NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMICS RESEARCH, INC.
Industrial Organization Program Meeting
Frank Wolak and Catherine Wolfram, Organizers
Nancy L. Rose, Program Director
January 25-26, 2002
NBER Offices
30 Alta Road
Stanford, CA
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2000
12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM FRANCINE LAFONTAINE, University of Michigan and NBER
SCOTT MASTEN, University of Michigan
Discussant: NANCY ROSE, MIT and NBER
2:15 PM Break
2:30 PM JUSTINE S. HASTINGS, Dartmouth College
Vertical Relationships and Competition in Retail Gasoline Markets
Discussant: ANDREA SHEPARD, Stanford University and NBER
3:45 PM Break
4:00 PM JUN ISHII, UC, Irvine
JINGMING YAN, Cornerstone Research
The 'Make or Buy' Decision in U.S. Electricity Generation Investments
< Discussant: JAMES BUSHNELL, University of California Energy Institute
5:15 PM Adjourn
6:15 PM Dinner
MacArthur Park
27 University Avenue
Palo Alto, CA
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 2000
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM AUSTAN GOOLSBEE and AMIL PETRIN, University of Chicago and NBER
The Consumer Gains from Direct Broadcast Satellites and the Competition with Cable TV
Discussant: AVIV NEVO, UC, Berkeley and NBER
9:45 AM Break
10:00 AM CHARLES KING III and ALVIN J. SILK
and NIELS KETELHOHN, Harvard University
Knowledge Spillovers and Growth in the Disagglomeration of the U.S. Advertising Agency Industry
Discussant: SCOTT STERN, Northwestern University and NBER
11:15 AM MEGAN BUSSE, Yale University
MARC RYSMAN, Boston University
Competition and Price Discrimination in Yellow Page Advertising
Discussant: PHILIP LESLIE, UC, Los Angeles
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM GREGORY S. CRAWFORD, Duke University
MATTHEW SHUM, Johns Hopkins University
Empirical Modeling of Endogenous Quality Choice: The Case of Cable Television
Discussant: THOMAS HUBBARD, University of Chicago and NBER
2:45 PM Break
3:00 PM RAPHAEL THOMADSEN, Columbia University
Discussant: LANIER BENKARD, Stanford University and NBER
4:15 PM Adjourn
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