Conference Program

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Keynote Lunch Address, Friday
Panels and Paper Sessions I, Friday
Panels and Paper Sessions II, Friday
Reception, Friday
Panels and Paper Sessions III, Saturday
Panels and Paper Sessions IV, Saturday
Keynote Lunch Address, Saturday
Panels and Paper Sessions V, Saturday
Panels and Paper Sessions VI, Saturday
Blue Man Group Performance, Saturday
Brasserie Jo Brunch, Sunday

Friday, Keynote Lunch Address
Speare Hall

Friday, Panels and Paper Sessions I

I.1 Negotiation and Incentives
135 Shillman Hall

• Andrew Daughety (Vanderbilt University)
  "Exploiting Future Settlements: A Signaling Model of Most-Favored Nation Clauses in Settlement Bargaining" (with Jennifer Reinganum)
  

  Discussant: Ingela Alger (Boston College)

• Flavio Menezes (Australian National University)
  "A Model of Seller Holdout" (with Rohan Pitchford)

  Discussant: Marco Castaneda (University of Kentucky)

• Birger Wernerfelt (MIT Sloan School of Management)
  "Communication and Renegotiation"

  Discussant: Rohan Pitchford (Australian National University)

• Abraham Wickelgren (Federal Trade Commission)
  "Moral Hazard and Renegotiation: Multi-Period Robustness"

  Discussant: Shirley Ho (National Chengchi University)

I.2 Auction Theory 1
205 Shillman Hall

• Ian Gale (Georgetown University)
  "Auctions with Nonlinear Payoffs and Multidimensional Types (with Yeon-Koo Che)

  Discussant: Huseyin Yildirim (Duke University)

• Marco Haan (University of Groningen)
  "License Auctions When Winning Bids are Financed Through Debt" (with Linda Toolsema)

  Discussant: Claudio Mezzetti (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

• David McAdams (MIT Sloan School of Management)
  "Key Ordinal Differences Between Single-Object and Multi-Object Auctions"

  Discussant: Giuseppe Lopomo (Duke University)

I.3 Models of Product Differentiation
206 Egan Center

• Ofer Azar (Northwestern University)
  "Can Price Discrimination Be Bad for Firms and Good for Consumers? The Case of Opening Hours"

  Discussant: Ulrich Doraszelski (Stanford University)

• Klaus Conrad (University of Mannheim)
  "Price Competition and Product Differentiation when Consumers Care for the Environment"

  Discussant: Valerie Meunier (CIRANO)

• Ninghua Du (University of Arizona)
  "Sequential Decision-Making Serves as a Facilitating Device: Information Dissemination in a Price Advertising Game"

  Discussant: Ralf Dewenter (University of Essen)

• Valerie Meunier (CIRANO)
  "Location Choice and Price Signaling of Quality" (with Philippe Bontems)

  Discussant: George Norman (Tufts University)

I.4 Concepts and Measurement in International Competitiveness
306 Egan Center

• Lynn Salinger (AIRD)
  Qualitative Dimensions to Competitiveness Assessments: Lessons from Textile and Garment Industry Assessments in South Africa, Vietnam, and Morocco"

  Discussant: William Masters (Purdue University)

• William Masters (Purdue University)
  "Using Input-Output Data for Indicators of Policy Distortions and Comparative Advantage: Improved Formulas for PSE-and DRC-type Measures"

  Discussant: Someshwar Rao (Industry Canada)

• Someshwar Rao (Industry Canada)
  "Competitiveness Challenges of Canadian Industries" (with Jianmin Tang)

  Discussant: Teodora Cosac (Canadian Competition Bureau)

• Eckhard Siggel (Concordia University)
  "Concepts and Measurements of International Competitiveness and Comparative Advantage: Towards an Integrated Approach"

  Discussant: Lynn Salinger (AIRD)

I.5 Electricity Markets
320 Shillman Hall

• Aitor Ciarreta (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona)
  "Market Power in the Spanish Wholesale Electricity Market" (with Maria Paz Espinosa)

  Discussant: William G. Shepherd (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

• Kevin Forbes (Catholic University of America)
  "Solar Activity and the Price of Electricity: An Empirical Analysis" with O. C. St. Cyr

  Discussant: Raffaella Mota (University of Cambridge)

• Stephen Holland (University of California Energy Institute)
  "Investment Efficiency in Competitive Electricity Markets With and Without Time-Varying Retail Prices" (with Severin Borenstein)

  Discussant: Mario Jametti (HEC, Universitede Lausanne)

• Wallace Mullin (George Washington University)
  "Wholesale Spot and Forward Electricity Markets in the United States

  Discussant: Stephen Holland (University of California Energy Institute)

I.6 Empirical Models of Entry into Network Markets
305 Shillman Hall

• Marc Rysman (Boston University)
  "Coordination versus Differentiation in the Adoption of High-Speed Modems" (with Angelique Auguerau and Shane Greenstein)

  Discussant: Steven Berry (Yale University)

• Gautam Gowrisankaran (Harvard University)
  "Quantifying Equilibrium Network Externalities in the ACH Banking Industry" (with Daniel Ackerberg)

  Discussant: Katja Seim (Stanford University Graduate School of Business)

• Michael Mazzeo (Northwestern University)
  "Differentiation Strategy and Market Deregulation: Local Telecommunication Entry in the Late 1990s" (with Shane Greenstein)

  Discussant: Gautam Gowrisankaran (Harvard University)

I.7 Airlines 1
415 Shillman Hall

• Volodymyr Bilotkach (University of Arizona)
  "Asymmetric Regulation and Airport Dominance in International Aviation: Evidence from the London-New York Market"

  Discussant: Monica Hartman (University of St. Thomas)

• S. Giaume (IDEFI-LATAPSES-CNRS)
  "Price Discrimination and Concentration in European Airline Market (with S. Guillou)

  Discussant: Nicholas Rupp (East Carolina University)

• Darin Lee (LECG)
  "Entry Patterns in the Southwest Airlines Route System" (with Charles Boguslaski and Harmui Ito)

  Discussant: Kenneth Boyer (Michigan State University)

• Qihong Liu (SUNY Stony Brook)
  "The Effect of Market Structure on Price Dispersion: An Analysis of the U.S. Airline Industry"

  Discussant: Gary Fournier (Florida State University)

I.8 Alternative Mechanisms for Technology Transfer
425 Shillman Hall

• Oded Bizan (Analysis Group/Economics)
  "Alliance Formation as a Strategy for Market Penetration: An Empirical Examination of American-Israeli Research Alliances"

  Discussant: Philip Gayle (Kansas State University)

• Andreas Fier (Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW))
  "Characteristics of Publicly Funded R&D Networks"

  Discussant: Oded Bizan (Analysis Group/Economics)

• Pedro Mendi (Universidad de Navarra)
  "The Structure of Payments in Technology Transfer Contracts: Evidence from Spain

  Discussant: Enrico Santarelli (Universita di Bologna)

• Nicholas Vonortas (George Washington University)
  "Technology Licensing Under Competitive Pressure" (with YoungJun Kim)

  Discussant: Pedro Mendi (Universidad de Navarra)

I.9 R&D Theory
340 Egan Center

• Wolfgang Gick (Dartmouth College)
  "Regulation under Delegation and Supervision: The Role of Administrative Rules"

  Discussant: Rene Kirkegaard (University of Aarhus)

