Events

Upcoming Events

  • Tom Holmes

    May 21, 2012

    Workshop in Industrial Organization

    University of Minnesota
    "An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution, with Geography and Intra- and International Trade"
    3:30-5:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 3245

  • Jen Brown

    May 23, 2012

    Management and Strategy Seminars

    Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
    "Selecting the Best? Spillover and Shadows of Elimination Tournaments"
    1:30-3:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Yasutora Watanabe

    May 30, 2012

    Management and Strategy Seminars

    Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
    "Entry by Merger: Estimates from a Two-Sided Matching Model with Externality" (joint with Kosuke Uetake)
    1:30-3:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

Past Events

  • Tom Holmes

    May 21, 2012

    Workshop in Industrial Organization

    University of Minnesota
    "An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution, with Geography and Intra- and International Trade"
    3:30-5:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 3245

  • Roy Mill

    May 17, 2012

    Workshop in Economic History

    Stanford University
    "Skin-Color Discrimination and Family Background in Early Twentieth Century America"
    4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, Donald P. Jacobs Center 3204

  • Sandip Sukhtankar

    May 17, 2012

    Applied Microeconomics Seminar

    Dartmouth College
    "The Marginal Rate of Corruption in Public Programs: Evidence from India"
    Hard copies of the paper available in the Econ Main Office.
    3:00-4:30pm, Jacobs Center Room 3245

  • Andrew Bernard

    May 16, 2012

    Management and Strategy Seminars

    Tuck
    Carry-Along Trade” (PDF)
    1:30-3:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Jakub Kastl

    May 14, 2012

    Workshop in Industrial Organization

    Stanford University
    "Liquidity Auctions, Fixed Rate Tenders & Bailouts in the EURO Zone"
    3:30-5:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 3245

  • Nemmers Prize Conference

    May 11, 2012

    James L Allen Center McCormick Auditorium

    "The Political Economy of Growth and Development"
    8:45am - 6:30pm

  • Jeremiah Dittmar

    May 10, 2012

    Workshop in Economic History

    American University
    "The Welfare Impact of a New Good: The Printed Book"
    4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, Donald P. Jacobs Center 3204

  • David Atkin

    May 10, 2012

    Applied Microeconomics Seminar

    Yale University
    "Who's Getting Globalized? Intra-national Trade Costs and World Price Pass-Through" (joint with Dave Donaldson)
    3:00-4:30pm, Jacobs Center Room 3245

  • Lisa Kahn

    May 09, 2012

    Management and Strategy Seminars

    Yale
    "Employer Learning, Productivity and the Earnings Distribution: Evidence from Performance Measures" (PDF)
    1:30-3:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Hilary Hoynes

    May 07, 2012

    Workshop in Industrial Organization/Workshop in Applied Microeconomics

    University of California, Davis
    “Income, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Infant Health”
    3:30-5:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 3245

  • Gary Libecap

    May 03, 2012

    Workshop in Economic History

    University of California, Santa Barbara
    "The Role of Property and the Demarcation of Land"
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Donald P. Jacobs Center 3204
    Note earlier time

  • Transportation Deregulation Retrospective

    May 03, 2012

    Transportation Center Symposium

    Transportation Deregulation and Safety: A Retrospective and Reflection after 25 years
    11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Chambers Hall Lower Level

  • Iftikhar Hussain

    May 02, 2012

    IPR Performance Measurement Seminar

    London School of Economics
    "Subjective Performance Evaluation in the Public Sector: Evidence From School Inspections"
    3:30 - 5:00 pm, 617 Library Place IPR Conference Room

  • Judy Chevalier

    May 02, 2012

    Management and Strategy Seminars

    Yale
    "Promotional Reviews: An Empirical Investigation of Online Review Manipulation"
    1:30-3:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Olivier Blanchard

    Apr 30, 2012

    The Susan Bies Lecture on Economics and Public Policy

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the International Monetary Fund
    "The World Economy: A Perspective from the International Monetary Fund"
    5:15 -6:30pm, Donald P. Jacobs Center OLC Auditorium

  • Oriana Bandiera

    Apr 26, 2012

    Workshop in Applied Microeconomics / Workshop in Economic History

    London School of Economics
    Topic TBA
    4:00 - 5:30 pm, Jacobs Center Room 3245
    Note change of time and location.

