Past Seminars:
CEP/DOM Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminar
For further information please contact
Anna Graham, email:
a.graham@lse.ac.uk, tel: +44(0)-7955-7673.
This seminar is organised by
Yona Rubinstein, email:
y.rubinstein@lse.ac.uk, tel: +44(0)20 7106 1262
and
John Van Reenen, email:
j.vanreenen@lse.ac.uk
16 May 2013
13:45
- 15:00
Welfare and Equity Consequences of Transplant Organ Allocation Policies
Tayfun Sonmez
(KOC)
Location:
32L 1.04
1st Floor Conference Room, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields
21 March 2013
13:45
- 15:00
Productivity As If Space Mattered: An Application to Factor Markets Across China
John Morrow
(LSE)
Location:
32L 1.04
1st Floor Conference Room, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields
14 March 2013
13:45
- 15:00
Making Do With Less: Working Harder During Recessions
Christopher Stanton
(Utah)
Location:
32L 1.04
1st Floor Conference Room, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields
28 February 2013
13:45
- 15:00
Job Market Paper - Information, Incentives and Impulsivity in Food Choice: Evidence from Online Food Purchases
SEMINAR CANCELLED
Vikram Pathania
(Department of Management, LSE)
Location:
32L 1.04
1st Floor Conference Room, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields
14 February 2013
13:45
- 15:00
Job Market Paper - Valuing the Consumption Benefits of Urban Density
Victor Couture
(University of Toronto)
Location:
32L 1.04
1st Floor Conference Room, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields
07 February 2013
13:45
- 15:00
Job Market Paper - Information Asymmetries in Crop Insurance
Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson
(Yale)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
31 January 2013
13:45
- 15:00
JOB MARKET
Social Insurance and the Marriage Market
Petra Persson
(Columbia University)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
31 January 2013
16:00
- 17:30
Job Market Paper - Social Insurance and the Marriage Market
Petra Persson
(Columbia University)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
24 January 2013
13:45
- 15:00
Job Market Paper - The Role of Connections in Academic Promotions
Manuel Bagues
(Universidad Carlos III)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
13 December 2012
13:45
- 15:00
Recent Marginal Labor Income Tax Rate Changes by Skill and Marital Status
Casey Mulligan
(Chicago)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
06 December 2012
13:45
- 15:00
Information Disclosure as a Matching Mechanism: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment
Steve Tadelis
(UC Berkeley)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
29 November 2012
13:45
- 15:00
The allocation of talent and U.S. economic growth
Erik Hurst
(Chicago GSB)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
22 November 2012
13:45
- 15:00
Training Contracts, Worker Overconfidence, and the Provision of Firm-Sponsored General Training
Mitchell Hoffman
(Rotman School of Management)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
15 November 2012
13:45
- 15:00
Spatial Sorting
Jan Eeckhout
(UCL)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
08 November 2012
13:45
- 15:00
Implementing the Wisdom of the Crowd
Ilan Kremer
(Stanford)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
01 November 2012
13:45
- 15:00
Public contracting in Delegated agency games with Applications
Lars Stole
(Chicago GSB)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
25 October 2012
13:45
- 15:00
Who Is (More) Rational?
Shachar Kariv
(Berkeley)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
18 October 2012
13:45
- 15:00
Do entrepreneurs matter?
