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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMICS RESEARCH, INC.

           

Industrial Organization Program Meeting

 

Tim Bresnahan and Jakub Kastl, Organizers

Nancy Rose, Program Director

 

February 10 and 11, 2012

 

SIEPR

Stanford University

Stanford, CA

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10:

 

 

12:15 n

Lunch

 

 

1:15 pm

Fernando Ferreira, University of Pennsylvania

 

Amil Petrin, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

Trade and Welfare in Motion Pictures

 

 

 

Discussant:  Julie Holland Mortimer, Boston College and NBER

 

 

 2:30 pm

Break

 

 

2:45 pm

Jennifer Brown, Northwestern University and NBER

 

Dylan B. Minor, Northwestern

 

Selecting the Best? Spillover and Shadows in Elimination Tournaments

 

 

 

Discussant:  Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 4:00 pm

Break

 

 

 4:15 pm

V. Brian Viard, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

 

Shihe Fu, Xiamen University

 

The Effect of Beijing's Driving Restrictions on Pollution and Economic Activity

 

 

 

Discussant: Lucas Davis, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

 

 

 5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:15 pm

Group Dinner - Zibibbo Restaurant, 430 Kipling St., Palo Alto

 

 

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11:

 

 

 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 9:00 am

Abe Dunn, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

Adam Hale Shapiro, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

Physician Market Power and Medical-Care Expenditures

 

 

 

Discussant: Kate Ho, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

10:15 am

Break

 

 

10:30 am

Jason Allen, Bank of Canada

 

Robert Clark, HEC Montreal

 

Jean-Francois Houde, University of Wisconsin - Madison

 

Price Negotiation in Differentiated Product Markets: The Case of Insured Mortgages in Canada

 

 

 

Discussant: Andrew Sweeting, Duke University and NBER

 

 

11:45 am

Lunch

 

 

12:45 pm

Carlos Noton, University of Warwick

 

Andres Elberg, Universidad Diego Portales

 

Revealing Bargaining Power through Actual Wholesale Prices

 

 

 

Discussant: Ali Yurukoglu, Stanford University and NBER 

 

 

 2:00 pm

Break

 

 

 2:15 pm

Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER

 

Theresa Kuchler, Stanford University

 

Jonathan Levin, Stanford University and NBER

 

Neel Sundaresan, eBay Research Labs

 

Learning from Seller Experiments in Online Markets

 

 

 

Discussant: John Asker, New York University and NBER

 

 

 3:30 pm

Adjourn