From: Nancy L. Rose <nrose_at_MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:50:23 -0400
Just a reminder that the deadline for IO Summer Institute submissions
is today, though we will take submissions through Monday, April 20.
While we've received a number of submissions in response to the call
for papers, we've received remarkably few from NBER IO program
members. Perhaps you're planning to send something in today, in
which case, thanks. If you've been on the fence, I would strongly
encourage you to submit a paper--especially if you haven't recently
been on the program. It's generally disconcerting, and definitely not
a positive indication for the annual IO program reviews, to have more
apparent interest and activity in the program from non-NBER affiliates
than from those inside the program.
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The NBER research program in Industrial Organization will next meet in
Cambridge at
the NBER Summer Institute on Friday, July 17 and Saturday, July 18.
Andrew Sweeting and Joel Waldfogel have agreed to co-organize the
program meeting this year. We'll start with a joint session Friday
afternoon with the Productivity IT & Economics group (co-organized
by Susan Athey, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Hal Varian), and continue
through Saturday with a "straight up" IO day.
The topics specified in the Productivity IT & Economics call
(attached) include a broad range of possible empirical and theoretical
research, including:
Online advertising, Online auctions, Pricing and bundling of
information goods
IT and organizational change, market structure, and health care
Two-sided markets, Search costs, competition and product variety,
and many more
We will be looking for papers in these areas that are of particular IO
interest for the joint session.
For the IO-specific portion of the program meeting, we solicit papers
across a broad range of
questions, methods, and applications in industrial organization.
Our ideal is research at the working paper stage. We will follow
our usual program meeting format: Discussants will take about 25
minutes
to summarize and critique the paper; authors will be given about 10-15
minutes to add their remarks, and the remaining 30 minutes or so will
be
devoted to discussion from the floor. To ensure that completed
papers are available for distribution, we will decide the program based
primarily on submissions of draft papers. These are the papers
that
will be posted for participants unless a revised version is received by
the NBER conference department by June 26.
If you have a paper you would like to present, please send a copy
of
the paper (preferred) or a detailed abstract NO LATER THAN FRIDAY,
APRIL 17. You may specify whether you would like your submission
considered for the joint session, the IO session, or both. Electronic
submissions should be sent to:
Andrew Sweeting <atsweet@duke.edu
>
Joel Waldfogel
<waldfogj@wharton.upenn.edu
> Nancy Rose
<nrose@mit.edu> **THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS **
** FRIDAY APRIL 17 **
Authors of papers selected for the program will be notified by May
20.
If you know of others, especially junior faculty, who might have
papers
suitable for this meeting, please encourage them to submit their papers
to us. Not everyone receives an e-mail call; we count on your to
get the word out! While we have space for only a fraction of the
submissions, we give each our careful consideration.
Thanks!
Nancy L. Rose
IO Program Director
-- Nancy L
Nancy
L.
Rose
Professor of Economics
MIT Department of Economics
nrose@mit.edu
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