Industrial Organization Seminar Schedule
Fall 2013
Department of Economics, Northwestern University
| Date |
Speaker
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Affiliation |
Seminar
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September 23 |
Patrick Rey
|
Toulouse
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“Secret Contracting With Interlocking Relationships” (joint with Thibaud Verge).
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September 30
|
Ken Onishi, PhD Student
|
Northwestern
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“Quantity Discounts and Capital Misallocation in the Aircraft and Airline Industries” |
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October 7 |
Guillermo Marshall, PhD
|
Northwestern
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“Search and Price Discrimination in a Market with Repeated Purchases”
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October 14 |
Louis Kaplow
|
Harvard
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“Optimal Regulation With Exemptions and Taxes.”
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October 21 |
Fernando Luco, PhD
|
Northwestern
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“Switching Costs and Competition in Retirement Investment”
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October 28 |
Ayşe Özgür Pehlivan |
Bilkent University
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“Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Productivity Distributions and Trade Costs”
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November 4
|
Jorge Lemus, Emil Temnyalov
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Northwestern PhD students
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“The Effect of Non-Practicing Entities on the Rate of Innovation.”
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November 11
|
Glen Ellison
|
MIT
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“Match Quality, Search, and Used Books on the Internet.”
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November 18 |
Zenon Zabinski, Ph.D
|
Northwestern
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“Product Quality Choice Under Weak Price Competition: Hospital Adoption of Robotic Surgery.”
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November 25 |
Michael Katz
|
UC Berkeley
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“Will Group Payments Improve Quality in Healthcare Markets?”
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December 2
|
Joshua Gans
|
Toronto
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The Impact of the Internet on Advertising Markets for News Media.”
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