This is a documentation of how it all started. For more recent events see the events calendar.
Fall 2012
| Day | Date | Time | Chair | Topic | Room |
| Thu | Sep 27 | 12:30pm | (student-advisor meeting) | K520 | |
| Thu | Oct 4 | 12:30pm | NO MEETING | CONFERENCE ABROAD | |
| Thu | Oct 11 | 12:30pm | Carlos Santos | Estimating Demand Shocks Using Production Data | K520 |
| Thu | Oct 18 | 12:30pm | NO MEETING | FALL BREAK | |
| Thu | Oct 25 | 12:30pm | t.b.a. | t.b.a. | K520 |
| Thu | Nov 1 | 12:30pm | t.b.a. | t.b.a. | K520 |
| Thu | Nov 8 | 12:30pm | (student-advisor meeting) | K520 | |
| Thu | Nov 15 | 12:30pm | Martin Gaynor (Carnegie Mellon) | Structural Models of the Hospital Industry | K520 |
| Thu | Nov 22 | 12:30pm | (student-advisor meeting) | K520 | |
| Thu | Nov 29 | 12:30pm | Tobias Klein | Upward Pricing Pressure in Two-Sided Markets | K520 |
| Thu | Dec 6 | 12:30pm | t.b.a. | t.b.a. | K520 |
| Thu | Dec 13 | 12:30pm | t.b.a. | t.b.a. | K520 |
Spring 2012
| Day | Date | Time | Chair | Topic | Room |
| Thu | Jan 19 | noon | Yifan Yu a.o. | (student-advisor meeting) | K520 |
| Thu | Jan 26 | 12:30pm | Benjamin Tanz a.o. | (student-advisor meeting) | K520 |
| Thu | Feb 2 | 12:30pm | (student-advisor meeting) | K520 | |
| Thu | Feb 9 | 12:30pm | Carlos Santos | Solving Dynamic Games by Discretizing the State Distribution | K1012A |
| Thu | Feb 16 | 12:30pm | (student-advisor meeting) | K520 | |
| Fri (NOTE DAY!) | Mar 9 | 12:30pm | Yufeng Huang | Learning by Doing and Replacement of Consumer Durables | K520 |
| Fri (NOTE DAY!) | Mar 16 | 12:30pm | (student-advisor meeting) | K520 | |
| Thu | Mar 22 | 12:30pm | (student-advisor meeting) | K520 | |
| Thu | Mar 29 | 12:30pm | Yufeng Huang a.o. | Learning by Doing and Replacement of Consumer Durables | K520 |
| Thu | Apr 5 | 12:30pm | Kamlesh Kumar a.o. | GMM Estimation of Mixed Hitting-Time Models | K520 |
| Thu | Apr 19 | 12:30pm | Bart Bronnenberg | Convenience, Demand, and Marketing | K520 |
| Thu | Apr 26 | 12:30pm | Shiko Maruyama (New South Wales) | Externality and Strategic Interaction in the Location Choice of Siblings under Altruism toward Parents | K834 |
| Thu | May 10 | 12:30pm | Geert Ridder (USC) | Models with Nonseparable Errors | K520 |
| Thu | May 24 | 12:30pm | (student-advisor meeting) | K520 | |
| Thu | May 31 | 12:30pm | (student-advisor meeting) | K520 | |
| Thu | Jun 14 | 12:30pm | Yufeng Huang and Benjamin Tanz | Learning by Doing and Consumer Switching Costs and Growth through Entry | K520 |
Fall 2011
| Day | Date | Time | Chair | Topic | Room |
| Thu | Sep 15 | 12:30-1:30pm (NOTE TIME!) | Neil Gandal (Tel Aviv) | Ain’t it “Suite”? Bundling in the PC Office Software Market | CZ111 |
| Thu | Oct 6 | noon | Jan Kabátek | A Structural Model of Female Labor Supply in the Context of Childcare and Unobserved Heterogeneity | K1012A |
| Thu | Oct 13 | noon | Benjamin Tanz a.o. | (student-advisor meeting) | K520 |
| Thu | Nov 3 | noon | Ewout Verriest (KU Leuven) | Commitment in Intertemporal Household Consumption: A Revealed Preference Analysis | K1012A |
| Thu | Nov 10 | 12:45-2:15pm (NOTE TIME!) | Nan Yang | Creative Destruction among Grocery Stores | PZ50 |
| Thu | Nov 17 | noon | Yufeng Huang a.o. | (student-advisor meeting) | K1012A |
| Thu | Dec 1 | noon | Benjamin Tanz , Jan Kabátek a.o. | (student-advisor meeting) | K1012A |
| Thu | Dec 8 | noon | Kamlesh Kumar | (student-advisor meeting) | K1012A |
| Thu | Dec 15 | noon | Yufeng Huang | (student-advisor meeting) | K1012A |
| Thu | Dec 22 | noon | CANCELLED | (but lunch available in K5 secretariat or pantry) |
Spring 2011
| Day | Date | Time | Chair | Topic | Room |
| Thu | Jan 20 | noon | Tobias Klein | Estimating Demand for Dutch Daily Newspapers | K834 |
| Thu | Jan 27 | noon | Nan Yang | Creative Destruction in a Dynamic Oligopolistic Market | C187 |
