Schedule of Speakers
Federal Trade Commission
Bureau of Economics Series
Spring 2009
Date |
Speaker/Affliliation/Paper |
| Feb 19 | Patrick Rey (Toulouse School of Economics) Resale Price Maintenance and Interlocking Relationships |
| Mar 12 | Jay Shimshack Mercury Advisories and Household Health Trade-Offs Seminar will be held in New Jersey Avenue Building, Room 4100 |
| Mar 26 | Charlie Holt (University of Virginia) Collusion in Auctions for Emission Permits: An Experimental Analysis Seminar will be held in New Jersey Avenue Building, Room 4100 |
| Apr 9 | Stefano DellaVigna (UC Berkeley and NBER) The Effect of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity |
| Apr 16 | Ken Hendricks (Texas) Information and the Skewness of Music Sales Seminar will be held in New Jersey Avenue Building, Room 4100 |
| Apr 23 | C. Lanier Benkard (Stanford) Simulating the Dynamic Effects of Horizontal Mergers: U.S. Airlines Seminar will be held in New Jersey Avenue Building, Room 4100 |
| Apr 30 | Amalia Miller (University of Virginia) Electronic Discovery and Electronic Medical Records: Does the Threat of Litigation Affect Firm Decisions to Adopt Technology? |
| May 7 | Jonathan Levin (Stanford) |
| May 14 | John Thanasoullis (Oxford) Upstream Competition and Downstream Buyer Power |
| May 19 | Luke Froeb (Vanderbilt University) An Equilibrium Analysis of Antitrust as a Solution to the Problem of Patent Hold-Up Seminar will be held in New Jersey Avenue Building, Conference Room A at 10:30 |
| May 21 | Chris Knittel Estimation of Random Coefficient Demand Models: Challenges, Difficulties and Warnings (University of California, Davis) |
| June 4 | Devin Pope |
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will take place on Thursdays at 2:30pm in the ground floor Conference Center located at 601 New Jersey Ave. NW. No prior security clearance is necessary except for the seminars held in room 4100. Address inquiries to Loren Smith (lsmith2@ftc.gov) or Tammy John (tjohn@ftc.gov). Updated: November 25, 2008 Click on the lecture title to view an Acrobat PDF copy of the presented paper. Previous seminar series calendars are available. |
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