NBER Industrial Organization program

From: Nancy L. Rose <nrose_at_MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 14:02:16 -0400

I'm writing to NBER IO program members to ask for your input.

First, as you know, the NBER IO program will next meet in Cambridge on Friday, July 18 and Saturday, July 19 (beginning at noon on Friday and adjourning by 3:30 p.m. on Saturday).  I expect the program and invitations to go out by early next week.  The NBER will again extend invitations to attend NBER Summer Institute meetings to a small number of graduate students.   Attendance at the meeting as well as lunch on conference days is covered; unfortunately, we cannot pay for travel or accommodation expenses, and budget/space limitations prevent us from including graduate students in the conference dinner.  If you have a student or two you would like to nominate for an invitation, please send me their name, when you expect them to complete their PhD, and sentence or two about them.  Because space is quite limited, I would encourage you to coordinate nominations with colleagues in your department.  I'll get back to you with whether we're able to invite your nominated student once I have the full set of nominations.

Second, while we always have far more researchers who would like to attend NBER program meetings than we have space and budget resources to invite, we do try to extend invitations, at least on a rotating basis, to a broad group of those most active in IO research.  I rely on program members to help me identify people who should be on that list.  If you have suggestions, particularly relatively recent PhDs, who we should have on our radar screen, please let me know their name, affiliation, and anything else you think would be useful information. 

Finally, in addition to identifying researchers we should consider inviting to program meetings, I welcome your suggestions for those we should consider nominating for NBER program membership.  Again, we're constrained in the number we can add, but we welcome input on who should be in the consideration set.  Remember that NBER membership is not an honorific, but is geared toward those who will be active contributors to the program in its many dimensions, from work on policy-relevant research and submission of NBER working papers, to meeting participation and NBER grants.  If you're uncertain whether someone is already a program member, you can find the current list at:  http://www.nber.org/programs/io/io.html .

Thanks for your advice.  I look forward to seeing you in July.

Best,
Nancy L. Rose
Received on Thu May 29 2008 - 14:02:16 EDT