| Thu | Feb 3 | noon | Benjamin Tanz | E-commerce and Market Structure | K834 |
| Thu | Feb 10 | noon | Yufeng Huang | Market Alternative to Birth Control | K1012A |
| Thu | Feb 17 | noon | Gaurab Aryal (ANU) | Identification of Contract Models with Multiple Attributes | K1012A |
| Thu | Feb 24 | noon | Baran Duzce | Competition and Portfolio Selection in Mutual Funds Industry | K1012A |
| Thu | Mar 17 | noon | Jaap Abbring | Games with Multivariate Hitting Times | K1012A |
| Thu | Mar 24 | noon | Nan Yang | Endogenous Sunk Cost, Targeted Advertising, and Market Structure | K1012A |
| Thu | Apr 7 | noon | Benjamin Tanz | Demand and Reputation in Online Auctions | K1012A |
| Thu | May 26 | noon | JanTilly | Very Simple Markov-Perfect Industry Dynamics | K1012A |
| Thu | Jun 9 | noon | Nan Yang | The Dutch Grocery Retail Industry Dynamics | K1012A |
| Thu | Jun 16 | noon | Lapo Filistrucchi | Modeling Myopic Habits in Discrete Choice Models | K1012A |
| Thu | Jun 23 | noon | Tobias Klein | Revealed Heterogeneous Preferences | K1012A |
| Thu | Jun 30 | noon | Catherine Schaumans | Competition Between Belgian GPs - Simultaneous Entry and Revenue Model | K1012A |
Fall 2012
| Day | Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Details | Contact |
| Wed | Sept 5 | 4.00pm | Liran Einav (Stanford) | Moral Hazard in Health Insurance: How Important is Forward Looking Behavior? | Econometrics | Tobias Klein |
| Wed | Sept 12 | 10.54am | Tobias Klein (UCL) | Discussion of Insulated Platform Competition by Alexander White and Glen Weyl | TILEC IO Reading Group | Tobias Klein |
| Wed | Sept 12 | 4.00pm | Adam Rosen (UCL) | Simultaneous Equations Models for Discrete Outcomes: Coherence, Completeness, and Identification | Econometrics | Tobias Klein |
| Wed | Sept 19 | 4.00pm | Gautam Tripathi (Luxembourg) | Nonparametric Estimation of Returns to Scale | Econometrics | Martin Salm |
| Wed | Sept 24 | 4.00pm | Frederic Vermeulen | Sharing Rule Identification for General Collective Consumption Models | Econometrics | |
| Wed | Sept 28 | 1.00pm | Jan Kabátek | Iteration Capping for Discrete Choice Models Using E-M Algorithm | GSS | |
| Wed | Oct 3 | 4.00pm | Eric French (Chicago Fed) | The Effect of Disability Insurance Receipt on Labor Supply: A Dynamic Analysis | Econometrics | Jaap Abbring |
| Wed | Nov 20 | 1:00pm | Pablo d'Erasmo (Maryland) | Quantitative Model of Banking Industry Dynamics | Economics Workshop | |
| Tue | Dec 18 | all day | Bart Bronnenberg, Jeff Campbell, JP Dubé, Frank Verboven a.o. | Tinbergen-VU Workshop on Industrial Economics | Tinbergen Institute | Jaap Abbring |
Spring 2012
| Day | Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Details | Contact |
| Wed | Feb 1 | 4.00pm | Daniel Kemptner (DIW Berlin) | Estimating Dynamic Discrete Choice Models with Unobserved Heterogeneity: The Advantage of Bayesian Procedures | Econometrics | Tobias Klein |
| Wed | Feb 15 | 4.00pm | Steffen Reinhold (Mannheim) | The Relationship between Education and Smoking: Evidence from a Life-Cycle Model | Econometrics | Tobias Klein |
| Tue | Mar 6 | 4.00pm | Frederic Vermeulen | Aggregation without the Aggravation? Nonparametric Analysis of the Representative Consumer | Labor-Health (K834) | |
| Wed | Mar 7 | 4.00pm | Irene Botosaru (Toulouse) | A Duration Model with Dynamic Unobserved Heterogeneity | Econometrics | Jaap Abbring |
| Wed | Mar 13 | 1.00pm | Ariel Pakes (Harvard) | Dynamic Games with Asymmetric Information: A Framework for Empirical Work | Faculty | Jan Boone |
| Wed | Mar 21 | 4.00pm | Gregory Crawford (Warwick) | CANCELLED | Econometrics | Jaap Abbring |
| Wed | May 9 | 4:00pm | Jörg Stoye (Cornell) | Nonparametric Analysis of Random Utility Models | Econometrics | Frederic Vermeulen |
| Wed | May 16 | 4.00pm | David Rivers (Western Ontario) | On the Identification of Production Functions: How Heterogeneous is Productivity? | Econometrics | Jaap Abbring |
