- April 8, 2020 - Chiara Farronato (HBS) - "Dog Eat Dog: Measuring Returns to Scale Using a Digital Platform Merger" (joint with Andrey Fradkin and Jessica Fong)*
Discussants: Tommaso Valletti (Imperial), Nathan Miller (Georgetown).
Moderator: Daniel Ershov (TSE)
- April 15, 2020 - John Van Reenen (MIT) - Do tax incentives increase firm innovation? An RD Design for R&D (joint with Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Elias Einiö, Ralf Martin, and Kieu-Trang Nguyen).
Discussants: Monika Schnitzer (LMU), Daniel Xu (Duke).
Moderator: Rachel Griffith (Manchester/IFS)
- April 22, 2020 - Alessandro Gavazza (LSE) - Mortgage Pricing and Monetary Policy (joint with Matteo Benetton and Paolo Surico
Discussants: Olivier Darmouni (Columbia) and Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial College).
Moderator: Andrea Pozzi (EIEF)
- April 29, 2020 - Leslie Marx (Fuqua School of Business) - Countervailing Power (joint with Simon Loertscher)
Discussants: Patrick Rey (Toulouse) and Joao Montez (HEC Lausanne).
Moderator: Nicolas Schutz (Mannheim)
- May 6, 2020 - Lorenzo Magnolfi (Wisconsin) - The Competitive Conduct of Consumer Cooperatives (joint with Marco Duarte and Camilla Roncoroni)
Discussants: Helena Perrone (Mannheim) and Howard Smith (Oxford).
Moderator: Alessandro Iaria (Bristol)
- May 13, 2020 - Andrew Rhodes (TSE) - Dynamic Consumer Search (joint with Alexei Parakohnyak)*.
Discussants: Régis Renault (Cergy) and Sandro Shelegia (UPF).
Moderator: Daniel Garcia (Vienna)
- May 20, 2020 - Julia Cagé (Sciences Po) - Popularity vs Quality: Does Social Media Bias Editorial Decisions? (joint with Nicolas Hervé and Béatrice Mazoyer)
Discussants: Maria Petrova (UPF) and Mirko Draca (Warwick).
Moderator: Daniel Ershov (TSE)
- May 27, 2020 - Roland Strausz (HU Berlin) - Collective Brand Reputation (joint with Volker Nocke)*.
Discussants: Jay Pil Choi (MSU) and Aniko Öry (Yale-SOM).
Moderator: Özlem Bedre-Defolie (ESMT)
- June 3, 2020 - Elisabetta Iossa (Tor Vergata) - Organizing Competition for the Market (joint with Patrick Rey and Michael Waterson)
Discussants: Luis Cabral (NYU-Stern) and Juan-José Ganuza (UPF).
Moderator: Malin Arve (NHH)
- June 11, 2020, 6:00-7:30 CEST - CEPR Applied IO Policy Panel: "What should IO economists be working on in tech?"
Panelists: Cristina Caffarra (CRA), Joshua Gans (Toronto), Fiona Scott-Morton (Yale), Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College London).
Moderator: Gregory Crawford (Zurich)
This session was originally intended to be part of the annual CEPR Applied IO conference which was cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
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Another event from that conference - the Young Researcher Presentations - have been recorded and are available here.
The opening slides setting the context are available here.
- June 17, 2020 - Andrei Hagiu (BU-Questrom) - Should Amazon be allowed to sell on its own marketplace? (joint with Tat-How Teh and Julian Wright).
Discussants: Heski Bar-Isaac (UToronto) and Justin Johnson (Cornell).
Moderator: Özlem Bedre-Defolie (ESMT)
- June 24, 2020 - Aureo de Paula (UCL) - Estimating Nesting Structures (joint with Ali Hortaçsu, Jonas Lieber and Julien Monardo)*
Discussants: Elena Manresa (NYU) and Frank Verboven (KU Leuven).
Moderator: Alessandro Iaria (Bristol)
* = At the request of the authors, this paper was not made available prior to the seminar
^ = At the request of the speaker, this seminar was not recorded