NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2001
Industrial Organization
Thomas Hubbard and Fiona Scott Morton, Organizers
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 26-27, 2001
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
THURSDAY, JULY 26:
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM ARIEL PAKES, Harvard University and NBER
A Framework for Applied Dynamic Analysis in IO
Discussant: MICHAEL WHINSTON, Northwestern University and NBER
10:15 AM Break
10:30 AM FIONA SCOTT MORTON, Yale University and NBER
FLORIAN ZETTELMEYER, UC, Berkeley
Consumer Information and Price Discrimination: Does the Internet
Affect the Pricing of New Cars to Women and Minorities
Discussant: PINELOPI GOLDBERG, Yale University and NBER
11:45 AM Lunch
1:00 PM CHRISTOPHER KNITTEL, Boston University
VICTOR STANGO, University of Tennessee
Price Ceilings as Focal Points for Tacit Collusion:
Evidence from the Credit Card Market
Discussant: SHARON OSTER, Yale University
2:30 PM TOSHIAKI IIZUKA, Vanderbilt University
Evidence from the Prescription Drug Market in Japan
Discussant: SCOTT STERN, Northwestern University and NBER
3:45 PM Break
SI01 IO Program
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4:00 PM CHRISTOPHER MAYER, University of Pennsylvania
TODD SINAI, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Why Does Every US Airways Flight in Philadelphia Sem to be Late?:
The Effect of Network Benefits and Congestion Externalities
on Air Traffic Delays
Discussant: PETER REISS, Stanford University and NBER
5:15 PM Adjourn
FRIDAY, JULY 27:
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM BHARAT ANAND, Harvard Business School
RON SHACHAR, Tel-Aviv University
Discussant: DENNIS CARLTON, University of Chicago and NBER
9:45 AM Break
10:00 AM GREG CRAWFORD, Duke University
The Discriminatory Incentive to Bundle: The Case of Cable Television
Discussant: AMIL PETRIN, University of Michigan and NBER
11:15 AM GLENN ELLISON, MIT and NBER
SARA FISHER ELLISON, MIT
Search, Obfuscation, and Price Elasticities on the Internet
Discussant: ROBERT GERTNER, University of Chicago and NBER
12:30 PM Lunch and Adjourn
4:00 PM Cocktail Party
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86 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA
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