NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMICS RESEARCH, INC.

 

Industrial Organization Program Meeting

 

Liran Einav and Jon Levin, Organizers

 

Nancy Rose, Program Director

 

February 24 and 25, 2006

 

NBER Offices

30 Alta Road

Stanford, CA

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2006:


12:00 n            Lunch

 

 1:00 pm          SILKE JANUSZEWSKI FORBES, UC, San Diego

MARA LEDERMAN, University of Toronto

Control Rights, Network Structure and Vertical Integration:

Evidence from Regional Airlines

 

Discussant: SEVERIN BORENSTEIN, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 2:15 pm          Break

 

 2:30 pm          PAT BAJARI, University of Michigan and NBER

STEPHANIE HOUGHTON, Duke University

STEVE TADELIS, UC, Berkeley

Bidding for Incomplete Contracts: An Empirical Analysis

 

Discussant: KEN HENDRICKS, University of Texas at Austin and NBER

 

 3:45 pm          Break

 

 4:00 pm          DARON ACEMOGLU and AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER

Input and Technology Choices in Regulated Industries:

Evidence from the Health Care Sector

 

Discussant: CATHERINE WOLFRAM, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 5:15 pm          Adjourn

 6:00 pm          Group Dinner

Location to Be Announced

 

 

 


SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2006:

 

 8:45 am          Continental Breakfast

 

 9:15 am          JUSTINE HASTINGS, Yale University and NBER

THOMAS KANE, Harvard University and NBER

DOUGLAS STAIGER, Dartmouth College and NBER

Parental Preferences and School Competition:

Evidence from a Public School Choice Program

 

Discussant: ERIC HANUSHEK, Stanford University and NBER

 

10:30 am         Break

 

10:45 am         JAAP ABRING, Free University, Amsterdam

JEFFREY CAMPBELL, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER

A Firm’s First Year

 

Discussant: LANIER BENKARD, Stanford University and NBER

 

12:00 n            Lunch

 

 1:00 pm          DUNCAN SIMESTER, MIT

                        YU (JEFFREY) HU, Purdue University

                        ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON, MIT

                        ERIC ANDERSON, Northwestern University

Does Current Advertising Cause Future Sales?

Evidence from the Direct Mail Industry

 

Discussant: JEAN PIERRE DUBE, University of Chicago

 

 2:15 pm          Break

 

 2:30 pm          RYAN JOHNSON, University of Arizona

                        DAVID REILEY, University of Arizona and NBER

                        JUAN CARLOS MUNOZ, Pontifica Universidad Catolica, Chile

The War for the Fare:

How Driver Compensation Affects Bus System Performance

 

Discussant: PHILLIP LESLIE, Stanford University and NBER

 

 3:45 pm          Adjourn

 

 

12/14/05