IO Seminar Spring 2016

Industrial Organization Workshop Schedule

Spring 2016

Department of Economics, Northwestern University

Date
Speaker
Affiliation
Seminar
March 14

Penny Goldberg

Yale University

“Competition, Markups and Cost Pass-through: A Production-Side Approach with an Application to the Indian Trade Liberalization”

April 4
John Lazarev
New York University (CSIO Visitor)
“Input Allocation and Downstream Market Structure: Slot Control in the U.S. Airline Industry”
April 11
Shuyang Sheng
University of California, Los Angeles
“Estimation of Large Network Formation Games”
April 18
Nicholas Buchholz
 University of Texas, Austin  “Spatial Equilibrium, Search Frictions, and Efficient Regulation in the Taxi Industry”

April 25

Igal Hendel
 Northwestern University  “The Welfare Impact of Long Term Contracts: Health Insurance”
May 2
Myrto Kalouptsidi
Princeton University
“Detection and Impact of Industrial Subsidies: The Case of World Shipbuilding”

May 9

Joseph Cullen
 Washington University at St. Louis  “Welfare Analysis of Equilibria With and Without Early Termination Fees in the U.S. Wireless Industry”
May 16
Ali Hortacsu
University of Chicago

“Deposit Competition and Financial Fragility: Evidence from the U.S. Banking Sector”

May 23
Mike Abito
University of Pennsylvania
“Technological Choice in Response to Environmental Regulation: Electricity Markets and the Clean Power Plan”