  • Alessandro Bonatti

    Apr 25, 2012

    Management and Strategy Seminars

    MIT
    Career Concerns with Coarse Information” (PDF)
    1:30-3:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Philipp Schmidt-Dengler

    Apr 23, 2012

    Workshop in Industrial Organization

    University of Mannheim
    "Competition in Austrian Treasury Auctions"
    3:30-5:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 3245

  • Seth Sanders

    Apr 19, 2012

    Workshop in Economic History

    Duke University
    "The Great Migration and African-American Mortality: Evidence from the Deep South"
    4:30 - 6:00 pm, Jacobs Center Room 3204

  • Frank Verboven

    Apr 18, 2012

    Management and Strategy Seminars

    K.U. Leuven
    "Does Merger Simulation Work? A Natural Experiment in the Swedish Analgesics Market" (PDF)
    1:30-3:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Nicolas Ziebarth

    Apr 12, 2012

    Workshop in Economic History

    Northwestern University
    Topic TBA
    4:30 - 6:00 pm, Jacobs Center Room 3204

  • Allen Ferrell

    Apr 11, 2012

    Law and Economics Colloquium

    Harvard University
    "Corporate Governance and Stock Returns"
    4:00 - 5:00 pm, Arthur Rubloff Building

  • Kate Ho

    Apr 11, 2012

    Management and Strategy Seminars

    Columbia
    "Hospital Choices, Hospital Prices and Financial Incentives to Physicians" (PDF)
    1:30-3:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Ran Abramitzky

    Apr 05, 2012

    Workshop in Economic History

    Stanford University
    "A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration"
    4:30 - 6:00 pm, Jacobs Center Room 3204

  • Ran Abramitzky

    Apr 04, 2012

    Workshop in Economic History

    Stanford University
    Topic TBA
    4:30 - 6:00 pm, Jacobs Center Room 3204
    Note this seminar is not on the usual day.

  • Alan Sykes

    Apr 04, 2012

    Law and Economics Colloquium

    Stanford University
    Topic TBA
    4:00 - 5:00 pm, Arthur Rubloff Building

  • John Asker

    Apr 04, 2012

    Management and Strategy Seminars

    Stern School of Business, New York University
    "Comparing the Investment Behavior of Public and Private Firms" (PDF)
    1:30-3:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Robin Lee

    Apr 02, 2012

    Workshop in Industrial Organization

    Stern School of Business, New York University
    "Markov-Perfect Network Formation: An Applied Framework for Bilateral Oligopoly and Bargaining in Buyer-Seller Networks"
    3:30-5:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 3245

  • Carola Frydman

    Mar 29, 2012

    Workshop in Economic History

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Topic TBA
    4:30 - 6:00 pm, Jacobs Center Room 3204

  • Thomas Lemieux

    Mar 28, 2012

    Management and Strategy Seminars

    U of British Columbia
    "Minimum Wages and the Joint Distribution Employment and Wages" (PDF)
    1:30-3:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Laurence Audenaerd

    Mar 08, 2012

    Transportation Center Seminar

    MITRE Corporation
    "Designing NextGen Advanced Runway Operations to Exploit the Uncertainty of Meteorological Conditions"
    4:00 - 5:30pm, Chambers Hall Lower Level

  • Lisa Bernstein

    Mar 07, 2012

    Law and Economics Colloquium

    University of Chicago
    Topic TBA
    4:00 - 5:00 pm, Arthur Rubloff Building

  • Carlos Daganzo

    Mar 01, 2012

    Transportation Center Seminar

    University of California, Berkeley
    "Traffic Congestion in Networks, and Alleviating it with Public Transportation and Pricing"
    4:00 - 5:00pm, Chambers Hall Lower Level

  • Thomas Ginsburg

    Feb 29, 2012

    Law and Economics Colloquium

    University of Chicago
    Topic TBA
    4:00 - 5:00 pm, Arthur Rubloff Building

  • Beyond IP: How Intellectual Property and Technology Influence Other Areas of Law

