Topics in Industrial Organization

Topics in Industrial Organization

The NBER held a conference on "Topics in Industrial Organization" in Cambridge on July 31 and August 1. NBER researchers Paul L. Joskow and Nancy L. Rose, both of MIT, organized the following program:

Severin Borenstein, University of Michigan, "Price

Discrimination in Retail Gasoline Markets"

Discussant: Andrea L. Shepard, MIT

Ann F. Friedlaender, MIT, "Efficient Rail Rates and

Deregulation"

Discussant: John R. Meyer, Harvard University

Michael A. Salinger, Columbia University, "A Test of

Successive Monopoly and Foreclosure Effects:

Vertical Integration between Cable Systems and

Pay Service"

Discussant: Paul L. Joskow

Scott E. Masten and Edward A. Snyder, University of

Michigan, and James W. Meehan, Jr., Colby

College, "The Cost of Organization"

Discussant: Ingo Volgelsang, Boston University

Randal R. Rucker, North Carolina State University,

and Keith B. Leffler, University of Washington,

"Transaction Costs and Efficient Organization of

Production: A Study of Timber Harvesting"

Discussant: R. Glenn Hubbard, NBER and Columbia

University

William P. Rogerson, Northwestern University,

"Profit Regulation of Defense Contractors and Prizes

for Innovation" (This paper is summarized in

"Studies of Firms …

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Publication information: Article title: Topics in Industrial Organization. Contributors: Not available. Journal title: NBER Reporter. Publication date: Fall 1989. Page number: 19+. © 1999 National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. COPYRIGHT 1989 Gale Group.

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