The Micro CRC TR 224 Seminar is a weekly gathering where invited scholars present their recent work in the field of microeconomics. The seminar showcases both theoretical and empirical work on a wide range of topics, including industrial organization, international trade, financial economics, information economics, and mechanism design.
The seminar takes place on Tuesdays in Room S031, L7 3-5, from 1:45 PM to 3:00 PM.
Schedule of Seminar Presentations
Current/ Upcoming Semester
FSS 2025
Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Material |
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Tuesday, February 11 | 13:45 – 15:00 | L 7, 3–5, room S031 | Jing Zeng Universität Bonn | Too-many-to-fail and the design of bailout regimes | |
Tuesday, February 18 | 13:45 – 15:00 | L 7, 3–5, room S031 | Naoki Aizawa University of Wisconsin-Madison | Labor Unions and Social Insurance | |
Tuesday, February 25 | 13:45 – 15:00 | L 7, 3–5, room S031 | Valentina Reig Toulouse School of Economics | Gender-Based Pricing Ban in Health Insurance: Evidence from Chile | |
Tuesday, March 4 | 13:45 – 15:00 | L 7, 3–5, room S031 | Alina Ozhegova Aalto University | TBA | |
Tuesday, March 11 | 13:45 – 15:00 | L 7, 3–5, room S031 | Jacob Conway University of Chicago Booth | TBA | |
Tuesday, March 18 | 13:45 – 15:00 | L 7, 3–5, room S031 | Micael Castanheira Université Libre de Bruxelles | TBA | |
Tuesday, March 25 | 13:45 – 15:00 | L 7, 3–5, room S031 | Raluca Ursu New York University | TBA | |
Tuesday, April 1 | 13:45 – 15:00 | L 7, 3–5, room S031 | Peter Norman Sorensen University of Copenhagen | TBA | |
Tuesday, April 8 | 13:45 – 15:00 | L 7, 3–5, room S031 | Michael Ostrovsky Stanford University | TBA | |
Tuesday, April 29 | 13:45 – 15:00 | L 7, 3–5, room S031 | Ole Jann CERGE-EI | TBA | |
Tuesday, May 6 | 13:45 – 15:00 | L 7, 3–5, room S031 | Alexander Frug Universitat Pompeu Fabra | TBA | |
Tuesday, May 13 | 13:45 – 15:00 | L 7, 3–5, room S031 | Louis Pape Telecom Paris | TBA | |
Tuesday, May 20 | 13:45 – 15:00 | L7, 3–5, room S031 | Piero Gottardi University of Essex | TBA | |
Tuesday, May 27 | 13:45 – 15:00 | L 7, 3–5, room S031 | Ellen Muir MIT Sloan | TBA |
Previous Semesters
HWS 2024
Tuesday,
03.09.202413:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Igal Hendel
Northwestern University
Approaches to encouraging health insurance takeup PDF Tuesday, 10.09.2024
13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Joseph Harrington
Wharton
Third-Party Pricing Algorithms and Market Competition PDF Tuesday,
17.09.202413:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Christoph Walsh
Tilburg University
The Environmental Impact of Advertising Bans for Polluting Vehicles
PDF Tuesday, 24.09.2024 13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 David Salant
Toulouse School of Economics
Allocating Essential Inputs PDF Tuesday, 01.10.2024 13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Yonggyun Kim
Florida State University
Blackwell-monotone information costs PDF Tuesday, 08.10.2024 13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Matteo Escudé
LUISS
Transpareny in non-market allocations
PDF Tuesday, 15.10.2024 13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Cancelled
- Tuesday, 22.10.2024 13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Pierre Fleckinger
Mines Paris
Collective Quality
PDF Tuesday, 29.10.2024 13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Luise Eisfeld
HEC Lausanne
Entry and Acquisitions in Software Markets
PDF Tuesday, 05.11.2024 13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Chiara Margaria
Boston University
Dynamic Signaling in Wald Options
PDF Tuesday, 12.11.2024 13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Fabiano Schivardi
LUISS
Careers and Wages in Family Firms: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
PDF Tuesday, 19.11.2024 13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Michèle Müller-Itten
University of St. Gallen
Rational Inattention via Ignorance Equivalence PDF Tuesday, 26.11.2024 13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Cancelled -
Tuesday, 03.12.2024 13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Cristian Espinosa
UCL