    Feb 24, 2012

    Symposium on Technology and Intellectual Property

    8:00 am - 5:00 pm, Arthur Rubloff Building Atrium

  • Beyond IP: How Intellectual Property and Technology Influence Other Areas of Law

    Feb 23, 2012

    Symposium on Technology and Intellectual Property

    6:00 - 9:00 pm, Arthur Rubloff Building Atrium

  • Mike Mullen

    Feb 23, 2012

    Transportation Center and Sandhouse Gang Seminar

    CenterPoint Properties
    "Changing the Face of Logistics"
    3:00 - 5:00pm, Chambers Hall Lower Level

  • Enzo Sauma

    Jan 05, 2012

    Transportation Center Seminar

    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
    "Proactive Transmission Planning in Electricity Networks"
    4:00 - 5:00pm, Jacobs Center Room G45

  • Eugenio Miravete

    Dec 05, 2011

    Workshop in Industrial Organization

    University of Texas
    "Welfare and Redistribution Effects of Benevolent Multiproduct Pricing: The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board"
    3:30-5:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 3245

  • Lei Zhang

    Dec 01, 2011

    Transportation Center Seminar

    University of Maryland
    "Effectiveness and Equity of Future Transportation Financing Options"
    4:00 - 5:00pm, Jacobs Center Room G45

  • Ryan Bubb

    Nov 29, 2011

    Law and Economics Colloquium

    New York University
    Topic TBA
    4:00 - 5:00pm, Arthur Rubloff Building 339

  • Jonathan Vogel

    Nov 28, 2011

    Workshop in Industrial Organization

    Columbia University
    "An Elementary Theory of Global Supply Chains"
    3:30-5:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 3245

  • Henry Smith

    Nov 17, 2011

    Law and Economics Colloquium

    Harvard University
    "An Economic Analysis of Law Versus Equity"
    4:00 - 5:00pm, Arthur Rubloff Building 339

  • Rafael Dix-Carneiro

    Nov 14, 2011

    Workshop in Industrial Organization

    University of Maryland
    "Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Dynamics"
    3:30-5:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 3245

  • Howard Permut

    Nov 10, 2011

    Transportation Center Seminar

    President of Metro-North Railroad
    "NY Commuter Railroad's Response to Hurricane Irene"
    3:30 - 4:30pm, Chambers Hall Lower Level Classroom

  • Lucas Davis

    Nov 09, 2011

    Management and Strategy Seminar

    UC/Berkeley
    1:30-3pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Petra Moser

    Nov 07, 2011

    Workshop in Industrial Organization

    Stanford University
    "Do pools encourage innovation? Patent pools and invention in 20 industries in the 1930s"
    3:30-5:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 3245

  • Alexander Stremitzer

    Nov 03, 2011

    Law and Economics Colloquium

    University of California, Los Angeles
    "Framing Contracts: Why Loss Framing Increases Effort"
    4:00 - 5:00 PM, Arthur Rubloff Building 339

  • John Panzar

    Nov 03, 2011

    Transportation Center Seminar

    Northwestern University
    "Economic Issues Facing the US Postal Service"
    4:00 - 5:00pm, Chambers Hall Lower Level Classroom

  • Mark Jacobsen

    Nov 02, 2011

    Management and Strategy Seminar

    UC/San Diego
    1:30-3pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Camelia Kuhnen

    Oct 27, 2011

    Law and Economics Colloquium

    Associate Professor of Finance, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
    "Neuroeconomics: How do Financial Decisions Come About?"
    4:00 - 5:00 PM, Arthur Rubloff Building 339

  • Bingxiao Wu

    Oct 26, 2011

    Management and Strategy Seminar

    Kellogg School of Management
    Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Robert Gordon

    Oct 25, 2011

    Transportation Center Leon N. Moses Distinguished Lecture

    Northwestern University
    "Is U. S. Economic Growth Over? Lessons from the Long 20th Century"
    7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, James L Allen Center Tribune Auditorium

