NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMICS RESEARCH, INC.
Economics
of Regulation Pre-conference
Nancy
Rose, Organizer
February
3, 2005
NBER Offices
30 Alta Road
Stanford,
CA
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2005:
8:45 am Continental
Breakfast
9:30 am NANCY ROSE, MIT and NBER
Welcome
DENNIS CARLTON, University of Chicago and NBER
RANDAL PICKER, University of Chicago
Antitrust
and competition policy: Its role in a restructured environment
SEVERIN BORENSTEIN, UC, Berkeley and NBER
NANCY ROSE, MIT and NBER
Airline
Regulation and Deregulation
10:45 am Break
11:00 am RANDALL KROSZNER, University of Chicago and NBER
PHILIP STRAHAN, Boston College and NBER
PATRICIA DANZON, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
12:00 n Lunch
1:00 pm FRANK WOLAK, Stanford University and NBER
PAUL JOSKOW, MIT and NBER
Regulating Electric
Distribution and Transmission Networks
2:00 pm Break
2:15 pm JERRY HAUSMAN, MIT and NBER
GREG CRAWFORD, University of Arizona
ROBERTON WILLIAMS, University of Texas, Austin and NBER
4:00 pm Wrap-up/Overview
Discussion
4:45 pm Adjourn
6:00 pm Dinner at Zibibbo
430 Kipling Street (cross Lytton Avenue)
Palo Alto, CA
650-328-6722