Social Science and Technology Seminar Series

Seminars take place on Wednesdays 4:00 - 5:30 in the 3rd Floor Conference Room, John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building at 366 Galvez Street unless otherwise noted.
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2009-1010 schedule.
2010-1011 schedule.

Fall Quarter, 2011
10/5	Rosemarie Ziedonis, University of Oregon "Job Hopping in the Shadow of Patent Enforcement," joint with Martin Ganco and Rajshree Agarwal
10/19	Matt Marx, MIT "Regional Disadvantage? Non-compete Agreements and Brain Drain", joint with Jasjit Singh and Lee Fleming
11/2	Alex Field, Santa Clara University "Chained Index Methods and Productivity Growth during the Depression" (Seminar is joint with Social Science History Workshop, SSHW)
11/16	Sonali Shah, University of Washington "Innovation, Social Structure and the Emergence of New Industries", joint with Cyrus Mody
11/30	Lisa Cook, Michigan State University, Council of Economic Advisors "Bad International Relations but Better Science? Soviet Technological Spillovers, East Germany and the Boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics" *CANCELLED*
12/14	Paul David, Stanford University “Optimal Transition Paths toward Global Climate Stabilization: Implications for Science and Technology Policies and their Timing” joint with Adriaan van Zon, Luc Soete and Bronwyn Hall [technical annex]

Winter Quarter, 2012
1/18	Kevin Boudreau, INSEAD High Incentives, Sorting on Skills--or Just a ³Taste² for Competition? Field Experimental Evidence from an Algorithm Design Contest
2/22	Francisco Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University "Spinoffs and the Mobility of US Merchant Semiconductor Inventors" (joint with Cristobal Cheyre and Steven Klepper)
3/7	Misiek Piskorski, Harvard Business School "Social failures and Social Solutions: Evidence from OkCupid"

Spring Quarter, 2012
4/4	Christian Helmers, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, visiting Stanford "My precious! The location and diffusion of scientific research: Evidence from the Synchrotron Diamond Light Source" (joint with Henry Overman, LSE)
4/18	Aija Leiponen, Cornell University "Innovating Standards through Informal Consortia: The Case of Wireless Telecommunications" (joint with Henry Delcamp, Ecole des Mines Paris)
5/9	Rahul Kapoor, Wharton "Unmasking the Interplay between Technology Evolution and the Organization of R&D: Evidence from the Global Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry, 1990-2010" (joint with Patia J. McGrath)
5/23	Toby Stuart, UC Berkeley TBA