NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMICS RESEARCH, INC.
Industrial
Organization Program Meeting
Patrick
Bajari and Ali Hortacsu, Organizers
Nancy
Rose, Program Director
February
4 and 5, 2005
NBER Offices
30 Alta Road
Stanford,
CA
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Discussants
to Be Announced
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2005:
8:45 am Continental Breakfast
9:15 am BART BRONNENBERG, UC, Los Angeles
SANJAY DHAR and JEAN-PIERRE DUBE, University of Chicago
Endogenous Sunk
Costs and the Geographic Distribution of Brand Shares in Consumer Package Goods
Industries
10:30 am Break
10:45 am JERRY HAUSMAN, MIT and NBER
EPHRAIM LEIBTAG, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Consumer
Benefits from Increased Competition in Shopping Outlets
12:00 pm Lunch
1:15 pm GAUTAM GOWRISANKARAN, Washington University at St. Louis and NBER
JOHN KRAINER, San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank
The Welfare Consequence of ATM Surcharges:
Evidence from a
Structural Entry Model
2:30 pm Break
2:45 pm ANGELIQUE AUGEREAU, McKinsey and Co.
SHANE GREENSTEIN, Northwestern University and NBER
MARC RYSMAN, Boston University
Coordination vs.
Differentiation in a Standards War: 56K Modems
4:00 pm Break
4:15 pm RICARD GIL, UC Santa Cruz
Decision Rights
and Vertical Integration in the Movie Industry
5:30 pm Adjourn
6:00 pm Group Dinner
MacArthur Park
27 University Ave.
Palo Alto, CA
650/321-9990
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2005:
8:30 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 am JUDITH CHEVALIER, Yale University and NBER
AUSTAN GOOLSBEE, University of Chicago and NBER
Are Durable Goods Consumers Forward Looking?
Evidence from
College Textbooks
10:15 am Break
10:30 am ALMA COHEN, National Bureau of Economic Research
LIRAN EINAV, Stanford University
Estimating Risk
Preferences from Deductible Choice
11:45 am Adjourn
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