From Protection to Retaliation: The Welfare Cost of Trade Wars PDF FSS 2024
Date Time Location Speaker Title Material Tuesday, 28.05.2024 13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Milena Almagro
Chicago Booth School of Business
Optimal Urban Transportation Policy: Evidence from Chicago Tuesday, 21.05.2024 13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Larbi Alaoui
Universtity Pompeu Fabra
Attitudes Towards Success and Failure Tuesday, 14.05.2024 13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Todd Keister
Rutgers University
Preventing Runs with Redemption Fees Tuesday, 07.05.2024 13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Glenn Ellison
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Effects of Home Rental Sites on Residential Real Estate: Evidence from New Hampshire Tuesday, 30.04.2024 13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Catherine Bobtcheff
Paris School of Economics
Organizing Insurance Supply for New and Undiversifiable Risks Tuesday, 23.04.2024 13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Yossi Spiegel
Tel Aviv University
Horizontal Partial Cross Ownership and Innovation Tuesday, 16.04.2024 13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Zvika Neeman
Tel Aviv University
Deterrence of Unwanted Behavior: A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation Tuesday, 19.03.2024 13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Michelle Fioretti
Sciences Po
Diversified Production and Market Power: Theory and Evidence from Renewables Tuesday, 12.03.2024 13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Sara Shahanaghi
Toulouse School of Economics
Investment Timing and Reputation Tuesday, 05.03.2024 13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Matthijs Wildenbeest
University of Arizona
An Empirical Model of Consideration through Search PDF Download Tuesday, 27.02.2024 13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Johan Orrenius
Stockholm School of Economics
What is the value of attention? Supply and demand estimation of attention in a mobile phone setting PDF Download Tuesday, 20.02.2024 13:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Yue Yuan
UCL, School of Management
Security Design Under Common-Value Competition PDF Download Tuesday,
13.02.202413:45 – 15:00 L 7, 3–5, room P044 Avil Lichtig
University of Bonn
Optimal Testing in Disclosure Games
PDF Download HWS 2023
Date Time Location Speaker Title 05.12.2023 13:45–15:00 L7, 3–5,
room S031Ariell Reshef
Paris School of EconomicsProduction Function Estimation with Multi-Destination Firms 28.11.2023 13:45–15:00 L7, 3–5,
room S031Roxana Fernandez
CRESTThe ALUR law and the opening of Drives in the French grocery retail sector 21.11.2023 13:45–15:00 L7, 3–5,
room S031In-Uck Park
University of BristolInformation Sale and Trade (joint with Robert Evans) 14.11.2023 13:45–15:00 L7, 3–5,
room S031Anders Munk.Nielsen
University of KopenhagenMarkups on Drop-downs: Prominence in Pharmaceutical Markets 07.11.2023 13:45–15:00 L7, 3–5,
room S031Tommaso Alba
KU LeuvenUnsealing Settlements: Empirical investigation of Patent litigation and Bargaining 31.10.2023 13:45–15:00 L7, 3–5,
room S031Juan Ortner
Boston UniversityThe Value of Privacy in Cartels: An Analysis of the Inner Workings of a Bidding Ring 24.10.2023 13:45–15:00 L7, 3–5,
room S031Flavio Toxvaerd
University of CambridgeManufacturer Certification in Second-Hand Markets 17.10.2023 13:45–15:00 L7, 3–5,
room S031Sarah Auster
University of BonnPersuasion with Limited Data: A Case-Based Approach 10.10.2023 13:45–15:00 L7, 3–5,
room S031Arjada Bardhi
NYUEarly-Career Discrimination: Spiraling or Self-Correcting? 26.09.2023 13:45–15:00 L7, 3–5,
room S031Ferdinand Rauch University of Heidelberg
Identifying Agglomeration Shadows: Long-run Evidence from Ancient Ports 19.09.2023 13:45–15:00 L7, 3–5,
room S031Elena Prager
University of RochesterLabor Market Collusion through Common Leadership 12.09.2023 13:45–15:00 L7, 3–5,
room S031Rosa Ferrer
Universitat Pompeu FabraViewers Heterogeneous Distaste for Advertisements: Evidence from a Two-Sided Market 05.09.2023 13:45–15:00 L7, 3–5,
room S031David Ronayne
ESMT BerlinAsymmetric Models of Sales (joint work with David P Myatt, LBS) FSS 2023
