Past STICERD Industrial Organisation Seminars

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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

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

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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’Haultfœuille, Isis Durrmeyer, and Jean-François 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 Rüdiger

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 Hortaçsu, Jonas Lieber, and Áureo de Paula

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 02 December 2024 16:00 - 17:30

Distributional effects of vehicle ownership restrictions

We study vehicle population controls, their dynamic effects, alternative policy designs, and implications for efficiency and equity. We leverage data on the universe of vehicles in Singapore, the number of which is limit...Read more...

Kwok-Hao Lee (National University of Singapore)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 25 November 2024 16:00 - 17:30

Vertical Integration and Plan Design in Healthcare Markets

We measure the impacts of vertical integration between insurers and hospitals. In the Chilean market, where half of private hospital capacity is vertically integrated, integration increases inpatient care spending by 6 p...Read more...

Benjamin Vatter (MIT)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 18 November 2024 16:00 - 17:30

Competing Platforms and Transport Equilibrium

I study whether platform competition in ride-hailing generates waste and whether efficiency can be enhanced by consolidating competing networks, considering the tension between market power and network economies. I const...Read more...

Nicola Rosaia (Columbia)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 10 June 2024 15:00 - 16:30

The Expansionary and Contractionary Supply-Side Effects of Health Insurance

We examine how health insurance expansions affect the entry and location decisions of health care providers. We first show theoretically that expansions of health insurance with relatively high, market-based prices (e.g....Read more...

Molly Kathleen Schnell (Northwestern), joint with Eilidh Geddes

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 03 June 2024 15:00 - 16:30

Learning, Sophistication, and the Returns to Advertising: Implications for Differences in Firm Performance

Why do establishments exhibit wide variation in their productivity and profitability? Can variation in returns to advertising help answer this question? We present results from a large field experiment on Facebook and ...Read more...

Steve Tadelis (University of California, Berkeley), joint with Christopher Hooton, Utsav Manjeer, Daniel Deisenroth, Nils Wernerfelt, Nick Dadson and Lindsay Greenbaum

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 20 May 2024 15:00 - 16:30

Mergers, Foreign Competition, and Jobs: Evidence from the U.S. Appliance Industry

Policy choices often entail trade-offs between workers and consumers. I assess how foreign competition changes the consumer welfare and domestic employment effects of a merger. I construct a model accounting for demand r...Read more...

Felix Montag (Dartmouth)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 13 May 2024 15:00 - 16:30

You Can Lead a Horse to Water: Spatial Learning and Path Dependence in Consumer Search

We develop and estimate a model of consumer search with spatial learning and path dependence. Consumers make inferences from previously searched objects to unsearched objects that are nearby in attribute space. The estim...Read more...

Charles Hodgson (Yale), joint with Greg Lewis

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 29 April 2024 15:00 - 16:30

Information Frictions in Mortgage Refinancing

Households often fail to refinance mortgages, foregoing substantial reductions in interest payments. We implement a large-scale experiment on the mortgage borrowers in a Chilean bank to study whether information interven...Read more...

Vivek Bhattacharya (Northwestern)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 05 June 2023 12:30 - 14:00

Understanding Port Performance and the Role of Infrastructure

We explore efficiency and optimal policy in decentralized transport markets, such as taxis, trucks, and bulk shipping. We show that in these markets, search frictions distort the transportation network and the dynamic a...Read more...

Myrto Kalouptsidi (Harvard University), joint with Giulia Brancaccio and Theodore Papageorgiou

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 22 May 2023 12:30 - 14:00

Modeling Job Search and Matching with Panel Data on Vacancies and Applications

We analyze data from a large firm that provided information on all job applications and labor market outcomes within the firm over a 5-year period. The data show that African Americans and women engage in more overt job ...Read more...

Robert A Miller (Carnegie Mellon University), joint with Rebecca Lessem

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 15 May 2023 12:30 - 14:00

Algorithmic Pricing and Competition: Empirical Evidence from the German Retail Gasoline Market

We provide the first empirical analysis of the relationship between algorithmic pricing (AP) and competition by studying the impact of adoption in Germany's retail gasoline market, where software became widely available ...Read more...

Daniel Ershov (University College London)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 27 March 2023 12:30 - 14:00

Saving for a Dry Day: Coal, Dams, and the Energy Transition

Renewable generation creates a tradeoff between current and future energy production as generators produce energy by releasing previously stored resources. Studying the Colombian market, we find that diversified firms st...Read more...

Michele Fioretti (Sciences Po)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 20 March 2023 12:30 - 14:00

Competitive award of scarce airport slots: an empirical analysis

This paper explores the welfare impacts of introducing a market-based mechanism for the allocation of scarce airport take-off and landing slots. Instead of the usual revealed preference approach that recovers values from...Read more...

Marleen Marra (Sciences Po)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 06 March 2023 12:30 - 14:00

Why Do Investors Buy Expensive Index Funds? Quantifying Frictions in the Index Fund Market

Index funds are one of the most common ways investors access equity markets and are perceived to be a transparent and low-cost alternative to active investment management. Despite these purported virtues of passive asset...Read more...

Jihye Jeon (Boston University)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 05 December 2022 12:30 - 14:00

Regulation and Service Provision in Dynamic Oligopoly: Evidence from Mobile Telecommunications

I study the effects of universal service regulation in oligopolistic industries with sunk investment costs, focusing on the Brazilian mobile telecommunications industry. To quantify the impact of regulation on service av...Read more...

