Research at BEA

Seminars and Workshops

2012

BEA Seminar Series Speakers
  • September 20
    • Charles Roehrig (Altarum Institute), Room 2A & B, 10:30 - 12:00 pm
      "Macro Statistics for the Health Sector"
  • July 31
    • Tricia Johnson (Rush University), Room 6040, 10:30 - 12:00 pm
      "Demand for International Medical Travel into the United States"
  • June 26
    • Anthony Landry (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas), Room 6040, 10:30 - 12:00 pm
      "Capital Goods Imports, Investment-Specific Productivity and U.S. Growth"
  • June 4
    • Ben Handel (UC Berkeley), Room 6040, 2:00 - 3:30 pm
      "Equilibria in Health Exchanges: Adverse Selection vs. Reclassification Risk"
  • May 16
    • Tom Koch (FTC), Room 6040, 10:30 - 12:00 pm
      "Dynamic Selection in Medical Insurance Markets"
  • May 1
    • Chapin White (Center for Studying Health System Change), Room 6040, 10:30 - 12:00 pm
      "Health Status and Hospital Prices Key to Regional Variation in Private Health Care Spending"
      www.nihcr.org/Spending_Variation.html
  • April 27
  • April 17
    • Amanda Starc (Wharton), Room 6040, 2:30 - 4:00 pm
      "Age-Based Heterogeneity and Pricing Regulation on the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange"
  • March 13
    • Amanda Kowalski (Yale), Room 6040, 2:30 - 4:00 pm
      "Mandate-Based Health Reform and the Labor Market: Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform"
      joint with Jonathan Kolstad

2011

BEA Seminar Series Speakers
  • November 18
    • Michael Chernew (Harvard), Room 6040, 12:30 - 2 pm
  • October 17
    • Bob Town (Penn), Room 6040, 2 - 3:30 pm
      "The Impact of the Adoption of Health IT on Patient Outcomes"
  • September 19
    • Sean Nicholson (Cornell), Room 6040, 2 - 3:30 pm
      "A Quality-Adjusted Price Index for Colorectal Cancer Drugs"
  • August 23
    • Luis Cabral (NYU)
      "Good Turnover and Bad Turnover: Entry Barriers, Survival Barriers, and Welfare"
  • August 11
    • Jay Breit (Colorado State)
      "Incorporating Auxiliary Information Into Complex Survey Estimators Through Modern Regression Methods"

2010

BEA Seminar Series Speakers
  • December 6th
    • Ricard Gil (UC Santa Cruz)
      "Vertical Integration and Technology Adoption: Evidence from U.S. Movie Production 1940–1960"
  • November 15th
    • Allan Collard-Wexler (NYU Stern)
      “Productivity Dispersion and Plant Selection in the Ready-Mix Concrete Industry”
  • November 5th
    • Dave Rapson (UC Davis)
      “Does Absolution Promote Sin? A Conservationist’s Dilemma”
  • October 21st
    • Janet Hao (Conference Board)
      "Measuring Investment in Intangible Assets"
  • October 7th
    • Lutz Kilian (University of Michigan)
      “The Role of Inventories and Speculative Trading in the Global Market for Crude Oil”
  • September 29th
    • Forrest McCluer (Greylock McKinnon Associates)
      “Prices and Quantities in Health Care Antitrust Damages”
  • September 15th
    • Ahmed Khwaja (Yale School of Management)
      “Dynamic Entry with Cross Product Spillovers: An Application to the Generic Drug Industry”
  • August 17th
    • Amil Petrin (University of Minnesota)
      “The Impact of Plant-Level Resource Reallocations and Technical Progress on U.S. Macroeconomic Growth”
  • August 10th
    • Anne Hall (Board of Governors)
      “Geographical Variation and the Diffusion of Diagnostic Imaging”
  • June 24th
    • Frank Lichtenberg (Columbia University)
      “Has Medical Innovation Reduced Cancer Mortality?"
  • May 18th
    • Ashish Arora (Duke University)
      “Managing Licensing in a Market for Technology.”
  • May 3rd
    • Andrew Ching (University of Toronto)
      “Measuring the Informative and Persuasive Roles of Detailing on Prescribing Decisions”
  • April 7th
    • Unni Pillai (SUNY Albany)
      “A Model of Technological Progress in the Microprocessor Industry”
  • March 30th
    • George Alessandria (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
      "The Great Trade Collapse of 2008–09: An Inventory Adjustment?"

2009

BEA Seminar Series Speakers
  • December 2nd
    • Ellen McGrattan (Minneapolis Fed)
  • November 5th
    • Jeff Prince (Cornell University)
      “Has the Internet Accelerated the Diffusion of New Products?”
  • October 14th
    • Jim Adams (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
      “Discovery and Invention In Science-Based Firms”
  • October 7th
    • Chad Syverson (University of Chicago)
      “Why Do Firms Own Production Chains?” 
  • September 14th
    • Brett Gordon (Columbia University)
      “Does AMD Spur Intel to Innovate More?” 
  • September 10th
    • Gautam Gowrisankaran (University of Arizona)
      “Dynamics of Consumer Demand for New Durable Goods” 
  • June 25th
    • Emi Nakamura (Columbia University)
      “Product Replacement Bias and Pricing to Market”
  • June 16th
    • Ariel Pakes (Harvard University)
      “An Experimental Component Index for the CPI: From Annual Computer Data to Monthly Data on Other Goods”
  • June 4th
    • Jon Skinner (Dartmouth College)
      “Technology Growth and Expenditure Growth in Health Care” (with Amitabh Chandra)
  • March 17th
    • Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford University)
      “Economics of Obesity”

2008

BEA Seminar Series Speakers
  • November 6th
    • Aviv Nevo (Northwestern University)
      “Timing and Quantity of Consumer Purchases and the Consumer Price Index”
  • October 20th
    • Marc Roberts (Penn State)
      “R&D Investment and Export Dynamics”