FIRMS Seminar

This seminar series covers research topics in theoretical and applied microeconomics. Seminar organizers are Guillermo Caruana and Gerard Llobet.

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First term
8 October 2024	13:30	Alexandre de Cornière (Toulouse School of Economics), Fulfilled by Amazon: Marketplace Tying of Ancillary Services (joint with Kinshuk Jerath and Greg Taylor).

14 November 2024	13:30	Carlo Reggiani (European Commission JRC), The Price Effects of Prohibiting Price Parity Clauses: Evidence from International Hotel Groups (joint with Jack (Peiyao) Ma, Andrea Mantovani, Annette Broocks and Néstor Duch-Brown).

20 November 2024	13:30	María José Moral (UNED), Trade Protection, Industrial Policy, and the Shaping of Local Preferences .

27 November 2024	13:30	Achim Wambach (ZEW Mannheim and University of Mannheim), Stable Contracts under Renegotiation (joint with Vitali Gretschko).

Second term
19 February 2025	13:30	Juan Dubra (Universidad de Montevideo), Incentives and Burnout: Dynamic Compensation Design With Effort Cost Spillover (joint with Rob Waiser and Jean-Pierre Benoit).

5 March 2025	13:30	Sebastian Tebbe (University of Melbourne), The More the Merrier? Behavioral Responses to Expanding Electric Vehicle Charging at the Workplace.

19 March 2025	13:30	Matthew Mitchell (Rotman School of Managent), Selling Certification, Content Moderation, and Attention (joint with Heski Bar-Isaac and Rahul Deb).

25 March 2025	13:30	joint MadMac - Bruno Pellegrino (Columbia Business School), New Products (joint with Abhiroop Mukherjee, Alminas Zaldokas, Yiman Ren and Tomas Thornquist).

26 March 2025	13:30	Chiara Fumagalli (Università Bocconi), Shelving or developing? Optimal policy for mergers with potential competitors .

Third term
23 April 2025	13:30	Juan Pablo Montero (PUC-Chile), Low Emission Zones: The Rationale for Bang-Band Solutions (joint with Nano Barahona, Natalia Fabra and Imelda).

30 April 2025	13:30	Emir Kamenica (Chicago Booth School of Business), Commitment and Randomization in Communication (joint with Xiao Lin).

17 June 2025	13:00	joint Econometrics Seminar - Eugenio Miravete (The University of Texas at Austin), Elasticity and Curvature of Discrete Choice Demand Models (joint with Katja Seim and Jeff Thurk).

25 June 2025	13:30	Michelangelo Rossi (Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris), Transparency of Add-On Fees on Peer-to-Peer Platforms: Evidence from Airbnb (joint with Kevin Tran, Leonardo Madio, and Mark J. Tremblay).