Recent Developments in Industrial Organization

Coordinator: Aamir Rafique Hashmi, Assistant Professor, Economics

Project Description and Scope

The group shall discuss latest developments in Industrial Organization (whether empirical, theoretical, experimental, or behavioral). The focus will be on recent papers or working papers of interest. The purpose is to keep abreast of the frontier research in the profession and also to know what other colleagues are reading or interested in.
In each meeting, one group member will act as moderator. The moderator will announce a recent paper of his/her choice before the meeting, present a summary of the paper at the beginning of the meeting and then lead the discussion on the paper during the meeting. It will be a very informal forum to discuss new research.

Initial Reading List

  • Patrick Bajari, Jeremy T. Fox, Kyoo il Kim and Stephen P. Ryan (2009), “A Simple Nonparametric Estimator for the Distribution of Random Coefficients.” NBER Working Paper No. 15210.
  • Jan De Loecker and Frederic Warzynski (2009), “Markups and firm-level export status.” NBER Working Paper No. 15198.
  • Seth M. Freedman, Melissa Schettini Kearney and Mara Lederman (2009), “Product Recalls, Imperfect Information, and Spillover Effects: Lessons from the Consumer Response to the 2007 Toy Recalls.” NBER Working Paper No. 15183.
  • Claudio Lucarelli and Sean Nicholson (2009), “A Quality-Adjusted Price Index for Colorectal Cancer Drugs.” NBER Working Paper No. 15174.
  • Christopher R. Knittel (2009), “Automobiles on Steroids: Product Attribute Trade-Offs and Technological Progress in the Automobile Sector.” NBER Working Paper No. 15162.
  • Nuno Cassola, Ali Hortacsu and Jakub Kastl (2009), “The 2007 Subprime Market Crisis Through the Lens of European Central Bank Auctions for Short-Term Funds.” NBER Working Paper No. 15158.
  • Jeremy T. Fox and Amit Gandhi (2009), “Identifying Heterogeneity in Economic Choice Models.” NBER Working Paper No. 15147.
    Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen (2009), “The organization of firms across countries.” NBER Working Paper No. 15129.
  • Haitao Yin, Howard Kunreuther and Matthew White (2009), “Risk-Based Pricing and Risk-Reducing Effort: Does the Private Insurance Market Reduce Environmental Accidents?.” NBER Working Paper No. 15100.
  • Jeremy T. Fox (2009), “Identification in Matching Games.” NBER Working Paper No. 15092.

Meeting Schedule and Events

Venue: Silcock Journal Room, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, AS2, 06-23.
Time: 12-1pm
Frequency: Alternate Fridays, starting from September 11, 2009. The group is expected to have about 20-25 meetings during the year.

List of Participants

  • Junhong CHU/Department of Marketing, NUS Business School
  • Eric FESSELMEYER/Department of Economics, NUS
  • Qiang FU/Department of Business Policy, NUS Business School
  • Aamir HASHMI/Department of Economics, NUS [Coordinator]
  • Jingfeng LU/ Department of Economics, NUS
  • Yohanes Eko RIYANTO/ Department of Economics, NTU
  • Julian Wright, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore
  • Ping XIAO/ Department of Marketing, NUS Business School
  • Jungwon YEO/ Department of Economics, SMU
  • Bingyu ZHANG/ Department of Economics, NUS