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University of Maryland, Department of Economics
Workshop in Industrial Organization and Microeconomic Theory

Fall 2008

Sep 9, Tuesday, Luca Anderlini, Georgetown

Sep 16, Tuesday, Gadi Fibich, Tel Aviv University
“An Applied Math Approach to Auction Theory”

Sep 23, Tuesday, Seth Freedman, Maryland
"Dynamic Learning and Selection: the Early Years of Prosper.com" (joint with Ginger Jin)

Sep 30. Tuesday, Roger Betancourt, Maryland
"Packaging: Are Consumers Paying for Price Discrimination, Service Provision or Both?"

Oct 7, Tuesday, Heski Bar-Isaac, NYU-Stern

Oct 21, Tuesday, Panle Jia, MIT

Oct 27, MONDAY (joint with Econometrics Workshop), Bernard Salanie, Columbia

Oct 28, Tuesday, Matthew Chesnes, Maryland

Nov 7, FRIDAY, Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton

Nov 11, Tuesday, Edi Karni, Johns Hopkins

Nov 18, Tuesday, Muriel Niederle

Nov 25, Tuesday, Matias Herrara-Dappe, Maryland

Dec 2, Tuesday, Bogachan Celen, Columbia GSB

Dec 12, FRIDAY, Alessandro Lizzeri, NYU

Spring 2008

Tuesday, 5 Mar. John Rust, University of Maryland, "How To Sell Your House: Theory and Evidence" (with Antonio Merlo and Francois Ortalo-Magne)

Tuesday, 11 Mar, Andrew Schotter, NYU
"Optimal Vagueness: An Experimental Study of Natural Language in the Announcement Game" (with Marina Agranov)

Tuesday, 25 Mar, Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Duke, atila.adulkadiroglu@duke.edu

Tuesday, 1 Apr, Roberto Serrano, Brown, roberto_serrano@brown.edu
“The Evolution of Bidding Behavior in Private-Values Auctions and Double Auctions.” (with Rene Saran )

Tuesday, 8 Apr, Dan Levin, Ohio State

Tuesday, 15 Apr, Alvaro Sandroni, Penn
Counterfactual Predictions

Tuesday, 22 Apr, Burkhard Schipper, UC Davis

Tuesday, 29 Apr, Matthew Gentzkow, Chicago

Tuesday, 6 May, Rafael Repullo, CEMFI

Fall 2007

Date/Time	Speaker/Title
Sep 11 3:30 pm	Donald Wittman, UC Santa Cruz Utility When There is a Preference for Beliefs with Applications to Politics
Sep 18 3:30 pm	Jacques Cremer, University of Toulouse The Value of Switching Costs (with Gary Biglaiser and Gergerly Dobos)
Oct 2 3:30 pm	Tanjim Hossain, University of Science and Technology Hong Kong Shrouded Attributes and Information Suppression: Evidence from Field Experiments (with John Morgan)
Oct 9 3:30 pm	Marco Pagnozzi, Universita di Napoli Federico II Speculators in Multi-Object Auctions
Oct 16 3:30 pm	Leemore Dafny, Northwestern Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive? A Test of Direct Price Discrimination
Oct 23 3:30 pm	Timothy Van Zandt, INSEAD The Interplay Between Incentive Constraints and Communication Complexity in Mechanism Design
Oct 30 3:30 pm	Isabelle Perrigne, Penn State University Nonlinear Pricing in Yellow Pages (with Quang Vuong and Yao Huang)
Nov 13 3:30 pm	Thayer Morrill, University of Maryland Roommate Problem Revisited
Nov 20 3:30pm	Yan Chen, University of Maryland Dynamic Consumer Choice in an Experienced Good Market: Applications in the U.S. Ready-to-Eat Cereal Market
Nov 27 3:30 pm	Alan Sorensen, Stanford University The Welfare Impact of Resale Markets: An Empirical Study of Secondary Markets for Event Tickets
Dec 4 3:30 pm	Simona Andrei, University of Maryland To Lohn or not to Lohn
Dec 11 3:30 pm	Utku Ünver, University of Pittsburgh Dynamic Kidney Exchange

