I hope this finds you all well. Those of us in the Boston/Cambridge
area are beginning to emerge from the tumult of the past ten days.
There are many who have been deeply affected and will take long to
heal, but I have been greatly encouraged by the way the community
pulled together from the very beginning, and by the outpouring of
support and wishes we've had from so many outside the area.
I want to update you on IO program news and looming deadlines.
SUMMER INSTITUTE: You should have received earlier
today the call for papers for the Summer Institute meeting,
scheduled for Friday, July 19 through Saturday, July 20th in
Cambridge. There will be a joint Digitization/IO session on Friday
morning as part of the 2-day Digitization meetings on July 18-19.
We will continue with a "themed session" format, as introduced last
summer, with an IO session focused on antitrust/competition
policy-related research on Friday afternoon. The general IO meeting
will kick off with a program dinner Friday evening, followed by a
full day of meetings on general IO topics on Saturday. I hope to
see many of you here.
DEADLINES: Due to a combination of delays at my end
and crossed signals on deadlines, there is both a short fuse on
submissions (due May 6) and on replies to invitations (which will go
out before Memorial Day with the preliminary program, and require
your very quick response, most likely no more than a week after
receiving the invitation). I apologize for any inconvenience this
causes. Hopefully, you've been anticipating the call, so the May 6
deadline is less intrusive. I understand the invitation deadline
may pose a greater problem for some of you, particularly those
members who decide whether to put NBER IO meetings on their calendar
only after seeing the program. I hope this "heads up" will alert
you to look for the invitation, and serve as an apology for the
request to make a quick decision on attendance after receiving that
invitation. If you expect to be off email the week of May 20,
please let me know in advance so we can try to accommodate a
possible late response.
NEW PROGRAM MEMBERS: I am delighted that the NBER
Board has approved our nomination of Fiona Scott Morton for
re-appointment as a Research Associate in the program (Fiona
resigned her NBER position when she left Yale for the DoJ). I am
also delighted to welcome three new Faculty Research Fellows into
the program:
Michael Dickstein (Stanford)
Myrto Kalouptsidi (Princeton)
Paulo Somaini (MIT)
Thanks very much to those of you who submitted nominations for both
FRF and RA positions this past spring. Each nomination was
carefully considered, and the nominee's record thoroughly reviewed
by the program steering committee. In a testament to the vibrancy
of the field, the number of excellent candidates again exceeded the
number we are entitled to suggest for addition to the IO program.
We often are able to increase the frequency of invitations to
program meetings for those researchers we cannot make program
members. This can increase their contact with and visibility within
the program, and for those who are especially active contributors,
may result in an invitation at a later date to join the program.
Your input in identifying candidates for program membership and for
invitations to program meetings is greatly valued, and you're
welcome to make suggestions to me at any point in the year.
2014 DATES:
The winter program meeting would ideally rotate back to
late January/early February in 2014 (we like to alternate who is
inconvenienced by the schedule). The Environmental and Energy
Economics program would like to coordinate their schedule with ours,
given significant overlap in program membership, so I'd like to pin
that date down in the next couple of weeks.
Would you please provide any feedback on your date
constraints/preferences at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dGg5UXRFOGthYlBfd1VVVmpXZDNRZVE6MA
Thanks,
Nancy Rose
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Nancy L. Rose
Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics
MIT Department of Economics
50 Memorial Drive, E52-280B
Cambridge, MA 02142-1347
Phone: 617-253-8956
email: nrose@mit.edu
Received on Thu Apr 25 2013 - 16:39:10 EDT
