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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011
Industrial Organization Workshop
Meghan Busse and Kate Ho, Organizers
August 1 - 2, 2011
Parkview Room
Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts
PROGRAM
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Monday, August 1:
8:45 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:30 am	Silke J. Forbes, University of California at San Diego Mara Lederman, University of Toronto Trevor Tombe, University of Toronto Do Firms Game Quality Ratings? Evidence from Mandatory Disclosure of Airline On-Time Performance
	Discussant: Ginger Jin, University of Maryland and NBER
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	James W. Roberts, Duke University Andrew Sweeting, Duke University and NBER When Should Sellers Use Auctions?
	Discussant: Jakub Kastl, Stanford University and NBER
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Christopher T. Conlon, Columbia University Julie Holland Mortimer, Harvard University and NBER Effects of Product Availability: Experimental Evidence
	Discussant: Marc Rysman, Boston University
2:45 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Meredith Fowlie, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Mar Reguant Rido, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stephen P. Ryan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Pollution Permits and the Evolution of Market Structure
	Discussant: Ryan Kellogg, University of Michigan and NBER
4:15 pm	Break
4:30 pm	Steven Tadelis, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Florian Zettelmeyer, Northwestern University and NBER
	Information Disclosure as a Matching Mechanism: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment
	Discussant: Robert Porter, Northwestern University and NBER
5:45 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Clambake: Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, August 2:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:15 am	Song Yao, Northwestern University Carl F. Mela, Duke University Jeongwen Chiang, China Europe International Business School Yuxin Chen, Northwestern University Determining Consumers’ Discount Rates With Field Studies
	Discussant: Wes Hartmann, Stanford University
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	Connan Snider, University of California at Los Angeles Jonathan W. Williams, University of Georgia Barriers to Entry in the Airline Industry: An Analysis of the Wendel H. Ford Aviation Act
	Discussant: Severin Borenstein, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
12.00 n	Lunch and Adjourn