What does market power mean, how is it created, and how is it sustained? What does strategic interaction between firms mean and how does it affect market outcomes? Why do firms merge and when should a competition authority allow a given proposed merger? How should a firm price its products after the entry of a new competitor? How many cartels are there, and how harmful are they? Who benefited and who lost when the Finnish taxi-cab market was liberalized? Should the government subsidize the research and development activities of firms and if so, how and by how much?
Industrial Organization Research Group
All the previous questions are examples of questions that economists specializing in Industrial Organization (IO) analyze. IO is the analysis of market imperfections and imperfectly competitive markets – meaning most if not all real-world markets. Whether you want to understand how well a market works from the point of consumers, firms, employees or the taxpayer (government), IO tools are indispensable for your analysis. IO blends economic theory, knowledge of institutions and empirical methods to address real world questions that are relevant for business and policy.
Industrial Organization Reading Group
Our format is lunch reading group, so please bring your own lunch.
Program
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Date: 22/11/2019 11:30 am
Location: VATT fourth floor seminar roomPaper: Seim, Katja, Waldfogel, Joel. 2013. “Public Monopoly and Economic Efficiency: Evidence from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board’s Entry Decisions"
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Date: 20/12/2019 11:30 am
Location: VATT fourth floor seminar roomPaper: Deng, Yi. 2011. "A dynamic stochastic analysis of international patent application and renewal processes."
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Date: 31/01/2020 11:30 am
Location: VATT fourth floor seminar roomPaper: Fan, Ying, Yang, Chenyu 2020. "Competition, Product Proliferation and Welfare: A Study of the US Smartphone Market"
Members
Otto Toivanen
Chair of the group,
Professor
otto.toivanen at aalto.fi
Homepage
Riku Buri
Member,
PhD student
riku.buri at aalto.fi
Elias Einiö
Member,
Senior researcher
elias.einio at vatt.fi
Peter Elmgren
Member,
PhD student
peter.elmgren at helsinki.fi
Ari Hyytinen
Member,
Professor
ari.hyytinen at hanken.fi
Homepage
Jan Jääskeläinen
Member,
PhD student
jan.jaaskelainen at aalto.fi
Mika Kortelainen
Member,
Chief Researcher
mika.kortelainen at vatt.fi
Homepage
Marita Laukkanen
Member,
Chief Researcher
marita.laukkanen at vatt.fi
Homepage
Matti Liski
Member,
Professor
matti.liski at aalto.fi
Amin Mohazab
Member,
PhD student
amin.mohazabrahimzadeh at aalto.fi
Mikko Mustonen
Member,
Senior university lecturer
Homepage
Olga Neselevska
Member,
PhD student
o.neselevska at gmail.com
Aleksi Paavola
Member,
PhD student
aleksi.m.paavola at aalto.fi
Staffan Ringbom
Member, University Lecturer
Tanja Saxell
Member,
Senior researcher
tanja.saxell at vatt.fi
Homepage
Rune Stenbacka
Member,
Professor
Homepage
Alexis Stevenson
Member,
PhD student
alexis.stevenson at hanken.fi
Tuomas Takalo
Member, Senior Adviser
Geert Van Moer
Member, Assistant Professor
Iivo Vehviläinen
Member, Visiting Researcher
Joosua Virtanen
Member,
Project Assistant
joosuavirtanen at gmail.com
Jiekai Zhang
Member,
Assistant professor
jiekai.zhang at hanken.fi
Upcoming Seminars
18 Sep 2019
Industrial Organization
Consumers’ costly responses to product-harm crises (with Rosa Ferrer)
- Helena Perrone
- University of Mannheim
25 Sep 2019
Industrial Organization
Privacy Regulation and Quality Investment (with Ying Lei Toh)
- Yassine Lefouili
- Tolouse School of Economics
2 Oct 2019
Industrial Organization
The Herfindahl-Hirschman index and the distribution of social surplus
- Yossi Spiegel
- Tel Aviv
10 Dec 2019
Industrial Organization
Industrial Organization PhD Workshop
- See program
9 Oct 2019
Industrial Organization
Industrial Organization Student Presentations
- open
13 Nov 2019
Industrial Organization
Industrial Organization Student Presentations
- NO SEMINAR
27 Nov 2019
Industrial Organization
A Theory of Must-Have (with Enrique Ide)
- Juan-Pablo Montero
- PUC-Chile
20 Nov 2019
Industrial Organization
Product proliferation as entry deterrence: the case of UK pharmaceuticals
- Farasat Bokhai
- East Anglia
26 Feb 2020
Industrial Organization
Vertical Contracting with Endogenous Market Structure
- Markus Reisinger
- Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
18 Mar 2020
Industrial Organization
TBA
- Alon Eizenberg
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
25 Mar 2020
Industrial Organization
TBA
- Bert Willems
- University of Tillburg & TSE
29 Apr 2020
Industrial Organization
TBA
- Margaret Kyle
- MINES Paris Tech
20 May 2020
Industrial Organization
Pass-through, profits and the political economy of regulation
- Robert Ritz
- University of Cambridge
12 Feb 2020
Industrial Organization
- IO student presentation seminar
8 Apr 2020
Industrial Organization
- IO student presentation seminar
18 May 2020
Industrial Organization
- IO PhD Student Workshop
19 May 2020
Industrial Organization
- IO PhD Student Workshop
