IO Seminar Spring 2014 | Center for the Study of Industrial Organization

Industrial Organization Seminar Schedule

Spring 2014

Department of Economics, Northwestern University

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper
March 31	Dennis Carlton	University of Chicago	“Coase, Antitrust, and Merger Simulation with Nonlinear Prices”
April 10 (Joint with Economic History), 4:30-6:00, Room 3204	Yishay Yafeh	Hebrew University	“Business Groups in the United States: A Revised History of Corporate Ownership, Pyramids and Regulation, 1930-1950.” (Note different day, time and location due to joint seminar with Economic History.)
April 14	Gautam Gowrisankaran	Arizona	“Myopia and Complex Dynamic Incentives: Evidence from Medicare Part D”
April 22 (Joint with Management and Strategy), 1:30-3:00, Room TBA	Jon Levin	Stanford	TBA. (Note different day, time and location due to joint seminar with Management and Strategy.)
April 28	Justin Johnson	Cornell	“Unplanned-Purchases and Retail Competition”
May 5	Andrew Sweeting	Maryland/Duke	“A Model of Dynamic Limit Pricing with an Application to the Airline Industry”
May 12	Volker Nocke	Manheim	“Merger Policy in a Quantitative Model of International Trade.”
May 19	Brad Larsen	Stanford	“The Efficiency of Dynamic, Post-Auction Bargaining: Evidence from Used -Auto Auctions”
May 26	No Seminar	TBA	Memorial Day
June 2	Dan Ackerberg	Michigan	“Timing Assumptions and Efficiency: Some Empirical Evidence in a Production Function Context.”