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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMICS RESEARCH, INC.

 

Industrial Organization Program Meeting

 

John Asker and Tom Hubbard, Organizers

 

Nancy Rose, Program Director

 

February 25 and 26, 2011

 

SIEPR

Stanford University

Stanford, CA

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25:

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Justine Hastings, Brown University and NBER

 

Ali Hortacsu, and Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Advertising and Competition in Privatized Social Security: The Case of Mexico

 

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Discussant:  Michael Mazzeo, Northwestern University

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

2:30 pm

Alessandro Gavazza, New York University

 

An Empirical Equilibrium Model of a Decentralized Asset Market

 

 

 

Discussant:  Jonathan Levin, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

 3:45 pm

Break

 

 

 4:00 pm

Joseph Cullen, Harvard University

 

Dynamic Response to Environmental Regulation in the Electricity Industry

 

 

 

Discussant:  Christopher Knittel, UC, David and NBER

 

 

 5:15 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

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


SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26:

 

 

 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 9:00 am

Ryan McDevitt, University of Rochester

 

"A" Business by Any Other Name: Firm Name Choice as a Signal of Firm Quality

 

 

 

Discussant:  Alan Sorenson, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

10:15 am

Break

 

 

10:30 am

Allan Collard-Wexler, New York University

 

Mergers and Sunk Costs: An Application to the Ready-Mix Concrete Industry

 

 

 

Discussant:  Gautam Gowrisankaran, University of Arizona and NBER

 

 

11:45 am

Lunch

 

 

12:45 pm

Liran Einav, Stanford University, and NBER

 

Amy Finkelstein, MIT and NBER

 

Stephen Ryan and Paul Schrimpf, MIT

 

Mark Cullen, Stanford University

 

Selection on Moral Hazard in Health Insurance

 

 

 

Discussant: Katherine Ho, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

 2:00 pm

Break

 

 

 2:15 pm

Brett Gordon, Columbia University

 

Wesley Hartmann, Stanford University

 

Advertising Effects in Presidential Elections

 

 

 

Discussant:  Daniel Ackerberg, University of Michigan

 

 

 3:30 pm

Adjourn