Hans Hvide
(Bergen)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
11 October 2012
13:45
- 15:00
Grab them Before they Go Generic: Habit Formation and the Emerging Middle Class
Alon Eizenberg
(Hebrew University)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
04 October 2012
13:45
- 15:00
Rank Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Workplace Experiment
Iwan Barankay
(Penn)
Location:
NAB 2.04
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn Fields
13 September 2012
13:00
- 14:00
Managerial Capital at the Top:
Evidence from CEOs Use of Time
Raffaella Sadun
(HBS)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
24 May 2012
13:45
- 15:00
The Technological and Agency Effects of IT: Randomized Evidence from Credit Committees
Daniel Paravisini
(Columbia University)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
17 May 2012
13:45
- 15:00
On the Merits of Meritocracy
Felix Vardy
(Berkeley)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
15 March 2012
13:45
- 15:00
Repossession and the Democratization of Credit
Efraim Benmelech
(Harvard)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
08 March 2012
13:45
- 15:00
Microenterprise Dynamics: Learning from Experimentation
Christopher Woodruff
(Warwick)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
01 March 2012
13:45
- 15:00
The Distribution of Talent across Contests
Marc Moller
(Bern)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
17 January 2012
13:45
- 15:00
Job Market Paper - The Allocation of Future Business: Dynamic Relational Contracts with Multiple Agents
Daniel Barron
(MIT)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
08 December 2011
13:45
- 15:00
Counterfeiters: Foes or Friends?
Yi Qian
(Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
01 December 2011
13:45
- 15:00
Regional Firm Size Diversity and Innovation
Ajay Agrawal
(Rotman School of Management, Toronto)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
24 November 2011
13:45
- 15:00
Working from Home: Evidence from a Field Experiment in China
John Roberts
(Stanford GSB)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
17 November 2011
13:45
- 15:00
The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A natural field experiment
Josse Delfgaauw
(University of Rotterdam)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
10 November 2011
13:45
- 15:00
Dissecting The Effect Of Credit Supply On Trade: Evidence From Matched Credit-Export Data
Veronica Rappoport
(LSE)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
03 November 2011
13:45
- 15:00
Reagan's innovation dividend?Technological impacts of the 1980s US defence build-up
Mirko Draca
(CEP)
Location:
NAB 1.14
1st Floor, New Academic Building, Lincoln's Inn Fields
27 October 2011
13:45
- 15:00
A Theory of Strategy and the Role of Leaders in it
Eric Van den Steen
(Harvard Business School)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
20 October 2011
13:45
- 15:00
Landing the first job: the value of intermediaries in online hiring
Catherine Thomas
(Columbia & London Business School)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
10 October 2011
14:00
- 15:30
JOINT CAPABILITIES/LABOUR SEMINAR: Title TBC
Robert Gibbons
(MIT)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
24 March 2011
13:45
- 15:00
Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social Efficiency
Ramon Casadesus
(Harvard Business School)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
17 March 2011
13:45
- 15:00
Deep Financial Integration and Volatility
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan
(University of Houston)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
10 March 2011
13:45
- 15:00
Competition in Persuasion
Emir Kamenica
(Chicago Booth)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
03 March 2011
13:45
- 15:00
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK
Sebastian Stumpner
(Berkeley, EOPP visitor)
Location:
Venue to be Confirmed
24 February 2011
13:45
- 15:00
Industrial Development through Tacit Knowledge Seeding:
Evidence from the Bangladesh Garment Industry
Steve Klepper
(Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
09 December 2010
13:45
- 15:00
Sales Talk, Cancellation Terms, and the Role of Consumer Protection
Marco Ottaviani
(London Business School)
, joint with Roman Inderst
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
02 December 2010
13:45
- 15:00
The Flattening Firm: Evidence and Causes of the Changing Nature of Corporate Hierarchies
Julie Wulf
(Harvard Business School)
Location:
NAB 1.15
1st Floor, New Academic Building, Lincoln's Inn
25 November 2010
13:45
- 15:00
What Do Outside Experts Bring To A Committee? Evidence From The Bank of England
Stephen Hansen
(UPF)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
18 November 2010
13:45
- 15:00
Revolving Door Lobbyists
Christian Fons-Rosen
(UPF Barcelona & CEP)
, joint with Jordi Blanes-i-VIdal (LSE) and Mirko Draca (CEP)
Location:
NAB 1.15
1st Floor, New Academic Building, Lincoln's Inn
11 November 2010
13:45
- 15:00
Authority, Incentives and Performance: Theory and Evidence
from a Chinese Newspaper
Yanhui Wu
(CEP & LSE)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
04 November 2010
13:45
- 15:00
Materialistic Genius and Market Power: Uncovering the Best Innovations
Glen Weyl
(Harvard Society of Fellows)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
28 October 2010
13:45
- 15:00
Capabilities, Wealth and the Export Mix
John Sutton
(LSE)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
21 October 2010
13:45
- 15:00
No seminar
Location:
Venue to be Confirmed
14 October 2010
13:45
- 15:00
Innovation and Foreign Ownership
Maria Guadalupe
(Columbia Business School)
Location:
NAB 2.14
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn Fields
07 October 2010
13:45
- 15:00
Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?
