Industrial organization program meeting.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Conference news - Brief article

The NBER's Program on Industrial Organization, directed by Nancy Rose of MIT, met in Stanford, CA on February 25 and 26, 2011. John Asker, NBER and New York University, and Tom Hubbard, NBER and Northwestern University, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Alessandro Gavazza, New York University, "An Empirical Equilibrium Model of a Decentralized Asset Market"

* Joseph A. Cullen, Harvard University, "Dynamic Response to Environmental Regulation in the Electricity Industry"

* Ryan C. McDevitt, University of Rochester, " 'A' Business by Any Other Name: Firm Name Choice as a Signal of Firm Quality"

* Allan Collard-Wexler, New York University and NBER, "Mergers and Sunk Costs: An Application to the Ready-Mix...