• Corinne Langinier (Iowa State University)
  "Patents, Search of Prior Art and Revelation of Information" (with Philippe Marcoul)

  Discussant: Jurgen Bitzer (DIW Berlin)

• Pia Weiss (Chemnitz University of Technology)
  "Adoption of Product and Process Innovations in Differentiated Markets: The Impact of Competition"

  Discussant: Jorge Andres Ferrando Yanez (LEI-CREST, ENPC)

I.10 Panel: New Developments in International Competition Policy
335 Shillman Hall

• William James Adams (University of Michigan)

• Paul Geroski (London Business School)

• William Kovacic (Federal Trade Commission)

• Stephen Martin (Purdue University)

• Xavier Vives (INSEAD)

I.11 Empirical Studies of Sunk Costs and Market Structure
406 Egan Center

• Patrick Paul Walsh (Trinity College Dublin and Harvard University)
  "Sunk Cost Competition and The Firm Size Distribution: An Application to Carbonated Soft Drinks" (with Ciara Whelan)

  Discussant: Mariuzzo (University of Venice)

• Maria Letizia Giorgetti (University of Milan)
  "Concentration and Scope Economies in Pharmaceutical Sectors"

  Discussant: Iain Cockburn (Boston University)

• Harald Gruber (European Investment Bank)
  "Radio Spectrum Fees as Sunk Costs in the Market for Mobile Telecommunications: The Aftermath of European 3G Licensing"

  Discussant: Ralph Siebert (Harvard University)

• Rebeca de Juan (UNED)
  "The Determinants of Entry and Exit in Independent Submarkets: Empirical Evidence from Spanish Retail Banking Market"

  Discussant: Andrew Cohen (University of Virginia)

I.12 The Internal Organization of Firms: Applications
440 Egan Center

• Tobias Regner (University of Bristol)
  "Technology Change and the Allocation of Ownership: The Music Industry" (with Maija Halonen)

  Discussant: Stanford Levin (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville)

• Duncan Simester (MIT Sloan School of Management)
  "Determinants of Asset Ownership: A Study of the Carpentry Trade" (with Birger Wernerfelt)

  Discussant: Mark Manuszak (Carnegie Mellon University)

• Jeffrey Wilder (U. S. Department of Justice)
  "Client Turnover in Commercial Insurance: Implications of the Moral Hazard Between Brokers and Their Clients"

  Discussant: Rachael Goodhue (University of California, Davis)

• Zhentang Zhang (DIW Berlin)
  "Cost Structure, Horizontal Competition and Outsourcing" (with Andreas Stephan)

  Discussant: Astrid Dick (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)

Friday, Panel and Paper Sessions II

II.1 Anticompetitive Effects of Vertical Integration and Restraints
205 Shillman Hall

• Chiara Fumagalli (Universita Bocconi)
  "Exclusive Dealing and Entry When Buyers Compete"

  Discussant: Nicola Mazzarotto (University of Turin)

• Joshua Gans (University of Melbourne)
  "Vertical Integraton in the Presence of Upstream Competition" (with Catherine de Fontenay)

  Discussant: Chiara Fumagalli (Universita Bocconi)

• Terrence Hendershott (University of California, Berkeley)
  "A Model of Direct and Intermediated Sales" (with Jie Zhang)

  Discussant: H. Peter Mollgaard (Copenhagen Business School)

• Deborah Minehart (University of Maryland)
  "Vertical Merger and Specific Investments: A Tale of the Second Best" (with Rachel Kranton)

  Discussant: Patrick DeGraba (U.S. Federal Trade Commission)

II.2 Topics in Theoretical Industrial Organization
135 Shillman Hall

• James Dana (Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management)
  "Product Variety and Demand Uncertainty" (with Dennis Carlton)

  Discussant: Susan Athey (Stanford University)

• Mark Dudey (Rice University)
  "The Free Rider Problem in Durable Good Monopoly"

  Discussant: Santanu Roy (Florida International University)

• Glenn Ellison (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  "A Model of Add-on Pricing"

  Discussant: Dan Kovenock (Purdue University)

• Richard Gilbert (University of California, Berkeley)
  "Should Good Patents Come in Small Packages? A Welfare Analysis of Intellectual Property Bundling" (with Michael Katz)

  Discussant: Jennifer Reinganum (Vanderbilt University)

II.3 Theoretical Studies of E-Commerce
320 Shillman Hall

• Narine Badasyan (Virginia Tech)
  "Private Peering Among Internet Backbone Providers" (with Subhadip Chakrabarti)

  Discussant: Lambert Schoonbeek (University of Groningen)

• Michael Baye (Indiana University)
  "Equilibrim Pricing in Large Online Markets" (with John Morgan)

  Discussant: Michael Schwarz (Harvard University)

• Rene Kirkegaard (University of Aarhus)
  "Buy-Out Prices in Online Auctions: Multi-unit Demand" (with Per Baltzer Overgaard)

  Discussant: Wolfgang Gick (Dartmouth College)

• Lynne Pepall (Tufts University)
  "Versioning, Brand-Stretching, and the Evolution of e-Commerce Markets" (with Dan Richards and George Norman)

  Discussant: Roger Betancourt (University of Maryland)

II.4 Firm and Industry Dynamics
206 Egan Center

• Luis Cabral (New York University)
  "On the Evolution of the Firm Size Distribution: Facts and Theory" (with Jose Mata)

  Discussant: Vivek Ghosal (Georgia Institute of Technology)

• Enrico Santarelli (Universita di Bologna)
  "Gibrat's Law and the Size-Firm Growth Relationship in Italian Small Scale Services" (with Roberta Piergiovanni, Luuk Klomp, and Roy Thurik)

  Discussant: Switgard Feuerstein (Heidelberg University)

• Minjae Song (Harvard University)
  "Measuring Consumer Welfare in the CPU Market"

  Discussant: Patrick Paul Walsh (Trinity College and Harvard University)

• Kenneth Simons (Royal Holloway-University of London)
  "Product Market Characteristics and the Industry Life Cycle"

  Discussant: Minjae Song (Harvard University)

II.5 Empirical Studies of Regulation 1
415 Shillman Hall

• Meghan Busse (University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business)
  "Pollution Control and Input Markets: The Creation and Capture of Regulatory Rents from Sulfur Dioxide Control" (with Nathaniel Keohane)

  Discussant: Wallace Mullin (George Washington University)

• Daniel Flores-Guri (Skidmore College)
  "An Economic Analysis of Regulated Taxicab Markets"

  Discussant: Bruce Brown (California State Polytechnic University)

• Astrid Jung (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB))
  "Collusion, Coordination in Lobbying, and Price-Cap Regulation in the U.S. Mobile Telecommunications" (with Tomaso Duso)

  Discussant: Christopher Klein (Middle Tennessee State University)

• Anna Ter-Martirosyan (George Washington University)
  "The Effect of Incentive Regulation on Quality of Service in Electricity Markets"

  Discussant: Teresa Harrison (Drexel University)

II.6 Spatial Differentiation and Competition
305 Shillman Hall

• Katja Seim (Stanford University)
  "An Empirical Model of Firm Entry with Endogenous Product-Type Choices"

  Discussant: Michael Mazzeo (Northwestern University)

• Raphael Thomadsen (Columbia University)
  "Costly Collusion in Differentiated Industries" (with Ki-Eun Rhee)

  Discussant: Margaret Slade (University of Warwick)