Fall 2011
| Day | Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Details | Contact |
| Wed | Sep 14 | 4.00pm | Nan Yang (Tilburg) | Creative Destruction in the Dutch Grocery Retail Industry | Econometrics | |
| Wed | Sept 28 | 4.00pm | Frank Verboven (Leuven) | Exclusive Dealing as an Entry Barrier; An Empirical Analysis of the Car Market | Econometrics | Tobias Klein |
| Wed | Oct 12 | 4.00pm | Erwann Sbai (Auckland) | Electricity Spot Market Auctions: Estimation and Comparison | Econometrics | Jan Magnus |
| Wed | Dec 14 | 4:00pm | Alfred Galichon (Ecole Polytechnique) | Inference on Surplus in Matching Markets and Personality Traits and the Marriage Market | Econometrics | Frederic Vermeulen and Laurens Cherchye |
Spring 2011
| Day | Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Details | Contact |
| Wed | Jan 19 | 12.30-2pm | Carlos Santos (Alicante) | Sunk Costs of R&D, Trade and Productivity: The Mould Industry Case | Marketing | Bart Bronnenberg |
| Wed | Feb 16 | 4.00pm | Philipp Schmidt-Dengler (Mannheim) | Government Policy and the Dynamics of Market Structure: Evidence from Criticaidence from Critical Access Hospitals | Econometrics | Tobias Klein |
| Wed | Mar 2 | 4:00pm | Dennis Kristensen (University College London ) | Stochastic Demand and Revealed Preference | Econometrics | Frederic Vermeulen and Laurens Cherchye |
| Wed | Mar 23 | 4.00pm | Stephan Seiler (LSE) | The Impact of Search Costs on Consumer Behaviour: A Dynamic Approach | Econometrics | Tobias Klein |
| Wed | May 25 | 4.00pm | Thierry Magnac (Toulouse School of Economics) | Human Capital Investments and the Life Cycle Variance of Earnings | Econometrics | Tobias Klein |
| Wed | Jun 1 | 10.45am, M1002 | Catherine Schaumans (Tilburg University) | Applications Based on "Entry and Competition in Differentiated Product Markets" - The Case of Belgian GPs | TILEC Work in Progress | |
| Wed | Jun 1 | 4.00pm | Bernard Salanié (Columbia) | Partner Choice and the Marital College Premium | Econometrics | Jaap Abbring |
| Wed | Jun 22 | 12.30-2pm | Matthew Gentzkow (Chicago Booth) | Competition and Ideological Diversity: Historical Evidence from U.S. Newspapers | Marketing | Bart Bronnenberg |
Fall 2010
| Day | Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Details | Contact |
| Wed | Sep 8 | 4.00pm | Frederic Vermeulen (Tilburg) | Married with Children: A Collective Labor Supply Model with Detailed Time Use and Intra-Household Expenditure Information | Econometrics | |
| Fri | Sept 10 | 12:30pm | Elisabeth Honka (Chicago Booth) | Quantifying Search and Switching Costs in the U.S. Auto Insurance Industry | Marketing | Bart Bronnenberg |
| Wed | Oct 6 | 4.00pm | Yuya Takahashi (University of Mannheim) | Estimating a War of Attrition: The Case of the US Movie Theater Industry | Econometrics | Jaap Abbring |
| Wed | Oct 13 | 4:00pm | Jeremy Lise (University College London ) | Matching, Sorting and Wages | Econometrics | Frederic Vermeulen and Laurens Cherchye |
| Thu | Oct 14 | 11:30 am (NOTE TIME CHANGE!) in DZ003 | Michael Anderson (University of California, Berkeley) | TheEffect of Health Insurance Coverage on the Use of Medical Services | Econometrics | Tobias Klein |
| Wed | Nov 10 | 4:00pm | Aureo de Paula (University of Pennsylvania) | Identification and Estimation of Preference Distributions when Voters are Ideological | Econometrics | Jaap Abbring |
| Wed | Nov 17 | 4:00pm | Ed Vytlacil (Yale University) | Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of a Binary Choice Model of Loan Approval using only Approved Loans | Econometrics | Jaap Abbring |
| Wed | Dec 8 | 1:00pm | Lapo Filistrucchi (Tilburg University) | Merger Simulation in a Two-Sided Market: The Case of the Dutch Daily Newspapers | Economics Workshop | |
