MEMBERS
Mitsuru Igami, Jinyoung Lee, Jiyeon Seo, Wilko Ziggy Schulz-Mahlendorf, Hisayuki Yoshimoto, and I
We keep the maximum number of people as 6.

RULES
Everybody has to read the paper of the week and participate in the discussion.

MEETING TIME
Thursday afternoon during summer 2008
Friday noon during fall 2008

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING
(11/07/08) Pakes, Ostrovskky, and Berry, "Simple Estimators for the Parameters of Discrete Dynamic Games ," RAND Journal of Economics, 2007
(10/31/08) Pesendorfer and Schmidt-Dengler, "Asymptotic Least Squares Estimators for Dynamic Games," Review of Economic Studies, 2008
(10/24/08) Allan Collard-Wexler, "Demand Fluctuations and Plant Turnover in the Ready-Mix Concrete Industry," working paper, 2006
(10/17/08) Aguirregabiria and Mira, "Sequential Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Games," Econometrica, 2007
(10/10/08) Bajari, Benkard and Levin, "Estimating Dynamic Models of Imperfect Competition," Econometrica, 2007
(10/03/08) Stephen Ryan, "The Costs of Environmental Regulation in a Concentrated Industry," working paper, 2006
(09/26/08) Emi Nakamura, "Accounting for Incomplete Pass-Through," working paper, 2007
(09/18/08) Victor Aguirregabiria, "The Dynamics of Markups and Inventories in Retailing Firms," Review of Economic Studies, 1999
(09/11/08) The same paper continued
(09/04/08) Hendel and Nevo, "Measuring the Implications of Sales and Consumer Inventory Behavior," Econometrica, 2006
(08/28/08) Eckstein and Wolpin, "The Specification and Estimation of Dynamic Stochastic Discrete Choice Models: A Survey," Journal of Human Resources, 1989

ENTRY AND EXIT
(08/22/08) Katja Seim, "An Empirical Model of Firm Entry with Endogenous Product-Type Choices," RAND Journal of Economics, 2006
(08/14/08) Steven Berry, "Estimation of a Model of Entry in the Airline Industry," Econometrica, 1992
(08/07/08) Bresnahan and Reiss, "Entry and Competition in Concentrated Markets," Journal of Political Economy, 1991
(08/01/08) Michael Mazzeo, "Product Choice and Oligopoly Market Structure," RAND Journal of Economics, 2002