• Francine Lafontaine (University of Michigan)
  "Spatial Differentiation (or Lack Thereof) in Franchised Chains: A Look at Franchisor-Frachisee Conflict and Proposed Remedies" (with Roger Blair)

  Discussant: Michael Mazzeo (Northwestern University)

• Mark Manuszak (Carnegie Mellon University)
  "The Impact of Upstream Mergers on Retail Gasoline Markets

  Discussant: Margaret Slade (University of Warwick)

II.7 Industrial Organization of Financial Services
306 Egan Center

• Andrew Cohen (University of Virginia)
  "Using Entry Models to Test for Product Market Independence: The Case of Small Market Banks and Thrifts"

  Discussant: Elizabeth Klee (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)

• Ron Borzekowski (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)
  "The Role of Network Effects in the Adoption of Point of Sale (POS) Technology" (with Elizabeth Kiser)

  Discussant: Gautam Gowrisankaran (Harvard University)

• Yoonhee Tina Chang (University of Warwick)
  "Relationship Banking in Bilateral Oligopoly and Asymetric Information"

  Discussant: Michael Salinger (Boston University)

• Astrid Dick (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)
  "Market Structure and Quality: An Application to the Banking Industry"

  Discussant Raphael Thomadsen (Columbia University)

II.8 Innovation in Pharmaceutical Markets
425 Shillman Hall

• Rosa Abrantes-Metz (U.S. Federal Trade Commission) and Albert Metz (Congressional Budget Office)
  "Pharmaceutical Development Phases: A Duration Analysis (with Christopher Adams)

  Discussant: Margaret Kyle (Carnegie Mellon University)

• William Grant (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill )
  "Product Introductions and Market Structure: New Pharmaceutial Products and the Inverted-U Hypothesis"

  Discussant: Rebecca Henderson (MIT Sloan School and NBER)

• Amy Finkelstein (National Bureau of Economic Research)
  "Health Policy and Technological Change: Evidence from the Vaccine Industry"

  Discussant: Amil Petrin (University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and NBER)

• Rebecca Henderson (MIT Sloan School and NBER) "Balancing Incentives: The Tension Between Basic and Applied Research" (with Iain Cockburn and Scott Stern)

  Discussant: Christina Kelton (University of Cincinnati)

II.9 Open vs. Closed Source Software
340 Egan Center

• Jurgen Bitzer (DIW Berlin)
  "Bug-Fixing and Code-Writing: The Private Provision of Open Source Software" (with Philipp Schroeder)

  Discussant: Ulrich Berger (Vienna University of Business)

• Ramon Casadesus-Masanell (Harvard Business School)
  "Linux vs. Windows: Modeling Competition between Open-Source and Closed Software" (with Pankaj Ghemawat)

  Discussant: Fabio Manenti (Universita di Padova)

• Jorge Andres Ferrando Yanez (LEI-CREST, ENPC)
  "Innovate and Imitate?: Dynamic Innovation, Patents, and Costly Imitation"

  Discussant: G. Martin Parades (New York University)

• Nidhi Thakur (University of Arizona)
  "What Can Explain the Recent Surge in Software Patenting in the United States?"

  Discussant: Nicholas Vonortas (George Washington University)

II.10 Empirical Studies of Antitrust Policy
440 Egan Center

• Ugo Merlone (University of Turin)
  "Minority Stakeholdings As An Anti-Competitive Device" (with Carmelo Salleo)

  Discussant: John Connor (Purdue University)

• Ralph Siebert (Harvard University)
  "Market Power versus Efficiency Effects of Mergers and Research Joint Ventures: Evidence from the Semiconductor Industry" (with Klaus Gugler)

  Discussant: Adair Morse (University of Michigan Business School)

• Frederic Warzynski (IDEI, University of Toulouse)
  "Is Antitrust Policy Effective in Reducing Market Power?"

  Discussant: Stephen Martin (Purdue University)

II.11 Concentration and Diversification
406 Egan Center

• Lawrence Franko (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
  "Corporate Concentration and Turnover in Global Industries, 1960-2000" Supplemental Excel File

  Discussant: Philip Auerswald (Harvard University)

• Mariana Iootty (Instituto de Economia--Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/Brasil)
  "The Relationship Among M&A, Growth and Diversification: The Case of Leading US Manufacturing Firms in the 1990s" (with Joao Carlos Ferraz and Frederico Rocha)

  Discussant: John Cable (University of Wales)

• Frederico Rocha (Instituto de Economia--Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/Brasil)
  "The Role Played by M&A Transactions on Concentration: The Brazilian Case

  Discussant: Mehmet Beceren (Brandeis University and Harvard Business School)

• Laura Rondi (CEFRIS-CNR, Institute for Economic Research on Firms and Growth)
  "Are EU Firms Returning to Core Business? New Insights into Refocusign and Relatedness" (with Davide Vannoni)

  Discussant: Jan De Loecker (LICOS, Centre for Transition Economics)

II.12 Strategic Complementarities in Industrial Organization
335 Shillman Hall

• Lars-Hendrik Röller (WZB)
  "Complementarities in Innovation Policy" (with Pierre Mohnen)

  Discussant: Charles King (Harvard Business School)

• Eugenio Miravete (University of Pennsylvania)
  "Innovation Complementarity and Scale of Production" (with Jose Pernias)

  Discussant: Duncan Simester (MIT Sloan School of Management)

• Xavier Vives (INSEAD)
  "Games with Strategic Complementarities: New Applications to Industrial Organization"

  Discussant: Luca Lambertini (Universita di Bologna)

• Victor Tremblay (Oregon State University)
  "Advertising, Welfare, and Supermodularity"

  Discussant: Massimo DeFrancesco (University of Siena)

Friday, IOS Reception
Speare Hall

Saturday, Panel and Paper Sessions III

III.1 Models of Buyer Power
210 Shillman Hall

• Nicola Mazzarotto (University of East Anglia)
  "Retail Mergers and Buyer Power"

  Discussant: Terrance Hendershott (University of California, Berkeley)

• H. Peter Mollgaard (Copenhagen Business School)
  "Countervailing Power and Price Transparency" (with Morton Hviid)

  Discussant: Deborah Minehart (University of Maryland)

• Patrick DeGraba (U. S. Federal Trade Commission)
  "Quantity Discounts and Risk Averse Sellers"

  Discussant: Joshua Gans (University of Melbourne)

III.2 Games of Coordination
105 Shillman Hall

• Lambert Schoonbeek (University of Groningen)
  "Price-Setting Behavior Under Social Interactions and Peer Group Formation" (with Adriaan Soetevent)

  Discussant: Saltuk Ozerturk (Southern Methodist University)

• Michael Schwarz (Harvard University)
  "The Adoption of Standards under Uncertainty" (with Michael Ostorvsky)

  Discussant: Dennis Yao (Harvard Business School)

• Andrew Stivers (Oregon State University)
  "Endogenous Coalition Formation and Standard Setting with an Exogenous Quality Distribution"

  Discussant: Lukasz Grzybowski (CINE, Christian Albrechts University at Kiel)

• Drew Fudenberg (Harvard University)
  "Knife-Edge or Plateau: When Do Market Models Tip?" (with Glenn Ellison)

  Discussant: Torsten Schmidt (University of New Hampshire)

