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The NBER research program in Industrial Organization is
experimenting with an expanded set of activities and format changes
this year. Please read through this to see where you and your work
might fit!
Format change: All IO sessions this summer will use an
author presentation format.
Wednesday and Thursday, July 18-19, 2012:
NBER Summer
Institute Econometrics Lectures
The NBER Summer Institute Methods Lectures this year will be
presented by two members of the NBER IO program: Aviv Nevo and
Ariel Pakes, Differentiated Product Models and Methods
Friday, July 20, 2012: Parallel IO Program Meeting Sessions
Industrial Organization and the Economics of IT and Digitization:
Organized by Susan Athey, Erik Brynjolfsson, Shane Greenstein, &
Hal Varian
Papers with some empirical application are especially suitable for
this workshop. In particular, we welcome papers that use
fine-grained data (e.g. web clickstream, search query trends, mobile
devices, etc.) or which explore the effects of digitization on
firms, markets, industries.
Completed papers, drafts, or extended abstracts should be
submitted by March 30, 2012 to the Digitization
program organizers, with completed papers due by June 10. A set of
papers with IO program overlap will be selected for a joint session
on the afternoon of July 20. Submission link:
http://www.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=SI12PRIT
Behavioral Economics and IO: Organized by Glenn Ellison
We encourage submission of empirical and theoretical papers that
examine a broad range of
issues at the intersection of industrial organization and behavioral
economics. These could include, for example, studies of boundedly
rational behavior
by consumers or firms that explore issues such as firms'
exploitation
of consumer irrationality and how this interacts with market
competition.
Decisions will be based on drafts of complete
papers submitted no later than April 20, 2012 to:
http://www.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=SI12IOB
Saturday, July 21, 2012: full day
IO Program Meeting (no theme)
: Organized by Judy
Chevalier and Ariel Pakes
For the general IO program meeting we solicit 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.
Decisions will be based on
drafts of complete papers submitted no later than April 20,
2012 to:
http://www.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=SI12IO
NOTE: All papers accepted for the IO
sessions must be posted online in
final form no later than July 1, 2012.
Authors of papers selected for the IO program will be notified by
early June. 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. Researchers may
self-subscribe to the call for papers distribution list at:
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/nber_io_calls
Thanks!
Nancy L. Rose
IO Program Director
Received on Mon Mar 26 2012 - 16:04:55 EDT