Joao Granja (University College London)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, 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

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, 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

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, 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 (Queen Mary University of London), joint with Christian Bontemps (Toulouse School of Economics) and Kevin Remmy (University of Mannheim)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, 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 (University of the Andes), joint with Cuicui Chen, Jing Li, Mathias Reynaert

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, 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 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Monday 23 March 2020 12:30 - 14:00

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Daniel Ershov (University College London)

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Monday 16 March 2020 12:30 - 14:00

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Jihye Jeon (Boston University)

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Monday 09 March 2020 12:30 - 14:00

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Andre Veiga (University of 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)

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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 (University of Manchester and Institute for Fiscal Studies), joint with Martin O'Connell and Kate Smith

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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)

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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 (University of California, Berkeley)

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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 University)

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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 of the University of Pennsylvania), joint with Katja Seimz, Michael Sinkinsonx, Peichun Wang

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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 University), joint with Jorge Balat and Tatiana Komarova

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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)

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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 (Emory)

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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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Monday 10 December 2018 12:30 - 14:00

Health Insurance Menu Design: Managing the Spending-Coverage Tradeoff

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Kate Ho (Princeton University)

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Monday 26 November 2018 12:30 - 14:00

Collateral and Asymmetric Information in Lending Markets

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Nicola Pavanini (Tilburg University), joint with Vasso Ioannidou and Yushi Peng

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Monday 19 November 2018 12:30 - 14:00

Nonparametric Demand Estimation in Differentiated Products Markets

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Giovanni Compiani (Haas School of Business)

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Monday 12 November 2018 12:30 - 14:00

Quantitative Analysis of Multiparty Tariff Negotiations

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Ali Yurukoglu (Stanford Graduate School of Business), joint with Kyle Bagwell and Robert Staiger

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Wednesday 30 May 2018 12:30 - 14:00

Offshoring and reorganization

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Andy Bernard (Dartmouth College), joint with Trade seminar series

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Monday 14 May 2018 12:30 - 14:00

The Efficiency of Race Neutral Alternatives to Race-Based Affirmative Action: Evidence From Chicago's Exam Schools

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Glenn Ellison (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), joint with Parag Pathak

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Monday 30 April 2018 12:30 - 14:00

Political Connections and Market Structure

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Camilla Roncoroni (University of Warwick), joint with Lorenzo Magnolfi

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Monday 23 April 2018 16:30 - 18:00

An Aggregate Games Approach to Merger Analysis in Multiproduct-Firm Oligopoly

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Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim), joint with LSE Trade Group (paper joint with Nicolas Schutz)

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 19 March 2018 12:30 - 14:00

Knowledge Spillovers through Networks of Scientists

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Paolo Zacchia (CERGE-EI)

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Monday 05 March 2018 12:30 - 14:00

Recovering Social Networks from Panel Data: Identification, Simulations and an Application

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Aureo De Paula (University College London), joint with Imran Rasul and Pedro Souza

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Monday 26 February 2018 12:30 - 14:00

Inference on Auctions with Weak Assumptions on Information

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Elie Tamer (Harvard University)

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Monday 19 February 2018 12:30 - 14:00

A structural model of homophily and clustering in social networks

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Angelo Mele (Johns Hopkins Carey Business School)

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Monday 27 November 2017 12:30 - 14:00

What Do Consumers Consider before They Choose? Identification from Asymmetric Demand Responses (joint with Jason Abaluck)

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Abi Adams-Prassl (Northwestern University), joint with CEP-STICERD Applications and Psychology and Economics seminars

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Monday 20 November 2017 12:30 - 14:00

Patient vs. Provider Incentives in Long Term Care

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Martin Hackmann (University of California, Los Angeles), joint with R. Vincent Pohl, University of Georgia

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Monday 30 October 2017 12:30 - 14:00

Subsidy Tagging in Privately-Provided Health Insurance Markets

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Stephen Ryan (Washington University in St Louis)

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Monday 09 October 2017 12:30 - 14:00

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Matteo Benetton (LSE)

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 19 June 2017 17:00 - 18:30

The Tragedy of the Last Mile: Congestion Externalities in Broadband Networks

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Aviv Nevo (University of Pennsylvania), joint with Jacob Malone and Jonathan Williams

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Monday 12 June 2017 12:30 - 14:00

Spatial Equilibrium, Search Frictions, and Efficient Regulation in the Taxi Industry

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Nick Buchholz (Princeton University)

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Monday 15 May 2017 12:30 - 14:00

Mergers, Innovation, and Entry-Exit Dynamics: The Consolidation of the Hard Disk Drive Industry

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Kosuke Uetake (Yale University), joint with Mitsuru Igami

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Monday 08 May 2017 12:30 - 14:00

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Hanming Fang (University of Pennsylvania)

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Monday 20 March 2017 12:30 - 14:00

Household Diversification: The Vehicle Portfolio Effect

Households value diversity in many settings, including financial assets, gender of children, and occupations. This paper quantifies the extent to which multi-car households exhibit preferences for a diversified vehicle p...Read more...

Dave Rapson (University of California at Davis), joint with James Archsmith, Kenneth Gillingham, Christopher Knittel

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Monday 27 February 2017 12:30 - 14:00

An Empirical Study of Cartel Behavior in the Presence of Detection Possibility

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Masato Nishiwashi (Waseda University and visiting LSE)

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Thursday 23 February 2017 14:00 - 15:30

Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard in a Dynamic Model of Auto Insurance

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Elena Krasnokutskaya (Johns Hopkins University), joint with STICERD Econometrics Seminar Series

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Monday 28 November 2016 12:30 - 14:00

Intermediation and Competition in Search Markets: An Empirical Case Study

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Tobias Salz (New York University)

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Monday 21 November 2016 12:30 - 14:00

Identification of Counterfactuals in Dynamic Discrete Choice Models

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Myrto Kalouptsidi (Harvard University), joint with Paul T. Scott and Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues

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Monday 14 November 2016 12:30 - 14:00

Airline Services Agreements: A Structural Model of Network Formation

Airline services agreements are necessary for direct flights between countries and consequently they are central to the operation of the commercial airline market. These agreements are bilateral in nature but their cover...Read more...

Marc Rysman (Boston University), joint with Phillip McCalman (University of Melbourne)

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Monday 31 October 2016 12:30 - 14:00

The Market Power Effects of a Merger: Evidence from the U.S. Brewing Industry

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Nathan Miller (Georgetown University)

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Monday 24 October 2016 12:30 - 14:00

Distorted Advice in the Mortgage Market: Theory and Structural Estimation

Complex financial decisions, such as choosing the mortgage type, require some degree of sophistication to form expectations about the future evolution of economic conditions. This provides banks, who often advise househo...Read more...

Andrea Pozzi (Einaudi Institute for Economics & Finance), joint with Leonardo Gambacorta, Luigi Guiso, Paolo Mistrulli and Anton Tsoy

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Monday 17 October 2016 12:30 - 14:00

Estimating Equilibrium in Health Insurance Exchanges: Price Competition and Subsidy Design under the ACA

To design premium subsidies in a health insurance market it is necessary to estimate consumer demand and study how different subsidy schemes affect insurers’ incentives. Combining data from the Californian ACA marketplac...Read more...

Pietro Tebaldi (University of Chicago)

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Monday 10 October 2016 12:30 - 14:00

Dynamic Bidding in Second Price Auctions

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Maryam Saeedi (Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University)

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Monday 23 May 2016 12:30 - 14:00

Informational Shocks, Off-Label Prescribing and the Effects of Physician Detailing

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Bradley Shapiro (University of Chicago)

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Monday 16 May 2016 12:30 - 14:00

Production Function Estimation with Measurement Error in Inputs

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Jan De Loecker (KU Leuven), joint with Allan Collard-Wexler

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Monday 09 May 2016 12:30 - 14:00

Sales Tax, E-Commerce, and Amazon's Fulfillment Center Network

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Katya Seim (University of Pennsylvania)

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Monday 21 March 2016 12:30 - 14:00

Efficiency and Foreclosure Effects of Vertical Rebates: Empirical Evidence

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Chris Conlon (Columbia University), joint with Julie Holland Mortimer (Boston College)

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Monday 14 March 2016 12:30 - 14:00

Demand Analysis using Strategic Reports: An Application to a School Choice Mechanism

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Paulo Somaini (Stanford University)

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Monday 29 February 2016 12:30 - 14:00

Foreclosure Auctions

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Art Shneyerov (Concordia University)

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Monday 22 February 2016 12:30 - 14:00

Residual Deterrence

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Daniel Garrett (University of Essex)

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Monday 30 November 2015 12:30 - 14:00

Dynamic Discrete Choice Estimation of Agricultural Land Use

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Paul Scott (Toulouse School of Economics)

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Monday 23 November 2015 12:30 - 14:00

Complexity, Efficiency, and Fairness of Multi-Product Monopoly Pricing?

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Eugenio Miravate (University of Pennsylvania)

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Monday 16 November 2015 12:30 - 14:00

The Provision of Wage Incentives: A Structural Estimation Using Contracts Variation

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Xavier D'Haultfoeuille (ENSAE Paris), joint with Philippe Février

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Monday 12 October 2015 12:30 - 14:00

Product Variety and Store Density: A General Equilibrium Model of Retailing

Retailing constitutes a very large sector, measuring about 20% of a country’s gross domestic product on average. This holds true across nations regardless of differences in income, size, development, and (proxies for) en...Read more...

Bart Bronnenberg (Tilburg University)

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Monday 05 October 2015 12:30 - 14:00

Winning by Default: Why is There So Little Competition in Government Procurement?

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Robert A Miller (Carnegie Mellon University), joint with Karam Kang

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Monday 15 June 2015 16:30 - 18:00

Deposit Competition and Financial Fragility: Evidence from the US Banking Sector

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Ali Hortacsu (University of Chicago), joint with Mark Egan and Gregor Matvos

NERA, 66 Seymour Street, London, W1H 5BT

Monday 18 May 2015 13:00 - 14:30

Cheap Talk, Round Numbers, and the Economics of Negotiation

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Matthew Backus (Cornell University), joint with Tom Blake and Steve Tadelis

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 11 May 2015 13:00 - 14:30

Staggered vs. Simultaneous Price Setting with an Application to an Online Market

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Andrew Sweeting (University of Maryland), joint with Kane Sweeney (eBay Research Labs)

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 16 March 2015 13:00 - 14:30

The Efficiency of Real-World Bargaining: Evidence from Wholesale Used-Auto Auctions

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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 09 March 2015 13:00 - 14:30

Consumer Price Search and Platform Design in Internet Commerce

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Liran Einav (Stanford University)

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 23 February 2015 13:00 - 14:30

Are Dynamic Vickrey Auctions Practical? Properties of the Combinatorial Clock Auction

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Jonathan Levin (Stanford University), joint with Andrzej Skrzypaczy

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 08 December 2014 13:00 - 14:30

The Welfare Effects of Vertical Integration in Multichannel Television Markets

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Gregory Crawford (University of Zurich), joint with Robin Lee, Mike Whinston and Ali Yurukoglu

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 24 November 2014 13:00 - 14:30

Identification and Estimation of Incentive Contracts under Asymmetric Information: An Application to the French Water Sector

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Christian Bontemps (Toulouse School of Economics)

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 17 November 2014 13:00 - 14:30

Marijuana on Main Street? Estimating Demand in Markets with Limited Access

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Michelle Sovinski (University of Zurich), joint with Liana Jacobi

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 10 November 2014 13:00 - 14:30

The Illiquidity of Water Markets

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Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez (Yale University), joint with Javier Donna

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 27 October 2014 13:00 - 14:30

The Welfare Effects of Intertemporal Price Discrimination: An Empirical Analysis of Airline Pricing in U.S.Monopoly Markets

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John Lazarev (New York University)

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 20 October 2014 13:00 - 14:30

Social Media and Consumers - Countervailing Power: The Cottage Cheese Boycott

In the summer of 2011 a consumer boycott on cottage cheese was organized in Israel via Facebook. The boycott was prompted by the steep increase in prices after price controls were lifted in 2006. We document the evolutio...Read more...

Yossi Spiegel (Tel Aviv University)

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 13 October 2014 13:00 - 14:30

Pass-Through in a Concentrated Industry: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications

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Matthew Osborne (University of Toronto), joint with Nathan H. Miller (Georgetown University) and Gloria Sheu (US Department of Justice)

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 23 June 2014 13:00 - 14:30

The Role of Quality in On-line Service Markets

We study an on-line market for programming services where providers are chosen through multi-attribute auctions, a mechanism that takes into account seller's non-price characteristics as well as his bid. We develop empir...Read more...

Elena Krasnokutskaya (Johns Hopkins University), joint with Kyungchul Song (University of British Columbia) and Xun Tang (University of Pennsylvania)

NERA, 66 Seymour Street, London, W1H 5BT

Monday 16 June 2014 13:00 - 14:30

Optimal Percentage Fees

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Andras Niedermayer (University of Mannheim), joint with Simon Loertscher

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 09 June 2014 13:00 - 14:30

Investigating Pre-College Human Capital Investment with Field Experiments and Structural Econometric Methods

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Brent Hickman (University of Chicago)

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 19 May 2014 13:00 - 14:30

Cupid's Invisible Hand: Social Surplus and Identification in Matching Models

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Alfred Galichon (Sciences Po), joint with Bernard Salanie

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 12 May 2014 13:00 - 14:30

Antitrust Leniency with Multi-Product Colluders

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Leslie Marx ( Duke University), joint with Claudio Mezzetti and Robert C. Marshall

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 17 March 2014 13:00 - 14:30

Product Design in Selection Markets

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Andre Veiga (University of Oxford)

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 10 March 2014 13:00 - 14:30

Pass-through of Emissions Costs in Electricity Markets

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Mar Reguant (Northwestern), joint with Natalia Fabra (U. Carlos III)

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 02 December 2013 17:00 - 18:30

An Empirical Model of the Medical Match

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Nikhil Agarwal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 25 November 2013 17:00 - 18:30

Does merger simulation work? Evidence from the Swedish Analgesics market

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Frank Verboven (KU Leuven), joint with Jonas Bjornerstedt

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 18 November 2013 17:00 - 18:30

An Empirical Model of Dynamic Limit Pricing: The Airline Industry

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James Roberts (Duke University), joint with Chris Gedge and Andrew Sweeting

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 11 November 2013 17:00 - 18:30

Estimating the Effects of Banning Advertising on Demand and Firms' Pricing

There is considerable interest in the effectiveness of regulation as a means of reducing consumption of specific foods, in particular those that are of low nutritional quality. In both the US and the UK there are current...Read more...

Pierre Dubois (Toulouse School of Economics), joint with Rachel Griffith and Martin O'Connell

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 28 October 2013 17:00 - 18:30

Price negotiation in differentiated products markets: The case of insured mortgages in Canada

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Jean-Francois Houde (University of Pennsylvania), joint with Jason Allen and Robert Clark

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 21 October 2013 17:00 - 18:30

Estimating the Innovator’s Dilemma: Structural Analysis of Creative Destruction

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Mitsuru Igami (Yale University)

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 14 October 2013 17:00 - 18:30

Do Pharmacists Buy Bayer? Sophisticated Shoppers and the Brand Premium

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Matthew Gentzkow (Stanford)

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 01 July 2013 17:00 - 18:30

Competition and Interdependent Costs in Highway Procurement

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Paulo Somaini (Stanford University)

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 24 June 2013 17:00 - 18:30

A Demand Model for Grocery Categories: Multiproduct Effects and Supermarket Pricing

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Howard Smith (University of Oxford)

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 10 June 2013 17:00 - 18:30

Indicative Bidding in Auctions with Costly Entry

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Kenneth Hendricks (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

NERA, 66 Seymour Street, London, W1H 5BT

Tuesday 07 May 2013 11:00 - 12:30

Insurer Competition and Negotiated Hospital Prices

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Robin S Lee (NYU Stern School of Business), joint with Kate Ho

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 11 March 2013 17:00 - 18:30

Liquidity Auctions, Fixed Rate Tenders, Bailouts & Systemic Risk in the EURO Zone

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Jakub Kastl (Stanford University), joint with Nuno Cassola and Ali Hortacsu

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 04 March 2013 17:00 - 18:30

Dynamic Models with Unobserved State Variables and Heterogeneity: Time Inconsistency in Drug Compliance

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Yingyao Hu (Johns Hopkins University)

SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Monday 10 December 2012 17:00 - 18:30

Ascending Auctions with Costly Monitoring

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Joachim Groeger (Carnegie Mellon University)

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Monday 03 December 2012 17:00 - 18:30

Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models in Continuous Time

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Peter Arcidiacono (Duke University)

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Monday 26 November 2012 17:00 - 18:30

Identification in Auctions with Selective Entry

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Matthew Gentry (LSE), joint with Tong Li

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Monday 19 November 2012 17:00 - 18:30

Identification, Data Combination and the Risk of Disclosure

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Tatiana Komorova (LSE), joint with Denis Nekipelov and Evgeny Yakovlev

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Monday 12 November 2012 17:00 - 18:30

An Empirical Equilibrium Model of a Decentralized Asset Market

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Alessandro Gavazza (New York University)

Conference Room, LRB 505, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

Monday 22 October 2012 17:00 - 18:30

Public Banks Improve Private Banks Performance: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Model (job market presentation)

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Fabio Miessi Sanches (LSE), joint with Daniel Silva Junior

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Monday 18 June 2012 17:00 - 18:30

Efficient Provision of Experience Goods: Evidence from Antidepressant Choice

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Michael Dickstein (Stanford University)

NERA, 66 Seymour Street, London, W1H 5BT

Monday 11 June 2012 17:00 - 18:30

Are Consumers Myopic? Evidence from New and Used Car Purchases

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Meghan Busse (Northwestern University)

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Monday 23 April 2012 17:00 - 18:30

The Costs of Free Entry: An Empirical Study of Real Estate Agents in Greater Boston

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Panle Jia Barwick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Monday 05 December 2011 17:00 - 18:30

Identification and Inference in Ascending Auctions with Correlated Private Values.

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Amit Gandhi (University of Wisconsin–Madison), joint with Andres Aradillas-Lopez and Daniel Quint

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Monday 28 November 2011 17:00 - 18:30

Public Banks Improve Private Banks Performance: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Model

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Fabio Miessi Sanches (LSE), joint with Daniel Silva Junior (London School of Economics)

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Monday 21 November 2011 17:00 - 18:30

Promotion, Turnover and Compensation in the Executive Labor Market

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Robert A Miller (Carnegie Mellon University)

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Monday 14 November 2011 17:00 - 18:30

Supermarket choice with multi-store shopping: measuring the effect of format regulation

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Pasquale Schiraldi (LSE), joint with Stephan Seiler, (LSE) and Howard Smith, (Oxford).

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Monday 07 November 2011 17:00 - 18:30

Estimating a War of Attrition: The Case of the U.S. Movie Theater Industry

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Yuya Takahashi (University of Mannheim)

Meeting Room, LRB 532, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Monday 03 October 2011 17:00 - 18:30

Connected Substitutes and Invertibility of Demand

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Philip Haile (Yale University), joint with Steven Berry, Yale University and Amit Gandhi, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Monday 06 June 2011 17:00 - 18:30

An Estimable Demand System for a Large Auction Platform Market

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Greg Lewis (Harvard University and NBER), joint with Matthew Backus

NERA, 66 Seymour Street, London, W1H 5BT

Monday 23 May 2011 17:00 - 18:30

An Empirical Equilibrium Model of a Decentralized Asset Market

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Alessandro Gavazza (New York University)

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Monday 16 May 2011 17:00 - 18:30

Inference of Signs of Interaction Effects in Simultaneous Games with Incomplete Information

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Xun Tang (Rice University), joint with Aureo de Paula

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Monday 09 May 2011 17:00 - 18:30

Nonlinear Pricing in Yellow Pages

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Isabelle Perrigne (Pennsylvania State University), joint with Quang Vuong

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Monday 24 January 2011 17:00 - 18:30

Time to Build and Shipping Prices

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Myrto Kalouptsidi (Harvard University)

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Monday 17 January 2011 17:00 - 18:30

The Welfare Effects of Complementary Bidding Mechanisms An Empirical Analysis of the Spanish Wholesale Electricity Market

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Mar Reguant (Northwestern)

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Monday 13 December 2010 17:00 - 18:30

Identification of Insurance Models with Multidimensional Screening

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Gaurab Aryal (Boston University), joint with Isabelle Perrigne, Pennsylvania State University and Quang Vuong, Pennsylvania State University

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Monday 06 December 2010 17:00 - 18:30

The Evolution of Brand Preferences: Evidence from Consumer Migration

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Jean-Pierre Dubé (University of Chicago and NBER), joint with Bart J. Bronnenberg, CentER, Tilburg University Matthew Gentzkow, University of Chicago and NBER

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Monday 22 November 2010 17:00 - 18:30

Participation Screen for Collusion in Auctions

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Janne Tukiainen (HECER and VATT, STICERD visitor)

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Monday 01 November 2010 17:00 - 18:30

The Econometrics of Auctions with Asymmetric Anonymous Bidders

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Laurent Lamy (Paris School of Economics)

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Monday 21 June 2010 17:00 - 18:30

Joint NERA-STICERD Industrial Organisation/Economic Theory Seminar: Reputation for Quality

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Simon Board (University of California, Los Angeles), joint with Moritz Meyer-Ter-Vehn

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Monday 14 June 2010 17:00 - 18:30

Estimating a Model of Strategic Network Choice: The Convenience-Store Industry in Okinawa

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Mitsukuni Nishida (Johns Hopkins University)

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Monday 24 May 2010 17:00 - 18:30

Simulating the Dynamic Effects of Horizontal Mergers: U.S. Airlines

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Lanier Benkard (Yale University), joint with Aaron Bodoh-Creed, (Stanford) and John Lazarev, (Stanford).

NERA, 66 Seymour Street, London, W1H 5BT

Monday 26 April 2010 17:00 - 18:30

Ownership Consolodation and Product Quality: A Study of the U.S. Daily Newspaper Market

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Ying Fan (University of Michigan)

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Monday 08 March 2010 17:00 - 18:30

A non-parametric analysis of the Cournot model

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Andres Carjaval (University of Warwick), joint with John K.-H. Quah

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Monday 01 March 2010 17:00 - 18:30

Strategic interaction between General Practitioners and Specialists - implications for gatekeeping

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Catherine Schaumans (Tilburg University)

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Monday 15 February 2010 17:00 - 18:30

Asymmetric Price Effects of Competition

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Saul Lach (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), joint with José Luis Moraga-González (University of Groningen)

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Monday 07 December 2009 17:00 - 18:30

The Cost of Contract Renegotiation: Evidence from the Local Public Sector

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Philippe Gagnepain (Carlos III University of Madrid), joint with Marc Ivaldi, (Toulouse School of Economics, EHESS and CEPR) David Martimort, (Toulouse School of Economics, EHESS and CEPR)

Meeting Room, LRB 532, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Monday 30 November 2009 17:00 - 18:30

The Welfare Effects of Ticket Resale

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Alan Sorensen (Stanford University), joint with Phillip Leslie

Meeting Room, LRB 532, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Monday 23 November 2009 17:00 - 18:30

Optimal Mandates and The Welfare Cost of Asymmetric Information: Evidence from The U.K. Annuity Marke

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Liran Einav (Stanford University), joint with Amy Finkelstein and Paul Schrimp

Meeting Room, LRB 532, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Monday 16 November 2009 17:00 - 18:30

Estimation of a Dynamic Auction with Endogenous Participation

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Joachim Groeger (Carnegie Mellon University)

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Monday 19 October 2009 17:00 - 18:30

Lumpy Capacity Investment and Disinvestment Dynamics

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Ulrich Doraszelski (Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania), joint with David Besanko, Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu, Mark Satterthwaite

Meeting Room, LRB 532, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Monday 15 June 2009 17:00 - 18:30

TBA

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Liran Einav (Stanford University)

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Monday 08 June 2009 17:00 - 18:30

Music for a Song: An Empirical Look at Uniform Song Pricing and its Alternatives

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Joel Waldfogel (Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania), joint with Ben Shiller (Wharton)

NERA, 66 Seymour Street, London, W1H 5BT

Monday 18 May 2009 17:00 - 18:30

Empirical estimates of the impact of a fat tax

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Lars Nesheim (University College London), joint with Rachel Griffith (IFS and UCL) and Martin O’Connell (IFS)

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Monday 27 April 2009 17:00 - 18:30

Bundling and Vertical Relationships in Multichannel Televison

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Ali Yurukoglu (Stanford Graduate School of Business)

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Monday 16 March 2009 17:00 - 18:30

Equilibrium Price Dynamics in Perishable Goods Markets: The Case of Secondary Markets for Major League Baseball Tickets

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Andrew Sweeting (University of Maryland)

Meeting Room, LRB 532, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Monday 09 March 2009 17:00 - 18:30

Electricity Pricing to U.S. Manufacturing Plants, 1963-2000”.

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Steven Davis (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business), joint with Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger and Mary Streitwieser.

Meeting Room, LRB 532, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Monday 01 December 2008 17:00 - 18:30

Identifying Heterogeneity in Economic Choice and Selection Models Using Mixtures

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Jeremy Fox (Rice University), joint with Amit Gandhi (University of Wisconsin)

Meeting Room, LRB 532, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Monday 24 November 2008 17:00 - 18:30

Empirical Analysis of Dynamic Bidding on eBay

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Igor Kheifets (Carlos III University of Madrid)

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Monday 17 November 2008 17:00 - 18:30

Market Structure and Innovation: A Dynamic Analysis of the Global Automobile Industry

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Johannes Van Biesebroeck (KU Leuven), joint with Aamir Rafique Hashmi

Meeting Room, LRB 532, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Monday 10 November 2008 17:00 - 18:30

Measuring consumer switching costs in the television industry

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Oleksandr Shcherbakov (Yale University)

Meeting Room, LRB 532, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Monday 20 October 2008 17:00 - 18:30

Inefficient durable-goods monopolies

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Joao Montez (London Business School)

Meeting Room, LRB 532, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Monday 13 October 2008 17:00 - 18:30

The Role of Trading Frictions in Real Asset Markets

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Alessandro Gavazza (New York University)

Meeting Room, LRB 532, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Monday 30 June 2008 17:00 - 18:30

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SEMINAR ON THE 30TH JUNE WILL BE HELD AT THE NERA OFFICES IN STRATFORD PLACE The Relative Performance of Real Estate Marketing Platforms: MLS versus FSBOMadison.com

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Igal Hendel (Northwestern University), joint with Aviv Nevo (Northwestern), François Ortalo-Magné (UW-Madison)

NERA, 66 Seymour Street, London, W1H 5BT

Monday 16 June 2008 17:00 - 18:30

'The Organization of Search for Innovations'

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Marco Ottaviani (London Business School), joint with Tracy R. Lewis (Duke University)

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Monday 09 June 2008 17:00 - 18:30

Learning and Information Aggregation in an Exit Game

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Pauli Murto (Helsinki School of Economics), joint with Juuso Välimäki (Helsinki School of Economics and University of Southampton)

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Monday 02 June 2008 17:00 - 18:30

How Many Consumers are Rational?

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Stefan Hoderlein (Boston College)

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Monday 19 May 2008 17:00 - 18:30

'Linking reputations: The Signaling and Feedback Effects of Umbrella Branding'.

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Jeanine Thal (University of Mannheim)

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Monday 12 May 2008 17:00 - 18:30

Nonparametric Identification of Dynamic Models with Unobserved State Variables

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Matt Shum (California Institute of Technology), joint with Yingyao Hu

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Monday 28 April 2008 17:00 - 18:30

Auction Design and Ex-Post Incentives in Procurement Contracts: Some Theory and Evidence

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Patrick Bajari (University of Minnesota), joint with Gregory Lewis Harvard University

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Monday 10 March 2008 17:00 - 18:30

A Simple Nonparametric Estimator for the Distribution of Random Coefficients in Discrete Choice Models

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Stephen Ryan (Washington University in St Louis), joint with Patrick Bajari, Jeremy T. Fox and Kyoo il Kim

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Monday 10 December 2007 17:00 - 18:30

A Structural Model of Local Loop Unbundling

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Philippe Fevrier (University of Chicago), joint with David Sraer University of California, Berkeley

Meeting Room, LRB 532, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Monday 03 December 2007 17:00 - 18:30

Social Learning and Monopolist's Product Launching Strategy

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Ting Liu (Boston University), joint with Pasquale Schiraldi

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Monday 12 November 2007 17:00 - 18:30

Productivity Dispersion and Plant Selection in the Ready-Mix Concrete Industry.

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Allan Collard-Wexler (New York University)

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Monday 05 November 2007 17:00 - 18:30

Environmental Regulation and Mergers within the Eco-Industry.

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Bernard Sinclair-Desgagne (HEC Montreal and CIRANO), joint with Joan Canton and Maia David

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Monday 08 October 2007 17:00 - 18:30

Demand Estimation with Incomplete Product Availability

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Julie Holland Mortimer (Harvard University), joint with Christopher T. Conlon

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Monday 25 June 2007 17:00 - 18:30

Comparing Open and Sealed Bid Auctions: Theory and Evidence from Timber Auctions PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SEMINAR WILL BE HELD AT THE NERA OFFICES - ADDRESS BELOW

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Susan Athey (Harvard University), joint with Jonathan Levin and Enrique Seiray

NERA, 66 Seymour Street, London, W1H 5BT

Monday 21 May 2007 17:00 - 18:30

An Empirical Model of Search with Vertically Differentiated Products

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Matthijs Wildenbeest (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

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Monday 30 April 2007 17:00 - 18:30

Dynamics of Consumer Demand for New Durable Goods

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Gautam Gowrisankaran (Washington), joint with Marc Rysman Department of Economics Boston University

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Monday 05 March 2007 17:00 - 18:30

Insurer-Provider Networks in the Medical Care Market

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Katherine Ho (Columbia University)

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Monday 04 December 2006 17:00 - 18:30

'Putting a Smiley Face on the Dragon: Wal-Mart as Catalyst to U.S.-China Trade'

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Emek Basker (University of Missouri), joint with Pham Hoang Van (Baylor University).

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Monday 27 November 2006 17:00 - 18:30

Entry and Regulation - Evidence from Health Care Professions

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Frank Verboven (KU Leuven), joint with Catherine Schaumans K.U.Leuven

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Monday 20 November 2006 17:00 - 18:30

'Sequential Merger Review

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Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim), joint with Michael Whinston Northwestern University.

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Monday 13 November 2006 17:00 - 18:30

Competition and Price Variation when Consumers are Loss Averse

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Paul Heidhues (University of Bonn), joint with Botond Kõszegi University of California, Berkeley

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Monday 06 November 2006 17:00 - 18:30

Last-In First-Out Oligopoly Dynamics

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Jaap Abbring (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam), joint with Jeffrey R. Campbell Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER

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Monday 16 October 2006 17:00 - 18:30

Identification and Estimation of Firms Marginal Cost Functions With Incomplete Knowledge of Strategic Behavior

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Adam Rosen (University College London)

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Monday 02 October 2006 17:00 - 18:30

Estimation of demand for differentiated durable goods

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Juan Carranza (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

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Monday 22 May 2006 17:00 - 18:30

Entry and Competition E¤ects in First-Price Auctions: Theory and Evidence from Procurement Auctions

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Tong Li (Vanderbilt University), joint with Xiaoyong Zheng

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Monday 24 April 2006 17:00 - 18:30

TBA

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Steven Berry (Yale University)

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Thursday 30 March 2006 17:00 - 18:30

TBC

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Alberto Abadie (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Thursday 30 March 2006 17:00 - 18:30

TBC

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Alberto Abadie (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Monday 27 March 2006 17:00 - 18:30

Innovation and Competitive Pressure

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Xavier Vives (IESE and Pompeu Fabra University)

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Monday 13 March 2006 17:00 - 18:30

Testing Models of Strategic Bidding in Auctions: A Case Study of the Texas Electricity Spot Market

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Ali Hortacsu (University of Chicago), joint with Steven L. Puller

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Monday 06 March 2006 17:00 - 18:30

Structural Identification of Production Functions

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Daniel Ackerberg (University of California, Los Angeles), joint with Kevin Caves, (University of California Los Angeles) Garth Frazer (Rotman School of Management, Toronto).

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Monday 27 February 2006 17:00 - 18:30

State casket sales restrictions: A pointless undertaking?

