Past Conferences and Seminars

The Center for Economic Research (CIE), invites you to the seminar:

Presented By: Jackson Dorsey (Indiana)

He will speak on the topic: "Soaking Up the Sun: Battery Investment, Renewable Energy, and Market Equilibrium" (joint with R. Andrew Butters and Gautam Gowrisankaran

The seminar will take place on Friday May 6th from 12:00 to 13:30 pm in the Santa Teresa Seminar Room.

The Center for Economic Research (CIE), invites you to the seminar.

"Silent Spreaders: Behavior and Equilibrium Under Asymptomatic Infection"

Presented by: Flavio Toxvaerd (Cambridge).

The seminar will take place on Friday, March 18th, 2022 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm in Santa Teresa Seminar Room.

The Center for Economic Research (CIE) invites you to the seminar:

"Evidence Acquisition and Voluntary Disclosure"

Presented by: Denis Shishkin (UCSD).

The seminar will take place on: Friday, March 4th, 2022 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Santa Teresa Seminar Room.

ITAM's Economic Research Center (CIE), invites you to the virtual seminar.

Invited: Gordon Leslie from Monash University (Australia).

He will talk about his tilte: "Start-up Costs and Market Power: Lessons from the Renewable Energy Transition"

Abstract:
Firms expect to recover the fixed costs required to start production by earning positive operating profits in subsequent periods. We develop a dynamic measure of competition that accounts for start-up costs, showing that static markups overstate the rents attributable to market power in an electricity market where power plants frequently stop and start production in response to output from solar panels. We estimate that increases in solar capacity correspond to increases in the aggregate operating profits earned by fossil-fuel plants because competition softens at sunset – plants displaced by solar during the day must incur start-up costs to compete in the evening.

The meeting will be held via Zoom in the following link:

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https://itam.zoom.us/j/99693669571?pwd=cmRTS3dTVUNjNUZjZG9tV0daZ1JEUT09

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