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Past Strategy Seminars

Spring 2008

Date

Presenter

Affiliation

Paper Title

4/2

Christian Rojas

University of Massechusetts “Price Competition in US Brewing” (PDF 364 KB)

4/9

Catherine Tucker

MIT "Privacy Protection and Technology Diffusion: The Case of Electronic Medical Records" (PDF 561 KB)

4/16

Esther Duflo

MIT "Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?" (PDF 242 KB)
4/23

Thomas Chaney

University of Chicago "The Corporate Wealth Effect: From Real Estate Shocks to Corporate Investment" (PDF 260 KB)
4/30 Felix Oberholzer-Gee Harvard "Bidding for Business - A Field Experiment" (PDF 169 KB)
5/7 Bentley McLeod Columbia "Institutions and Contract Enforcement" (PDF 465 KB)
5/14 Marcus Asplund Stockholm “Do Firms Set Profit Maximizing Prices?” (PDF 387 KB)
5/21 Jeremy Fox University of Chicago "Estimating Matching Games with Transfers Applied to Automotive Suppliers"? (PDF 332 KB)
5/28 Xavier Gabaix NYU "Detail-Independent Optimal Contracts, with an Application to CEO Incentives" (PDF 346 KB)
6/4 David Merriman University of Illinois (Chicago) “The Micro-Geography of Tax Avoidance: Evidence From Littered Cigarette Packs in Chicago” (PDF 959 KB)

 

Fall 2007

Date

Presenter

Affiliation

Paper Title

9/19

Meghan Busse

UC Berkeley “The Best Price You’ll Ever Get”: The 2005 Employee Discount Pricing Promotions in the U.S. Automobile Industry (PDF 1.0 MB)

10/3

Susan Lu

Kellogg "Multitasking, Information Disclosure, and Product Quality: Evidence from Nursing Homes"

10/8
3:30

Min Chen

Kellogg "Vertical Differentiation and Factor Substitution: Evidence from Minimum Staffing Standards in the Nursing Home Industry" (PDF 407 KB)
10/10

Kristina Steffenson McElheran

Kellogg "Strategic Capability Development: Productivity, Market Structure & Investment in Information Technology"
10/17 Priscilla Medeiros Kellogg "The Effects of Deal Patterns on Consumer Behavior"
10/22
3:30
Ron Borkovsky Kellogg “The Timing of Version Releases in R&D-intensive Industries: A Dynamic Duopoly Model”
10/24 Mian Dai Kellogg TBA
11/7 Sam Kortum University of Chicago "An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms" (joint with Jonathan Eaton and Francis Kramarz)
11/14 Kalina Manova Stanford "Credit constraints, heterogenous firms and internaitonal trade"
11/28 Marko Tervio UC Berkeley "Entry and Exit Options under Liquidity Constraints: Optimal Exercise Policies and Implications for Industry Equilibrium" (with Pauli Murto).
12/5 Bob Town University of Minnesota “The Dynamic Impact of Government Policy on Market Structure: An Analysis of the Critical Access Hospital Program.

 

Spring 2007

Date

Presenter

Affiliation

Paper Title

03/28/07

Amil Petrin

U of Chicago GSB Job Security Does Affect Economic Effiency: Theory, a New Statistic, and Evidence from Chile (PDF 496 KB)
04/04/07 Simon Board
U of Toronto Relational Contracts and the Value of Loyalty (PDF 221 KB)
04/11/07 Betsey Stevenson
U of Penn, Wharton The Impact of the Internet on Worker Flows (PDF 241 KB)

04/18/07

Oriana Bandiera London School of Economics

Active and Passive Waste in Government Spending: Evidence from a Policy Experiment

04/25/07 Paul Milgrom
Stanford Core-Selecting Auctions
05/02/07 Michael Raith
U of Rochester

Resource Allocation and Firm Scope (PDF 378 KB)
(with Guido Friebel)

