NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMICS RESEARCH, INC.

 

Industrial Organization Program Meeting

 

Catherine Wolfram and Florian Zettelmeyer, Organizers

 

Nancy Rose, Program Director

 

February 2 and 3, 2007

 

NBER Offices

30 Alta Road

Stanford, CA

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2007:

12:00 n            Lunch

 

 1:00 pm          WILLIAM ADAMS, Citigroup

                        LIRAN EINAV and JONATHAN LEVIN, Stanford University and NBER

Liquidity Constraints and Their Causes:

Evidence from Subprime Lending 

 

Discussant: RAJ CHETTY, UC Berkeley and NBER

 

 2:15 pm          Break

 

 2:30 pm          ALESSANDRO GAVAZZA, Yale University

Asset Liquidity, Boundaries of the Firm and Financial Contracts: Evidence from Aircraft Leases

 

Discussant: MARA LEDERMAN, University of Toronto

 

 3:45 pm          Break

 

 4:00 pm          MASSIMO MASSA, INSEAD

                        JONATHAN REUTER, University of Oregon

                        ERIC ZITZEWITZ, Stanford University

The Rise of Anonymous Teams in Fund Management

 

Discussant: CHAD SYVERSON, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 5:15 pm          Adjourn

 6:00 pm          Group Dinner

                        Straits Restaurant, 3295 El Camino, Palo Alto, CA 650/494-7168

                       

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2007:

 

 8:30 am          Continental Breakfast

 

 9:00 am          STEPHEN RYAN, MIT and NBER

CATHERINE TUCKER, MIT

Heterogeneity and the Dynamics of Technology Adoption

 

Discussant: MARC RYSMAN, Boston University

 

10:15 am         Break

 

10:30 am         JOSEPH FARRELL and CARL SHAPIRO, UC, Berkeley

How Strong Are Weak Patents?

 

Discussant: ROBERT GERTNER, University of Chicago

 

11:45 am         Lunch

                        Speaker:  JOHN SUTTON, London School of Economics

                        Scaling Relationships

 

 1:15 pm          MATT GENTZKOW and JESSE SHAPIRO,

University of Chicago and NBER

What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers

 

Discussant: JOEL WALDFOGEL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 2:30 pm          Break

 

 2:45 pm          MEGHAN BUSSE, UC, Berkeley

                        DUNCAN SIMESTER, MIT

                        FLORIAN ZETTELMEYER, UC, Berkeley and NBER

“The Best Price You'll Ever Get”: The 2005 Employee Discount Pricing Promotions in the U.S. Automobile Industry

 

Discussant: STEVE BERRY, Yale University and NBER

 

 4:00 pm          Adjourn

 

 

 

1/14/07