  • Javier Donna

    Oct 24, 2011

    Workshop in Industrial Organization

    Northwestern University
    "The Effect of Complementarities and Substitutabilities in Sequential Water Auctions"
    3:30-5:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 3245

  • Mark Turnquist

    Oct 20, 2011

    Transportation Center Seminar

    Cornell University
    "Anticipating Disaster: Planning for Emergency Logistics Needs"
    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Chambers Hall Lower Level Classroom

  • Guy Arie

    Oct 19, 2011

    Management and Strategy Seminar

    Kellogg School of Management
    1:30-3pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Ignacio Franceschelli

    Oct 17, 2011

    Workshop in Industrial Organization

    Northwestern University
    "When the Ink is Gone: The Impact of the Internet on News Coverage"
    3:30-5:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 3245

  • David Smith

    Oct 13, 2011

    Law and Economics Colloquium

    University of Virginia
    "The ownership and Trading of Debt Claims in Chapter 11 Restructurings"
    4:00 - 5:00 PM, Arthur Rubloff Building 339

  • Christopher Ody

    Oct 12, 2011

    Management and Strategy Seminar

    Kellogg School of Management
    1:30-3pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Joseph Goodman

    Oct 10, 2011

    Workshop in Industrial Organization

    Northwestern University
    "Reputations in Bidding Fee Auctions"
    3:30-5:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 3245

  • Abe Wickelgren

    Oct 06, 2011

    Law and Economics Colloquium

    University of Texas at Austin
    "Anti-Competetive Exclusion and Market Division Through Loyalty Discounts"
    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Arthur Rubloff Building 339

  • Gregory Schneider

    Oct 06, 2011

    Transportation Center Seminar

    Emporia State University
    "Requiem for a Railroad: The Collapse of the Rock Island"
    3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Chambers Hall Lower Level Classroom

  • L. Kamran Bilir

    Oct 05, 2011

    Management and Strategy Seminars

    University of Wisconsin
    "Patent Laws, Product Lifecycle Lengths, and the Global Sourcing Decisions of U.S. Multinationals"
    1:30-3pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Matthew Grennan

    Sep 28, 2011

    Management and Strategy Seminars

    Rotman School of Management
    "Price Discrimination and Bargaining: Empirical Evidence from Medical Devices".
    1:30-3pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Ben Keys

    Jun 01, 2011

    Management and Strategy Seminars

    Federal Reserve Bank
    "Lender Screening and the Role of Securitization: Evidence from Prime and Subprime Mortgage Markets"
    1:30-3:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Kyle Bagwell

    May 25, 2011

    Management and Strategy Seminars

    Stanford
    "The Theory of Optimal Delegation with an Application to Tariff Caps"
    1:30-3:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Erin M. Johnson

    May 18, 2011

    Management and Strategy Seminars

    MIT
    "Ability, Learning and the Career Path of Cardiac Specialists"
    1:30-3:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Kathryn Shaw

    May 11, 2011

    Management and Strategy Seminars

    Stanford University
    “The Value of Bosses”
    1:30-3:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Paul Oyer

    May 04, 2011

    Management and Strategy Seminars

    Stanford University
    "The Returns to Attending a Prestigious Law School"
    1:30-3:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Xavier Vives

    Apr 27, 2011

    Management and Strategy Seminars

    IESE/University of Navarra
    "Optimal Division of Effort between Working and Learning Information about the Financial Market"
    1:30-3:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Erik Brynjolfsson

    Apr 20, 2011

    Management and Strategy Seminars

    MIT
    "The Extroverted Firm: How External Information Practices Affect Innovation and Productivity"
    1:30-3:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Joao Montez

    Apr 13, 2011

    Management and Strategy Seminars

    London Business School
    "The Worth of Binding Contracts in One-to-Many Bargaining"
    1:30-3:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Simon Board

    Apr 06, 2011

    Management and Strategy Seminars

    UCLA
    “Relational Contracts and On-the-job Search”
    1:30-3:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 619

  • Devin Pope

    Mar 30, 2011

    Management and Strategy Seminars

    University of Chicago
    "Heuristic Thinking and Limited Attention in the Car Market"
    1:30-3:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 619