#  Seminars: Industrial Organization 

 



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SortSeminar in Industrial Organization**Term: Spring 2026****Location:** Littauer 301 - Hansen Mason Room and MIT**Meeting Time:** Monday 4:30 - 5:45**Description:** Invited scholars from other institutions present current research in the field in a seminar setting.

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Sort**Date****Speaker****Title**January 26

Anna Russo (Harvard Society of Fellows)

The Effects of Floodplain Regulation on Housing Markets (with Abigail Ostriker)

February 2

Mark Egan (HBS)

[Dynamic Competition for Sleepy Deposits](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.hbs.edu_ris_Publication-2520Files_26-2D015-5F6fd1414f-2Dbbad-2D4653-2D8288-2Dcf69a3973d59.pdf&d=DwMGaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=FXtLcjBvRH1TuGY6ZTAI3AwtciDoEvYgGUXQKbNOWVU&m=YGSVtVfgRE1fhKwo14VRGRYfVh6a5Vdc0sBJj4P0erhBmVKWAEvlUxjMHy0zL14p&s=sTC6LVEKof0gHtedZuni7uapJnhpSuXaToT0MGKAWyI&e=) (with Ali Hortaçsu, Nathan Kaplan, Adi Sunderam, and Vincent Yao)

February 9

Joint with MIT @ Harvard



Michael Rubens (UCLA)

[Welfare Effects of Buyer and Seller Power](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__michaelrubens.github.io_files_demirer-5Frubens.pdf&d=DwMGaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=FXtLcjBvRH1TuGY6ZTAI3AwtciDoEvYgGUXQKbNOWVU&m=qU5puqHuH1Ah4yY0aT52aeruJUQRpiu5XBWOMsA7a6KrP5ZRDiJSCVlXrHmf471p&s=5F2HZHiM0Y37pD-3YPbKmhzv_9VTloyu2NYgrLFHpuA&e=) (with Mert Demirer)

February 16

**President's Day**

 

February 23

with MIT @ Harvard



Eric Budish (Chicago, Booth)

[Missing Markets for Innovation: Evidence from New Uses for Existing Drugs](https://www.economics.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum5991/files/2026-02/Missing%20Markets%20for%20Innovation%20-%20February%202026%20%28002%29.pdf)[ ](https://www.nber.org/papers/w34222)(with Maya Durvasula, Benjamin Roin, & Heidi Williams)

March 2

with MIT @ MIT



Alejandro Sabal (Princeton)

[Product Entry in the Global Automobile Industry](https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sabalalejandro/sabal/main/papers/product_entry_auto/product_entry_auto.pdf)

 March 9

with MIT @ MIT



Vivek Bhattacharya (Northwestern)

[A Large-Scale Evaluation of Merger Simulations](https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gfaktgha6aigpf9a2g35s/December_2025_Draft.pdf?rlkey=272yia60u3q2kicrbs6wyfsib&st=ftr1c8fr&dl=0) (with Gaston Illanes, Avner Kreps, Jose Diego Salas, and David Stillerman)

March 16 

**Spring Recess**

 

March 23

joint with International



Eduardo Morales (Princeton)

Tariffs and Production Relocation in a Multiproduct Oligopoly (joint with Juanma Castro-Vincenzi, Jin Liu and Alejandro Sabal)

March 30

Paul Scott (Visiting Scholar, MIT)

[Cows and Trees](https://www.ptscott.com/papers/cows_and_trees.pdf) (with Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues, Ted Rosenbaum, & Skand Goel)

April 6

with MIT @ MIT



Shoshana Vasserman (Stanford GSB)

Road Pricing under Heterogeneity

April 13

**Department Seminar Week**

 

April 20 

Luis Armona (HKS)

[Second-Best Amendment: Market Power and Tax Design in the Firearms Industry](https://www.economics.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum5991/files/2026-04/secondbest_0.pdf) (with Adam Rosenberg)

April 27

Joint with International



Ali Hortaçsu (Chicago)

[Who Pays for Tariffs Along the Supply Chain? Evidence from European Wine Tariffs](https://felix-tintelnot.wdfiles.com/local--files/files/Tariff_pass_through.pdf) (with Aaron Flaaen, Felix Tintelnot, Nicolas Urdaneta, & Daniel Yi Xu)