2024 – 2025 Seminar Series

Fall 2024 TPRI’s Works-in-Progress Seminar Series will be on Wednesdays at 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (ET) via Zoom. To be added to the seminar mailing list as an attendee, please email tpri@bu.edu.

Fall 2024 Seminar Series Schedule:

September 11:  Stephen Glaeser, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Is innovating risky? The effects of R&D on idiosyncratic and systematic firm risk”

September 18:  Lee Fleming, University of California, Berkeley, “Science knowledge localizes”

September 25: Charu Gupta, UCLA, “Beyond the Label: Regulatory Slack and Forum Shopping in the Pharmaceutical Industry”

October 2: Rodimiro Rodrigo, The George Washington University, “Robots and Inequality: Between and Within Occupations”

October 9:  Larisa Cioaca, Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, “Experimenting With High Tech: The Role of Government R&D Contracts”

October 16:  Colleen Cunningham (Utah) and Jennifer Kao (UCLA), “Negative Information and Innovation”

October 23:  Apoorva Gupta, Heinrich Heine University, “Gains from Patent Protection: Innovation, Market Power and Cost Savings in India”

October 30:   Megan MacGarvie (Boston University Questrom School of Business) and Olena Ivus (Queen’s University), “Reclaiming Brain Power: The Impact of Global Strengthening of IPRs on the Movement of Inventors”

November 6:  Kris Gulati, UC Merced, “How ‘Free’ is Free Speech in Academia? Effects on Researchers and their Research”

November 13:  Apoorv Gupta (Dartmouth College) and Filippo Mezzanotti (Northwestern University), “Demographics and Technology Diffusion: Evidence from Mobile Payments”

November 20:  Tesary Lin, Boston University Questrom School of Business, “Data Sharing and Website Competition: The Role of Dark Patterns”

December 4:  Jane Olmstead-Rumsey, London School of Economics,  “Digital Platform Acquisitions, Tying, and Growth”