Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics Speaker Series

Posted by D. Daniel Sokol

Date	Speaker/Paper/Host
Feb. 7	Ben Atkinson (Competition Bureau Canada) “Price Cycling” NJ Avenue Conference Center Room B
Feb. 21	Robert Clark (HEC) "Market Structure and the Diffusion of Electronic Banking” NJ Avenue Conference Center Room B
Feb. 28	Kim Sau Chung (University of Minnesota) “Loopholes”
Mar. 6	CANCELLED Bob Hall (Stanford University) “The Incentive to Start New Companies: Evidence from Venture Capital” NJ Avenue Conference Center Room A
Mar. 13	Rachel Soloveichik (Bureau of Economic Analysis) “Family Transfers in Rural Mexico, An Application to Risk Sharing and Labor Supply Elasticity” NJ Avenue Conference Center Room A
Mar. 27	Jeff Prince (Cornell University) Measuring Welfare and the Effects of Regulation in a Government-Created Market: The Case of Medicare Part D Plans NJ Avenue Conference Center Room A
Apr. 10	Chris Garmon (Federal Trade Commission) "An Empirical Test of Bargaining Theory: Major League Baseball's Rule IV Draft" NJ Avenue Conference Center Room B
Apr. 17	Joe Farrell (Berkeley) “What Is (or Isn’t) the Competitive Process?”
Apr. 24	Emily Oster (University of Chicago) “Routes of Infection: Exports and HIV Incidence in Sub-Saharan Africa” NJ Avenue Conference Center Room B
May 1	Philip Leslie (Stanford University) NJ Avenue Conference Center Room C
May 8	Claudio Lucarelli (Cornell University) NJ Avenue Conference Center Room B
May 15	Frank Wolak (Stanford University)
May 29	Greg Crawford (FCC) NJ Room 4100
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will take place on Thursdays at 2:30pm in the ground floor Conference Center located at 601 New Jersey Ave. NW. No prior security clearance is necessary except for the seminars held in room 4100. Address inquiries to Chris Adams (CADAMS@ftc.gov) or Tammy John (tjohn@ftc.gov).