Events:
STICERD Industrial Organisation Seminars
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Many of our seminars and public events this year will continue as in person or as hybrid (online and in person) events.
Please check our website listings and Twitter feed @STICERD_LSE for updates.
Unless otherwise specified, in-person seminars are open to the public. Please ensure you have informed the event contact as early as possible.
Those unable to join the seminars in-person are welcome to participate via zoom if the event is hybrid.
Monday 19 October 2026 16:00 - 17:30
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Michael Whinston (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 02 November 2026 16:00 - 17:30
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Philip Haile (Yale University)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 09 November 2026 16:00 - 17:30
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Robert Town (University of Texas at Austin)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 16 November 2026 16:00 - 17:30
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Michael Dickstein (NYU)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 23 November 2026 16:00 - 17:30
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Marguerite Obolensky (UCL)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 30 November 2026 16:00 - 17:30
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Felipe Brugues (ITAM)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 07 December 2026 16:00 - 17:30
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Matteo Ruzzante (LUISS Guido Carli University)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 19 October 2026 16:00 - 17:30
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Michael Whinston (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 02 November 2026 16:00 - 17:30
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Philip Haile (Yale University)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 09 November 2026 16:00 - 17:30
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Robert Town (University of Texas at Austin)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 16 November 2026 16:00 - 17:30
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Michael Dickstein (NYU)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 23 November 2026 16:00 - 17:30
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Marguerite Obolensky (UCL)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 30 November 2026 16:00 - 17:30
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Felipe Brugues (ITAM)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 07 December 2026 16:00 - 17:30
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Matteo Ruzzante (LUISS Guido Carli University)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 15 June 2026 12:00 - 13:30
Public Procurement vs. Regulated Competition in Selection Markets
A common approach to markets with adverse selection is to regulate competition to minimize inefficiencies, while preserving consumer choice among firms. We study the role of procurement auctions?leading to sole provision...Read more...
Jose Ignacio Cuesta (Stanford), joint with Pietro Tebaldi
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 08 June 2026 12:00 - 13:30
Choice by Design: Evidence from Feeding America?s Food Allocation Problem
Feeding America, an organisation responsible for feeding 130,000 Americans every day, distributes food among a nationwide network of food banks. Their allocation mechanism, known as the `Choice System?, uses auctions and...Read more...
Sam Altmann (Queen Mary)
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 01 June 2026 12:00 - 13:30
Moral Hazard and Imperfect Competition in Financial Markets
Moral hazard is traditionally analyzed as a bilateral principal--agent problem. In financial markets, however, intermediaries (agents) investing on behalf of clients (principals) must compete with one another when tradin...Read more...
Milena Wittwer (Columbia)
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 16 March 2026 12:00 - 13:30
Combining Complements: Theory and Evidence from Cancer Treatment Innovation
Innovations often combine several components to achieve outcomes greater than the ?sum of the parts.? We argue that such combination innovations can introduce an understudied inefficiency ? a positive market expansion ex...Read more...
Rebekah Dix (Yale)
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 09 March 2026 16:00 - 17:30
Estimating Consumer Preferences for LLMs: Evidence from LMArena
This paper studies product differentiation in the consumer market for large language models (LLMs) using data from randomized pairwise comparisons of LLM responses. I estimate a differentiated-product demand model in whi...Read more...
El Hadi Caoui (Cairo)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 02 March 2026 12:00 - 13:30
Joint with CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
Smart Power Limits: Designing Shortage Mechanisms for Extreme Events
As shortages of resources like water and electricity due to extreme weather events become more frequent, high prices alone may fail to curb demand, making shortages more common. We examine a power limit policy for resi...Read more...
Mar Reguant (The Institute for Economic Analysis), joint with Mayra Wagner
This event is both online and in person
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 23 February 2026 12:00 - 13:30
Price Discrimination, Consumer Search, and Online Sales in the Automobile Industry
We investigate the welfare consequences of introducing an online distribution channel in the French car industry, where most sales take place in person relying on rebates over the posted prices to price discriminate. We ...Read more...
Alessandro Iaria (Bristol), joint with Xavier D?Haultf?uille, Isis Durrmeyer, and Jean-Francois Fournel
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 08 December 2025 12:00 - 13:30
CANCELLED: Are Hospital Acquisitions of Physician Practices Anticompetitive?
This paper empirically analyzes the effects of mergers between complementary firms on competition and pricing. As these non-horizontal mergers have become more common, there is increasing interest in evaluating both pote...Read more...