Date Time Location Speaker Title 30.05.2023 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 Joel Stiebale Northeastern University
Platform Promotion and Consumer Welfare: Evidence from the Amazon Books Page (joint with Joel Waldfogel)
23.05.2023 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044
Imke Reimers
DICERising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences (joint with Hendrik Döpper, Alexander MacKay and Nathan Miller)
16.05.2023 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 Meredith Crowley
Cambridge UniversityThe pro-competitive effects of trade agreements joint work with Lu Han and Thomas Prayer
09.05.2023 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 Johanna Joy Isman
Toulouse School of EconomicsFirms willingness to pay for certification leniency: Evidence from the global wood industry
02.05.2023 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 Tobias Gamp
Humboldt Universität BerlinHow to get advice from reputation concerned experts: A mechanism design approach (joint with Amir Habibi)
25.04.2023 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 Chiara Farronato
Harvard Business SchoolSelf-Preferencing at Amazon: Evidence from Search Rankings (joint work with Andrey Fradkin and Alexander MacKay) 18.04.2023 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 Gary Biglaiser
University of North CarolinaPrice Competition, Information Acquisition, and Product Differentiation Perception
28.03.2023 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 Wolfram Schlenker
Columbia UniversityInstitutions and Global Crop Yields 21.03.2023 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 Sylvia Hristakeva UCLA Anderson
Retailer Competition and Assortment Differentiation: Causal Evidence from Entry Lotteries
14.03.2023 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 Alessandro Ispano
CY Cergy Paris UniversitéDesigning and delegating interrogations
07.03.2023 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 Jorge Lemus
University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignThe Benefit of the Doubt: Patent Examination under Strategic Obfuscation
28.02.2023 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 Andreas Asseyer
Freie Universität BerlinCertification Design with Common Values
21.02.2023 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 Paula Onuchic
University of OxfordAdvisors with Hidden Motives
14.02.2023 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 Rosina Rodríguez Olivera
Universität BonnOptimal Disclosure of Private Information to Competitors
HWS 2022
Date Time Location Speaker Title 06.09.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 Nicolas de Roos
University of SydneyInformed Sources and the Role of Platforms for Facilitating Anticompetitive Communication 13.09.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 Mathias Reynaert Toulouse School of Economics
Colluding Against Environmental Regulation 20.09.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 Ludovica Gazze
University of WarwickA View from the Fenceline: Evaluating Monitoring and Enforcement Policies to Reduce Oil and Gas Methane Emissions 27.09.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 Andre Veiga
Imperial CollegeOptimal Contract Regulation in Selection Markets 04.10.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 / / 11.10.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 Lisandra Flach
LMU Munich & Ifo Institute“Supply and Demand Linkages in Exporting Multiproduct Firms” (Joint work with Carsten Eckel and Ning Meng) 18.10.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 Mitsuru Igami
Yale University„Collusion and Innovation: The Case of LCD Cartel, 2001–2006“ with Jeff Qiu (US Department of Justice) and Takuo Sugaya (Stanford Graduate School of Business) 25.10.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 Johanna Joy Isman Toulouse School of Economics
Firms’ willingness to pay for certification leniency: Evidence from the global wood industry 08.11.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 José P. Vasquez
