STICERD Industrial Organisation Seminars

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.

Those unable to join the seminars in-person are welcome to participate via zoom if the event is hybrid.

Industrial Organisation seminars are held on Mondays in term time at 12:30-14:00, in person, unless specified otherwise.

Seminar organiser: Alessandro Gavazza.

For further information please contact Lubala Chibwe, either by email: l.chibwe@lse.ac.uk.

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Monday 28 November 2022 12:30 - 14:00

Competition under Incomplete Contracts and the Design of Procurement Policies

We study the effects of intensifying competition for contracts in the context of U.S. Defense procurement. Conceptually, opening contracts up to bids by more participants leads to lower awarding prices, but may hinder bu...Read more...

Rodrigo Carril (Pompeu Fabra University), joint with Andres Gonzalez-Lira and Michael S. Walker

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 05 December 2022 12:30 - 14:00

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Joao Granja (UCL)

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 13 March 2023 12:30 - 14:00

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Daniel Ershov (Toulouse School of Economics)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 20 March 2023 12:30 - 14:00

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Marleen Mara (Sciences Po)

This event is both online and in person

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 07 November 2022 12:30 - 14:00

Colluding against Environmental Regulation

We study collusion among firms against imperfectly monitored environmental regulation. Firms increase variable profits by violating regulation and reduce expected noncompliance penalties by violating jointly. We consider...Read more...

Jorge Alechilet (Universidad de los Andes), joint with Cuicui Chen, Jing Li, Mathias Reynaert

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 14 November 2022 12:30 - 14:00

Price Competition and Endogenous Product Choice in Networks: Evidence from the US Airline Industry

We build and estimate a two-stage model of airline competition in which firms first form the networks of markets to be served and then compete in prices. We estimate our model using fares data on US domestic flights. We ...Read more...

Cristina Gualdani (QMUL), joint with Christian Bontemps (Toulouse School of Economics) and Kevin Remmy (University of Mannheim)

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 21 November 2022 12:30 - 14:00

Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences

We characterize the evolution of markups for consumer products in the United States from 2006 to 2019. We use detailed data on prices and quantities for products in more than 100 distinct product categories to estimate d...Read more...

Joel Stiebale (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), joint with Hendrik Döpper, Alexander MacKay and Nathan H. Miller

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 28 November 2022 12:30 - 14:00

Competition under Incomplete Contracts and the Design of Procurement Policies

We study the effects of intensifying competition for contracts in the context of U.S. Defense procurement. Conceptually, opening contracts up to bids by more participants leads to lower awarding prices, but may hinder bu...Read more...

Rodrigo Carril (Pompeu Fabra University), joint with Andres Gonzalez-Lira and Michael S. Walker

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 05 December 2022 12:30 - 14:00

TBC

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Joao Granja (UCL)

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 21 November 2022 12:30 - 14:00

Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences

We characterize the evolution of markups for consumer products in the United States from 2006 to 2019. We use detailed data on prices and quantities for products in more than 100 distinct product categories to estimate d...Read more...

Joel Stiebale (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), joint with Hendrik Döpper, Alexander MacKay and Nathan H. Miller

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 14 November 2022 12:30 - 14:00

Price Competition and Endogenous Product Choice in Networks: Evidence from the US Airline Industry

We build and estimate a two-stage model of airline competition in which firms first form the networks of markets to be served and then compete in prices. We estimate our model using fares data on US domestic flights. We ...Read more...

Cristina Gualdani (QMUL), joint with Christian Bontemps (Toulouse School of Economics) and Kevin Remmy (University of Mannheim)

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 07 November 2022 12:30 - 14:00

Colluding against Environmental Regulation

We study collusion among firms against imperfectly monitored environmental regulation. Firms increase variable profits by violating regulation and reduce expected noncompliance penalties by violating jointly. We consider...Read more...