Matt Grennan (Emory), joint with Ashley Swanson (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Stuart Craig (Wharton), Zach Cooper (Yale), Fiona M. Scott Morton (Yale), Aristotelis Epanomeritakis (Harvard) and Joseph Martinez (UCSF)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 01 December 2025 12:00 - 13:30
Pharmaceutical Advertising in Dynamic Equilibrium
Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription pharmaceuticals can improve access to innovative treatments, particularly for patients who do not regularly visit physicians. At the same time, DTCA may encourage exc...Read more...
Pierre Dubois (Toulouse School of Economics), joint with Ariel Pakes
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 24 November 2025 12:00 - 13:30
Default Options and Market Power: Evidence from Target-Date Funds
This paper studies how default investment options generate market power in the U.S. retirement savings market. Focusing on Target Date Funds (TDFs), the predominant default option in 401(k) plans, we show that the fees c...Read more...
Marco Loseto (Bocconi)
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 17 November 2025 12:00 - 13:30
Intermediaries in Decentralized Markets: Evidence from Used-Car Transactions
We develop and estimate a spatial search-and-bargaining model to study the role of intermediaries and spatial frictions using data from the used-car market. We find that dealers earn price premiums by leveraging three ke...Read more...
Charlie Murry (Michigan)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 10 November 2025 12:00 - 13:30
Quantifying Bargaining Power Under Incomplete Information: A Supply-Side Analysis of the Used-Car Industry
This study quantifies bargaining power in supply-side negotiations with incomplete information, where car dealers negotiate inventory prices with large wholesalers after an auction. We measure an agent?s bargaining pow...Read more...
Bradley Larsen (Olin Business School, Washington University)
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 16 June 2025 16:00 - 17:30
Efficient Grid Search to Solve Static Games with Private Information
We introduce a new method for computing equilibria in a large class of games, including auctions, nonlinear pricing and optimal contracting. First, we observe that the objective function, e.g. the bid function in an auct...Read more...
Eric Richert (Chicago), joint with Jakub Kastl and Jesper Rudiger
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 09 June 2025 16:00 - 17:30
Intermediaries and Market Competition in Health Insurance
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Naoki Aizawa (University of Wisconsin-Madison), joint with Honglin Li, Lorenzo Magnolfi, and Christopher Sullivan
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 02 June 2025 16:00 - 17:30
Welfare Effects of Buyer and Seller Power
We provide a theoretical characterization of the welfare effects of buyer and seller power in vertical relations and introduce an empirical approach for quantifying the contributions of each to the welfare losses from ...Read more...
Mert Demirer (MIT), joint with Michael Rubens
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 19 May 2025 16:00 - 17:30
Investment, Productivity, and Selection in the U.S. Shale Boom
Why was the U.S. shale oil and gas revolution so revolutionary? As the U.S. Energy Information Administration quipped in 2024, ?the U.S. produces more crude oil than any country, ever?. The current, record, rate of produ...Read more...
Ryan Kellogg (Chicago), joint with Thomas R. Covert, Konan Hara, and Richard L. Sweeney
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 12 May 2025 16:00 - 17:30
Desirable Rankings: A New Method for Ranking Outcomes of a Competitive Process
We consider the problem of aggregating individual preferences over alternatives into a social ranking. A key feature of the problems that we consider?and the one that allows us to obtain positive results, in contrast to ...Read more...
Gaurab Aryal (Boston University), joint with Thayer Morrill and Peter Troyan
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 31 March 2025 16:00 - 17:30
Production Function Identification Under Imperfect Competition
The presence of imperfect competition introduces distinct challenges when estimating production functions. We start by highlighting that some existing approaches to production function estimation cannot completely abstra...Read more...
Jan De Loecker (KU Leuven), joint with Daniel A. Ackerberg (UT Austin)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 10 March 2025 16:00 - 17:30
Spillover Effects in Complementary Markets: A Study of the Indian Cell Phone and Wireless Service Markets
This paper studies indirect network effects on firm entry and product variety in the Indian mobile phone industry during the 4G rollout, focusing on the cell phone and wireless service markets. We highlight that the pres...Read more...
Ying Fan (Michigan)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Monday 09 December 2024 16:00 - 17:30
Estimating Nesting Structures
The nested logit model is commonly used to estimate demand in differentiated products markets. However, it and its generalizations require an assumed nesting structure. In this paper, we propose to estimate the nesting s...Read more...
Julien Monardo (Bristol), joint with Ali Hortacsu, Jonas Lieber, and Aureo de Paula
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH