IO Workshop, Fall 2006


Regular meeting time and place: Thursday 3:30-5:00 PM at Landau-Economics 139

September 28: Bryan Martin-Keating, "An analysis of Demand for Medicare Prescription Drug Plans" (short meeting)

October 5: Oren Rigbi (with Itai Ater), "What's the price of free-riding? The case of McDonald's Dollar Menu"

October 12: Michael Grubb, "Selling to Overconfident Consumers"

October 19: Minjung Park, "Managerial Motives in the Takeover Market: A Study of the Mutual Fund Industry" (job market practice talk)

October 20 (Friday, Room 218): Sean Chu, "The Effect of Satellite Competition on Bundling of Cable Channels" (job market practice talk)

October 26: Max Gulker, "Consumer Internet Adoption and the Exit of Brick and Mortar Travel Agents" (job market practice talk)

October 27 (Friday, Room 218): Mark Jacobson, "Producer Response to U.S. Fuel Economy Standards: An empirically based policy analysis" (job market practice talk)

November 2: Anna Levine, "Effects of Distributional Efficiencies and Product Market competition in Biotech Pharmaceuticals"; Itai Ater, "Delays, Quality and Capacity in the Airline Indusry"

November 9: Enrique Seira, "Are burdensome registration procedures an important cause of informality?" (job market practice talk)

November 16: Andrea Pozzi, "Channel choice and consumers' baskets: An application to online grocery "; Mark Jenkins, TBA

November 23: no seminar (Thanksgiving recess)

November 30: Maya Meidan, "The Effect of Anti Dumping Duties on the American Portland Cement Indsutry"; Lori Parcel, "Stiff Competition"

December 7: Justin Wong, "Different Measures of Hospital Competition: Do They Matter in Empirical Investigation?"; Saar Golde, "Estimating the extent of 'the house's money effect' in gamblers in Atlantic City casinos"

(Last update: October 2)