Microeconomics Seminar

Fall 2025

Date	Speaker	Title
Sept 9	Paola Moscariello (Yale)	Redistricting with Endogenous Candidates
Sept 16	Matthias Mertens (MIT)	From Labor to Intermediates: Firm Growth, Input Substitution, and Monopsony
Sept 23	João Galindo da Fonseca (University of Montreal)
Sept 30	Paul Scott (MIT)
Oct 7	Ursina Schaede (Tufts)
Oct 21	Matthew Gudgeon (Tufts)
Oct 28	Yana Gallen (Chicago)
Nov 4	Michael Grubb (BC)
Nov 11	Elena Pastorino (Stanford)
Nov 18	Victoria Marone (Yale)
Dec 2	Alice Hsiaw (Brandeis)
Dec 9	Jakub Steiner (University of Zurich)

Date	Speaker	Title
Mar 4	Daniel Waldinger (NYU)	“Nonpayment and Eviction in the Rental Housing Market”
Mar 18	Eugenio Miravete (UT Austin)	“On Anticompetitive Third-Degree Price Discrimination”
Mar 25	Cristoph Carnehl (Bocconi)
Apr 1	Alex Teytelboym (Oxford)	“An Efficient Collusion-Proof Dynamic Mechanism” (with Endre Csóka, Heng Liu, and Alex Rodivilov).
Apr 8	Elio Nimier-David (Cornell)	“Location Effects or Sorting? Evidence from Firm Relocation”
Apr 15	Andres Gonzalez-Lira (PUC Chile Business)	“Centralizing Procurement: The Roles of Scale, Selection and Variety”
Apr 22	Markus Kinateder (Universidad de Navarra)	“Prices and Mergers in a General Model of Multi-Sided Markets”
Apr 29	Maren Vairo (Princeton/Penn)	“Robustly Optimal Income Taxation”

Date	Speaker	Title
Sept 10	Barbara Biasi (Yale)	The Political Consequences of Controversial Education Reform: Lessons from Wisconsin’s Act 10 with Wayne Sandholtz.
Sept 17	Kevin Williams (Yale)	Distributional Impacts of the Changing Retail Landscape
Sept 24	Evan Sadler (Columbia)	“A Theory of Network Games,” with Joe Root at Chicago Booth.
Oct 1	Nina Rousille (MIT)
Oct 8	Marzena Rostek (UW Madison)	“Dynamic Imperfect Competition: A Non-Recursive Approach” (joint with Xian Wu and Ji Hee Yoon)
Oct 22	Emily Nix (USC)	“The Economic Costs of Rape”
Oct 29	Agathe Pernoud (UChicago)	“How Competition Shapes Information in Auctions”
Nov 5	Audrey Tiew (NYU)	“E.U. Trade Restrictions and Heterogeneity among Malaysian Oil Palm Farmers”
Nov 12	Winnie Van Dijk (Yale)	The Effects of Eviction on Children”
Nov 19	William Strausz (Humboldt University)
Dec 3	Stephen Ryan (Washington University)	Never Running Two Million Regressions Again: Adaptive Semiparametric Models (with Denis Nekipelov)
Dec 10	Arjada Bardhi (NYU)	“Recombinant Search” (joint work with Steven Callander)