IO Workshop, Spring 2006


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

April 6: no meeting

April 13: Bryan Martin-Keating, "Endogenous Quality Choice in Medicare Part D Plans"; and Maya Meidan, "The role of an industry association: the portland cement industry 1974-1994"

April 20: Natalie Chun, "Determinants of FDA approval"

April 27: Sean Chu, "Horizontal and vertical differentiation in the response of cable packages to satellite entry"; and Alejandro Ponce-Rodriguez, "Do consumers allocate their credit card balances optimally?" OR "Dynamic Price Discrimination with Overconfident Consumers: Evidence from the Credit Card Market"

May 4: Minjung Park, "Inferring Sources of Gains from Matching of Firms in Mergers and Acquisitions: A Case Study of the Mutual Fund Industry"; and Ron Siegel, "Separation of Purchase and Usage: the Producer's Perspective"

May 11: no meeting

May 18: Assaf Eilat, "Optimality or Status Quo? How History Affects Present Pricing"; and Ryan Lampe, "Patent citation strategies"

May 25: Anna Levine, "Licensing Biotech Drugs"; and Amitay Alter, "Preemptive investment"

June 1: Max Gulker, "Consumer Internet Adoption and the Exit of Brick and Mortar Travel Agents"

June 8: Mark Jacobsen, "Modeling firm decisions under fuel economy standards"

(Last update: May 24)