ECONOMICS 221

Industrial Organization Seminar
Fall 2007
Professor Richard Gilbert
Office: 591 Evans
E-mail:
Seminar Room: 608-7 Evans
Schedule: Tuesday, 4-6 pm
Seminar Schedule
                   
August 28
Organization meeting
 
September 6
325 Cheit
Pablo Spiller, (joint with IDS 270)
"The Organization Implications of Creativity: The US Film Industry in the Mid-XXth Century"
 
September 11 Liran Einav, Stanford University
"Contract Pricing in Consumer Credit Markets"
(with Mark Jenkins and Jonathan Levin)
 
September 18 Aviv Nevo, Northwestern University
The Relative Performance of Real Estate Marketing Platforms: MLS versus FSBOMadison.com
 
September 25 Nate Miller, UCB
Strategic Leniency and Cartel Enforement
 
October 2 No seminar
 
October 9 Matt Gentzkow, Chicago GSB
What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from US Daily Newspapers
 
October 16
Ryan Kellogg , UCB
"Learning by Drilling: Inter-Firm Learning and Relationship Persistence in the Texas Oilpatch" [[SB to introduce]]
 
October 23 Cancelled
 
October 30 Nick Economides
Net Neutality on the Internet: A Two-sided Market Analysis
 
November 6 Neil Gandal
Network Security: Vulnerabilities and Disclosure Policy
 
November 13 Jen Brown , UCB
Quitters Never Win: The (Adverse) Incentive Effects of Competing with Superstars
November 20 David Sraer , UCB
"Structural Estimation of a Model of Entry on the French Broadband Market"
 
November 27 Chris Knittel , UCD
Estimation of Random Coefficient Demand Models: A Challenging Optimization Exercise
 
December 5
Wednesday
Emmanuel Saez ,(joint with Department Seminar)
"Uncovering the American Dream: Inequality and Mobility in Social Security Earnings Data since 1937)
 
 
 
 
 

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