Spring 2007

Date/Time	Speaker/Title
Jan 16 3:30 pm	Erkut Ozbat, NYU Unawareness and Strategic Announcements in Games with Uncertainty
Jan 23 3:30 pm	Wioletta Dziuda, Princeton Strategic Argumentation
Jan 29 3:30 pm	Daniel Quint, Stanford Economics of Patent Pools When Some (But Not All) Patents Are Essential
Feb 1 3:30 pm	Emil Feliz, Columbia Incorporating Unawareness into Contract Theory
Mar 6 3:30 pm	Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon Competition and Quality Restoration: An Empirical Analysis of Vendor Response to Software Vulnerabilities
Mar 13 3:30 pm	Jeffrey Ely, Northwestern Kludged
Mar 27 3:30 pm	Alex Mas, Berkeley (joint with Enrico Meretti) Peers at Work
Apr 10 3:30 pm	George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon (joint with Ted O'Donoghue) The Heat of the Moment: Modeling Interactions between Affect and Deliberation
Apr 24 3:30 pm	Dirk Bergeman, Yale (joint with Juuso Välimäki) Efficient Dynamic Auctions
May 1 3:30 pm	Ignacio Esponda, NYU Behavioral Equilibrium in Economies with Adverse Selection
May 8 3:30 pm	Matthew White,  UPenn (joint with Erin T. Mansur) Market Organization and Market Efficiency in Electricity Markets

Fall 2006

Date/Time	Speaker/Title
Sep 20 3:30 pm	Ana Aizcorbe, BEA  ** Joint with Macro, Wednesday Seminar ** Welfare-Based Price Deflators for Durable Goods
Sep 27 3:30 pm	Jeff Campbell, Chicago Fed ** Joint with Macro, Wednesday Seminar ** A Firm's First Year (joint with Jaap Abbring)
Sep 29 9 am	Symposium Honoring Thomas C Schelling ** All Day Event, Friday, Samuel Riggs Alumni Center **
Oct 10 3:30 pm	Hanming Fang, Yale ** Joint with Labor/Public, Wednesday Seminar ** Sources of Advantageous Selection: Evidence from the Medigap Insurance Market (joint with Michael Keane and Dan Silverman)
Oct 17 3:30 pm	Jakub Kastl (Stanford, visiting Yale) Discrete Bids and Empirical Inference in Divisible Good Auctions
Oct 24 3:30 pm	Dipan Ghosh, Maryland An Efficient Multiunit Auction with Increasing Marginal Values
Nov 14 3:30 pm	Jeremy Fox, Chicago Complementarities and Intimidation in an FCC Spectrum Auction
Nov 28 3:30 pm	J. Daniel Aromi, Maryland Asymmetric Supply Function Equilibrium with Applications to Investment in Electricity Markets
Dec 5 3:30 pm	Natalia Perez, Maryland Crime Networks: How They Form and Operate

Spring 2006

Date/Time	Speaker/Title
Jan 26 3:30 pm	Santiago Oliveros, University of Wisconsin  ** Thursday Seminar ** Information Acquisition and Flexible Preferences in Committees
Jan 30 3:30 pm	Daniel J. Benjamin, Harvard University  ** Monday Seminar ** A Theory of Fairness in Labor Markets
Mar 7 3:30 pm	Elmar Wolfstetter, Humboldt-University at Berlin (joint with Yvan Lengwiler) Bid Rigging: An Analysis of Corruption in Auctions
Mar 14 3:30 pm	Pai-Ling Yin, Harvard Business School (joint with Tim Bresnahan) Economic and Technical Drivers of Technology Choice: Browsers
Mar 28 3:30 pm	Roy Radner, New York University ** Tydings 2110 ** (joint with Prajit Dutta) Self-enforcing Climate-Change Treaties
Apr 4 3:30 pm	David McAdams, MIT (joint with Michael Schwarz) Credible Sales Mechanisms and Intermediaries
Apr 18 3:30 pm	Sanjeev Goyal, University of Essex Network Games
Apr 25 3:30 pm	Tom Palfrey, Princeton University (joint with David Levine) ** Cancelled ** The Paradox of Voter Participation? A Laboratory Study
May 9 3:30 pm	David Reiley, University of Arizona “The War for the Fare”: How Driver Compensation Affects Bus System Performance

