NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Strategic Alliances Pre-Conference

November 17, 2001

Josh Lerner and Raghuram G. Rajan, Organizers

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM



Friday, November 16, 2001:



6:30 PM Dinner - Sandrine's Bistro, 8 Holyoke Street, Cambridge



Saturday, November 17, 2001:



8:30 AM Continental Breakfast



9:00 AM MIHIR DESAI, Harvard University and NBER

FRITZ FOLEY, Harvard University

JAMES HINES, University of Michigan and NBER

Strategic Alliances and Multinational Firms



9:40 AM GEORGE BAKER, Harvard University and NBER

ROBERT GIBBONS, MIT and NBER

KEVIN MURPHY, University of Southern California and NBER

Formal and Relational Contracts in Ongoing Strategic Alliances



10:20 AM Break



10:40 AM MICHAEL RYALL, University of Rochester

RACHELLE SAMPSON, New York University

The Effects of Repeated Interaction on the Organization and

Performance of R&D Alliances

11:20 AM LEE BRANSTETTER, UC, Davis and NBER

The Changing Nature of R&D Alliances in Japan



12:00 PM Lunch



Alliance Pre-Conference

Page Two



1:00 PM BEN GOMES-CASSERES, Brandeis University

JOHN HAGEDOON, University of Maastricht

ADAM JAFFE, Brandeis University and NBER

Knowledge Flows in Technology Alliances



1:40 PM Break



2:00 PM JOE PEEK, University of Kentucky

ERIC ROSENGREN, Federal Reserve Bank - Boston

Keiretsu Ties and the Availability of Bank Credit



2:40 PM DAVID ROBINSON, Columbia University

TOBY STUART, University of Chicago

Conflicting Motives for Equity Participants in High-Tech Strategic Alliances



3:20 PM Adjourn



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