| Thu | Dec 9 | 12:30pm in DZ 3 | Andrew Ching (University of Toronto) | Effects of Publicityon Demand: The Case of Anti-Cholesterol Drugs | Marketing | George Knox |
| Wed | Dec 15 | 4:00pm | Elie Tamer (Northwestern University) | Sensitivity Analysis in a Likelihood model: A Partial Identification Approach | Econometrics | Jaap Abbring |
Spring 2010
| Day | Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Details | Contact |
| Wed | Jan 20 | 4:00pm | Jan Eeckhout (UPF/UPenn) | Identifying Sorting- In Theory | Econometrics | Jaap Abbring |
| Wed | Mar 17 | 4.00pm | Jeffrey Campbell (FRB Chicago) | The Financial Labor Supply Accelerator | Econometrics | Jaap Abbring |
| Wed | Mar 24 | 11:45am (NOTE TIME CHANGE!) | Jeremy Fox (Chicago) | Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Random Coefficients in Nonlinear Economic Models | Marketing | Bart Bronnenberg |
| Wed | Mar 24 | 4:00pm | Sonia Oreffice (Alicante) | Fatter Attraction: Marital Status and the Relationship between BMIand Labor Supply | Econometrics | Frederic Vermeulen |
| Wed | Apr 14 | 4:00pm | Sergei Koulayev (Boston Fed) | Estimating Demand in Online Search Markets, with Application to Hotel Bookings | Econometrics | Tobias Klein |
| Wed | Apr 28 | 4.00pm | Jaap Abbring (Tilburg) | A Note on the Non-Parametric Identification of Generalized Accelerated Failure Time Models | Econometrics | Jaap Abbring |
| Wed | May 12 | 4:00pm | Chris Flinn (NYU) | Household Choices and Child Development | Econometrics | Frederic Vermeulen |
| Wed | May 26 | 4:00pm | Ken Wolpin (UPenn) | Aligning Learning Incentives: An Experiment in Mexican High Schools to Improve Mathematics Achievement | Econometrics | Frederic Vermeulen |
| Wed | Jun 23 | 1:00pm | Lapo Filistrucchi (Tilburg) | Price Wars in Two-Sided Markets: The case of the UK Quality Newspapers | Econ Workshop | Lapo Filistrucchi |
| Wed | Jun 23 | 4:00pm | Ian Crawford (Oxford) | Not Another Solution to the APC problem | Econometrics | Frederic Vermeulen |
Fall 2009
| Day | Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Details | Contact |
| Wed | Sep 16 | 4:00pm | Aviv Nevo (Northwestern) | A SimpleModelof Demand Accumulation | Econometrics | Jaap Abbring |
| Tue | Oct 6 | 1:00pm | Ron Borkovsky (Toronto Rotham SoM) | A User's Guide to Solving Dynamic Stochastic Games Using the Homotopy Method | Economics | Amrita Ray Chaudhuri |
| Fri | Oct 9 | 4.15pm | Jaap Abbring (Tilburg) | Structural Duration Analysis (Inaugural lecture) | Aula | Jaap Abbring |
| Wed | Oct 21 | 10:45am - noon | Catherine Schaumans (Tilburg) | Reading group on "Empirical Models of Entry and Market Structures" by Steven Berry and Peter Reiss | TILEC | Catherine Schaumans |
| Wed | Oct 21 | 4:00pm | Denis Nekipelov (Berkeley) | Statistical Properties of Numerical Derivatives | Econometrics | Tobias Klein |
| Wed | Nov 4 | 1:00pm | Catherine Schaumans (Tilburg) | Entry Threshold Ratios as a Measure of Competition: A Refinement | Econ Workshop | Catherine Schaumans |
| Mon | Nov 23 | noon - 2:00pm | Bart Bronnenberg (Tilburg) and Che-Lin Su (Chicago Booth) | The Evolution of Brand Preferences: Evidence from Consumer Packaged Goods and ML Estimation of Discrete Choice Games of Incomplete Information | Room C 127; lunch provided | Tobias Klein |
| Wed | Dec 16 | 1:00pm (NOTE TIME CHANGE!) | Geert Ridder (USC) | Partial Identification and Confidence Intervals | Econometrics ; lunch provided | Jaap Abbring |
2008/9
In 2008/09 , informal seminars were given by Jaap Abbring(EOR, Nov 18), Catherine Schaumans (ECO,Jan 27), Nan Yang (Tinbergen Institute/VU, May 19), Florian Maican (Gothenborg, May 25), and Mathilda Orth (Gothenborg, May 25). Also, Tobias Klein (EOR, Dec 2) and Lapo Filistrucchi (ECO, Mar 24) presented in readinggroups. Finally, a number of related formal seminars were organized by CentER.