Fall 2005

Date/Time	Speaker/Title
Sep 6 3:30 pm	Larry Ausubel, University of Maryland Walrasian Tatonnement for Discrete Goods
Sep 19 3:30 pm	Patrick Bajari, University of Michigan (joint with Han Hong)  ** Note: Monday Seminar, Tydings 2111 ** Semiparametric Estimation of a Dynamic Game of Incomplete Information
Oct 11 3:30 pm	Abraham Wickelgren, University of Texas (joint with John Simpson) Naked Exclusion, Efficient Breach, and Downstream Competition [Comment]
Oct 18 3:30 pm	Judy Chevalier, Yale University (joint with Austan Goolsbee) Are Durable Goods Consumers Forward Looking? Evidence from College Textbooks
Oct 25 3:30 pm	Francis Bloch, GREQAM, France (joint with Bhaskar Dutta) Communication Networks with Endogenous Link Strength
Nov 1 3:30 pm	Dan Vincent, University of Maryland (joint with Alejandro Manelli) Dominant Strategy Implementation of Reduced Form Allocations
Nov 8 3:30 pm	Larry Blume, Cornell University Stigma and Social Control
Nov 15 3:30 pm	Andrea Prat, London School of Economics (with Amil Dasgupta and Michela Verado) The Price of Conformism
Nov 22 3:30 pm	Christopher P. Adams, Federal Trade Commission (with Laura Hosken and Peter Newberry) ** International Conference Room 4118C ** ‘Vettes and Lemons on EBay

Spring 2005

Date/Time	Speaker/Title
Feb 8 3:30 pm	Stephen Ryan, Duke University The Costs of Environmental Regulation in a Concentrated Industry
Feb 15 3:30 pm	Paul Healy, Cal Tech Learning Dynamics for Mechanism Design: An Experimental Comparison of Public Goods Mechanisms
Mar 1 3:30 pm	Igal Hendel, Northwestern University (joint with Paolo Dudine and Alessandro Lizzeri) Storable Good Monopoly: The Role of Commitment
Mar 15 3:30 pm	Tanjim Hossain, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Learning by Bidding
Apr 12 3:30 pm	Mara Lederman, University of Toronto The Effects of Frequent Flyer Programs at Dominated Airports: Evidence from Partnerships
Apr 19 3:30 pm	Chester Spatt, Carnegie Mellon University and SEC (joint with Bruno Biais and Peter Bossaerts) Equilibrium Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Under Asymmetric Information
Apr 26 3:30 pm	Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Columbia University (joint with Kyle Bagwell) Trust, Reciprocity and Favors in Cooperative Relationships
May 3 3:30 pm	Jonathan Levin, Stanford University (joint with Steven Tadelis) Employment versus Contracting in Procurement: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Cities

