Industrial organization program meeting.

PositionProgram and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on Industrial Organization, directed by Nancy Rose of MIT, met in Stanford, CA on February 10 and 11, 2012. Timothy F. Bresnahan, Stanford University, and Jakub Kastl, NBER and Stanford University, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Fernando Ferreira, University of Pennsylvania and NBER, and Amil Petrin and Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER, "Trade and Welfare in Motion Pictures"

* Jennifer Brown, Northwestern University and NBER, and Dylan B. Minor, Northwestern University "Selecting the Best? Spillover and Shadows in Elimination Tournaments" (NBER Working Paper No. 17639)

* Brian Viard, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, and Shihe Fu, "The Effect of Beijing's Driving Restrictions on Pollution and Economic Activity"

* Abe Dunn and Adam Hale Shapiro, Bureau of Economic Analysis, "Physician Market Power and Medical-Care Expenditures"

* Jason Allen, Bank of Canada; Robert Clark...

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