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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Algorithmic Steering and Advertising on Platforms.
DESCRIPTION:We analyze steering/self-preferencing by a retail platform\, using both economic theory and simulations of AI algorithms. When the platform does not sell advertising slots to merchants (which guarantee the merchant will be displayed to consumers)\, the platform has incentives to exclude merchants when its commission rate is in a lower range\, but not when its commission rate is higher. Facing the threat of not being displayed\, the merchant's optimal response is to raise its price on the platform\, so as to reduce the substitution threat it poses to the platform's own product. Thus\, even when the equilibrium outcome is for the merchant to be displayed\, the self-preferencing possibility raises overall prices and harms competition. We then introduce an advertising option\, and show that this can lead to lower prices while still ensuring the merchant is displayed to consumers. However\, the merchant need not gain from the introduction of advertising. Various extensions are considered.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138481
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Theory,Industrial Organization,seminar,Economics
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
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DTSTAMP:20251102T002757
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251114T100000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Art Exhibit- Closer: A look at the tiny world around us
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exhibit featuring the photography of Joseph Ferraro\, free and open to the public at Matthaei Botanical Gardens.\n\n \n\nBIO\n\nJoseph is a conservation photographer living and working in southeast Michigan. In 2014\, using macro photography to explore his backyard garden\, he unknowingly began walking a naturalist’s path and documenting native pollinators and invertebrates. His large format prints of local invertebrates are currently on exhibit outside of the Belle Isle Nature Center\, with other works on exhibit inside the Center. With them\, he seeks to inspire viewers to take a closer look at the tiny world around us.\n\n \n\nArtist Statement\n\nTo me\, the little things matter.\n\nThrough my work as a photographer\, I share the unseen and overlooked world of nature that surrounds us. My focus is exploring the world of invertebrates and showcasing these creatures in their natural habitat.\n\nMy creative process has evolved into a moving mediation\, as I Slow down to observe\, document and connect with my subjects as we interact in the environment. Ultimately\, I seek to capture the unique beauty of creatures not usually perceived as beautiful and aim to create images that evoke emotion and curiosity. In so doing I strive to raise awareness of the importance of these creatures in our world and dispel any fears the viewer may have.\n\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/josephferraro/\n\nWeb: https://www.joseph-ferraro.com
UID:141375-21888733@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141375
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Free,garden,matthaei,matthaei botanical gardens,Sustainability,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
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DTSTAMP:20250627T145134
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Communication Styles in the Workplace
DESCRIPTION:Course details and registration are available on the Organizational Learning website.
UID:136267-21878345@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136267
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Communication,Workshop
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20250825T101224
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Craft Lecture by Maya Binyam
DESCRIPTION:Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters25\n\n\nMaya Binyam is the author of *Hangman*\, which received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize\, the Dublin Literary Award\, and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. She was a 2024 National Book Foundation “5-under-35” honoree\, and is the recipient of the 2025 Bard Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in the *Paris Review*\, the *New Yorker*\, *Best American Short Stories*\, and elsewhere.\n\nShe previously taught in the New School’s Creative Writing and Critical Journalism Program\, and in the literature department of Claremont McKenna College. She was a Senior Editor of the New Inquiry and Triple Canopy\, and currently serves as an advisory editor of the Paris Review. Her work has been supported by Blue Mountain Center\, Marble House Project\, and Headlands Center for the Arts\, where she received the McLaughlin Children’s Trust Award. She lives in Los Angeles.\n\n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on every floor of the Union. ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) is five blocks away\, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.
UID:136927-21879339@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136927
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Writing,Maya Binyam,Literature,Fiction,Contemporary Literature,Books,Arts,Ann Arbor
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Anderson ABCDE
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DTSTAMP:20251112T075125
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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:International Day Conference
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the one-day conference hosted by Michigan International Economics on Friday\, November 14 at the Lorch Hall in room 201. RSVP is not required.\n\nThe conference program is below:\n\n10:00 – 11:00 AM  Federico Huneeus (Duke) \"Production Network Formation\, Trade\, and Welfare\"\nAbstract: We study the aggregate implications of production network formation in a quantitative multi-location general equilibrium trade model. Firms search for suppliers and buyers across locations subject to matching frictions\, generating a gravity structure of production networks. We develop sufficient statistics for global and regional welfare and characterize the deviations from the fixed network environment\, including the role of inefficiency and amplification effects of search and matching. We calibrate our multi-sector model to Chilean domestic and international firm-to-firm trade data and show that our model can rationalize the observed increase in domestic supplier linkages after Chile’s recent trade agreements. Abstracting from endogenous networks reduces Chile’s aggregate welfare losses by 20 percent when import costs are raised to their pre-agreement levels\, consistent with inefficiently low equilibrium levels of search. Fixing the trade elasticity\, the welfare gains from trade relative to municipality autarky drop by 40 percent due to amplification effects of search.\n\n11:00 – 11:30 AM Coffee Break	\n\n11:30 – 12:30 PM Enghin Atalay (Philadelphia Fed) \"Micro- and Macroeconomic Impacts of a Place-Based Industrial Policy\"\nAbstract: We evaluate a set of place-based subsidies introduced in Turkey in 2012. Using firmlevel balance-sheet data along with data on the domestic production network\, we first assess the policy’s direct and indirect impacts. We identify increased economic activity in industry-province pairs targeted by the subsidies\, with positive spillovers to firms’ customers and suppliers. Using a dynamic multi-region multi-industry general equilibrium model\, we assess the program’s aggregate impacts. According to the calibrated model\, the subsidy program reduces inequality between the relatively underdeveloped and more prosperous portions of the country. However\, trade\, migration\, and investment spillovers blunt the policy’s impact on regional inequality.\n\n1:30 – 2:30 PM Xiang Ding (Georgetown)  \"The Costs of Market Disintegration: Evidence from the India-Pakistan Border\"\nAbstract: This paper constructs the first global dataset on inter-sectoral capital service flows. I use this data to disaggregate capital services and intermediate inputs in a dynamic multi-sector model of global production. Steady state allocations and responses to shocks are determined by a capital-augmented global input-output matrix. Two properties of the capital services network deliver larger long-run consumption impacts of globalization than existing estimates\, and larger impacts in more capital-intensive countries. First\, more consumption-influential producers use capital from more trade-exposed suppliers. Second\, heterogeneity in the network reallocates sectoral expenditures towards producers with the largest respective declines in capital service costs. These reallocations raise capital incomes for producers and lower price indices for consumers.
UID:141746-21889254@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141746
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,International,Economics
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
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DTSTAMP:20251129T063104
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SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Internship Lab
DESCRIPTION:*RSVP required to attend. Click \"Join Event\" here:https://umich.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1852144Are you ready to start searching for a great internship? Do you have a few ideas\, but you’re not sure where to get started? Let's talk about search strategy!! Get real-time\, personalized support by checking out the in person Internship Lab. You’ll be guided by one of our Career Coaches who hasdesigned this experience to provide you strategies\, tools\, and motivation to get on the right track with searching for internships. Chat with folks from the University Career Center to explore Handshake\,the University Career Alumni Network (UCAN) and to learn about other tools you can use to build a great job/internship search strategy. **If you're not sure what you're interested in\, consider making an \"Exploring Major/Career Option\" appointment to get started clarifying your interests with a career coach in a 1-on-1 setting. Recent Grads: If you are an alumni\, you will not be able to access the link due the University’s policy of discontinuing alumni Zoom accounts 30 days after graduation. Please contact careercenter@umich.edu with the subject line“Recent Grad Help” to receive either a recording of the session or tobe set up with a 1:1. Include the name of the workshop/event in your email.
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