Joshua Gans
(Melbourne Business School & Harvard)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
03 June 2010
13:45
- 15:00
How to Organize a Learning Process: Decision Rights, Strategic Communication, and Reputational Concerns
Bauke Visser
(Erasmus School of Economics, Tinbergen Institute)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
13 May 2010
13:45
- 15:00
Repo Runs
Elu Van Thadden
(University of Mannheim)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
06 May 2010
13:45
- 15:00
Family values and the regulation of labour
Yann Algan
(Paris School of Economics & Yale)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
25 March 2010
13:45
- 15:00
The slow growth of new plants: learning about demand
Chad Syverson
(University of Chicago)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
18 March 2010
13:45
- 15:00
The wealth and poverty of nations: true PPPs for 141 countries
Nick Oulton
(CEP & UCL)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
04 March 2010
13:45
- 15:00
Title TBC
Paul Romer
(Stanford)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
25 February 2010
13:45
- 15:00
SEMINAR POSTPONED - NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK
Radha Iyengar
(CEP, LSE and NBER)
Location:
Venue to be Confirmed
18 February 2010
13:45
- 15:00
Social vs. monetary incentives in the workplace: evidence from field experiments
Oriana Bandiera
(LSE)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
11 February 2010
13:45
- 15:00
Resistance to Change
James Dow
(LBS)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
03 December 2009
13:45
- 15:00
A new capital regulation for large financial institutions
Luigi Zingales
(University of Chicago)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
03 December 2009
13:45
- 15:00
A New Capital Regulation For Large Financial Institutions
Luigi Zingales
(University of Chicago)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
26 November 2009
13:45
- 15:00
The Dynamics of Firms' Product Portfolios in Response to Low-Cost Country Competition: an Empirical Assessment
Claire Lelarge
(CREST)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
19 November 2009
13:45
- 15:00
The Power of Dynastic Commitment: Employment Policies in Family Firms
Nicolas Serrano-Velarde
(Oxford)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
12 November 2009
13:45
- 15:00
Vertical Integration: Linking Theory to Practice
Robert Gertner
(Chicago University)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
06 November 2009
13:45
- 15:00
The Economics of Radiator Springs: Industry Dynamics, Sunk Costs and Spatial Demand Shifts
Tom Hubbard
(University of Chicago Business School)
Location:
NAB 1.15
1st Floor, New Academic Building, Lincoln's Inn
29 October 2009
13:45
- 15:00
The Importance of Hold-up in Contracting: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Antoinette Schoar
(MIT)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
15 October 2009
13:45
- 15:00
Spinoffs and the Market for Ideas
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
(Princeton)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
08 October 2009
13:45
- 15:00
Advising on Alternatives
Wouter Dessein
(Columbia University)
, joint with Yeon-Koo Che and Navin Kartik
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
05 December 2008
13:45
- 15:00
The Size, Function and Trade Area of Manufacturing Plants
Thomas Holmes
(University of Minnesota)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
28 November 2008
13:45
- 15:00
What do managers do (to build competitive advantage)?
