Industrial Organization Seminar
Spring 2026
Seminar Time & Location:
Fridays, 11:00 am - 12:15 pm EST
KMC 3-50 (3rd floor) unless otherwise noted.
To join the IO mailing list, please contact Amanda Schwab (ams9893@stern.nyu.edu).
February 6th "Plugging in the Wind and Sun: Market Design for Shared Infrastructure Under Uncertainty"
Ashley Langer (University of Arizona)
February 13th "The Illusion of Competition"
Michael Grubb (Boston College)
February 20th "AI and the Quantity and Quality of Creative Products: Have LLMs Boosted Creation of Valuable Books?"
Joel Waldfogel (University of Minnesota)
February 27th "Regulating Firearm Markets: Evidence from California"
Adam Rosenberg (Stanford)
Please note that this seminar will be in KMC 5-90 (on the 5th floor).
March 13th "The Cost of the Cold-Start Problem on Airbnb"
Regina Seibel (University of Toronto)
March 24th "Flexible Estimation of Differentiated Product Demand Models Using Aggregate Data"
Aviv Nevo (University of Pennsylvania)
Please note that this seminar is in collaboration with Columbia University, and will take place on Columbia's campus uptown in the International Affairs Building (IAB) at 420 W 118th St, room 1101, from 2:45 - 4:00pm.
April 3rd "Detecting and Deterring Fraud in Decentralized Emissions Inspections"
Jackson Dorsey (UT Austin)
April 10th "Menu Pricing of Large Language Models"
Alex Smolin (Toulouse School of Economics)
April 17th
Shoshana Vasserman (Stanford)
April 24th
Jon Kolstad (UC Berkeley Haas)