Fall 2004

Date/Time	Speaker/Title
Sep 7 3:30 pm	Shachar Kariv, UC Berkeley (joint with Syngjoo Choi and Douglas Gale) A Theory and Experiments of Learning in Social Networks
Sep 28 3:30 pm	Chrysanthos Dellarocas, University of Maryland, Decision and Information Technologies Strategic Manipulation of Internet Opinion Forums: Implications for Consumers and Firms
Oct 5 3:30 pm	Monika Schnitzer,  University of Munich and Yale University Global Versus Local: The Financing of Foreign Direct Investment
Oct 19 3:30 pm	Klaus M. Schmidt, University of Munich and Yale University (joint with Ernst Fehr and Alexander Klein) Fairness, Contracts, and Incentives
Oct 26 3:30 pm	Chuck Thomas, University of Rochester (joint with Robert Willig) The Risk of Contagion from Multimarket Contact
Nov 2 3:30 pm	Peter Cramton, University of Maryland (joint with Steven Stoft) A Capacity Market that Makes Sense
Nov 9 3:30 pm	Mara Lederman, University of Toronto Do Enhancements to Loyalty Programs Affect Demand? The Impact of International Frequent Flyer Partnerships on Domestic Airline Demand
Nov 16 3:30 pm	Harry Paarsch (joint with Bjarne Brendstrup) Semiparametric Estimation in Models of Multi-Object, Sequential, English Auctions
Nov 23 3:30 pm	Rachel Kranton, University of Maryland Risk-Sharing Networks
Nov 30 3:30 pm	Martin Ranger, University of Maryland Externalities in a Capacity Auction

Spring 2004

Date/Time	Speaker/Title
Feb 20 12:30 pm	Ken Judd, Stanford University ** Note Friday, Lunch at Noon ** Existence, Uniqueness, and Computational Theory for Time Consistent Equilibria: A Hyperbolic Discounting Example
Feb 24 3:30 pm	Dennis Mueller, University of Vienna Corporate Governance and the Returns on Investment
Apr 6 3:30 pm	Andrew Kato, University of Maryland (with Ginger Jin and John List) Evolution of Professional Certification Markets: Evidence from the Field
Apr 13 3:30 pm	Kathleen Johnson, Federal Reserve Board Convenience or Necessity? Recent Growth in Credit Card Debt
Apr 20 3:30 pm	John Rust, University of Maryland (with Hiu Man Chan and George Hall) Price Discrimination in the Steel Market
Apr 27 3:30 pm	Phil Haile, Yale University (with Han Hong and Matt Shum) Nonparametric Tests for Common Values in First-Price Sealed-Bid Auctions
May 4 3:30 pm	Roger Betancourt, University of Maryland Something about Franchises Nobody Knew

Fall 2003

Date/Time	Speaker/Title
Sep 3 3:30 pm	Steven Levitt, University of Chicago (with Roland Fryer) ** Note Wednesday ** Joint with Applied Micro The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names
Sep 9 3:30 pm	Mark Machina, UC San Diego The Event-Calculus of Risk Preferences and Beliefs (based on Almost-Objective Uncertainty and Robustifying the Classical Theory of Risk Preferences and Beliefs)
Sep 18 3:30 pm	Peter T.L. Popkowski Leszczyc, University of Alberta (with Gerald Häubl) ** Note Thursday ** Bidding Frenzy: Intensity of Competitive Interaction Among Bidders and Product Valuation in Auctions
Sep 30 3:30 pm	Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University (with Florian Zettelmeyer and Jorge Silva-Risso) Inventory Fluctuations and Price Discrimination: The Determinants of Price Variation in Car Retailing
Oct 7 3:30 pm	Andy Postlewaite, University of Pennsylvania Sunk Investments Lead to Unpredictable Prices (joint with George Mailath and Larry Samuelson)
Oct 21 3:30 pm	Uri Gneezy, University of Chicago The W Effect of Incentives
Oct 28 3:30 pm	David Levine, UCLA (with Drew Fudenberg) Steady State Learning and the Code of Hammurabi
Nov 17 3:30 pm	Kyle Bagwell, Columbia University (with Petros Mavroidis and Robert Staiger) ** Note Monday ** Joint with Macro/International The Case for Auctioning Countermeasures in the WTO
Nov 18 3:30 pm	Patrick Bajari, Duke University (with Robert McMillan and Steven Tadelis) Auctions versus Negotiation in Procurement: An Empirical Analysis
Nov 25 3:30 pm	Roberto Munoz, University of Maryland (with Rodrigo Harrison) Stability and Equilibrium Selection in a Link Formation Game
Dec 1 3:30 pm	Martin Pesendorfer, London School of Economics (with Philipp Schmidt-Dengler) ** Note Monday, Tydings 2111 ** Joint with Applied Micro, Econometrics Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Games
Dec 2 3:30 pm	Albert Ma, Boston University (with Gary Biglaiser) Moonlighting: Public Service and Private Practice
Dec 4 3:30 pm	Kyeong-Hoon Kang, University of Maryland ** Note Thursday ** Why Do Third-Party Component Integrators Exist in System Markets?
Dec 9 3:30 pm	Cesar Costantino, University of Maryland Gone in Thirteen Seconds: Advertising and Search in the Supermarket
Dec 11 3:30 pm	Eugenio Giolito, University of Maryland ** Note Thursday ** A Search Model of Marriage with Differential Fertility

