THE INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION SOCIETY















    About IOS

    The Industrial Organization Society (IOS) was founded in 1972 by Stanley Boyle, working closely with Willard Mueller. The original aim of the IOS was to promote research on antitrust policy, regulatory policy, and competition and market power in real-world markets. The Review of Industrial Organization edited by Larry White, is the official journal of the IOS. Since 2003, the IOS has sponsored an annual International Industrial Organization Conference in order to accommodate the needs and interests of the burgeoning field.

    IIOC

    The 11th annual International Industrial Organization Conference will be held May 17 to 19, 2013 in Boston at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers.

    An award for the Best Paper by a Junior Scholar in the Review and an annual Distinguished Fellow Award will be announced at this conference. In addition, the following two prizes will be awarded:
    • Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize for the best paper in antitrust economics
    • The Public Utility Research Center Prize for the best paper in regulatory economics

    Officers

      President: Joseph Harrington, The Wharton School Univ of Pennsylvania
      Vice-President: Shane Greenstein, Northwestern University
      Secretary-Treasurer: Kenneth Boyer, Michigan State University
    BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
      Robert Feinberg, American University
      John Kwoka, Northeastern University
      Francine Lafontaine, University of Michigan
      Stephen Martin, Purdue University
      Robert Masson, Cornell University
      David Sappington, University of Florida
      Christopher Snyder, Dartmouth College
      Lawrence White, New York University
    PAST PRESIDENTS:
      Francine Lafontaine, University of Michigan, 2010-2011
      David Sappington, University of Florida, 2008-2009
      Christopher Snyder, Dartmouth College, 2006-2007
      Robert M. Feinberg, American University, 2004-2005
      Robert T. Masson, Cornell University, 2002-2003
      Stephen Martin, Purdue University, 2000-2001
      John T. Scott, Dartmouth College, 1999
      John E. Kwoka, Northeastern University, 1998
      Paul Geroski, 1997
      Carl Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley, 1996
      Richard Gilbert, University of California, Berkeley, 1995
      Dennis Mueller, University of Vienna, 1994
      F. M. Scherer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1993
      William S. Comanor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1992
      W. G. Shepherd, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1991

    SEA Meetings

    The Industrial Organization Society held the following sessions at the annual meeting of the Southern Ecomomic Association November 16 -18, 2012 in New Orleans. Louisiana:

      • Empirical IO
        Friday, November 16, 8:00 a.m.
        Chair, Robert M. Feinberg, American University
      • Industrial Organization and International Trade
        Friday, November 16 10:00 a.m.
        Chair, Douglas Nelson, Tulane University

    ASSA Meetings

    The Industrial Organization Society held the following sessions at the annual meeting of the Allied Social Sciences Association in Jauary 2013 (San Diego, California):

    • Empirical Behavioral Industrial Organization
      January 5, 2013 8:00 am, Manchester Grand Hyatt, Madeleine A
      Presiding: Matthew Shum (California Institute of Technology)
    • Incentives and Delegation in Organizations
      January 5, 2013 10:15 am, Manchester Grand Hyatt, Madeleine A
      Presiding: DFrancine Lafontaine (University of Michigan)
    • Topics in Demand and Industry Dynamic
      Jan 05, 2013 12:30 pm, Manchester Grand Hyatt, Madeleine A
      Presiding: Przemyslaw Jeziorski (University of California-Berkeley)

    AWARDS

    DISTINGUISHED FELLOWS:
    The Industrial Organization Society’s Distinguished Fellow award is given annually in recognition of excellence in Research, Education and Professional Leadership in the field of Industrial Organization.
    • Richard Schmalensee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 2012
    • R. Preston McAfee, Vice President and Research Fellow at Yahoo! Research, April 2011
    • John Sutton, London School of Economics, May 2010
    • Robert H. Porter, Northwestern University, April 2009
    • Ariel Pakes, Harvard University, May 2008
    • Paul Joskow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology April 2007
    • Timothy F. Bresnahan, Stanford University April 2006
    • Oliver E. Williamson, University of California, Berkeley April 2005
    • Dennis C. Mueller, University of Vienna April 2004
    • William S. Comanor, University of California, Santa Barbara April 2003
    • W. G. Shepherd, University of Massachusetts, Amherst January 2002
    • Richard E. Caves, Harvard University January 2001
    • Jean Tirole, Institut d'Economie Industrielle, Toulouse January 2000
    • F. M. Scherer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University January 1999
    BEST PAPER BY A JUNIOR AUTHOR:
    The award is for outstanding research by a younger scholar, as published in the Review of Industrial Organization during the previous year and presented at the annual International Industrial Organization Conference.
    • Volodymyr Bilotkach.Multimarket Contact and Intensity of Competition: Evidence from an Airline Merger, February 2011.
    • Adam Rennhoff. The Consequences of Consideration Payments: Lessons from Radio Payola March 2010.
    • H. Evren Damar. Why Do Payday Lenders Enter Local Markets? Evidence from Oregon March 2009, pp. 173-191.
    • Marco Castaneda and Dino Falaschetti.Does a Hospital's Profit Status Affect its Operational Scope? 33 (2), September 2008, pp. 129-159.
    • Mikhail S. Kouliavtsev. Measuring the extent of structural remedy in Section 7 settlements: Was the US DOJ successful in the 1990s? (30) 1, February 2007.
    • Stephane Caprice. Multilateral vertical contracting with an alternative supply: welfare effects of a ban on price discrimination 28(1), February 2006.
    • Orietta Marsili. Technology and the size distribution of firms: evidence from Dutch manufacturing 27(4), December 2005, pp. 303-328.
    • Helder Vasconcelos. Entry effects on cartel stability and the Joint Executive Committee 24(3), May 2004, pp. 219-241.
    • Michael J. Mazzeo. Competition and Service Quality in the U.S. Airline Industry 22(4), June 2003, pp. 385-394.
    • Claudio Piga. Debt and firms relationships: the Italian evidence 20(3), May 2002, pp. 267-282.
    • Jozef Konings and Patrick Paul Walsh. The impact of product market competition on employment determination in unionised and non-unionised firms: firm level evidence for the UK 17(4), December 2000, pp. 385-394.
    • In Kwon Lee. Non-cooperative tacit collusion, complementary bidding and incumbency premium 15(2), September 1999, pp. 115-34.
    • Philippe Cyrenne. On antitrust enforcement and the deterrence of collusive behaviour 14(3), May 1999, pp. 257-272.
    • Rachel E. Goodhue. Sustaining collusion with a fuzzy trigger 13(3), June 1998, pp. 333-345.
    ROBERT F. LANZILLOTTI PRIZE:
    Robert F. Lanzillotti is Dean Emeritus, Eminent Scholar Professor Emeritus of American Economic Institutions and Director, Public Policy Research Center, Graduate School of Business at the University of Florida.