Rebecca Henderson
(MIT)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
21 November 2008
13:45
- 15:00
Railroads and the Raj: the economic impact of transportation infrastructure
Dave Donaldson
(MIT)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
14 November 2008
13:45
- 15:00
Liquidity constraints and imperfect information in subprime lending
Jonathan Levin
(Stanford University)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
07 November 2008
13:45
- 15:00
Competition and Diversity: Historical Evidence from U.S. Newspapers
Matthew Gentzkow
(Chicago GSB)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
31 October 2008
13:45
- 15:00
What they don't know can't hurt you: The benefits of limited feedback in organizations
Stephen Hansen
(UPF)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
24 October 2008
13:45
- 15:00
Democratizing Entry: Banking deregulations financing constraints, and entrepreneurship
William Kerr
(Harvard Business School)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
17 October 2008
13:45
- 15:00
How much does immigration boost innovation?
Jennifer Hunt
(McGill University)
, joint with Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
19 June 2008
13:45
- 15:00
Rachel Griffith
(IFS and UCL)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
05 June 2008
13:45
- 15:00
Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from Million Dollar Plants
Michael Greenstone
(MIT)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
29 May 2008
13:45
- 15:00
An Experimental Component Index for the CPI
Ariel Pakes
(Harvard University)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
20 May 2008
15:30
- 17:00
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, IMITATION, AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT: THEORY AND EVIDENCE
Lee Branstetter
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
15 May 2008
13:45
- 15:00
Vertical Integration and Production: Some Plant-Level Evidence
Chad Syverson
(University of Chicago)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
28 February 2008
13:45
- 15:00
Gender differences in career paths among highly-skilled professionals: The case of MBA graduates
Marianne Bertrand
(University of Chicago)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
21 February 2008
13:45
- 15:00
Joint PIIP/Economics of Industry Seminar - From Pigou to extended liability: On the optimal taxation of externalities under imperfect financial markets
Jean Tirole
(Toulouse)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
14 February 2008
13:45
- 15:00
Joint PIIP/IE Seminar - The productivity advantages of large markets: distinguishing agglomeration from firm selection
Diego Puga
(CEMFI)
, joint with Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon and Sebastien Roux
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
13 December 2007
16:00
- 17:00
CEP Productivity and Tanaka Business School Seminar: Superstar extinction
Pierre Azoulay
(MIT & NBER)
, joint with Joshua Graff Zivin & Jialan Wang
Location:
Lower Ground Square Theatre, Tanaka Business School
Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, SW7 2AZ
06 December 2007
13:45
- 15:00
Recovering the Sunk Costs of R&D: The Moulds Industry Case
Carlos Santos
(CEP)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
29 November 2007
13:00
- 14:30
CEP Productivity and Tanaka Business School Seminar: Patents, Thickets and Entry in Software
Iain Cockburn
(Boston University & NBER)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
15 November 2007
13:45
- 15:00
The financial patent litigation puzzle
Joshua Lerner
(Harvard University & NBER)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
08 November 2007
13:45
- 15:00
Email and skill-based organisational change
Alexander Whalley
(UC Merced)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
25 October 2007
13:45
- 15:00
Selection or self-rejection? Applications into a voluntary treatment program: the case of R&D subsides
Otto Toivanen
(HECER, University of Helsinki)
, joint with Tuomas Takalo and Tanja Tanayama
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
11 October 2007
13:00
- 14:30
Merger of equals and unequals
Michael Gibbs
(Chicago Graduate School of Business)
, joint with Kathryn Lerulli & Valerie Smeets
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
14 June 2007
13:45
- 15:00
Trade, Technology and the Environment: Why do Poorer Countries Regulate Sooners?