  Spring 2003

Date/Time	Speaker/Title
Mar 4 3:30 pm	Joel Waldfogel, Wharton (joint with Lu Chen) Does Information Undermine Brand? Information Intermediary Use and Preference for Branded Web Retailers
Apr 1 3:30 pm	Uzi Segal, Boston College (joint with David Heyd) Democratically Elected Aristocracies
Apr 8 3:30 pm	Phil Reny, University of Chicago (joint with Arthur J. Robson) Reinterpreting Mixed Strategy Equilibria: A Unification of the Classical and Bayesian Views
Apr 10 3:30 pm	Rachel Croson, Wharton (joint with Armando Gomes, Kathleen McGinn, and Markus Noth) ** Thursday Seminar! ** Mergers and Acquisitions: An Experimental Analysis of Synergies, Externalities and Dynamics
Apr 15 3:30 pm	Marcel Boyer, Universite de Montreal (joint with Jacques Robert) Organizational Inertia and Dynamic Incentives
May 2 12:30 pm	Stefano DellaVigna, UC Berkeley (joint with Ulrike Malmendier), Joint Seminar with Macro ** Lunch at Noon ** Contract Design and Self-Control: Theory and Evidence
May 6 3:30 pm	Ali Hortacsu, University of Chicago (joint with Chad Syverson) Search Costs, Product Differentiation and Competition in the Mutual Fund Industry: A Case Study of S&P 500 Index Funds
May 9 12:30 pm	Rafael Rob, University of Pennsylvania (joint with Huanxing Yang) ** Lunch at Noon ** Long term relationships as safeguards: Can dishonest types induce honest behavior?
May 12 3:30 pm	Raja Kali, University of Arkansas, Joint Seminar with Development ** Monday Seminar! ** Social Embeddedness and Economic Governance: A Small World Approach

 Fall 2002

Date/Time	Speaker/Title
Sep 24 3:30 pm	Hugo Hopenhayn, Rochester Optimal Lending Contracts and Firm Dynamics
Oct 15 3:30 pm	Jeroen Swinkels, Washington University (joint with Martin Cripps) Depth and Efficiency of Large Double Auctions
Oct 22 3:30 pm	Robert Marquez, Maryland (joint with Giovanni Dell'Ariccia) Can Cost Increases Increase Competition?
Oct 29 3:30 pm	In-Koo Cho, Illinois Competitive Equilibrium in a Radial Network
Nov 5 3:30 pm	Ginger Jin, Maryland The Effects of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising in the Prescription Drug Market
Nov 12 3:30 pm	Ilya Segal, Stanford (visiting Princeton) Optimal Pricing Mechanisms with Unknown Demand
Dec 10 3:30 pm	Alessandro Pavan, Northwestern (joint with G. Calzolari) Monopoly with Resale
Dec 12 3:30 pm	Jeff Livingston, Maryland How Valuable is a Good Reputation? A Sample Selection Model of Internet Auctions