Past Ph.D. courses
2017/18
Jaap Abbring, Tobias Klein and Nicola Pavanini will teach a double CentER field course in Empirical Industrial Organization for second-year Research Master and PhD students in business and economics with an interest in structural econometrics and computational economics, and their applications to empirical industrial organization and marketing:
Tobi taught a 3-day Ph.D. course on dynamic structural models at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway.
2016/17
Jaap Abbring, Bart Bronnenberg and Tobias Klein will teach a double CentER field course in Empirical Industrial Organization for second-year Research Master and PhD students in business and economics with an interest in structural econometrics and computational economics, and their applications to empirical industrial organization and marketing:
2015/16
Jaap Abbring, Bart Bronnenberg and Tobias Klein will teach a double CentER field course in Empirical Industrial Organization for second-year Research Master and PhD students in business and economics with an interest in structural econometrics and computational economics, and their applications to empirical industrial organization and marketing:
2014/15
Jaap Abbring, Bart Bronnenberg and Tobias Klein will teach a double CentER field course in Empirical Industrial Organization for second-year Research Master and PhD students in business and economics with an interest in structural econometrics and computational economics, and their applications to empirical industrial organization and marketing:
2013/14
Jaap Abbring, Bart Bronnenberg and Tobias Klein will teach a double CentER field course in Empirical Industrial Organization for second-year Research Master and PhD students in business and economics with an interest in structural econometrics and computational economics, and their applications to empirical industrial organization and marketing:
2012/13
Jaap Abbring, Bart Bronnenberg and Tobias Klein will teach a double CentER field course in Empirical Industrial Organization for second-year Research Master and PhD students in business and economics with an interest in structural econometrics and computational economics, and their applications to empirical industrial organization and marketing:
Tobi taught Two-Sided Markets at the Competition and Innovation Summerschool in Turunç/Marmaris, Turkey
2011/12
Jaap, Bart, and Tobias taught a double CentER topics course in Empirical Industrial Organization for second-year Research Master and PhD students:
Lapo taught a related NAKE course, T11.19: Advanced Industrial Organization (Empirical)
Finally, Tobi taught Two-Sided Markets at the Competition and Innovation Summerschool in Turunç/Marmaris, Turkey
2010/11
Jaap, Bart, and Tobias taught a double CentER topics course in Empirical Industrial Organization for second-year Research Master and PhD students:
- 230319: Theory-Based Econometric Models in Marketing
- 230323: Topics in Empirical Industrial Organization
Jaap taught the latter course as SEIO11: Empirical Industrial Organization II
Lapo taught a related NAKE course, T10.19: Advanced Industrial Organization (Empirical)
Jaap gave to guest lectures on Structural Duration Analysis to PhD students at Yale University
On December 10, 13:30-15:30 in K834, Andrew Ching (University of Toronto) taught a 2h primer on Bayesian estimation
2009/10
Bart, Jaap, Tobi, Lapo, and Catherine Schaumans taught CentER Research Master courses:
- 230319: Theory-Based Econometric Models in Marketing
- 230323: Topics in Empirical Industrial Organization
Moreover, Lapo taught a related NAKE course, T09.19: Advanced Industrial Organization (Empirical)
Tobi taught Demand Estimation at the Competition and Innovation Summerschool in Turunç/Marmaris, Turkey
Finally, Jaap taught a course on Structural Duration Analysis in the Danish Graduate Program in Economics at the University of Aarhus (Denmark)
2008/09
Jaap taught a course on Dynamic Discrete Choice and Duration Analysis in the CIdE Summer School of Econometrics in Bertinoro (FC, Italy)
From December 9-11, 2008, Che-Lin Su (Chicago Booth) taught a minicourse on computational economics (sponsored by the EOR, ECO and MKT departments).