NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2005

 

Industrial Organization

 

Amil Petrin and Rob Porter, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 21-22, 2005

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, JULY 21:

 

 

12:00 n

 Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

KEN HENDRICKS, University of Texas

 

ALAN SORENSEN, Stanford University and NBER

 

An Empirical Study of Investment Externalities: The Case of Albums by the Same Recording Artist

 

 

 

Discussant:  MARC RYSMAN, Boston University

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

ANDREW SWEETING, Northwestern University

 

Uniting and Turning the Guns on the Enemy: A Micro Study of Station Ownership, Programing and Listenership in the Music Radio Industry

 

 

 

Discussant:  JOEL WALDFOGEL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

 3:45 pm

Break

 

 

 4:00 pm

FRANK WOLAK, Stanford University and NBER

 

Quantifying Supply Side Benefits from Forward Contracting in Wholesale Electricity Markets

 

 

 

Discussant:  MATTHEW WHITE, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

 5:15 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

Group Dinner

 

Legal Sea Foods, Kendall Square
5 Cambridge Center, Corner of 6th and Main
Cambridge, MA

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 22:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:15 am

AUSTAN GOOLSBEE, University of Chicago and NBER

 

CHAD SYVERSON, University of Chicago and NBER

 

How Do Incumbents Respond to the Threat of Entry? Evidence from Major Airlines

 

 

 

Discussant:  JUSTINE HASTINGS, Yale University and NBER

 

 

10:30 am

Break

 

 

10:45 am

DAVID GENESOVE, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Information Diffusion and Entry: The Dye Famine and its Aftermath

 

 

 

Discussant: JULIE MORTIMER, Harvard University

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:15 pm

CHRISTOS GENAKOS, London Business School

 

KAI-UWE KUHN, University of Michigan

 

JOHN VAN REENEN, London School of Economics

 

The Incentives of a Monopolist to Degrade Interoperability: Theory and Evidence from PCs

 

 

 

Discussant:  MICHAEL WHINSTON, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

 2:30 pm

Break

 

 

 2:45 pm

TOM HOLMES, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density

 

 

 

Discussant:  GLENN ELLISON, MIT and NBER

 

 

 4:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7/6/2005