 17 Location: LEV 165	Doug Staiger	Dartmouth	"Preferences and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in a Public School Choice Lottery"
Wednesday, May 24	Bentley MacLeod	Columbia	"Reputations, Relationships and the Enforcement of Incomplete Contracts"