Seminars and Workshops

2008-09 SEMINARS

PREVIOUSLY HELD:

Price Stickiness and Customer Antagonism

(co-sponsored by the Marketing Department, College of Business Administration)

Duncan Simester, MIT's Sloan School of Management
Wednesday, April 1
12:00-1:15 p.m.
170 Dodge Hall
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Dynamics of Consumer Demand for New Durable Goods

Marc Rysman, Boston University
Monday, March 23
12:00-1:15 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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"Foreign Entry, Competition and Heterogeneous Growth of Firms: Do we observe 'creative destruction' in China?"

Gary Jefferson, Brandeis University
Monday, March 16
12:00-1:15 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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"Making Sense of the Subprime Crisis"

Paul Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Thursday, March 12
12:00-1:15 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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"Democratizing Incorporation: Law and the Industrial Enterprise in Massachusetts: 1830-1880"

Eric Hilt, Wellesley
Monday, November 10, 2008
12:00-1:15 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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"Asymmetric information, adverse selection and seller disclosure: the case of Ebay Motors"

Greg Lewis, Harvard/Economics
Monday, November 3, 2008
12:00-1:15 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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"Tax Evasion and Commodity Tax Incidence: Theory and Evidence from Diesel Fuel Sales"

Erich Muehlegger, Harvard/Kennedy School
Thursday, October 23, 2008
12:00-1:15 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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"How Does Popularity Information Affect Choices? Theory and a Field Experiment," (with Catherine Tucker)

JuanJuan Zhang, MIT/Sloan
Monday, October 6, 2008
12:00-1:15 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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ECONOMICS SUMMER 2008 WORKSHOP

The Economics Summer Workshop meets during lunch (BYO) on selected Tuesdays during the summer, and is open to all economics graduate students and faculty. The workshop features work in progress by doctoral students and occasional faculty presentations.

2007-08 SEMINARS

"Tipping and Residential Segregation: A Unified Schelling Model"

Junfu Zhang, Clark University
Thursday, April 10, 2008
12:00-1:15 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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"Pricing, Information, and Efficiency in the Internet Economy"

(co-sponsored with the College of Business Administration)

James D. Dana, Jr., Professor of Economics and Strategy
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
12:00-1:15 p.m.
220 Shillman Hall
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"Housing and Mortgage Markets: 2008"

Karl E. Case, Wellesley College
Thursday, March 27, 2008
12:00-1:15 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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"Explaining International Differences in Entrepreneurship: The Role of Individual Characteristics and Regulatory Constraints"

Silvia Ardagna, Harvard University
Thursday, March 13, 2008
12:00-1:15 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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"Vertical Restraints in Manufacturing Firms"

Xulia Gonzalez, Universidad de Vigo
Thursday, November 29, 2007
12:00-1:15 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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"Colonialism and Modern Income -- Islands as Natural Experiments"

Jim Feyrer, Darthmouth College
Monday, November 19, 2007
12:00-1:15 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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"Field Centipedes"

Oscar Volij, Iowa State University
Monday, October 29, 2007
12:00-1:15 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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"Gender Roles and Technological Progress"

Claudia Olivetti, Boston University
Thursday, October 25, 2007
12:00-1:15 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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"Can we teach civic attitudes?"

Daniel Miles, Universidad de Vigo
Thursday, October 4, 2007
12:00-1:15 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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ECONOMICS SUMMER 2007 WORKSHOP

The Economics Summer Workshop meets during lunch (BYO) on selected Tuesdays during the summer, and is open to all economics graduate students and faculty. The workshop features work in progress by doctoral students and occasional faculty presentations.

2006-07 SEMINARS:

"Competitive Spillovers in the Market for Long-Term Care"

Jeffrey Ballou, Assistant Professor of Economics, NU
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
1:45-3:15 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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"Price Competition in U.S. Brewing"

Christian Rojas, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
12:00-1:30 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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"Pharmaceutical Innovation"

F.M. Scherer, Aetna Professor Emeritus, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
1:45-3:15 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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"Industry Restructuring, Mergers, and Efficiency: Evidence from Electric Power"

John Kwoka, Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics, NU
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
1:45-3:15 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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"Economic and Technical Drivers of Technology Choice: Browsers"

Pai-Ling Yin, Harvard Business School
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
1:35-3:00 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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"Optimal Income Taxation and Public Good Provision in a Two-Class Economy"

Felix Bierbrauer, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
1:35-3:00 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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"The Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley on the Public Accounting Industry

Sarah Eckenrod Cosgrove, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
1:35-3:00 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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"Merger Policy, Entry, and Entrepreneurship"

Helen Weeds, University of Essex
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
12:00-1:30 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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"Integrating Models of Price Discrimination"

James Dana, Associate Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University
Thursday, October 12, 2006
1:35-3:00 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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"Overloaded: Are There Too Many Health Plan Choices in Medicare?"

Steve Pizer, Health Care Financing and Economics
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
1:35-2:45 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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"Another Look at Airport Congestion Pricing"

Steve Morrison, Northeastern University
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
1:35-2:45 p.m.
316 Lake Hall
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2005-06 SEMINARS:

"Childhood Determinants of Risk Aversion"

Maria Luengo-Prado, Northeastern University
Tuesday, April 4, 2006
1:45-3:15pm
316 Lake Hall
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"Effects of Infertility Insurance Mandates on Fertility"

Lucie Schmidt, Williams College
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
1:45-3:15pm
316 Lake Hall
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"Take Me Out to the Opera: Are Sports and Arts Complements? Evidence from the Performing Arts Research Coalition Data"

Mike Robinson, Mount Holyoke College
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
1:45-3:15pm
316 Lake Hall
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"Two-sided Network Effects in the Market for Professional Sports"

SangHoo Bae, Clark University
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
1:45-3:15pm
316 Lake Hall
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"Should Medicare Cover Drugs? The Impact of A Prescription Drug Benefit on Medicare-Eligible Veterans"

Melissa Boyle, College of the Holy Cross
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
1:45-3:15pm
316 Lake Hall
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"Venezuela After a Century of Oil Exploitation"

Osmel Manzano, Principal Economist, Andean Development Corporation (CAF), and Visiting Fellow, John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
1:45-3:15pm
316 Lake Hall
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"The Costs of Environmental Regulation in a Concentrated Industry"

Stephen Ryan, MIT
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
1:45-3:15pm
316 Lake Hall
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"Diversity, Social Goods Provision, and Performance in the Firm," with Jeffrey Greenbaum and Wallace Mullin

Sara Fisher Ellison, MIT
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
1:45-3:15pm
316 Lake Hall
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"When to Exit a Product: Evidence from the U.S. Motion-Pictures Exhibition Market"

Darlene Chisholm, Suffolk University
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
12:00-1:30pm
316 Lake Hall
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"The Globalization of Trade and Democracy, 1870-2000," with Ernesto Lopez-Cordova"

Chris Meissner, University of Cambridge (UK),
on leave at NBER
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
1:45-3:15pm
316 Lake Hall
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