III.3 Auction Theory 2
215 Shillman Hall

• Huseyin Yildirim (Duke University)
  "Managing Dynamic Choice in the Presence of Learning, Forgetting, and Switching Costs" (with Tracy Lewis)

  Discussant: Ian Gale (Georgetown University)

• Giuseppe Lopomo (Duke University)
  "Simultaneous Ascending Bid Auctions with Budget Constraints"

  Discussant: Leslie Marx (Duke University)

• Leslie Marx (Duke University)
  "Bidder Collusion"

  Discussant: Marco Haan (University of Groningen)

• Claudio Mezzetti (UNC-Chapel Hill)
  "Auction Design with Interdependent Valuations"

  Discussant: David McAdams (MIT Sloan School of Management)

III.4 Productivity and Growth
206 Egan Center

• Claudio Piga (University of Nottingham Business School)
  "On the Relationship between R&D and Productivity: A Treatment Effect Analysis" (with Donald Siegel and Giuseppe Medda)

  Discussant: Julie Ann Elston (University of Central Florida)

• Philip Gayle (Kansas State University)
  "Innovation, Industry Concentration and Threshold Effects"

  Discussant: Andreas Fier (Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW))

• Charles King (Harvard Business School)
  "Knowledge Spillovers and Growth in the Disagglomeration of the U.S. Advertising Agency Industry" (with Alvin Silk and N. Ketelhohn)

  Discussant: Tore Nilssen (University of Oslo)

III.5 Empirical Studies of Regulation 2
306 Egan Center

• Paroma Sanyal (Brandeis University) and Nidhiya Menon (Brandeis University)
  "Labor Regulation and Plant Location Choice: Evidence from India"

  Discussant: Helen Connolly (Northeastern University)

• Bruce Brown (California State Polytechnic University)
  "Regulation and Results in Japanese Health Care"

  Discussant: Juan-Pablo Montero (Catholic University of Chile (PUC))

• Francesc Trillas (IESE Business School)
  "Telecommunications Policies: Determinants and Impact" (with Jordi Gual)

  Discussant: Astrid Jung (WZB)

• Christopher Klein (Middle Tennessee State University)
  "Telephone Penetration in Tennessee: Are Intrastate Universal Service Policies Effective?" (with Aster Rutibabalira and David Sapper)

  Discussant: Meghan Busse (University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business)

III.6 Structural Empirical Models for Merger Analysis
135 Shillman Hall

• Margaret Slade (University of Warwick)
  "Market Power and Joint Dominance in UK Brewing"

  Discussant: Marc Rysman (Boston University)

• Eugenio Miravete (University of Pennsylvania)
  "Competitive Nonlinear Pricing in Duopoly Equilibrium: The Early U.S. Cellular Telephone Industry" (with Lars-Hendrik Röller)

  Discussant: Brian McManus (Washington University St. Louis)

• Marc Ivaldi (IDEI, University of Toulouse)
  "Railroad Mergers in Retrospect: A Structural Analysis" (with Gerard McCullough and Caroline Linari)

  Discussant: Lars-Hendrik Röller (Humboldt University and WZB)

• Luke Froeb (Vanderbilt University, Owen School of Management)
  "Competitive Revenue Management: Evaluating Mergers Among Cruise Lines" (with Steven Tschantz)

  Discussant: Mark McCabe (Georgia Institute of Technology)

III.7 Competititve Forces in Higher Education
305 Shillman Hall

• Gordon Winston (Williams College)
  "Toward a Theory of Tuition: Prices, Peer Wages, and Competition in Higher Education"

  Discussant: Joseph Quinn (Boston College)

• John Kwoka (Northeastern University)
  "Dynamic Adjustment in the Higher Education Industry, 1955-1995" (with Christopher Snyder)

  Discussant: Richard Caves (Harvard University)

• John Siegfried (Vanderbilt University)
  "The Response of Factor Proportions to Relative Prices in Higher Education" (with Malcom Getz)

  Discussant: James Meehan (Colby College)

• Susanne Warning (University of Konstanz)
  "Performance Differences in the German Higher Education System: Empirical Analysis of Strategic Groups"

  Discussant: Alexander Eickelpasch (DIW Berlin)

III.8 Economics of Innovation
335 Shillman Hall

• James Adams (University of Florida)
  "How Rapidly Does Science Leak Out?" (with Paula Stephan)

  Kenneth Simons (Royal Holloway, University of London)

• Suchin Virabhak (Columbia University)
  "Pharmaceutical-Embodied Technical Progress, Longevity, and Quality of Life: Drugs As Equipment for Your Health" (with Frank Lichtenberg)

  Discussant: Donald Vitaliano (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

• Iain Cockburn (Boston University)
  "Are All Patent Examiners Equal? The Impact of Examiner Characteristics on Patent Statistics and Litigation Outcomes" (with Scott Stern and Samuel Kortum)

  Discussant: Donald Siegel (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

III.9 Entry in Pharmaceutical Markets
320 Shillman Hall

• Leemore Dafny (Northwestern University Kellogg School of Business)
  "Entry Deterrence in Hospital Procedure Marets: A Simple Model of Learning-By-Doing"

  Discussant: Rosa Abrantes-Metz (U.S. Federal Trade Commission)

• Margaret Kyle (Carnegie Mellon University)
  "Entry in Pharmaceutical Markets"

  Discussant: William Grant (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

• Tracy Regan (University of Arizona)
  "Generic Entry and Price Competition in the Prescription Drug Market--18 Years After the Waxman-Hatch Act"

  Discussant: Albert Metz (Congressional Budget Office)

III.10 Contemporary International Cartels and Antitrust Policy
340 Egan Center

• John Connor (Purdue University)
  "Private International Cartels: Welfare Impacts and the Antitrust Response"

  Discussant: Barbara Alexander (Cornerstone Research)

• Adair Morse (University of Michigan Business School)
  "A System of Production and Demand To Estimate Cartel Overcharges: The Case of ADM"

  Discussant: Wally Mullin (George Washington University)

• Margaret Levenstein (University of Massachusetts and University of Michigan Business School)
  "International Price-Fixing Cartels and Developing Countries: A Discussion of Effects and Policy Remedies" (with Valerie Suslow and Lynda Oswald)

  Discussant: Debora Spar (Harvard University)

III.11 Determinants of Markups
440 Egan Center

• Klaus Abbink (University of Nottingham)
  "Price Competition Under Cost Uncertainty: A Laboratory Analysis" (with Jordi Brandts)

  Discussant: Timothy Cason (Purdue University)

• Sabien Dobbelaere (K.U. Leuven)
  "Joint Estimation of Mark-up and Bargaining Power Parameters for Belgian Manufacturing"

  Discussant: Margaret Pasquale (University of Cincinnati)

• James MacDonald (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
  "How Do Retail Prices React to Minimum Wage Increases? (with Daniel Aaronson)

  Discussant: Paroma Sanyal (Brandeis University)

• Robert Masson (Cornell University)
  "Oligopolistic 'Agreement' and/or 'Superiority'? New Findings from New Methodologies and Data" (with George Jakubson, Kap-Young Jeong, and DongHun Kim)

  Discussant: Tony Cockerill (University of Durham)

III.12 The Determinants and Effects of Foreign Direct Investment
406 Egan Center

• Rashmi Banga (Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University)
  "The Differential Impact of Japanese and U.S. Foreign Direct Investments on Exports of Indian Manufacturing"

  Discussant: F. Gerard Adams (Northeastern University)

