NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2000
Industrial Organization
Nancy Rose, Organizer
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 20 - 21, 2000
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
THURSDAY, JULY 20:
12:00 N Lunch
GLENN ELLISON, MIT and NBER
The Slowdown of the Economics Publishing Process
Evolving Standards for Academic Publishing: A q-r Theory
1:15 PM PAUL ELLICKSON, University of Rochester
Supermarket as a Natural Oligpopoly
Discussant: MICHAEL SALINGER, Boston University
2:30 PM Break
2:45 PM KEN CORTS, Harvard University
Fixed-Price Contracts as a Response to Incentive Problems:
Evidence from the Offshore Drilling Industry
Discussant: FRANCINE LAFONTAINE,
University of Michigan and NBER
4:00 PM Break
4:15 PM JERRY HAUSMAN MIT and NBER
The Effect of New Product Introduction on
Competition and Consumer Welfare: A Case Study
(Joint with GREG LEONARD)
Discussant: ARIEL PAKES, Harvard University and NBER
5:30 PM Adjourn
6:30 PM Group Dinner, TBA
FRIDAY, JULY 21
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
9:00 AM MARIANNE BERTRAND, University of Chicago and NBER
SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, MIT and NBER
Managerial Behavior Following Anti-Takeover Legislation
Discussant: ANDREA SHEPARD, Stanford University and NBER
10:15 AM Break
10:30 AM MIREIA JOFRE-BONET, Yale University
MARTIN PESENDORFER Yale University and NBER
Bidding Behavior in a Repeated Procurement Auction
Discussant: JON LEVIN, Stanford University
11:45 AM Lunch
1:00 PM CHRISTOPHER KNITTEL, Boston University
Regulatory Restructuring and Incumbent Price Dynamics:
The Case of Local Telephone Restructing
Price Dynamics
Discussant: FRANK WOLAK, Stanford University and NBER
2:15 PM Break
2:30 PM Joint Session on Strategic Price Responses to Regulatory Threats
SARA ELLISON, MIT
CATHERINE WOLFRAM, MIT and NBER
Pharmaceutical Prices and Political Activity
VICTOR STANGO, University of Tennessee
Strategic Responses to Regulatory Threat in the Credit Card Market
Discussant: WALLACE MULLIN,
Michigan State University and NBER
4:30 PM Adjourn
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