Spring 2018 Schedule

• 01/17 - Organizational Meeting
• 01/24***
• 01/31
• 02/07 - Claudia Allende

"Supply Responses of Private Schools"

• 02/14 - Benoit Voudon

"Vertical Relations, Integration and Technology Adoption"

• 02/21 - Lan Nguyen

"Improving Diversity in New York City Specialized High Schools"

• 02/28 - David Thompson

"Optimal Regulation under Incomplete Monitoring"

• 03/07 - Sherry Wang

"Default option, price regulation and competition in retail electricity market"

• 03/14 - Spring Break
• 03/21* - Kyle Weber

"Downstream Concentration, Bargaining Power, and Investment Incentives: The Case of the American Broadcast Television Industry"

• 03/28 - Danna Thomas

"Pricing Rigidity and Pass-through"

• 04/04 - Nathaniel Mark

"Explaining The Geographic Maldistribution of Primary Care Physicians in Ontario: A Structural Approach"

• 04/11* - David Rosenkranz

"Do mandatory minimum standards influence the supply of charity care? A research proposal"

& Bozidar Plavsic

"Organizational Structure and Managers’ Reputation Concerns"

• 04/18 - Janet Lu

"The Effect of Electronic Health Record Interoperability on Patient Health Outcomes"

• 04/25** - Silvio Ravaioli

"Product labeling for inattentive consumers"

& Louise Guillouet

"To be or not to be... Organic ? The role of federal crop insurance subsidies in farmers' organic production decisions."

*Kate will be away. She will also be visiting Princeton and Yale for much of February and March, but will try to be at Columbia on Wednesdays - at a minimum, for presentations by 3rd and 4th year IO students.

**Tobias will be away.

***Tobias might be away.

****Mike will be on leave, so his attendance will be sporadic.