• Jutta Gunther (Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH))
  "Technology Spillovers from Foreign Investment Enterprises in Transition Economies"

  Discussant: Heinz Hollenstein (Swiss Federal Institute for Technology)

• Yong Li (University of Science & Technology of China)
  "The Driving Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on China's Manufacturing Growth" (with Shukun Tang)

  Discussant: Osiris Parcero (University of Bristol)

• Maria Pluvia Zuniga (Universite de Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne)
  "Imitation, Patent Protection and Entry Mode: An Empirical Study on German Licensing, FDI and Trade" (with E. Combe)

  Discussant: Nathan Musick (Congressional Budget Office)

Saturday, Panel and Paper Sessions IV

IV.1 Regulation and Procurement Theory
206 Egan Center

• Osiris Parcero (University of Bristol)
  "Inter-state Competition for Foreign Direct Investment"

  Discussant: Pia Weiss (Chemnitz University of Technology)

• Jaehong Kim (Handong University)
  "Incentive Monopoly Regulation with Entry"

  Discussant: Andreas Bentz (Dartmouth College)

• Juan-Pablo Montero (Catholic University of Chile (PUC))
  "Arbitration in Regulation: An Exploratory Model"

  Discussant: G. Martin Paredes (New York University)

IV.2 Markets for Information
210 Shillman Hall

• Ingela Alger (Boston College)
  "A Theory of Fraud on Experts Markets"

  Discussant: Christopher Snyder (George Washington University)

• Shirley Ho (National Chengchi University)
  "On Contracting Private Investigators with a Double Crossing Problem"

  Discussant: Ofer Azar (Northwestern University)

• Saltuk Ozerturk (Southern Methodist University)
  "Direct Sale of Information When Precision is Unobservable

  Discussant: Valerie Meunier (CIRANO)

• Dennis Yao (Harvard Business School)
  "Attracting Skeptical Buyers" (with James Anton)

  Discussant: Flavio Menezes (Australian National University)

IV.3 Strategic Behavior in Oligopoly Theory
215 Shillman Hall

• Maria Arbatskaya (Emory University)
  "Buy Now, Search Later: A Model of Low-Price Guarantees with Post-Sale Search"

  Discussant: James Dana (Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management)

• Stefano Comino (Universita di Padova)
  "Entry and Exit When the Second Entrant Can Wait and See"

  Discussant: Sencer Ecer (LECG)

• Torsten Schmidt (University of New Hampshire)
  "Duopoly Price Leadership with Rising Marginal Cost"

  Discussant: David Malueg (Tulane University)

• Lukasz Grzybowski (CINE, Christian Albrechts University at Kiel)
  "Dynamic Duopoly Competition with Switching Costs and Network Externalities (with Toker Doganoglu)

  Discussant: Konstantinos Serfes (SUNY Stony Brook)

IV.4 Empirical Analysis of Firm's Decision to Adopt Information Technology
306 Egan Center

• F. Gerard Adams (Northeastern University)
  "The Microeconomics of the IT/E-Business Revolution: Implications for East Asian Development"

  Discussant: Yong Li (University of Science & Technology China)

• Chris Forman (Carnegie Mellon University)
  "Digital Dispersion: An Industrial and Geographic Census of Commercial Internet Use" (with Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein)

  Discussant: Ron Borzekowski (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)

• Heinz Hollenstein (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
  "The Decision to Adopt Information and Communication Technologies (ICT): An Empirical Analysis Based on Firm-level Data for the Swiss Business Sector"

  Discussant: Maria Pluvia Zuniga (Universite de Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne)

• Nathan Musick (Congressional Budget Office)
  "Are Scale Efficiencies Relevant for the Use of Information Technology? Evidence from Computer-based Manufacturing in Germany"

  Discussant: Jutta Gunther (Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH))

IV.5 Estimating the Benefits of Privatization
406 Egan Center

• Mario Jametti (HEC, Universite de Lausanne)
  "Assessing the Efficiency of an Insurance Provider: A Measurement Error Approach" (with Thomas von Ungern-Sternberg)

  Discussant: Jeffrey Wilder (U.S. Department of Justice)

• Frederic Warzynski (IDEI, University of Toulouse)
  "The Effects of Privatization and International Competitive Pressure on Firms' Price-Cost Margins: Micro Evidence from Emerging Economies (with Patrick Van Cayseele and Jozef Konings)

  Discussant: Rashmi Banga (Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University)

• Raffaella Mota (University of Cambridge)
  "The Restructuring and Privatisation of Electricity Distribution and Supply Businesses in Brazil: A Social Cost-Benefit Analysis"

  Discussant: Alejandro Mungaray (Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico)

• David Saal (Aston Business School)
  "The Longitudinal and Comparative Performance Effects of Privatisation and Regulation in the English and Welsh Water Sewarage Industry: 1985-2000" (with David Parker and Tom Weyman-Jones)

  Discussant: Jose Miguel Sanchez (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)

IV.6 Intraindustry Studies of Entry
440 Egan Center

• Jay Johnson (Southeastern Louisiana University)
  "The Determinants of Entry: An Anlysis of Entrants and Non-Entrants into the Market for MTBE"

  Discussant: Andrew Ching (UCLA and Ohio State University)

• Francesca Lotti (Bank of Italy)
  "Entry in Markets with Adverse Selection: an Empirical Analysis of Local Credit Markets" (with Giorgio Gobbi)

  Discussant: Sofronis Clerides (Yale University)

• Brian Viard (Stanford University Graduate School of Business)
  "The Effect of Entry and Market Structure on Cellular Pricing Tactics" (with Katja Seim)

  Discussant: Eugenio Miravete (University of Pennsylvania)

IV.7 Airlines 2
340 Egan Center

• Gary Fournier (Florida State University)
  "Airline Price Wars with Multi-Market Carrier Contacts and Low-Cost Carrier Entrants" (with Tom Zuehlke)

  Discussant: Nancy Rose (MIT)

• Monica Hartman (University of St. Thomas)
  "Allocation of Airport Capacity: Its Impact on Market Competition"

  Discussant: Jeffrey Cohen (University of Hartford)

• Nicholas Rupp (East Carolina University)
  "Why Are So Many Flights Cancelled?"

  Discussant: Christopher Mayer (University of Pennsylvania Wharton School)

• Maria Jose Luengo Prado (Northeastern University)
  "The Impact of Passenger Mix on Reported 'Hub Premiums' in the U.S. Airline Industry" (with Darin Lee)

  Discussant: Qihong Liu (SUNY Stony Brook)

IV.8 Panel: Intellectual Property System Reform
105 Shillman Hall

• James Bessen (Research on Innovation)

• Robert Hunt (Federal Research Bank of Philadelphia)

• Stephen Merrill (National Academy of Sciences)

• Robert Willig (Princeton University)

• Cecil Quillen (Cornerstone Research)
  "Continuing Patent Applications and Performance of the U.S. Patent Office"
  "Continuing Patent Applications and Performance of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office---Extended"

IV.9 Empirical Analyses of E-Commerce (1)
205 Shillman Hall

• Matthew Gentzkow (Harvard University)
  "Valuing New Goods in the Presence of Complementarities: Online Newspapers"

  Discussant: Judith Chevalier (Yale School of Management)

• Ulrich Kaiser (University of Southern Denmark)
  "When (and why) Do Magazines Go Online?"