London School of EconomicsResponsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence from Costa Rica 15.11.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 Mariassunta Giannetti Stockholm School of Economics Online Supply Chain Risk: Changes in Supplier Composition and Vertical Integration 22.11.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 John Thanassoulis Warwick Business School
Banking and Credit Market Competition with AI and Cryptocurrencies (Joint work with Tamas Vadasz, KU Leuven) 29.11.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 Rosina Rodríguez Olivera
University of Bonn/ 06.12.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room P044 Christopher Sandmann London School of Economics Market Structure and Adverse Selection FSS 2022
Date Time Location Speaker Title 18.01.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room S031 Sharing Eray Cumbul
TOBB University of Economics and TechnologyGroup Formation, Mergers, and Overlapping Ownership in Aggregative Games with Information 21.01.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room S031 Andreii Matveenko
University of CopenhagenSparking curiosity or tipping the scales? Targeted advertising to rationally inattentive consumers 26.01.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room S031 Marco Duarte
University of Wisconsin-MadisonHub-and-Spoke Collusion with Horizontally Differentiated Spokes
27.01.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room S031 Felix Montag
LMU MunichMergers, Foreign Entry, and Jobs: Evidence from the U.S. Appliance Industry 28.01.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room S031 Changhwa Lee
University of PennsylvaniaOptimal Recommender System Design
22.02.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room S031 Johannes Schneider
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid & Uni of MannheimA Quest for Knowledge (joint with Christoph Carnehl, Bocconi)
22.03.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room S031 Maximilian Guennewig
University of BonnMoney Talks: Information and Seignorage 29.03.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room S031 Jonas von Wangenheim University of Bonn
Dutch vs. First-Price Auctions with Expectations-Based Loss-Averse Bidders
05.04.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room S031 Yutec Sun
ENSAI (CREST)/ 26.04.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room S031 David Hemous
University of ZürichInduced Automation: Evidence from Firm-level Patent Data
03.05.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room S031 Marleen Marra
University College LondonCompetitive award of scarce airport slots: an empirical analysis
10.05.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room S031 Piotr Dworczak
Northwestern UniversityAre Simple Mechanisms Optimal when Agents are Unsophisticated? 17.05.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room S031 Ludvig Sinander
Oxford UniversityThe Comparative Statics of Persuasion 24.05.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room S031 Patrick Rey
Toulouse School of EconomicsCoordination in the fight against collusion 31.05.2022 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room S031 Pierre Dubois
Toulouse School of EconomicsSoda Taxes and Advertising Dynamics
HWS 2021
Date Time Location Speaker Title 07.12.2021 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room 001 Mengxi Zhang
University of BonnOptimal Contests with Incomplete Information and Convex Effort Costs 30.11.2021 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room 001 Basile Grassi
Bocconi UniversityThe Hitchhicker´s Guide to Markup Estimation 29.11.2021 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room 001 Harald Fadinger, Lei Li, Jan Schymik
Univeristy of MannheimWorkshop on „Trade Policy and Global Value Chains“ 23.11.2021 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room 001 Özlem Bédré-Defolie ESMT Berlin
Hybrid Platform Model 18.11.2021 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room 001 ZEW
MACCI Law and Economics Conference16.11.2021 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room 001 Laurent Linnemer
CREST-ENSAEDouble marginalization and vertical integration 09.11.2021 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room 001 Oliver Rehbein