David Popp
(Syracuse University)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
07 June 2007
13:45
- 15:00
Credti Constraints - Volatility & Growth
Philippe Aghion
(Harvard)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
24 May 2007
13:45
- 15:00
Dynamic Price Competition with Network Effects
Luis Cabral
(NYU, Stern Business School)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
10 May 2007
13:45
- 15:00
Chain indices and the path-dependence problem: an empirical solution
Nick Oulton
(CEP & UCL)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
26 April 2007
13:45
- 15:00
Investment in Innovation and Fixed Assets: the effect of US tax reforms that reduced the relative price of equity to debt
Gareth Macartney
(IFS)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
12 March 2007
15:30
- 17:00
Environmental and Technology Policies for Climate Mitigation
Richard Newell
(Resources for the Future, Duke)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
08 March 2007
13:45
- 15:00
NO SEMINAR
Christopher Stanton
(Utah)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
22 February 2007
13:45
- 15:00
What do we know about the structure of Pyramidal business groups? Evidence from Europe
Sharon Belenzon
(CEP & Oxford University)
, joint with Tomer Berkowitz
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
07 December 2006
13:45
- 15:00
R&D and productivity: Estimating production functions when productivity is endogenous
Ulrich Doraszelski
(Harvard University)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
30 November 2006
13:45
- 15:00
The Division of Labor, Coordination, and the Demand for Information Processing
Guy Michaels
(LSE & CEP)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
23 November 2006
13:45
- 15:00
Exploiting Sequential Learning to Estimate Microeconomic Productivity Dynamics in Strategic Settings
David Greenstreet
(Oxford University)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
09 November 2006
13:45
- 15:00
The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas: Evidence from Patent Grant Delays
Scott Stern
(Kellogg School of Business, Northewestern University)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
26 October 2006
13:45
- 15:00
POSTPONED UNTIL LENT TERM 2007: Computing Crime: Information Technology, Police Effectiveness and the Organisation of Policing
Luis Garicano
(Chicago GSB and LSE)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
12 October 2006
13:45
- 15:00
Cross-License Agreements in the Semiconductor Industry: Waiting to Persuade
Alberto Galasso
(Economics of Industry, STICERD)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
28 September 2006
12:30
- 14:00
Margins of Multinational Labour Substitution
Marc Muendler
(UCSD)
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
29 June 2006
13:45
- 15:00
Production Targets
Liran Einav
(Stanford University))
Location:
LRB 505
Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2
22 June 2006
13:45
- 15:00
Labor Supply and Personal Computer Adoption
Mark Doms
, joint with Ethan Lewis
Location:
IFS, Basement Conference Room
7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
15 June 2006
13:45
- 15:00
The Limits of Equality: Insights from the Israeli Kibbutz
Ran Abramitzky
(Stanford)
Location:
IFS, Basement Conference Room
7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
08 June 2006
13:45
- 15:00
TBA
David Thesmar
(PSE)
Location:
IFS, Basement Conference Room
7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
18 May 2006
13:45
- 15:00
Factor Adjustments After Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Columbian Plants
Maurice Kugler
(Southampton University
)
, joint with Marcela Eslava, John Haltiwanger, Adriana Kugler and Maurice Kugler
Location:
IFS, Basement Conference Room
7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
11 May 2006
13:45
- 15:00
The Effect of Taxes and Bans on Passive Smoking
Jerome Adda
(UCL)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
04 May 2006
13:45
- 15:00
The Link Between R&D and Productivity in the UK
James Smith
(Bank of England)
, joint with Rachel Reeves
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
27 April 2006
13:45
- 15:00
Favoritism and Incentives in the Workplace: Evidence From Personnel Data
Imran Rasul
(UCL and IFS)
, joint with Oriana Bandiera and Iwan Barankay
Location:
IFS, Basement Conference Room
7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
09 March 2006
13:45
- 15:00
How do economic incentives and regulatory factors influence adoption of new medical technologies? Result from the TECH project
Alistair McGuire
(LSE)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
23 February 2006
13:45
- 15:00
Information Technology, Organisational Change and ProductivityGrowth: Evidence from UK Firms
Jonathan Haskel
