Date
|
Speaker
|
Title of Talk/Paper
|
January 24
|
Erik Snowberg
(Stanford GSB)
|
"Explaining
the Favorite-Longshot Bias: Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?"
|
January 31
|
Steve Tadelis
(UCB - Haas)
|
"The
Power of Shame and the Rationality of Trust"
|
February 7
|
Silke J.-Forbes
(UCSD Economics)
|
"Does
Vertical Integration Affect Firm Performance? Evidence from the Airline
Industry" |
February 14
|
Bob Hall
(Stanford Econ.)
|
"The
Incentives to Start New Companies: Evidence from Venture Capital"
|
February 21
|
Marco Ottaviani
(Kellogg Northwestern)
|
Search
Agency [Hard copy of paper available only.] |
February 28
|
Anna Levine
(Stanford)
|
"Licensing
and Scale Economies in the Biotechnology Pharmaceutical Industry" |
March 6
|
Ben Hermalin
(UCB - Haas)
|
"Firm
Value and Corporate Governance: Does the Former Determine the Latter?"
|
March 13
|
Glenn Ellison
(MIT Economics)
|
"Position
Auctions with Consumer Search" |
March 20
|
Phillip Leslie (Stanford GSB)
|
"Nearly
Optimal Pricing for Multiproduct Firms" |
March 27
|
NO MEETING
|
SPRING
BREAK |
April 2 *
|
Ray Fisman
(Columbia GSB)
|
"Exposure to Ideology and Distributional Preferences"
(Paper not available).
[*Note: This talk will replace the seminar originally scheduled
for Thursday, April 3rd. This talk will take place in room C210
from 2:30 - 4:00 PM].]
|
April 10
|
Jesse Shapiro
(Chicago GSB)
|
Competition and Diversity: Historical Evidence from U.S. Newspapers.
[Hard copy of paper available only.]
|
April 17
|
Fiona Murray
(MIT Sloan)
|
"Learning
to Live with Patents: Assessing the Dynamic Adaptation to the Law
by the Scientific Community" |
April 24
|
Mariano Tommasi
(Univ. de San Andres)
|
"How
Do Political Institutions Work? Veto Players, Intertemporal Interactions,
and Policy Adaptability" |
May
1
|
Rui de Figueiredo
(UCB - Haas)
|
Skill
and Luck in Hedge Fund "Diversification" |
May
8
|
Richard Holden
(MIT Sloan)
|
"A
Theory of Rule Development" |