NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2007

 

Industrial Organization

 

Steven Berry and Fiona Scott Morton, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 20-21, 2007

 

PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, JULY 20:

 

 

10:00 am

Industry Roundtable on Research Issues in the Pharmaceutical Industry

 

IAN SPATZ, Vice President of Public Policy, Merck and Co.

 

RICHARD MANNING, Sr, PhD, Director, Economic and Policy Research, Pfizer Inc.

 

MICHAEL POLLARD, JD, MPH, Federal Policy and Regulation, Medco Health Solutions

 

MARCUS WILSON, Pharm D., President, Healthcore Inc.

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

JOSHUA GANS, University of Melbourne

 

FRANK WOLAK, Stanford University and NBER

 

A Comparison of Ex Ante vs. Ex Post Vertical Market Power: Evidence from Electricity

 

 

 

Discussant:  PHIL HAILE, Yale University and NBER

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

ALBERTO SALVO, Northwestern University

 

Inferring Conduct under the Threat of Entry: The Case of the Brazilian Cement Industry

 

 

 

Discussant: MARK ROBERTS, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

 

 

 3:45 pm

Break

 

 

 4:00 pm

SEVERIN BORENSTEIN, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

MEGHAN BUSEE and RYAN KELLOGG, UC, Berkeley

 

Principal-Agent Incentives, Excess Caution, and Market Inefficiency: Evidence from Utility Regulation

 

 

 

Discussant:  ERIN MANSUR, Yale University and NBER

 

 

 5:15 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

Group Dinner – Legal Sea Foods, Kendall Sq., Cambridge, MA

 

 

SATURDAY, JULY 21:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:15 am

CHENGHUAN SEAN CHU, Stanford University

 

PHILLIP LESLIE and ALAN SORENSEN, Stanford University and NBER

 

Nearly Optimal Pricing for Multiproduct Firms

 

 

 

Discussant: MIKE WHINSTON, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

10:30 am

Break

 

 

10:45 am

RICARD GIL, Harvard University

 

FRANCINE LAFONTAINE, University of Michigan

 

The Role of Revenue Sharing in Movie Exhibition Contracts

 

 

 

Discussant: SCOTT SCHAEFER, University of Utah

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:15 pm

CHRISTOPHER CONLON, Yale University

 

JULIE MORTIMER, Harvard and NBER

 

Demand Estimation under Incomplete Product Availability

 

 

 

Discussant: JEAN PIERRE DUBE, University of Chicago

 

 

 2:30 pm

Break

 

 

 2:45 pm

ALI HORTAÇSU and CHAD SYVERSON, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Vertical Integration and Production: Some Plant-Level Evidence

 

 

 

Discussants: JUDY CHEVALIER, Yale University and NBER

 

                      PAUL JOSKOW, MIT and NBER

 

 

 4:15 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

6/18/07