05/09/07

Holger Sieg
Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon U A Flexible Approach to Estimating Production Functions When Output Prices and Quantities are Unobserved (PDF 420 KB)

05/16/07

Tracy Lewis
Duke The Value of Information in Matching Markets (PDF 191 KB)
05/23/07 James Rebitzer
Case Western Reserve, Weatherhead School of Management Information Technology and Medical Missteps: Evidence from a Randomized Trial (PDF 193 KB)
05/30/07

Brigitte Madrian

Harvard Flypaper Effects in Asset Allocation (PDF 149 KB)

 

Fall 2006

Date

Presenter

Affiliation

Paper Title

09/13/06

Alexei Alexandrov
Internal job candidate Fat Products
(PDF, 787 KB)
09/20/06 Lanier Benkard
Stanford Markov Perfect Industry Dynamics with Many Firms
(PDF, 384 KB)
09/27/06 Andres Rodriguez-Clare
Penn State Trade, Diffusion, and the Gain from Openness
(PDF, 264 KB)

10/04/06

Ricardo Alonso
Internal job candidate

Shared Control and Strategic Communication (PDF, 402 KB)

10/11/06 Subramaniam Ramanarayanan
Internal job candidate Does Practice Make Perfect: An Empirical Analysis of Learning-by-Doing in Cardiac Surgery (PDF, 107 KB)
10/18/06 Seongwuk Moon
Internal job candidate

How Does the Division of Labor Affect the Distribution of Earnings? Implications of the Organization of Production

10/25/06

Enrico Moretti
U.C. Berkeley Peers at Work (PDF, 2.00 MB)

11/01/06

Matthew Gentzkow
Chicago GSB What Drives News Media Slant? Evidence from US Daily Newspapers (with Jesse M. Shapiro) (PDF, 447 KB)
11/08/16 Severin Borenstein
U.C. Berkeley, Haas How the Airline Market Works... or does it? (PDF, 1.05 MB) 
11/13/06

John van Reenan

London School of Economics It Ain’t What you do, it’s the Way that you do it: Investigating the Productivity Miracle Using Multinationals (PDF, 535 KB)  
11/15/06 Oliver Hart
Harvard Contracts as Reference Points (PDF, 340 KB) 
11/29/06 Jan Zabojnik
Queen's University Disobedience and Authority (PDF, 321 KB)
12/1/06 John Sutton London School of Economics Market Share Dynamics and the ‘Persistence of
Leadership’ Debate
(PDF, 910 KB)

 

Spring 2006

Date

Presenter

School

Paper Title

Wednesday, March 29

Andrew Cohen Federal Reserve Board of Governors "Estimating Strategic Complementarities in Credit Unions’ Outsourcing Decisions"
Wednesday, April 5 Michael Ostrovsky Stanford Graduate School of Business "Internet Advertising and the Generalized Second Price Auction:
Selling Billions of Dollars Worth of Keywords"
Wednesday, April 12 Emek Basker
University of Missouri
"Putting a Smiley Face on the Dragon: Wal-Mart as Catalyst to U.S.-China Trade"

Wednesday, April 19

Martin Gaynor
Carnegie Mellon

"A Competition Index for Differentiated Product Oligopoly With an Application to Hospitals"

Wednesday, April 26
Augustin Landier
NYU Stern School of Business
"Optimal Dissent in Organizations" and "Bottom-Up Corporate Governance"
Wednesday, May 3
Heski Bar-Isaac
NYU Stern School of Business

"Diversity and Demand Externalities: How Cheap
Information C
an Reduce Welfare"

Wednesday, May 10

Location:
LEV 276

Alan Sorensen
Stanford Graduate School of Business
“Incomplex Alternatives to Mixed Bundling"

Wednesday, May 17


Location:
LEV 165

Doug Staiger
Dartmouth "Preferences and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in a Public School Choice Lottery"
Wednesday, May 24
Bentley MacLeod
Columbia
"Reputations, Relationships and the Enforcement of Incomplete
Contracts"

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