Industrial organization.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on Industrial Organization met in Palo Alto on January 29-30. Research Associates Philip Haile of Yale University and Katja Seim of the University of Pennsylvania organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Matthew L. Gentry, Tatiana Komarova, and Pasquale Schiraldi, London School of Economics, "Simultaneous First-Price Auctions with Preferences over Combinations: Identification, Estimation, and Application"

* Marie-Laure Allain and Claire Chambolle, Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau); Stephane Turolla, INRA (Rennes); and Sofia Villas-Boas, University of California, Berkeley, "The Impact of Retail Mergers on Food Prices: Evidence from France"

* Steven Berry and Philip Haile, Yale University and NBER, "Identification in Differentiated Products Markets" (NBER Working Paper No. 21500)

* Ainit Gandhi, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Jean-Francois Houde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER, "Measuring Substitution Patterns in Differentiated Products Industries"

* Dominic Cocy and Kane Sweeney, eBay Research Labs, and Bradley Larsen, Stanford University and NBER, "The Bidder Exclusion Effect" (NBER Working Paper No. 20523)

* A. Kerem Cosar, Stockholm School of Economics; Paul Grieco, Pennsylvania State University; Shengyu Li, Durham University; and Felix Tintelnot, University of Chicago and NBER, "What Drives Home Market Advantage?" (NBER Working Paper No. 21583)

* Anita Rao, University of Chicago, and Emily Y. Wang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Demand for 'Healthy' Products: False Claims in Advertising"

* Anita Rao, "Strategic R and D Investment Decisions in the Pharmaceutical Industry"

* Fernando Luco, Texas A&M University, "Who Benefits from Price Disclosure? Evidence from Retail Gasoline"

* Jean-Francois Houde; and Yuya Takahashi and Ricard Gil, Johns Hopkins University, "Preemptive Entry and Technology Diffusion in the Market for Drive-in Theaters"

* Mitsukuni Nishida, Johns Hopkins University, and Nathan Yang, McGill University, "Dynamic Franchising Decisions"

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