M E M O R A N D U M

TO:	Invitees

FROM:	Rob Shannon; Assistant Director, Conferences

DATE:	December 29, 2003

RE:	Logistical Information

On behalf of Nancy Rose, I would like to invite you to participate in the NBER's Industrial Organization Program Meeting scheduled for Friday and Saturday, February 20 and 21, 2004. The meeting is being organized by Severin Borenstein and Alan Sorensen and will be held a the NBER, 30 Alta Road, Stanford, CA, Phone: (650) 326-7160. There will be a dinner the night of Friday, February 20, 2003 at 6:15 PM at MacArthur Park Restaurant, 27 University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA. The preliminary program can be found at .

REIMBURSEMENT

The IO program runs on a very tight budget. To ensure the broadest participation possible, we ask all participants to try to finance their travel and local lodging expenses through other sources such as research grants or funds available from their home institutions. If you do not have access to such funds, please contact Nancy at nrose@mit.edu for authorization of reimbursements.

HOTEL ARRANGEMENTS

Reservations will be made at the Stanford Park Hotel, 100 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA Phone (650) 322-1234. The rate is $185.00 on February 19 and $159.00 on February 20. The rates are per night, single or double occupancy, plus 10% tax .

Please reply via email through the Conference Department's new web reply form at

<<replyurl>>. Please reply no later than January 16, 2004.

The NBER's Conference Department homepage can be found at www.nber.org/~confer. The programs for the meetings can be found here. Papers for the meetings can also be found here as they become available to the NBER.

QUESTIONS

If you have any questions regarding the logistical or any other arrangements, please contact me at 617/868-3900, fax 617/864-1825 or email confer@nber.org.

12/24/03