  Discussant: Sara Fisher Ellison (MIT)

• Stefan Schmitz (ICE, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
  "B2C eCommerce Strategy and Market Structure: The Survey Based Approach" (with Peter Sint)

  Discussant: Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto)

• Georg Stadtmann (WHU Koblenz)
  "The Disposition Effect--Empirical Evidence on Purchases of Investor Magazines (with Dirk Czarnitzki)

  Discussant: Glenn Ellison (MIT)

IV.10 Merger Policy 1
335 Shillman Hall

• Luis Cabral (New York University)
  "An Equilibrium Approach to International Merger Policy"

  Discussant: Mark Jamison (University of Florida)

• Paul Heidhues (WZB)
  "On the Desirability of an Efficiency Defense in Merger Control (with Johan Lagerloef)

  Lawrence White (New York University)

• George Norman (Tufts University)
  "Product Differentiation, Cost-Reducing Mergers, and Consumer Welfare" (with Lynne Pepall and Daniel Richards)

  Discussant: Aldo Gonzalez (University of Toulouse)

IV.11 Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics Session: Quality, Product Differentiation, and Reputation
320 Shillman Hall

• Leo Simon (University of California, Berkeley)
  "Location-then-Price Games when Consumers have Heterogeneous Tastes and Incomes" (with Gordon Rausser and Ross Wildes)

  Discussant: Gautam Gowrisankaran (Harvard University)

• Tian Xia (University of California, Davis)
  "Brand Choices Vs. Periodic Sales as Tools for Grocery Retailer Price Discrimination: Evidence for Produce Commodities" (with Richard Sexton)

  Discussant: Gautam Gowrisankaran (Harvard University)

• Jill McCluskey (Washington State University)
  "Collective Reputation and Quality" (with Jason Winfree)

  Discussant: Gautam Gowrisankaran (Harvard University)

• Rachael Goodhue (University of California, Davis)
  "Contracts, and Quality: Hypotheses and Empirical Analysis of the California Winegrape Industry" (with Dale Heien, Hyunok Lee, and Daniel Sumner)

  Discussant: Gautam Gowrisankaran (Harvard University)

IV.12 The Persistence of Profits in the Long Run: Theory and Evidence
135 Shillman Hall

• Philip Auerswald (Harvard University)
  "The Complexity of Production, Technological Volatility and Inter-Industry Difference in the Persistence of Profits Above the Norm"

  Discussant: Laura Rondi (CEFRIS-CNR, Institute for Economic Research on Firms and Growth)

• John Cable (University of Wales)
  "Rent Capital: A Structural Time Series Analysis of Corporate Earnings Dynamics" (with Richard Jackson)

  Discussant: Cindy Alexander (Council of Economic Advisors and U.S. Department of Justice)

• Santanu Roy (Florida International University)
  "Investment, Externalities and Industry Dynamics"

  Discussant: Christian Hogendorn (Wesleyan University)

• Ajit Singh (Cambridge University)
  "Corporate Profitability and the Dynamics of Competition in Emerging Markets: A Times Series Analysis" (with Jack Glen and Kevin Lee)

  Discussant: Robert Masson (Cornell University)

IV.13 Optimal Policy Against Cartels
305 Shillman Hall

• Jeroen Hinloopen (University of Amsterdam)
  "Cartel stability with time-dependent detection probabilities"

  Discussant: Roy Epstein (Boston College)

• Stephen Martin (Purdue University)
  "Competition Policy, Sunk Cost, and Collusion"

  Discussant: Richard Gilbert (University of California, Berkeley)

• Joseph Harrington (Johns Hopkins University)
  "Equilibrium Cartel Pricing in the Presence of an Antitrust Authority"

  Discussant: H. Peter Mollgaard (Copenhagen Business School)

Saturday, Keynote Lunch Address
Higginson Room at Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Avenue

Saturday, Panel and Paper Sessions V

V.1 Theoretical Studies of Access Pricing in Network Industries
210 Shillman Hall

• Ulrich Berger (Vienna University of Economics)
  "Two-Way Interconnection and the Collusive Role of the Access Charge"

  Discussant: Narine Badasyan (Virginia Tech)

• Fabio Manenti (Universita di Padova)
  "Plastic Clashes: Competition Among Closed and Open Systems in the Credit Card Industry" (with Ernesto Somma)

  Discussant: Marius Schwartz (Georgetown University)

• G. Martin Paredes (New York University)
  "Regulation and Investment Incentives in a Bottleneck Industry"

  Discussant: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell (Harvard Business School)

• David Malueg (Tulane University)
  "Interconnection Incentives of a Large Network Facing Multiple Rivals" (with Marius Schwartz)

  Discussant: Michael Baye (Indiana University)

V.2 Models of Collusion
105 Shillman Hall

• Susan Athey (Stanford University)
  "Collusion with Persistent Cost Shocks" (with Kyle Bagwell)

  Discussant: Joseph Harrington (Johns Hopkins University)

• Sencer Ecer (LECG)
  "Multilevel Contact"

  Discussant: Jeroen Hinloopen (University of Amsterdam)

• Dan Kovenock (Purdue University)
  "Endogenous Rationing and Tacit Collusion in Price-Quantity Supergames" (with Emmanuel Dechenaux)

  Discussant: Drew Fudenberg (Harvard University)

• Xavier Mas Manez (European University Institute)
  "License Auctions and Market Entry"

  Discussant: Leo Simon (University of California, Berkeley)

V.3 Theoretical Topics on Price Discrimination
135 Shillman Hall

• Roger Betancourt (University of Maryland)
  "Packaging as Commodity Bundling and Inter-Type Competition in Retailing"

  Discussant: Klaus Conrad (University of Mannheim)

• Switgard Feuerstein (University of Heidelberg)
  "Price Discrimination in Oligopolies with Best-Response Asymmetry"

  Discussant: Lynne Pepall (Tufts University)

• Konstantinos Serfes (SUNY Stony Brook)
  "Quality Information and Oligopolistic Price Discrimination" (with Qihong Liu)

  Discussant: Andrew Stivers (Oregon State University)

• Christopher Snyder (George Washington University)
  "Revenue Consequences of Vaccines Versus Drug Treatments" (with Michael Kremer)

  Discussant: Corinne Langinier (Iowa State University)

V.4 Empirical Studies of Industry Dynamics
206 Egan Center

• Ioannis Ganoulis (European Central Bank)
  "Business Shocks: Do They Differ Across Locations and Industries?" (with Annalisa Ferrando)

  Discussant: Rebeca de Juan (UNED)

• Vivek Ghosal (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  "Impact of Uncertainty and Sunk Costs on Firm Survival and Industry Dynamics"

  Discussant: Patrick Musso (IDEFI, CNRS)

• Blandina Oliveira (Polytechnic Institute of Leiria)
  "Testing Gibrat's Law: An Empirical Evidence from a Panel of Portuguese Manufacturing Firms" (with Adelino Fortunato)

  Discussant: Vivek Ghosal (Georgia Institute of Technology)

• Angelo Secchi (S.Anna School of Advanced Studies)
  " On the Laplace Distribution of Firms Growth Rates" (with Giulio Bottazzi)

  Discussant: Todor Gradev (Trinity College Dublin)

V.5 Measuring Economies of Scale and Scope
306 Egan Center

• Massimiliano Piacenza (Ceris-CNR)
  "Scope and Scale Economies in Multi-Utilities: Evidence from Gas, Water and Electricity Combinations" (with Giovanni Fraquelli and David Vannoni)

