NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2006

Industrial Organization

Lanier Benkard and Phillip Leslie, Organizers

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Charles A&B

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

July 20-21, 2006

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, JULY 20:
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
Methodology Session
8:30 am	ULRICH DORASZELSKI, Harvard University
	JORDI JAUMANDREU, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
	R&D and Productivity: The Knowledge Capital Model Revisited
	Discussant: DANIEL ACKERBERG, UC, Los Angeles
9:45 am	Break
10:00 am	AMIL PETRIN, University of Chicago and NBER
	JAMES LEVINSOHN, University of Michigan and NBER
	Measuring Aggregate Productivity Growth Using Plant-Level Data
	Discussant: AVIV NEVO, Northwestern University and NBER
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	PAT BAJARI, University of Michigan and NBER
	JEREMY FOX, University of Chicago
	Complementarities and Collusion in an FCC Spectrum Auction
	Discussant: PHILIP HAILE, Yale University and NBER
12:45 pm	Lunch
General Session
2:15 pm	TIM DUNNE, University of Oklahoma
	SHAWN KLIMEK, Bureau of the Census
	MARK ROBERTS, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
	YI XU, Pennsylvania State University
	Entry and Exit in Geographic Markets
	Discussant: CHAD SYVERSON, University of Chicago and NBER
3:30 pm	Break
3:45 pm	WES HARTMANN and BRIAN VIARD, Stanford University
	Do Frequency Reward Programs Create Switching Costs?
	Discussant: THOMAS HOLMES, University of Minnesota and NBER
5:00 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Group Dinner
	Legal Sea Foods, Kendall Square
	5 Cambridge Center, Corner of 6th and Main
	Cambridge, MA
FRIDAY JULY 21, 2006
8:45 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:15 am	HANH AHLEE, Stanford University
	ULRIKE MALMENDIER, Stanford University and NBER
	The Bidder's Curse
	Discussant: GINGER JIN, University of Maryland and NBER
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	JEAN-PIERRE DUBE, GUNTER HITSCH and PETER ROSSI,
	University of Chicago
	Do Switching Costs Make Markets Less Competitive?
	Discussant: ALAN SORENSEN, Stanford University and NBER
12:00 n	Lunch
1:15 pm	FRANK WOLAK, Stanford University and NBER
	Residential Customer Response to Real-Time Pricing: The Anaheim Critical-Peak Pricing Experiment
	Discussant: ERIN MANSUR, Yale University and NBER
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	LUIS GARICANO, University of Chicago
	THOMAS HUBBARD, Northwestern University and NBER
	The Return to Knowledge Hierarchies
	Discussant: STEVEN TADELIS, UC, Berkeley and NBER
4:00 pm	Adjourn
6/30/06