NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMICS RESEARCH, INC.
Industrial Organization Program Meeting
Dennis Carlton and Austan Goolsbee, Organizers
Nancy L. Rose, Program Director
February 7 and 8, 2003
NBER Offices
30 Alta Road
Stanford, CA
PROGRAM
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2003
12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM SHANE GREENSTEIN and MICHAEL MAZZEO, Northwestern University
Differentiation Strategy and Market Deregulation:
Local Telecommunication Entry in the Late 1990s
Discussant: GLENN WOROCH, UC, Berkeley
2:15 PM Break
2:30 PM STEVEN BERRY, Yale University and NBER
JOEL WALDFOGEL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Product Quality and Market Size
Discussant: TIM BRESNAHAN, Stanford University and NBER
3:45 PM Break
4:00 PM GUSTAVO BAMBERGER, Lexecon
DENNIS CARLTON, University of Chicago and NBER
LYNETTE NEUMANN, Lexecon
An Empirical Investigation of the Competitive Effects of Domestic Airline Alliances
Discussant: SEVERIN BORENSTEIN, UC, Berkeley and NBER
5:15 PM Adjourn
6:15 PM Dinner
MacArthur Park
27 University Avenue
Palo Alto, CA
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2003
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM AMIL PETRIN, University of Chicago and NBER
KENNETH TRAIN, UC, Berkeley
Omitted Product Attributes in Discrete Choice Models
Discussant: FRANK WOLAK, Stanford University and NBER
10:15 AM Break
10:30 AM ALI HORTACSU and CHAD SYVERSON, University of Chicago
Search Costs, Product Differentiation and the Welfare Impact of Entry:
A Case Study of S & P 500 Index Funds
Discussant: ALAN SORENSON, Stanford University and NBER
11:45 AM Lunch
1:00 PM LUIS GARICANO University of Chicago
THOMAS HUBBARD, University of Chicago and NBER
Specialization, Firms, and Markets:
The Division of Labor Within and Between Law Firms
Discussant: JONATHAN LEVIN, Stanford University
2:15 PM Break
2:30 PM TOSHI IIZUKA, Vanderbilt University
GINGER ZHE JIN, University of Maryland
The Effects of Direct to Consumer Advertising in the
Prescription Drug Market
Discussant: SCOTT STERN, Northwestern University and NBER
3:45 PM Adjourn
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