NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMICS RESEARCH, INC.

 

Industrial Organization Program Meeting

 

Matthew Gentzkow and Matthew White, Organizers

 

Nancy Rose, Program Director

 

February 20-21, 2009

 

NBER Offices

30 Alta Road

Stanford, CA

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20:

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

JUSTINE HASTINGS, Yale University and NBER

 

Wholesale Price Discrimination and Regulation: Implications for Retail

 

Gasoline Prices (updated version)

 

 

 

Discussant: CHAD SYVERSON, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

NUNO CASSOLA, European Central Bank

 

ALI HORTAÇSU, University of Chicago and NBER

 

JAKUB KASTL, Stanford University

 

The 2007 Subprime Market Crisis in the EURO Area through the Lens of ECB Repo Auctions

 

 

 

Discussant: DARRELL DUFFIE, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

 3:45 pm

Break

 

 

 4:00 pm

LIRAN EINAV, Stanford University and NBER

 

AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER

 

MARK CULLEN, Yale University

 

Estimating Welfare in Insurance Markets using Variation in Prices

 

 

 

Discussant: RAJ CHETTY, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

 5:15 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

Group Dinner – Zibibbo Restaurant, 30 Kipling St., Palo Alto

 

 

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21:

 

 

 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 9:00 am

JEAN-PIERRE DUBÉ and JEREMY FOX, University of Chicago and NBER

 

CHE-LIN SU, University of Chicago

 

Improving the Numerical Performance of BLP Static and Dynamic Discrete

 

Choice Random Coefficients Demand Estimation

 

 

 

Discussant: STEVE BERRY, Yale University and NBER

 

 

10:15 am

Break

 

 

10:30 am

ANDREW SWEETING, Duke University and NBER

 

Equilibrium Price Dynamics in Perishable Goods Markets: The Case of Secondary Markets for Major League Baseball Tickets

 

 

 

Discussant: MICHAEL GRUBB, MIT

 

 

11:45 am

Lunch

 

 

12:45 pm

PATRICK BAJARI, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

GREGORY LEWIS, Harvard University

 

Procurement Contracting with Time Incentives: Theory and Evidence

 

 

 

Discussant: JOHN ASKER, New York University

 

 

 2:00 pm

Break

 

 

 2:15 pm

MEGHAN BUSSE, Northwestern University and NBER

 

CHRISTOPHER KNITTEL, UC, Davis and NBER

 

FLORIAN ZETTELMEYER, Northwestern University and NBER

 

Pain at the Pump: How Gasoline Prices Affect Automobile Purchasing in New and Used Markets

 

 

 

Discussant: TIM BRESNAHAN, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

 3:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2/19/09