    The Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize for the best paper in antitrust economics accepted for presentation at the International Industrial Organization Conference is awarded annually. The winning paper is selected by a committee of experts from the relevant papers that are accepted for presentation at the conference.

    • The 2012 Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize was awarded to Richard Friberg and Andre Romahn (Stockholm School of Economics) Ex-Post Merger Review and Divestitures
    • The 2011 Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize was awarded to Martijn Han (Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics) and Charles Angelucci (Toulouse School of Economics and Crest-Lei) for their paper Monitoring Managers Through Corporate Compliance Programs.
    • The 2010 Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize was awarded to Michelle Goeree (University of Southern California and University of Zurich) and Eric Helland (Claremont McKenna College and RAND) for their paper Do Research Joint Ventures Serve a Collusive Function?.
    • The 2009 Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize was awarded to Abraham Wickelgren (Northwestern University School of Law) and Marco Ottaviani (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) for their paper entitled Approval Regulation and Learning, with Application to Timing of Merger Control
    • The first annual Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize was awarded in 2008 to Dennis W. Carlton (University of Chicago), Joshua S. Gans (University of Melbourne), and Michael Waldman (Cornell University) for their paper entitled Why Tie a Product Consumers Do Not Use?

    PUBLIC UTILITY RESEARCH PRIZE:
    The Public Utility Research Prize for the best paper in regulatory economics accepted for presentation at the International Industrial Organization Conference is awarded annually. The winning paper is selected by a committee of experts from the relevant papers that are accepted for presentation at the conference.

    • The fourth annual Public Utility Research Center Prize for the best paper in regulatory economics was awarded in March 2012 to Cristian Huse, Stockholm School of Economics Fast and Furious (and Dirty): The Effects of Environmental Policy on the Swedish Car Market
    • The following two papers won the third annual Public Utility Research Center Prize for the best paper in regulatory economics.
      • Joseph Cullen (Harvard University) Measuring the Environmental Benefits of Wind Generated Electricity.
      • Catherine Tucker(MIT), James D. Campbell, (University of Toronto)and Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto) Privacy Regulation and Market Structure.
    • The second annual Public Utility Research Center Prize for the best paper in regulatory economics was awarded in 2010 to Maria Kopsakangas-Savolainen and Rauli Svento (both of the University of Oulu) for their paper Comparing Welfare Effects of Different Regulation Schemes: An Application to the Electricity Distribution Industry.
    • The first annual Public Utility Research Center Prize for the best paper in regulatory economics was awarded in 2009 to Byung-Cheol Kim (Georgia Tech) and Jay Pil Choi (Michigan State University) for their paper entitled
      Net Neutrality and Investment Incentives
    BEST RISING STAR PAPER PRIZE:
    The first Best Rising Star Paper prize was awarded in March 2012 at the 10th annual International Industrial Organization Conference to
    Lai Jiang, Stern School of Business, New York University, The Welfare Effects of Bill Shock Regulation in Mobile Telecommunication Markets .

    Membership

    Conference registration web site is http://www.ios.neu.edu/registration.htm or simply click on the Registration tab at the top of this page.

    Membership in the Industrial Organization Society includes a one-year subscription to Review of Industrial Organization and a 20% discount on book purchases from Springer. Be sure to mention your IOS membership at your time of purchase. Membership also entitles you to a discount on a subscription to the International Journal of the Economics of Business. The Industrial Organization Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and can receive tax-deductible contributions.

    Contact Information

    Questions may be directed to the Conference Administrator, Kathy Downey: k.downey@neu.edu.

      Mailing address:
      Industrial Organization Society
      c/o Kathy Downey
      Department of Economics
      301 Lake Hall
      Northeastern University
      Boston, MA 02115-5000
      Phone Number: 617-373-2887
      Fax Number: 617-373-3640

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