ECON 221: INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION SEMINAR
Fall 2004:
Tuesday
Convenor:
Professor Bronwyn H. Hall
The innovation seminar is open to graduate
students, faculty, and visitors from Economics, Haas, ARE, and other
departments in the university. Anyone who wants an electronic link added
for their presentation, please send me email.
Also send me email if you would like to speak this Fall.
Seminar requirements (for MBA students only this term)
Aug 31 No meeting
Sep 7
Thomas Davidoff, Haas
Selection and
Moral Hazard in the Reverse Mortgage Market (with Gerd Welke)
Sep 14 open
Sep 21 (joint with Departmental Seminar, Wed, 4-6 PM)
Philippe
Aghion, Harvard University
Volatility, R&D, and Growth: The Role of Financial
Development
Sep 28
Hal Varian, Fredrik Wallenberg,
and Glenn Woroch, SIMS and Economics
Who
Signed Up for the Do-Not-Call List?
Oct 5
Jun
Ishii, UC Irvine, visiting UC Berkeley
Oct 13 (joint with Innovation seminar, Wed,
12-2 PM, F-555 Haas)
Carl
Shapiro, Haas
Prior User Rights in Patent Cases
Oct 19
Manuel Trajtenberg, Tel Aviv
University (visiting Stanford)
Tracing the
Mobility of Inventors with Patent Data
Oct 26
Kenneth Train, Economics, and
Clifford Winston, The Brooking Institution
Vehicle Choice Behavior and
the Declining Market Share of U.S. Automakers
Nov 2
Bronwyn Hall,
Economics
Exploring the Patent
Explosion
Nov 9 NO MEETING
Nov 16
Todd Sinai,
Why Do Airlines Systematically Schedule
Their Flights to Arrive Late? (with Christopher Mayer,
Nov 23
Juanjuan Zhang, Haas
Dynamic Segmentation and Product Design
Nov 30
Yooki Park, Economics
Digital Rights
Management and the Pricing of Digital Products (with Suzanne Scotchmer)
Dec. 7
Joe
Farrell, Economics (joint with Carl Shapiro)
How Strong Can Weak Patents Be?
Last updated 9 December 2004 by Bronwyn H. Hall