The University of British ColumbiaINTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION CONFERENCE |
ASSA MeetingsThe IOS is planning the following sessions at the annual meeting of the Allied Social Sciences Association January 3-5, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia:
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University of British ColumbiaOnly 30 minutes from the heart of downtown Vancouver, the University of British Columbia holds an international reputation for excellence in advanced research and learning. The spectacular UBC campus is a must-see for any visitor to the city where snow capped mountains meet ocean, and breathtaking vistas greet you around every corner.
VancouverVancouver is the largest city in Western Canada, located at the southwestern corner of the province of British Columbia. Situated between the North Shore and coastal mountains and the edge of the Pacific ocean, Vancouver is one of North America's most beautiful cities, and was recently ranked as "the world's most desirable place to live" in a survey of 127 cities performed by the Economist magazine's Intelligence Unit. In 2010, the city will host the world, as the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games come to Vancouver / Whistler-Blackcomb. The vibrant downtown core offers all of the amenities of an international destination -- from hundreds of restaurants and clubs, to countless parks and recreation facilities, to world-class entertainment and sporting events (including the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the Canucks, the city's major league hockey team). UBC's downtown campus, UBC Robson Square, is also located in the heart of the city. Vancouver's natural surroundings offer limitless opportunities for outdoor pursuits, such as hiking and mountain biking in the spring and summer, and skiing at nearby Whistler-Blackcomb resort in winter. AccommodationsThere will be both on-campus housing offered as well as a room block at the Four Seasons in downtown Vancouver.At the beautiful University of British Columbia:
Complimentary tea and Starbucks coffee are provided.
Keynote SpeakerJohn Sutton, the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at the London School
of Economics will be the keynote speaker at the 2010 IIOC. A graduate of University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin, he taught at the University of Sheffield before joining LSE in 1977. He has been a Visiting Associate Professor at Tokyo University, a Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School, and a Visiting Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and at the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago. He has written widely in the areas of microeconomic theory and Industrial Organisation. His books include Sunk Costs and Market Structure (MIT Press, 1981), Technology and Market Structure (MIT Press, 1998), and Marshall's Tendencies: What Can Economists Know? (MIT and Leuven University Press, 2000). He has been a consultant for the World Bank since 2000, and served on the Advisory Committee on Access to the Japanese Market (Tokyo) from 1995 to 2002. He served as a member of the Group of Economic Advisors to the President of the European Union from 2001-2004, and of the Enterprise Strategy Group (Ireland), which reported in 2004. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and of the British Academy, and was President of the Royal Economic Society from 2004 to 2007. Program CommitteeChairs: Ken Boyer, Michigan State University boyerkd@msu.edu and George Deltas, University of Illinois deltas@illinois.eduContact InformationConference Administrator: Kathy Downey, k.downey@neu.edu Mailing address: |