  Discussant: David Saal (Aston Business School)

• Paolo Mancuso (Universite degli studi di Roma "Tor Vergata")
  "Cost Subadditivity of the Italian Fixed Telecommunication Operator" (with Elisa Battistoni)

  Discussant: Harald Gruber (European Investment Bank)

• Jonas Mansson (Vaxjo University)
  "Economies of Scale in the Swedish Sawmill Industry"

  Discussant: Daniel Flores-Guri (Skidmore College)

• Teresa Harrison (Drexel University)
  "Hospital Pairings and Cost Savings from Consolidation"

  Discussant: Maria Letizia Giorgetti (University of Milan)

V.6 Empirical Studies of Price Discrimination
305 Shillman Hall

• Julie Holland Mortimer (Harvard University)
  "Welfare Effects of Third Degree Price Discrimination: Evidence from the Introduction of DVDs"

  Discussant: Brian Viard (Stanford University Graduate School of Business)

• Kenneth Train (University of California, Berkeley)
  "Taking Price Discrimination to the Next Level: Estimation of Customer-Specific Demand Parameters"

  Discussant: J. Douglas Zona (Cornerstone Research)

• Christina Kelton (University of Cincinnati) and Margaret Pasquale (University of Cincinnati)
  "Explaining Pharmaceutical Transaction Prices: A Cross-Sectional Study with Buyer Bargaining Strength" (with Michelle Dusing and Jeff Guo)

  Discussant: Suchin Virabhak (Columbia University)

V.7 Intraindustry Studies
215 Shillman Hall

• Tony Cockerill (University of Durham)
  "Structure, Conduct and Performance in the European Metals Sector"

  Discussant: Maria Pas Espinosa (Universidad del Pais Vasco)

• Andrew Eckert (University of Alberta)
  "Retail Gasoline Price Cycles and Cross-sectional Price Dispersion" (with Douglas West)

  Discussant: Sabien Dobbelaere (K.U. Leuven)

• Jorge Andres Ferrando Yanez (LEI-CREST, ENPC)
  "Diversification and Performance in the Electricity and Natural Gas Supply Industries" (with Faye Steiner)

  Discussant: Kevin Forbes (Catholic University)

V.8 Sharing the Costs of Copyright Infringement: Secondary Copyright Liability in a Digital Age
335 Shillman Hall

• Stacey Dogan (Northeastern University)
  "Legislating Technology in the Era of Digital Copies: Has the Common Law Failed?"

  Discussant: Glynn Lunney (Tulane University)

• Richard Gilbert (University of California, Berkeley)
  "Copyright Enforcement"

  Discussant: Chuck Chakraborty (Brattle Group)

• Michael Meurer (Boston University)
  "Sharing Copyrighted Works"

  Discussant: Iain Cockburn (Boston University)

• Alfred Yen (Boston College School of Law)
  "Sharing the Costs of Copyright Infringement: Secondary Copyright Liability in a Digital Age"

  Discussant: Glynn Lunny (Tulane University)

V.9 Empirical Analyses of E-Commerce (2)
320 Shillman Hall

• Erik Brynjolfsson (MIT Sloan School of Management)
  "Consumer Surplus in the Digital Economy: Estimating the Value of Increased Product Variety" (with Michael Smith and Yu Hu)

  Discussant: Mathew Gentzkow (Harvard University)

• Sara Fisher Ellison (MIT)
  "Tax Sensitivity and Home State Bias in Internet Purchasing" (with Glenn Ellison)

  Discussant: Ginger Jin (University of Maryland)

• Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto)
  "Switching Costs or Changing Preferences? Understanding the Effects of Denial of Service Attacks"

  Discussant: Ulrich Kaiser (University of Southern Denmark)

• Judith Chevalier (Yale University School of Management)
  "Measuring Prices and Price Competition Online: Amazon and Barnes and Noble (with Austan Goolsbee)

  Discussant: Chris Foreman (Carnegie Mellon University)

V.10 Merger Policy 2
340 Egan Center

• Roy Epstein (Boston College)
  "PCAIDS Merger Simulation with Nests: A New Framework for Unilateral Effects Analysis" (with Daniel Rubinfeld)

  Discussant: Selkar Dalkir (Micra, Inc.)

• Aldo Gonzalez (University of Toulouse)
  "Divestitures and Efficiency Gains Screening in Merger Control"

  Discussant: Paul Heidhues (WZB)

• Mark Jamison (University of Florida)
  "Quality-Improving Portfolio Effects in European Union Competition Policy"

  Discussant: Valerie Suslow (University of Michigan Business School)

• Lawrence White (New York University)
  "Market Definition and the Identification of Market Power in Monopolization Cases: A Critique and a Proposal" (with Philip Nelson)

  Discussant: Luis Cabral (New York University)

V.11 Corporate Finance
440 Egan Center

• Cindy Alexander (Council of Economic Advisors and U.S. Department of Justice)
  "Corporate Stock Ownership as an Alignment Mechanism: Hidden Actions and the Determinants of Corporate and Insider Ownership"

  Discussant: Elizabeth Klee (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)

• Mehmet Beceren (Brandeis University and Harvard Business School)
  "Corporate Governance, Product Market Competition and Diversification: Evidence from the M&A Wave of the 1990s"

  Discussant: Lawrence Franko (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

• Constantin Gurdgiev (Trinity College, Dublin)
  "Exogenous Liquidity Supply in Presence of Repudiation Risk and Private Asset Recovery"

  Discussant: Yoonhee Tina Chang (University of Warwick)

V.12 Industrial Organization Theory
406 Egan Center

• Ofer Azar (Northwestern University)
  "The Effect of External Incentives on Monitoring and Firm-Provided Incentives"

  Discussant: Jaehong Kim (Handong University)

• Richard Miller (Wesleyan University)
  "Diminishing Returns and Market Structure"

  Discussant: James MacDonald (U.S. Department of Agriculture)

• Kjell Lommerud (University of Bergen)
  "Downstream Merger with Oligopolistic Input Suppliers" (with Odd Rune Straume and Lars Sorgard)

  Discussant: Daniel Richards (Tufts University)

Saturday, Panel and Paper Sessions VI

VI.1 Theory of the Firm
105 Shillman Hall

• Andreas Bentz (Dartmouth College)
  "Public-Private Partnerships: What Should the State Buy? (with Paul Grout and Maija Halonen)

  Discussant: Rohan Pitchford (Australian National University)

• Marco Castaneda (University of Kentucky)
  "The Hold-up Problem in a Repeated Relationship"

  Discussant: Abraham Wickelgren (U.S. Federal Trade Commission)

• Oliver Hart (Harvard University)
  "A Theory of Firm Scope" (with Bengt Holmstrom)

  Discussant: Birger Wernerfelt (MIT Sloan School of Management)

VI.2 Models of Competition with Capacity Constraints
210 Shillman Hall

• Massimo De Francesco (University of Siena)
  "The Competitive Outcome of the Entry-Capacity and Pricing Game in a Large Market"

  Discussant: Stefano Comino (Universita di Padova)

• Christiaan Hogendorn (Wesleyan University)
  "Capacity Investment with a Capacity Exchange"

  Discussant: Kjell Lommerud (University of Bergen)