Uni BonnTake it to the Bank! Local Discourse and Deposits 02.11.2021 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room 001 Pauline Affeldt
DIW BerlinCompetitive effects of big tech acquisitions 26.10.2021 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room 001 Hannes Ullrich
DIW BerlinMachine Predictions and Human Decisions with Variation in Payoffs and Skill 12.10.2021 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room 001 Germain Gaudin
University of FreiburgQuality and Imperfect Competition 05.10.2021 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room 001 Valerie Smeets
Aarhus University/ 29.09.2021 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room 001 Julien Monardo
Telecom Paris (Institut Polytechnique de Paris)Measuring Substitution Patterns with a Flexible Demand Model 21.09.2021 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room 001 Guido Friebel
Goethe-Universität FrankfurtKnowledge Teams, Careers, and Gender 14.09.2021 13:45 – 15:00 L7, 3–5, room 001 Jo Van Biesebroeck
KU LeuvenStrategic Trade Liberalization FFS 2021
Date Time Location Speaker Title 25.05.2021 17:15 – 18:30 Zoom John Kuong
INSEADThe Design of a Central Counterparty 11.05.2021 17:15 – 18:30 Zoom Tatyana Deryugina
University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignPollution and Mortality in the United States: Evidence from 1972-1988 27.04.2021 17:15 – 18:30 Zoom Christopher Sullivan
University of Wisconsin–MadisonTesting Firm Conduct 13.04.2021 17:15 – 18:30 Zoom Rahul Deb
University of TorontoMulti-Dimensional Screening with Buyer-Optimal Learning HWS 2020
Date Time Location Speaker Title 01.12.2020 17:15 – 18:30 Zoom Gilles Chemla
Imperial College LondonSignaling, Random Assignment, and Causal Effect Estimation 17.11.2020 17:15 – 18:30 Zoom
Judith Chevalier
Yale School of ManagementNursing Home Staff Networks and COVID-19 03.11.2020 17:15 – 18:30 Zoom Senay Sokullu
BristolDemand Models with Endogenous Product Availability and Multiple Equilibria 20.10.2020 17:15 – 18:30 Zoom Toomas Hinnosaar
University of NottinghamPrice Setting on a Network 06.10.2020 17:15 – 18:30 Zoom Sharat Ganapati
GeorgetownNon-Tariff Barriers and Bargaining in Generic and Off-Patent Pharmaceutical Markets 22.09.2020 17:15 – 18:30 Zoom Bart Bronnenberg
Tilburg UniversityGains from Convenience and the Value of E-commerce 15.09.2020 17:15 – 18:30 Zoom Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn
University of California/ 09.09.2020 17:15 – 18:30 Zoom Aniko Öry
Yale School of ManagementAIMING FOR THE GOAL: CONTRIBUTION DYNAMICS OF CROWDFUNDING FFS 2020
Date Time Location Speaker Title 28.05 15:00 – 16:15 L7, 3–5, room P044 Özlem Bedre-Defolie
ESMT Berli/ 21.05 15:00 – 16:15 L7, 3–5, room P044 Leonardo Madio
Toulouse School of Economics„Data Brokers Co-Opetition“ (with Y. Gu and C. Reggiani) 14.05 15:00 – 16:15 Zoom Tobias Salz
MITThe Economic Consequences of Data Privacy Regulation: Empirical Evidence from GDPR” (with G. Aridor and Y.-K. Che) 07.05 15:00 – 16:15 Zoom Michael Kummer
University of East AngliaCompetition and Privacy in Online Markets: Evidence from the Mobile App Industry“ (with R. Kessler and P. Schulte) 30.04 15:00 – 16:15 Zoom Shoshana Vasserman
Stanford University – SIEPRBuying Data from Consumers: The Impact of Monitoring in US Auto Insuranc“ (with Y. Jin) 23.04 15:00 – 16:15 Zoom Carlo Reggiani
University of Manchester„Exclusive Data, Price Manipulation and Market Leadership“ (with Y. Gu and L. Madio) 16.04 15:00 – 16:15 Zoom Nageeb Ali
Penn State University„Voluntary Disclosure and Personalized Pricing“ (with G. Lewis and S. Vasserman) 09.04 15:00 – 16:15 Zoom Paul Belleflamme
UCLouvain,CORE/LIDAM, Louvain School of Management„Competitive Imperfect Price Discrimination and Market Power“ (with W. Lam and W. Vergote) 02.04 15:00 – 16:15 Zoom Greg Taylor
Oxford University„Data and Competition: A General Framework with Applications to Mergers, Market Structure, and Privacy Policy“ (with Alex De Corniere) 03.03 15:00 – 16:15 Zoom Stephan Luck
NY Fed„The Effects of Banking Competition on Growth and Financial Stability: Evidence from the National Banking Era“ (joint with M. Carlson and S. Correia) 25.02 15:00 – 16:15 Zoom Helene Mass
University of BonnInformation Acquisition in Social Learning