NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

E-Commerce Project Academic/Industry Conference

Severin Borenstein and Garth Saloner, Organizers

Schwab Center

Stanford University

Stanford, CA

February 9, 2001

Friday, February 9, 2001:

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM LUNCH

12:30 - 2:00 PM RETAIL E-COMMERCE

AUSTAN GOOLSBEE, University of Chicago and NBER

Internet Competition with Retail: The Case of Computers

KAREN CLAY and ERIC WOLFF, Carnegie Mellon University

RAMAYYA KRISHNAN, Earlham College

Price and Non-price Competition in the Online Book Industry

FLORIAN ZETTELMEYER, UC, Berkeley

FIONA SCOTT MORTON, Yale University and NBER

JORGE SILVA-RISSO, J.D. Power and Associates

Internet Car Retailing

2:00 - 2:30 PM BREAK

2:30 - 3:30 PM MARKET MECHANISMS IN E-COMMERCE

ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON and MICHAEL D. SMITH, MIT

Consumer Choice Behavior at Internet Shopbots

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 - 4:00 PM BREAK

4:00 - 5:30 PM VERTICAL AND B2B ISSUES

DENNIS CARLTON and JUDITH CHEVALIER,

University of Chicago and NBER

Free Riding and Sales Strategies for the Internet

ROBERT GERTNER, University of Chicago and NBER

ROBERT STILLMAN, Lexecon, Inc.

Vertical Integration and Internet Strategies in the Apparel Industry

STEVEN KAPLAN, University of Chicago and NBER

LUIS GARICANO, University of Chicago

The Extent and Effect of Internet-Based

Reductions in Transaction Costs

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