            Spring 2002

Date/Time	Speaker/Title
Feb 19 3:30 pm	John Rust, University of Maryland (joint with George Hall, Yale University) Middle Men vs. Market Makers: A Theory of Competitive Exchange
Mar 5 3:30 pm	David McAdam, MIT Isotone Equilibrium in Multi-Unit Auctions; Isotone Equilibrium  in Games of Incomplete Information
Mar 12 3:30 pm	Alan Sorenson, University of California San Diego Social Learning in the Demand for Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
Apr 2 3:30 pm	Deborah Minehart, University of Maryland (joint with Rachel Kranton) Vertical Foreclosure and Specific Investments
Apr 9 3:30 pm	Phil Leslie, UCLA Risk in the Movie Industry
Apr 16 3:30 pm	Bob Marshall, Pennsylvania State University Bidder Collusion
May 7 3:30 pm	Ginger Jin, University of Maryland Evaluating the Internet Evidence from Baseball Cards Markets

 Fall 2001

Date/Time	Speaker/Title
Sep 28 noon	Ariel Pakes, Harvard  *** Note Lunch Served *** A Reconsideration of Hedonic Price Indexes
Oct 2 3:30 pm	Daniel Vincent, Maryland (joint with Alejandro Manelli) Optimal Pricing in a Multiple-Good Monopoly
Oct 16 3:30 pm	Roger Lagunoff, Georgetown (joint with Akihiko Matsui) Organizations and Overlapping Generations Games: Memory, Communication, and Altruism
Oct 23 3:30 pm	Nick Souleles, Wharton (joint seminar with Macro) Consumer Credit
Oct 30 3:30 pm	Leslie M. Marx, Rochester (joint with Greg Shaffer) Opportunism and Nondiscrimination Clauses
Nov 6 3:30 pm	Julie Mortimer, Harvard The Effect of Revenue-Sharing Contracts on Welfare in Vertically-Separated Markets: Evidence from the Video Rental Industry
Nov 9 noon	Charlie Holt, Virginia (joint with Tom Palfrey and Jacob Goeree) *** Note Lunch Served *** Risk Averse Behavior in Asymmetric Matching Pennies Games
Nov 13 3:30 pm	Matt Shum, Johns Hopkins (joint with Susanna Esteban) Durable Goods Oligopoly with Secondary Markets: Theory and Application to the Automobile Market
Nov 20 3:30 pm	Chris Knittel, Boston University Price Ceilings as Focal Points for Tacit Collusion: Evidence from Credit Cards
Nov 30 noon	Roland Benabou, Princeton (joint with Jean Tirole) *** Note Lunch Served *** Willpower and Personal Rules
Dec 4 3:30 pm	John List, Maryland The Effect of Experience on the Winner's Curse: Experimental Evidence from the Field

Spring 2001

March 6	Haiwen Zhou, University of Maryland  R+D Contest with Spillovers
March 27	Steven Tadelis, Stanford University
April 3	Paul Milgrom, Stanford University and Harvard University
April 17	Jeremy Bulow, FTC and Stanford University
May 7  (Monday)	Steve Coate, Cornell University (joint with Political Economy and Development)