• Luca Lambertini (Universita di Bologna)
  "Price vs. Quantity in a Dynamic Duopoly Game with Capacity Accumulation" (with Roberto Cellini)

  Discussant: Mark Dudey (Rice University)

VI.3 Theoretical Models of Advertising
215 Shillman Hall

• Ralf Dewenter (University of Essen)
  "Media Markets with Habit Formation"

  Discussant: Victor Tremblay (Oregon State University)

• Ulrich Doraszelski (Stanford University)
  "Goodwill and Awareness Advertising: Implications for Industry Dynamics"

  Discussant: Klaus Conrad (University of Mannheim)

• Tore Nilssen (University of Oslo)
  "The TV Industry: Advertising and Programming" (with Lars Sorgard)

  Discussant: Maria Arbatskaya (Emory University)

VI.4 Panel Studies of European Industry Dynamics
206 Egan Center

• Jan De Loecker (LICOS-Centre for Transition Economics)
  "Are EU Candidate Countries Ready for the Single Market? Comparing Performance with an EU Benchmark"

  Discussant: Ioannis Ganoulis (European Central Bank)

• Todor Gradev (Trinity College Dublin)
  "Industry Dynamics and Productivity Growth in Bulgarian Manufacturing: Evidence from Firm Level Data (1995-2000)"

  Discussant: Blandina Oliveira (Polytechnic Institute of Leiria)

• Patrick Musso (IDEFI (CNRS))
  "Exiting Firms' Patterns: Evidence from a French Panel Data Set" (with Flora Bellone and Michel Quere)

  Discussant: Angelo Secchi (S. Anna School of Advanced Studies)

VI.5 Privatization and Regulation In Developing Countries
306 Egan Center

• Elmira Ibrayeva (Florida State University)
  "Markets and Competition in Transitional Economies"

  Discussant: Ajit Singh (University of Cambridge)

• Alejandro Mungaray (Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico)
  "An Analytical Model of Poor Firms in Developing Countries: The Case of Mexico" (with Martin Ramirez-Urquidy)

  Discussant: Frederico Rocha (Instituto de Economia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/Brasil)

• Jose Miguel Sanchez (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
  "Using a Model Firm to Benchmark Utilities: The Case of Chile"

  Discussant: Massimiliano Piacenza (Ceris-CNR)

VI.6 Structural Empirical Market Models
135 Shillman Hall

• Amil Petrin (NBER and University of Chicago)
  "Omitted Product Attributes in Discrete Choice Models" (with Kenneth Train)

  Discussant: Mark Ivaldi (IDEI, University of Toulouse)

• J. Douglas Zona (Cornerstone Research)
  "Towards a Structural, Non-Parametric Model of Bidding Behavior" (with Robert Porter and Nickolay Moshkin)

  Discussant: Julie Holland Mortimer (Harvard University)

• Mark McCabe (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  "The Pricing of Economics Journals" (with Daniel Rubinfeld and Aviv Nevo)

  Discussant: Kenneth Train (University of California, Berkeley)

VI.7 The Visual Media
305 Shillman Hall

• Darlene Chisholm (Suffolk University)
  "Spatial Competition and Demand: An Application to Motion Pictures" (with George Norman)

  Discussant: Tian Xia (University of California, Davis)

• Michele Cincera (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
  "Monopoly Practices and Competitive Behavior in the French Satellite Pay-TV Market" (with Abdul Noury and Yannick Scaramozzino)

  Discussant: Frederic Warzynski (IDEI, University of Toulouse)

• Stanford Levin (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville)
  "The Role of the Internet on the Law and Economics of the Motion Picture Industry" (with John Meisel and Timothy Sullivan)

  Discussant: Michael Meurer (Boston University School of Law)

VI.8 Regional Comparisons of Innovative Activity
406 Egan Center

• Thitima Puttitanun (University of Colorado at Boulder)
  "Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation in Developing Countries" (with Yongmin Chen)

  Discussant: Stacey Dogan (Northeastern University)

• Dirk Czarnitzki (Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW))
  "Research and Development: Financial Constraints and the Role of Public Funding for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises"

  Discussant: Claudio Piga (University of Nottingham Business School)

• Alexander Eickelpasch (DIW Berlin)
  "Knowledge Transfer and Innovation in Subsidized Regional Networks: Empirical Evidence of a German Promotion Scheme"

  Discussant: James Adams (University of Florida)

VI.9 Are Suppliers Honest about Quality?
320 Shillman Hall

• Andrew Ching (UCLA and Ohio State University)
  "Dynamic Competition in Advertising Under Quality Uncertainty with an Application to a Prescription Drug Market"

  Discussant: Andrew Eckert (University of Alberta)

• Sofronis Clerides (Yale University)
  "Quality Choices of Mediterranean Holiday Destinations" (with Paris Nearchou and Panos Pashardes)

  Discussant: Timothy Hannan (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)

• Ginger Z. Jin (University of Maryland)
  "Blind Trust Online: Experimental Evidence from Baseball Cards" (with Andrew Kato)

  Discussant: Klaus Abbink (University of Nottingham)

• Christopher Mayer (Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania)
  "Why Do Airline Schedules Systematically Underestimate Travel Time? (with Todd Sinai)

  Discussant: Darin Lee (LECG)

VI.10 Panel: Microsoft---Where Do We Go from Here?
335 Shillman Hall

• Timothy Brennan (University of Maryland-Baltimore County)

• Shane Greenstein (Northwestern University)

• F. M. Scherer (Princeton University)

• Richard Schmalensee (MIT Sloan School of Management)

VI.11 Experimental Economics
340 Egan Center

• Timothy Cason (Purdue University)
  "A Market with Frictions in the Matching Process: An Experimental Study" (with Charles Noussair)

  Discussant: Charles Thomas (University of Rochester)

• Sujoy Chakravarty (University of Texas at Dallas)
  "Product Adoption in the Presence of Network Externalities: Some Experimental Evidence"

  Mike Price (University of Maryland)

• Charles Thomas (University of Rochester)
  "The Effect of Offer Verifiability on the Relationship between Auctions and Multilateral Negotiations" (with Bart Wilson)

  Discussant: Sujoy Chakravarty (University of Texas at Dallas)

• Mike Price (University of Maryland)
  "Conspiracies and Secret Price Discounts in the Field: Some Initial Evidence from the Marketplace" (with John List)

  Discussant: Bart Wilson (George Mason University)

VI.12 The Interface between International Economics and Industrial Organization
440 Egan Center

• Teodora Cosac (Canadian Competition Bureau)
  "Vertical Restraints and Parallel Imports with Differentiated Products"

  Discussant: Xeni Dassiou (City University)

• Xeni Dassiou (City University)
  "Trade and Linked Exchange: Price Discrimination Through Transaction Bundling" (with Chong Choi and Daniel Maldoom)

  Discussant: Martino De Stefano (Boston University)

• Martino De Stefano (Boston University)
  "Exchange Rate Pass-Through in the Italian Car Market"

  Discussant: Sarah Guillou (University de Nice Sophia, Antipolis)

• Sarah Guillou (Universite de Nice Sophia-Antipolis)
  Exchange Rate Variations and Pricing behavior of French exporters

  Discussant: Eckhard Siggel (Concordia University)

Saturday, Blue Man Group Performance
Bus at 6:30 p.m. in front of the Egan Center

Sunday, Brasserie Jo Brunch
The Colonnade Hotel, 120 Huntington Avenue