Economic Analysis and Policy Group Seminar
Spring 2007


(Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller, January 6, 2007)

NOTE CHANGE OF ROOM: BEGINNING ON FEBRUARY 20, 2007, THE SEMINAR MEETS IN C330

The EAP seminar will meet on selected Tuesdays, 4:10-5:30pm, in Cheit Hall, Room C330 (unless otherwise noted)

Seminar Schedule (as of 3/20/2007)

1/16/2007 Michael Grubb, Stanford Graduate School of Business,
"Selling to Overconfident Consumers"

1/31/2007 Elias Papaioannou, European Central Bank (joint with Antonio Ciccone)
"Adjustment to Target Capital, Finance, and Growth"
NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE: Wednesday, 2:10-3:30pm, in Cheit Hall, Room C320

2/6/2007*  Mark Duggan, University of Maryland (joint with William Evans)
"Estimating the Impact of Medical Innovation: A case study of HIV antiretroviral treatments "

****CANCELLED**** 2/9/07 Jonathan Vogel, Princeton University
“Spatial Competition with Heterogeneous Firms”
NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE: Friday, 2:10-3:30pm, in Cheit Hall, Room C330

2/13/2007 Santiago Oliveros, Haas
"Who abstains in equilibrium?"

2/20/2007 Jonathan Leonard, Haas (joint with Tom Davidoff)
"Dirt Simple Asset Pricing: U.S. Agricultural Land Values 1850-2002"

2/27/2007* Severin Borenstein, Haas (joint with Nancy Rose)
"How Airline Markets Work…Or Do They?"

3/13/2007* Wouter Dessein, University of Chicago (joint with Ricardo Alonso and Niko Matouschek.)
"When Does Coordination Require Centralization?"

3/20/2007 ***CANCELLED***  Canice Prendergast, University of Chicago NO EAP SEMINAR
IO seminar in Econ Department, Evans 608-7
 Rich Gilbert, UCB,  "Efficient Division of Profits for Complex Innovations"
(joint with Michael Katz)

4/3/2007 NO EAP SEMINAR
IO seminar in Econ Department, Evans 608-7
 John Sutton, (LSE, visiting Stanford)
 TBA

4/10/2007  ***CANCELLED***  Matthew Gentzkow NO EAP SEMINAR
IO seminar in Econ Department, Evans 608-7
   Alberto Salvo, Northwestern, Kellogg
   "Inferring Conduct under the Threat of Entry: The Case of the Brazilian Cement Industry"

4/17/2007 Meghan Busse, Haas (joint with Florian Zettelmeyer and Duncan Simester)
"The Best Price You'll Ever Get: The 2005 Employee Discount Pricing Promotions in the U.S. Automobile Industry"

4/24/2007 NO EAP SEMINAR
IO seminar in Econ Department, Evans 608-7
  Joseph Farrell, UCB
  "The Analytics of Aftermarkets"

5/1/2007*  Frank Wolak, Stanford University (visiting Berkeley)
"Relative Prices and Electronic Substitution: Changes in Household-level Demand for Postal Delivery Services 1986 to 2004"

5/8/2007 NO EAP SEMINAR
IO seminar in Econ Department, Evans 608-7
 David Genesove, (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, visiting University of Toronto)
"Broadcasting Competition and Programming Costs"

* indicates meeting jointly with economics department industrial organization seminar