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Fiona Scott Morton (Yale School of Management and NBER), joint with Judith A Chevalier Yale School of Management and NBER

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Monday 13 February 2006 17:00 - 18:30

TBA

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Victor Aguirregabiria (University of Toronto)

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Monday 05 December 2005 15:30 - 17:00

'Control Function Corrections for Unobserved Factors in Differentiated Product Markets.'

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Amil Petrin (University of Chicago), joint with Kenneth Train (University of California, Berkeley)

Conference Room, LRB 405, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Monday 28 November 2005 17:00 - 18:30

'The Dye Famine and Its Aftermath: Information Diffusion and Entry'.

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David Genesove (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

FMG Conference Room, LRB 407, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Monday 21 November 2005 17:00 - 18:30

'Entry Survival and Growth in Oligopoly Retail Markets: Explaining Cross-Industry Heterogeneity'

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Victor Aguirregabiria (University of Toronto)

FMG Conference Room, LRB 407, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Monday 14 November 2005 17:00 - 18:30

“Preferential Treatment and Participation Decisions in Highway Procurement.”

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Elena Krasnokutskaya (Johns Hopkins University), joint with Katja Seim (Stanford University)

FMG Conference Room, LRB 407, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Monday 07 November 2005 17:00 - 18:30

'The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and the Economies of Density'

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Thomas Holmes (University of Minnesota)

FMG Conference Room, LRB 407, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Monday 17 October 2005 17:00 - 18:30

'Cementing Relationships: Vertical Integration, Foreclosure, Productivity, and Prices'

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Chad Syverson (University of Chicago), joint with Ali Hortacsu

FMG Conference Room, LRB 407, 4th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

Friday 29 April 2005 16:30 - 18:00

TBA

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Victor Ginsburgh (ECARES, Brussels)

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Friday 18 March 2005 16:30 - 18:00

Two-Part Tariffs versus Linear Pricing Between Manufacturers and Retailers: Empirical Tests on Differentiated Products Markets

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Pierre Dubois (Toulouse School of Economics), joint with Celine Bonnet and Michel Simioni

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Wednesday 16 March 2005 13:00 - 14:30

The Efficiency of Dynamic, Post-Auction Bargaining: Evidence from Wholesale Used-Auto Auctions

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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

Friday 11 March 2005 16:30 - 18:00

Coordination vs. Differentiation in a Standards War: 56K Modems

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Marc Rysman (Boston University), joint with Angelique Angereau and Shane Greenstein

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Friday 04 March 2005 16:30 - 18:00

Econometrics of Share Auctions

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Philippe Fevrier (University of Chicago), joint with Raphaele Preget and Michael Visser

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Friday 25 February 2005 16:30 - 18:00

Demand for Mobile Internet: Evidence from a Real-World Pricing Experiment

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Otto Toivanen (HECER, University of Helsinki), joint with Maija Gao and Ari Hyytinen

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Friday 10 December 2004 15:00 - 16:30

Flexible manufacturing in the North-American automobile industry.

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Johannes Van Biesebroeck (KU Leuven)

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Friday 03 December 2004 17:00 - 18:30

Vertical Integration and Technology: Theoy and Evidence.

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Rachel Griffith (University of Manchester and Institute for Fiscal Studies), joint with joint with Daron Acemoglu (MIT), Philippe Aghion (Harvard and IFS) Fabrizio Zilibotti (IIES Stockholm and IFS)

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Friday 19 November 2004 17:00 - 18:30

Identifying technological spillovers and product market rivalry: Theory and evidence from a panel of US firms.

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Mark Schankerman (LSE), joint with Nick Bloom and John van Reenen

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Thursday 04 November 2004 17:00 - 18:30

t.b.a.

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Marc Ivaldi (Toulouse School of Economics)

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Friday 18 June 2004 17:00 - 18:30

Quantifying the Benefits of Entry of Local Phone Service

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Katya Seim (University of Pennsylvania), joint with Nick Economides and Brian Viard

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Friday 11 June 2004 16:30 - 18:00

Do Vertical Mergers Facilitate Upstream Collusion?

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Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim), joint with Lucy White

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Friday 28 May 2004 16:30 - 18:00

Embedding Consumer Taste for Location Convenience into a Structural Model of Equilibrium

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Paul Walsh (Trinity College Dublin)

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Friday 07 May 2004 16:30 - 18:00

Firm Turnover in Imperfectly Competitive Markets

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Marcus Asplund (London Business School), joint with Volker Nocke

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Thursday 20 February 2003 17:00 - 18:30

TBA

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Ulrich Doraszelski (Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania)

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Friday 08 March 2002 17:00 - 18:30

Donations

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Francesca Cornelli (London Business School), joint with Andrea Buraschi

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Friday 01 March 2002 17:00 - 18:30

Combination Bidding in Multi-Unit Auctions

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Martin Pesendorfer (Yale University)

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Friday 22 February 2002 17:00 - 18:30

Advertising as a Barrier to Exit: Theory and Evidence from the Dotcom Market

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Yair Eilat (Harvard University)

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Friday 15 February 2002 17:00 - 18:30

The Long and Short of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement

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Dan Trefler (University of Toronto)

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Friday 08 February 2002 17:00 - 18:30

Existence and Persistence of Price Dispersion: an Empirical Analysis

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Saul Lach (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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Friday 01 February 2002 17:00 - 18:30

Headquarters' Location Decision

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J Vernon Henderson (Spatial Economics Research Centre and LSE)

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Thursday 08 November 2001 17:00 - 18:30

Inference with an Incomplete Model of English Auctions

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Philip Haile (Yale University)

Meeting Room, LRB 532, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

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