Applied
Micro Workshop, Spring 2010
Effective
Jan 26, we are meeting every Tuesday at 11:15am – 12:45pm in Hanson 4-190. See
you then!
(All dates
and names in this table are confirmed.)
|
Date |
Presenter |
Paper
title / link / slides |
|
Jan 19 |
Hyunchul Kim |
Improving the Numerical
Performance of BLP Static and Dynamic Discrete Choice Random Coefficients
Demand Estimation, by Dube, Fox, and Su (slides) |
|
Lydia
Cheung |
Student
research sketch |
|
|
Jan 26 |
Tom
Longwell |
Dynamic
Determinants of Mergers and Product Characteristics in the Radio Industry
(Stanford JMP), by Przemyslaw Jeziorski
(slides) |
|
Minjung Kim |
Student
research sketch |
|
|
Feb 2 |
Maryam |
Bargaining
Ability and Competitive Advantage: Empirical Evidence from Medical Devices
(NYU JMP), by Matthew Grennan (slides) |
|
Hyunchul Kim |
Student
research sketch |
|
|
Feb 9 |
Konstantin |
Intellectual
Property Rights and Innovation: Evidence from the Human Genome (Harvard
JMP), by Heidi Williams (slides) |
|
Thomas
Youle |
Student
research |
|
|
Feb 16 |
Jing
Fang |
Adverse
Selection and Switching Costs in Health Insurance Markets: When Nudging Hurts
(Northwestern JMP), by Benjamin Handel
(slides) |
|
Maryam |
Student
research |
|
|
Feb 23 |
Lydia
Cheung |
A Dynamic Model of Costs
and Margins in the LCD TV Industry (Yale JMP), by Christopher Conlon (slides) |
|
Konstantin |
Student
research |
|
|
March 2 |
Brian
Adams |
Competition among Spatially Differentiated
Firms: An Empirical Model with an Application to Cement, by Nathan Miller
and Matthew Osborne (slides) |
|
Jing
Fang |
Student
research |
|
|
March 9 |
Hyunchul Kim |
A Structural
Model of Sponsored Search Advertising Auctions, by Susan Athey and Denis Nekipelov (slides) |
|
Brian
Adams |
Student
research |
|
|
March 16 |
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SPRING
BREAK, NO WORKSHOP |
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March 23 |
Minjung Kim |
Distribution-Valued Solution Concepts, by David Wolpert
and James Bono |
|
Tom
Longwell |
Student
research |
|
|
March 30 |
Tom
Longwell |
Measuring Welfare Losses from Adverse Selection and
Imperfect Competition in Privatized Medicare, by Josh Lustig
(Boston University) |
|
Lydia
Cheung |
Student
research |
|
|
April 6 |
Thomas
Youle |
Paper
(TBA) |
|
? |
Student
research |
|
|
April 13 |
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April 20 |
Maryam Saeedi |
Student
Research Presentation (1.5 hrs) |
|
April 27 |
Andrea
Szabo |
Student
Research Presentation (1.5 hrs) |
Applied
Micro Workshop, Fall 2009
Effective September
22, we are meeting every Tuesday at 12 noon – 1:30pm in Carlson L-122. See you
then!
(All dates and names in this table are confirmed.)
|
Date |
Presenter |
Paper
title / link / slides |
|
September
14 |
The
Determinants and Impact of Executive-Firm Matches (paper) (slides) |
|
|
September
22 |
Elasticity
in Health Insurance and Medicare’s “Doughnut Hole” (Job Market Paper) (paper) (summary) |
|
|
September
29 |
The
Value of Free Water – Analyzing South Africa’s Free Basic Water Policy (Job
Market Paper) (paper) (summary) |
|
|
October
6 |
Aldo
Rustichini |
Reputation
Theory and Experimental Tests |
|
October
13 |
Thomas
Youle |
Conditional Moment Restrictions and Triangular Simultaneous
Equations, by Jinyong Hahn and Geert Ridder |
|
Thomas
Youle |
Student
research |
|
|
October
20 |
Maryam |
Estimation
of Dynamic Discrete Games when Players’ Beliefs are not in Equilibrium,
by Victor Aguirregabiria and Pedro Mira (slides) |
|
Konstantin |
Student
research |
|
|
October
27 |
Lydia |
The
Identification Power of Equilibrium in Simple Games, by
Andres Aradillas-Lopez and Elie
Tamer (slides) |
|
Maryam |
Student
research |
|
|
November
3 |
Konstantin |
Insurer-Provider
Networks in the Medical Care Market, by
Katherine Ho (slides) |
|
November
10 |
Heterogeneous Effects of Walmart
on Small Pharmacy Business (Job Market Paper) |
|
|
November
17 |
Brian
Adams |
Market
Structure and Multiple Equilibria in Airline
Markets, by
Federico Ciliberto and Elie
Tamer (slides) |
|
Jing
Fang |
Student
research |
|
|
November
24 |
Jing
Fang |
Tracing the Woes: An Empirical Analysis of the Airline
Industry, by Steven Berry and Panle Jia (slides) |
|
Tom
Longwell |
Student
research sketch |
|
|
December
1 |
Minjung Kim |
Identification of
Discrete Choice Demand from Market Level Data, by Steven Berry and Philip
Haile (slides) |
|
Brian
Adams |
Student
research sketch |
|
|
December
8 |
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|
Tina
Marsh |
Mock
Job Market Interview |
|
|
December
15 |
TBA |
|
|
Andrea
Szabo |
Mock
Job Market Interview |
List of
suggested papers:
|
Paper
title |
Claimed
by… |
|
Location and
Competition in Retail Banking, by
Katherine Ho and Joy Ishii (suggested by Brian) |
|
|
Stuck
in the Adoption Funnel: The Effect of Delays in the Adoption Process on
Ultimate Adoption, by Anja Lambrecht,
Katja Seim, and
Catherine Tucker (suggested by Lydia) |
|
|
Nonparametric
Estimation of Nonadditive Random Functions, by Rosa
L. Matzkin (Econometrica
71(5), 1339-75, September2003) (suggested by Tina) |
|
|
A
Method for Implementing Counterfactual Experiments in Models with Multiple Equilibria, by Victor Aguirregabiria
(suggested by Amil) |