The 10th Annual
INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION CONFERENCE


George Mason University School of Law


March 16-18, 2012

Website: http://www.ios.neu.edu



  • Papers
  • Deadlines

  • Conference Guidelines

  • Special Sponsored Sessions

  • Prizes for Best Papers

  • Graduate Student Sessions

  • Committee

  • Further Information


  • Industrial Organization Society

    Deadlines

  • The deadline for submissions was December 21, 2011.
  • Decisions have been announced.
  • Paper presenters must register by February 13, 2012. Conference attendees may register up to March 1, 2012. There will be no on-site registration.

  • Conference Guidelines

    Accepted papers are to be presented by the individual submitting the paper. Paper acceptances are also strictly conditional on the submitter's willingness to serve as a discussant in another session of the conference.

    Special Sponsored Sessions

    • Technology and Information

    • Sponsor: Microsoft
      Papers on cloud computing, internet searches and software piracy are particularly welcome.
    • Innovation, Patents and Antitrust Policy

    • Sponsor: Google
    • Entrepreneurship

    • Sponsor: Kauffman Foundation
    All of the papers selected for presentation in the special sponsored sessions and all the discussants in the special sessions will be selected by the program committee. The program committee will make every effort to ensure a balanced, objective discussion of relevant issues. To this end, the program committee requests that any paper that authors would like to be considered for the special sponsored sessions include an acknowledgement of any financial support of the research.


    Prizes for Best Papers in Antitrust and Regulation

    • THE ROBERT F. LANZILLOTTI PRIZE FOR BEST PAPER IN ANTITRUST ECONOMICS
      The fifth annual Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize will be awarded for the best paper in antitrust economics that is presented at the conference. The winning paper will be selected by a committee of experts from the relevant papers that are accepted for presentation at the conference. The winner of the Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize will be announced at the conference. The prize includes an honorarium of $2,500.
    • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA PUBLIC UTILITY RESEARCH CENTER PRIZE FOR THE BEST PAPER IN REGULATORY ECONOMICS
      The fourth annual University of Florida Public Utility Research Center Prize will be awarded for the best paper in regulatory economics. The winning paper will be selected by a committee of experts from the relevant papers that are accepted for presentation at the conference. The winner of the Public Utility Research Center Prize will be announced at the conference. The prize includes an honorarium of $2,500.

    All self-nominated papers will be considered for the prize. To nominate your paper, please indicate so on the submission website:
    http://editorialexpress.com/conference/IIOC2012
    Members of the program committee may recommend that additional submitted papers be considered.
    Only papers that have a complete version uploaded to the conference web site by February 20 will be considered for the prizes.

    Graduate Student/ Rising Star Sessions

    Again this year, the conference will be spotlighting the best of graduate student papers during Friday evening sessions. If you are a graduate student, please consider submitting your paper to the graduate student sessions. If you are a faculty member supervising a thesis that you think deserves attention and would benefit from exposure and feedback at the conference, please encourage your student to submit the paper to the graduate student sessions.

    Program Committee

    Chairs: Ken Boyer, Michigan State University boyerkd@msu.edu and George Deltas, University of Illinois deltas@illinois.edu

    Committee Members
      • Christopher Adams, Federal Trade Commission
      • Patrick Bajari, University of Minnesota
      • Emek Basker, University of Missouri
      • Yongmin Chen, University of Colorado at Boulder
      • Jay Pil Choi, University of New South Wales
      • James Dana, Northeastern University
      • Timothy Dunne, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
      • Robert Feinberg, American University
      • Martin Gaynor, Carnegie Mellon University
      • Timothy Hannan, Federal Reserve Board
      • Janice Hauge, University of North Texas
      • Steffen Huck, University College London
      • Thomas Jeitschko, U.S. Department of Justice
      • Francine Lafontaine, University of Michigan
      • Stephen Martin, Purdue University
      • Wallace Mullin, George Washington University
      • Russell Pittman, U.S. Department of Justice
      • Jeffrey Prince, Indiana University
      • Marc Rysman, Boston University
      • David Sappington, University of Florida
      • Maarten Pieter Schinkel, University of Amsterdam
      • Christopher Snyder, Dartmouth College
      • Kyle Stiegert, University of Wisconsin
      • Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota
      • Wesley Wilson, University of Oregon

    Further Information

    This website will provide updated information concerning registration and lodging information, as well as a link to the registration site. The preliminary conference program will be posted by March 1, 2012.

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

      Mailing address:
      Industrial Organization Society
      c/o Kathy Downey
      Northeastern University
      Department of Economics
      301 Lake Hall
      Boston, MA 02115-5000

      Phone Number: 617-373-2887
      Fax Number: 617-373-3640