Industrial Organization.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meeting

Members of the NBER's Industrial Organization Program met February 8-9 at Stanford. Research Associates Eric Budish of the University of Chicago and Jean-Francois Houde of the University of Wisconsin-Madison organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Thomas G. Wollmann, University of Chicago and NBER, "How to Get Away with Merger: Stealth Consolidation and Its Effects on U.S. Healthcare"

* Sumit Agarwal, Georgetown University; John Grigsby, University of Chicago; Ali Hortacsu, University of Chicago and NBER; Gregor Matvos, University of Texas at Austin and NBER; Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER; and Vincent Yao, Georgia State University, "Searching for Approval"

* Panle Jia Barwick, Cornell University and NBER; Myrto Kalouptsidi, Harvard University and NBER; and Nahim B. Zahur, Cornell University, "China's Industrial Policy: An Empirical Evaluation"

* Daniel Bjorkegren, Brown University, "Competition in Network Industries: Evidence from Mobile Telecommunications in Rwanda"

* Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford University and NBER, and Michael Schwarz, Microsoft, "Carpooling and the Economics of Self-Driving Cars" (NBER Working Paper No. 24349)

* Pietro Tebaldi and Alexander Torgovitsky, University of Chicago, and Hanbin V. Yang, Harvard University, "Nonparametric Estimates of Demand in the California Health Insurance Exchange"

* Gaston Illanes, Northwestern University, and Manisha Padi, University of Chicago, "Competition, Asymmetric Information, and the Annuity Puzzle: Evidence from a Government-run Exchange in Chile"

* Yuyu Chen, Peking University...