Econ 221, Industrial Organization Seminar

Spring 2008     

Industrial Organization Seminar

Organizer: Professor J. Farrell
E-mail: farrell@econ.berkeley.edu

Seminar Room:
608-7 Evans
Schedule: Tuesday 4-6P
Feb 12

Cynthia Lin, UCD

Do firms interact strategically?: A structural model of the multi-stage investment timing game in offshore petroleum production"

Mar 4

Nate Miller, UCB

Explaining the Geographic Scope of Banks: A Role for Depositor Heterogeneity?

Apr 8

EAP Seminar 4:00 p.m. in (C330 Haas): Emily Oster, Chicago

"TBA"


Apr 8

Lunch in 639 Evans    Noon to 1:00 p.m.

Nate Miller and Ashley Langer, "Do Automobile Incentives Respond to the Price of Gasoline?"

Apr 15

EAP Seminar 4:00 p.m. in (C330 Haas): William Rogerson, Northwestern

"TBA"

Apr 22

Lunch in 649 Evans  Noon to 1:00 p.m.

Ashley Langer on identifying discrimination in automobile prices

 

Apr 22

4:00 p.m. in (regular place, 608-7 Evans): Ken Corts, Toronto

"TBA"

Apr 29

Lunch in 639 Evans  Noon to 1:00 p.m.

Bob Seamans, Haas

"Entry Deterrrence in Local Cable TV Markets"

May 6

Lunch in 639 Evans  Noon to 1:00 p.m.

Gregorio Caetano

"Endogeneity and Willingness to Pay for Heterogeneous Goods"

May 6

 

Michael Whinston, Northwestern

"Dynamic Merger Review"

May 13

 

 

 Noon: Room Change: 597 Evans (lunch)  Prasad Krishnamurthy 

"Financial Integration and Business Growth: Evidence from U.S. Bank Branch Deregulation"

 

4:00 p.m. EAP Seminar in C330 Haas

Judith Chevalier, Yale