STICERD Industrial Organisation Seminars

Many of our seminars and public events this year will continue as online seminars or as online and in person. Please check our website listings and Twitter feed @STICERD_LSE for updates.

Unless otherwise specified, current restrictions mean in-person seminars are only open to members of the LSE community (those with a valid LSE ID card).

Those unable to join the seminars in-person are welcome to participate via zoom.

Industrial Organisation seminars are held on Mondays in term time at 12:30-14:00, ONLINE, 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 01 June 2020 12:30 - 14:00

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Jonathan Williams (University of North Carolina)

ONLINE

Monday 18 May 2020 12:30 - 14:00

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Jakub Kastl (Stanford University)

ONLINE

Monday 11 May 2020 12:30 - 14:00

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Victor Aguirregabiria (University of Toronto)

ONLINE

Monday 04 May 2020 12:30 - 14:00

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Michael Whinston (MIT)

ONLINE

Monday 23 March 2020 12:30 - 14:00

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Daniel Ershov (Toulouse School of Economics)

ONLINE

Monday 16 March 2020 12:30 - 14:00

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Jihye Jeon (Boston)

ONLINE

Monday 09 March 2020 12:30 - 14:00

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Andre Veiga (Oxford)

ONLINE

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