NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMICS RESEARCH, INC.
Industrial Organization Program Meeting
Susan Athey and Nancy Rose, Organizers
February 9-10, 2001
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Stanford, CA
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
11:30 AM Lunch
RETAIL E-COMMERCE
12:30 PM AUSTAN GOOLSBEE, University of Chicago and NBER
Internet Competition with Retail: The Case of Computers
1:00 PM KAREN CLAY and ERIC WOLFF, Carnegie Mellon University
RAMAYYA KRISHNAN, Earlham College
Price and Non-price Competition in the Online Book Industry
1:30 PM FLORIAN ZETTELMEYER, UC, Berkeley
FIONA SCOTT MORTON, Yale University and NBER
JORGE SILVA-RISSO, J.D. Power and Associates
2:00 PM Break
MARKET MECHANISMS IN E-COMMERCE
2:30 PM ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON and MICHAEL D. SMITH, MIT
Consumer Choice Behavior at Internet Shopbots
3:00 PM RAMA KATKAR, Northwestern University
DAVID LUCKING-REILEY, Vanderbilt University
Public Versus Secret Reserve Prices on eBay Auctions:
Results of a Pokemon Field Experiment
3:30 PM Break
VERTICAL AND B2B ISSUES
4:00 PM DENNIS CARLTON and JUDITH CHEVALIER,
University of Chicago and NBER
Free Riding and Sales Strategies for the Internet
4:30 PM ROBERT GERTNER, University of Chicago and NBER
ROBERT STILLMAN, Lexecon, Inc.
Vertical Integration and Internet Strategies in the Apparel Industry
5:00 PM STEVEN KAPLAN, University of Chicago and NBER
LUIS GARICANO, University of Chicago
The Extent and Effect of Internet-Based Reductions in Transaction Costs
5:30 PM Adjourn
6:00 PM IO Program Meeting Dinner
Location to Be Announced
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2001
Industrial Organization Program Meeting
Susan Athey and Nancy Rose, Organizers
NBER Offices, 30 Alta Road, Stanford, CA
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM JUDITH CHEVALIER and ANIL KASHYAP, University of Chicago and NBER
PETER ROSSI, University of Chicago
Why Don't Prices Rise During Periods of Peak Demand?
Evidence from Scanner Data
Discussant: ROBERT PORTER, Northwester University and NBER
10:15 AM Break
10:30 AM PHILLIP LESLIE, UC, Los Angeles
GINGER JIN, University of Maryland
The Effects of Disclosure Regulation: Evidence from Restaurants
Discussant: DANIEL KESSLER, Stanford University and NBER
11:45 AM Lunch
12:45 PM BRIAN VIARD, Stanford University
Do Switching Costs Make Markets More or Less Competitive?
The Case of 800-Number Portability
Discussant: CHRIS KNITTEL, Boston University
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM ALAN SORENSEN, UC, San Diego
Price Dispersion and Heterogeneous Consumer Search for Retail
Prescription Drugs
Discussant: FLORIAN ZETTELMEYER, UC, Berkeley
3:45 PM MARGARET SLADE, University of British Columbia
Assessing Market Power in UK Brewing
Discussant: STEVEN BERRY, Yale University and NBER
5:00 PM Adjourn
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