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
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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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