Fall 2000

Date/Time	Speaker/Title
Sep 19 3:30 pm	Tom Hubbard, University of Chicago, School of Business Make versus Buy in Trucking: Asset Ownership, Job Design, and Information
Sep 26 3:30 pm	Uzi Segal, Boston College (joint with Joel Sobel) Tit for Tat: Foundations for Preferences for Reciprocity in Strategic Settings
Oct 3 3:30 pm	Larry Ausubel, University of Maryland  ***Note Schedule Change *** An Efficient Dynamic Auction for Heterogeneous Commodities
Oct 10 3:30 pm	Dan Vincent, University of Maryland (joint with Marius Schwartz) Spreading the Pain Can Aggravate the Injury
Oct 24 3:30 pm	Jeff Lien, University of Maryland Forward Contracts and the Curse of Market Power
Oct 30 3:30 pm	Kaushik Basu, Cornell University   *** Note Monday *** Gender and Say
Oct 31 3:30 pm	Ginger Jin, University of Maryland Consumer response to HMO quality information: evidence from Medicare 1993-1998
Nov 8 3:30 pm	Chad Syverson, University of Maryland *** Note Wednesday *** Geographic Market Segmentation and Productivity Heterogeneity: A Concrete Example
Nov 21 3:30 pm	Jenny Lanjouw, Yale and Brookings (joint with Mark Schankerman) Characteristics of Patent Litigation: A Window on Competition
Nov 28 3:30 pm	Susan Athey, MIT and Stanford (joint with Phil Haile) Identification of Standard Auction Models
Dec 5 3:30 pm	Allan Ingraham, University of Maryland Testing for Cheating Between Bidders and Officials in Sealed-Bid Auctions: A Case Study in the New York City School Construction Auctions
Dec 8 noon	John Goldsmith, University of Maryland ** Note Lunch Served ** The Exogenous Regulator: Explaining Variation in Time to Approve Generic Drugs
Dec 12 3:30 pm	Amanda Dawsey, University of Maryland Informal Bankruptcy
Dec 15 12:30 pm	Maria Penas, University of Maryland (joint with Haluk Unal)  ** Note Unusual Time w/ Lunch ** Too-Big-to-Fail Gains in Bank Mergers: Evidence from Bond Markets

Spring 2000

Feb 8	Atila Abdulkadiroglu, University of Rochester  Ordinal Efficiency and Dominated Sets of Assignments
Feb 10	Botond Koszegi, MIT  Self-Image and Information Acquisition
Feb 15	Rafael Thomadsen, Stanford University  Price Competition in Industries with Geographic Differentiation: The Case of Fast Food
Feb 17	Ginger Jin, UCLA  Competition and Disclosure Incentives: an Empirical Study of HMOs
March 28	Randy Wright, University of Pennsylvania  Matching and Money.
April 18	Kislaya Prasad, University of Maryland and Florida State University  Computability and the Local Theory of Variation for Finite Games.
April 25	Andy Newman, University College, London.

Fall 1999

Date/Time	Speaker/Title
Sep 14 3:30 pm	Motty Perry, Hebrew University and Penn State University An Ex-Post Efficient Auction (with Phil Reny)
Sep 21 3:30 pm	Catherine Wolfram, Harvard University Zonal Pricing and Demand-Side Bidding in the Norwegian Electricity Market (with Tor Johnsen and Shashi Verma)
Sep 28 3:30 pm	Wolfgang Leininger, University of Dortmund and University of Maryland Contests and Auctions: Theory and Experiments
Oct 1 noon	Alejandro Manelli, Arizona State University Subgame Perfect Equilibria and Communication in Stage Games
Oct 5 3:30 pm	Chris Snyder, George Washington University Information Sharing and Competition in the Motor Vehicle Industry (with Maura Doyle)
Oct 12 3:30 pm	Rachel Kranton, University of Maryland Vertical Integration, Networks, and Markets
Oct 19 3:30 pm	Jeremy Bulow, Federal Trade Commission and Stanford University The Tobacco Deal
Oct 25 3:30 pm	Alessandra Casella, Columbia University (Joint Macro/International Seminar) ** On Monday ** Tradable Deficit Permits: Efficient Implementation of the Stability Pact in the European Union
Oct 28 3:30 pm	Samuel S. Kortum, Boston University ** On Thursday ** Plants and Productivity in International Trade: A Ricardian Reconciliation
Nov 2 3:30 pm	David McAdams, Federal Trade Commission and Stanford University Increasable Supply and 'Collusive-Seeming Equilibria' in the Uniform-Price Auction
Nov 16 3:30 pm	Martha Stancill, University of Maryland Collusion in Czech Small Privatization Auctions
Nov 30 3:30 pm	Peter Cramton, University of Maryland The Optimality of Being Efficient and Vickrey Auctions with Reserve Pricing (with Larry Ausubel)
Dec 7 3:30 pm	Patrick Bolton, Princeton University Ownership and Managerial Competition: Customer, Employee or Outside Ownership

Spring 1999

Fall 1998

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