Industrial Organization.

PositionProgram and Working Group Meetings

Members of the NBER's Industrial Organization Program met at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research on February 9-10. Faculty Research Fellow Myrto Kalouptsidi of Harvard University and Research Associate Jesse M. Shapiro of Brown University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* John Asker, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER; Allan Collard-Wexler, Duke University and NBER; and Jan De Loecker, Princeton University and NBER, "Market Power, Production (Mis)Allocation, and OPEC," (NBER Working Paper No. 23801)

* Jan De Loecker and Jan Eeckhout, University College London, "The Rise of Market Power and the Macroeconomic Implications" (NBER Working Paper No. 23687)

* Stefano DellaVigna, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, and Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER, "Uniform Pricing in U.S. Retail Chains" (NBER Working Paper No. 23996)

* German Gutierrez, New York University, and Thomas Philippon, New York University and NBER, "Declining Competition and Investment in the U.S." (NBER Working Paper No. 23583)

* Xiang Hui, MIT; Maryam Saeedi, Carnegie Mellon University; Steven Tadelis, University of California, Berkeley and NBER; and Giancarlo Spagnolo, SITE-Stockholm School of Economics, "Certification...

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