Seminar Series
Federal Trade Commission
Bureau of Economics
Fall 2020 | |||
Date | Speaker | Paper | Room |
9/15/2020 | Chiara Farronato (HBS) | Dog Eat Dog: Measuring Network Effects Using a Digital Platform Merger | Hosted by UMD |
9/22/2020 | Hui Li (CMU Tepper) | Market Shifts in the Sharing Economy: The Impact of Airbnb on Housing Rentals | Hosted by UMD |
9/24/2020 | Pietro Tebaldi (Chicago) | Market Design in Regulated Health Insurance Markets : Risk Adjustment vs Subsidies | Hosted by FTC |
9/29/2020 | Mo Xiao (Arizona) | Narrowing the Digital Divide: Political Incentives and Provider Competition | Hosted by FTC (12pm Tuesday) |
10/1/2020 | Anita Rao (Chicago Booth) | Industry-funded Research and Bias in Food Science | Hosted by FTC |
| 10/6/2020 | David Yang (Harvard) | Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from AI Firms in China | Hosted by UMD |
| 10/13/2020 | Marc Rysman (BU) | Demand for Performance Goods: Import Quotas in the Chinese Movie Market | Hosted by UMD |
| 10/21/2020 | Hanming Fang (Penn) | Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence | Hosted by UMD (3:30pm Wednesday) |
| 10/29/2020 | Frank Verboven (KU Leuven) | Market Entry, Fighting Brands and Tacit Collusion: Evidence from the French Mobile Telecommunications Market | Hosted by FTC |
| 11/2/2020 | Amit Gandhi (Penn) | TBD | Hosted by UMD |
| 11/5/2020 | No Seminar | FTC Microeconomics Conference |
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| 11/12/2020 | Rani Spiegler (Tel Aviv) | Complexity, competition and market regulation: Ideas from behavioral IO | Hosted by FTC |
| 11/19/2020 | Kyle Herkenhoff (UMN) | TBD | Hosted by FTC |
| 11/24/2020 | Tobias Salz (MIT) | TBD | Hosted by UMD |
| 12/3/2020 | Isaac Sorkin (Stanford) | Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages | Hosted by FTC |
| 12/8/2020 | Mike Abito (Penn) | TBD | Hosted by UMD |
| 12/17/2020 | Daniel Ershov (Toulouse) | Algorithmic Pricing and Competition: Empirical Evidence from the German Retail Gasoline Market | Hosted by FTC |
All seminars will be held virtually. All FTC-hosted seminars are at 2:30pm Thursday and all UMD-hosted seminars are 3:30pm Tuesday unless otherwise indicated. Outside visitors are welcome, but should contact Miriam Larson-Koester (mlarsonkoester@ftc.gov) in advance of the seminar to arrange access. Updated: October 27, 2020 | |||
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