Jorge Alechilet (Universidad de los Andes), joint with Cuicui Chen, Jing Li, Mathias Reynaert

32L 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 01 June 2020 12:30 - 14:00

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Jonathan Williams (University of North Carolina)

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Monday 18 May 2020 12:30 - 14:00

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Jakub Kastl (Stanford University)

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Monday 11 May 2020 12:30 - 14:00

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Victor Aguirregabiria (University of Toronto)

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Monday 04 May 2020 12:30 - 14:00

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Michael Whinston (MIT)

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Monday 23 March 2020 12:30 - 14:00

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Daniel Ershov (Toulouse School of Economics)

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Monday 16 March 2020 12:30 - 14:00

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Jihye Jeon (Boston)

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Monday 09 March 2020 12:30 - 14:00

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Andre Veiga (Oxford)

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Monday 09 December 2019 12:30 - 14:00

The persistence of healthy behaviors in food purchasing

When some healthy foods are temporarily subsidized, how does that affect diet and how long does the impact last? I study the U.S. Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, which gives vouch...Read more...

Marit Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

ONLINE

Monday 25 November 2019 12:30 - 14:00

The surprising effectiveness of minimum unit prices on alcohol

All OECD countries have policies that aim to reduce the externalities associated with alcohol consumption. Policies that increase the price of alcohol face the inherent trade-off of reducing externalities while minimisin...Read more...

Rachel Griffith (IFS and University of Manchester), joint with Martin O'Connell and Kate Smith

ONLINE

Monday 18 November 2019 12:30 - 14:00

Resolving Failed Banks: Uncertainty, Multiple Bidding & Auction Design

The FDIC resolves insolvent banks using an auction process in which bidding is multidimensional and the rule used to evaluate bids along the different dimensions is proprietary. Uncertainty about the scoring rule leads b...Read more...

Robert Clark (Queen's University)

ONLINE

Monday 11 November 2019 12:30 - 14:00

Buying Data from Consumers: The Impact of Monitoring in U.S. Auto Insurance

We study the impact of a voluntary monitoring program by a major U.S. auto insurer, in which drivers accept short-term tracking in exchange for potential discounts on future premiums. We acquire a detailed proprietary da...Read more...

Yizhou Jin (Berkeley)

ONLINE

Monday 28 October 2019 12:30 - 14:00

Common Ownership in America: 1980-2017; and Testing for Common Ownership (joint with Matthew Backus and Christopher Conlon)

When competing firms possess overlapping sets of investors, maximizing shareholder value may provide incentives that distort competitive behavior, affecting pricing, entry, contracting, and virtually all strategic intera...Read more...

Michael Sinkinson (Yale)

ONLINE

Monday 20 May 2019 12:30 - 14:00

Ownership Concentration and Strategic Supply Reduction

We explore the implications of ownership concentration for the recently-concluded incentive auction that re-purposed spectrum from broadcast TV to mobile broadband usage in the U.S. We document significant multi-license ...Read more...

Ulrich Doraszelski (Wharton School), joint with Katja Seimz, Michael Sinkinsonx, Peichun Wang

ONLINE

Monday 13 May 2019 12:30 - 14:00

Structuring Subcontracting in Procurement Markets

This paper provides a novel evidence (based on a new dataset) on bidding and subcontracting behavior of primary contractors participating in California highway procurement market. We develop a model of procurement auctio...Read more...

Elena Krasnokutskaya (Johns Hopkins), joint with Jorge Balat and Tatiana Komarova

ONLINE

Monday 18 March 2019 12:30 - 14:00

Dynamic Competition and Price Regulation When Consumers Have Inertia: Evidence from Medicare Part D

When consumer choices have inertia, firms have incentives to use dynamic pricing by first reducing the price to build a large market share, and then by increasing prices. This strategy may reduce consumer welfare through...Read more...

Sebastian Fleitas (University of Leuven)

ONLINE

Monday 11 March 2019 12:30 - 14:00

Diagnosing Price Dispersion:Demand, Bargaining and Search in Hospital-Supplier Contracting

Using detailed purchase order data for a large sample of US hospitals 2009-15, we document large price dispersion across hospital buyers for identical brands in a variety of important medical supply categories. Hospitals...Read more...

Matt Grennan (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

ONLINE

Monday 25 February 2019 12:30 - 14:00

Abatement Strategies and the Cost of Environmental Regulation: Emission Standards on the European Car Market

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Mathias Reynaert (Toulouse School of Economics)

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