Industrial Organization Seminar Schedule
Fall 2015
Department of Economics, Northwestern University
| Date |
Speaker
|
Affiliation |
Seminar
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
September 21
|
Massimo Motta
|
Barcelona Graduate School of Economics
|
“Mergers and Investment” |
|
September 28
|
Zvi Eckstein
|
Tel Aviv University
|
“Why have the Wages of Married Women Increased?: Marital Sorting and Labor Supply of Couples” |
|
October 5
|
Michael Dinerstein | University of Chicago |
“Quantifying the Supply Response of Private Schools to Public Policies”
|
|
October 26
|
Samir Mamadehussene | Northwestern University |
“Do Low Price Guarantees Hurt Consumers? Theory and Evidence”
|
|
November 2 |
Mitsuru Igami | Yale University |
“Mergers, Innovation, and Entry-Exit Dynamics: The Consolidation of the Hard Disk Drive Industry”
|
|
November 9 |
Thomas Covert
|
University of Chicago |
“Experiential and Social Learning in Firms: The Case of Hydraulic Fracturing in the Bakken Shale”
|
|
November 23 |
Michael Dickstein | New York University | “What do Exporters Know?” |
|
December 7 |
Meredith Fowlie | University of California, Berkeley | “Default Effects, Follow-on Behavior and Welfare in Residential Electricity Pricing Programs” |