(QMUL)
Location:
IFS, Basement Conference Room
7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
09 February 2006
13:45
- 15:00
POSTPONED UNTIL SUMMER TERM
Imran Rasul
(UCL and IFS)
, joint with Oriana Bandiera (LSE) and Iwan Barankay (Essex)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
02 February 2006
13:45
- 15:00
Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion
William Kerr
(Harvard Business School)
Location:
IFS, Basement Conference Room
7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
26 January 2006
13:45
- 15:00
Microeconomic Evidence of Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries
Eric Bartelsman
(Free University of Amsterdam)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
19 January 2006
13:45
- 15:00
Strategic Response to Parallel Trade
Margaret Kyle
(Duke University)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
12 January 2006
13:45
- 15:00
POSTPONED UNTIL SUMMER TERM
Rachel Reeves
(Bank of England)
Location:
IFS, Basement Conference Room
7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
15 December 2005
13:45
- 15:00
The Substitution Elasticity, Growth Theory, And The Low-Pass Filter Panel Model
Robert Chirinko
(Emory University)
, joint with Debdulal Mallick
Location:
IFS, Basement Conference Room
7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
01 December 2005
13:45
- 15:00
Skill biased technological change: comparable firm-level evidence from Brazil and India
Rupert Harrison
(IFS & UCL)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
17 November 2005
13:45
- 15:00
Contractual Imperfections, Credit Markets and Vertical Integration: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence
Rocco Machiavello
(Oxford University)
Location:
IFS, Basement Conference Room
7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
03 November 2005
13:45
- 15:00
Information Technology and Firm Performance
Mirko Draca
(CEP)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
20 October 2005
13:45
- 15:00
Mergers and Innovation: the Case of the Pharmaceutical Companies
Carmine Ornaghi
(University of Southampton)
Location:
IFS, Basement Conference Room
7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
06 October 2005
13:45
- 15:00
tba
Francesco Caselli
(CEP & LSE)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
23 June 2005
13:45
- 15:00
ICT and Productivity
Dinesh Cheryan
(CEP)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
09 June 2005
13:45
- 15:00
Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching up to the World Standard?
Jan Svejnar
(University of Michigan)
Location:
LRB 405
CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
26 May 2005
13:45
- 15:00
It ain't what you do it's the way that you do I.T. - Testing explanations of productivity growth using U.S. subsidiaries
Raffaella Sadun
(HBS)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
12 May 2005
13:45
- 15:00
Incentives and invention in Universities
Mark Schankerman
(LSE)
Location:
IFS, Basement Conference Room
7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
05 May 2005
13:45
- 15:00
Multi-Product Firms, Industry Mix and Product Switching
Steve Redding
(LSE)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
28 April 2005
13:45
- 15:00
Unions and productivity again: new evidence from matched WERS/Census Data
Jonathan Haskel
(QMUL)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
14 April 2005
13:45
- 15:00
TBA
Giulia Faggio
(CEP)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
31 March 2005
13:45
- 15:00
Inferring Conduct Under the Threat of Entry: The Case of the Brazilian Cement Industry
Alberto Salvo
(STICERD & LSE)
Location:
IFS, Basement Conference Room
7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
17 March 2005
13:45
- 15:00
The Uncertainty Impact of Shocks
Nick Bloom
(CEP)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
03 March 2005
13:45
- 15:00
TBA
Margaret Slade
(UBC/University of Warwick)
Location:
IFS, Basement Conference Room
7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
17 February 2005
13:45
- 15:00
Co-opetition in Standard Setting: The Case of the Compact Disk
Tobias Kretschmer
(IIM)
, joint with Katrina Muehlfeld (University of Groningen)
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
03 February 2005
13:45
- 15:00
Adjustment Costs and Identfication of Cobb Douglas Production Functions
Steve Bond
(IFS and Nuffield College, Oxford)
, joint with Mans Soderbom (CASE Oxford)
Location:
IFS, Basement Conference Room
7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
20 January 2005
13:45
- 15:00
Codes in Organizations
Andrea Prat
(LSE)
, joint with Jacques Cremer & Luis Garicano
Location:
NAB 2.16
2nd Floor, New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn
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