NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2008

Industrial Organization Workshop

Ginger Zhe Jin and Chad Syverson, Organizers

July 18 and 19, 2008

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Charles A and B

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, JULY 18:
12:00 n	Lunch – Riverfront Room
1:00 pm	BEN SHILLER, University of Pennsylvania
	JOEL WALDFOGEL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
	Music for a Song: An Empirical Look at Uniform Song Pricing and Its Alternatives
	Discussant: THOMAS HOLMES, University of Minnesota and NBER
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	GREGORY CRAWFORD, University of Arizona
	ALI YURUKOGLU, New York University
	The Welfare Effects of Bundling in Multi-Channel Television Markets
	Discussant: AMIL PETRIN, University of Minnesota and NBER
3:45 pm	Break
4:00 pm	JUDITH CHEVALIER, Yale University and NBER
	DAVID HARRINGTON, Kenyon College
	FIONA SCOTT MORTON, Yale University and NBER
	Differentiated to Death?
	Discussant: AVIV NEVO, Northwestern University and NBER
5:15 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Dinner – Legal Sea Foods, Kendall Sq., Cambridge, MA
SATURDAY, JULY 19
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	PHILLIP LESLIE and ALAN SORENSEN,
	Stanford University and NBER
	The Welfare Effects of Ticket Resale
	Discussant: MARC RYSMAN, Boston University
10:15 am	Break
10:30 am	LIRAN EINAV, Stanford University and NBER
	MARK JENKINS, Stanford University
	JONATHAN LEVIN, Stanford University and NBER
	Contract Pricing in Consumer Credit Markets
	Discussant: Victor Stango, UC, Davis
11:45 am	Lunch – Parkview Room
12:45 pm	RON GOETTLER, Carnegie Mellon University
	BRETT GORDON, Columbia University
	Durable Goods Oligopoly with Innovation: Theory and Empirics
	Discussant: JOHN RUST, University of Maryland and NBER
2:00 pm	Break
2:15 pm	RALPH SIEBERT, Purdue University
	CHRISTINE ZULEHNER, University of Vienna
	The Impact of Market Demand and Innovation on Market Structure
	Discussant: C. LANIER BENKARD, Stanford University and NBER
3:30 pm	Adjourn
6/30/08