Message to IO NBER program members

From: Nancy Rose <nrose_at_MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:26:47 -0400

At this point, only 3 members of the NBER's IO program are represented in the submissions we have received for the Summer Institute program.   I suspect--and hope-- many of you plan to submit a paper by tomorrow's deadline.  If you're on the fence, let me encourage you to land on the side of submission.  

I recognize that it's frustrating to submit papers that aren't selected for the program, and the intensity of the competition to get on the program may discourage some of you from continuing to submit papers.  I apologize for that.   But I would hope the submission cost is minimal, and offset by the considerable private and social returns.  I hope you all agree that being on the program is a valuable experience--certainly researchers outside the NBER IO family feel that way, judging from the large number of submissions we receive from unaffiliated researchers.  In addition, your activity in submitting papers and attending program meetings are key indicators of your interest in continuing to be part of the program, which I have to discuss on a researcher-specific level each summer in the annual program review.   But beyond those largely private returns,  given how much interest there is in the broad profession in presenting at NBER IO program meetings, it makes a statement about how the IO program selects its members when there is little representation of NBER family members among the submissions. A statement I would like to avoid.

Thanks!

Nancy



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The NBER research program in Industrial Organization will next meet at the NBER Summer Institute in Cambridge, MA, on Monday, August 1 and Tuesday, August 2, 2011.  Meghan Busse and Kate Ho will organize the program meeting.

The IO program meeting solicits papers across a broad range of questions, methods, and applications in industrial organization, with an emphasis on empirical IO.  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 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 JULY 8.  Please do not submit for the summer meeting if you anticipate any problem meeting the July 8 deadline for public posting of a final version.

If you have a paper you would like to present, send a copy of the paper NO LATER THAN Friday, April 29, 2011 to:

http://www.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=SI11IO

                           **THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS **
                                **   Friday, April 29, 2011 **

Authors of papers selected for the program will be notified by June 1.  While we have space for only a small fraction of submissions we receive, we give each our careful consideration.

Please forward this call to others, especially junior faculty, who might have papers suitable for this meeting.  We try to be inclusive, but don't have every e-mail on our distribution list, and we count on your help to get the word out.   To further that goal, researchers may self-subscribe to future e-mails from our IO Call for Papers distribution list at:  http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/nber_io_calls

Nancy L. Rose
IO Program Director
Received on Thu Apr 28 2011 - 14:26:47 EDT