Industrial organization program meeting.

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, HEC Montreal; and Jean-Francois Houde, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Price Negotiation in Differentiated Product Markets: The Case of Insured Mortgages in Canada"

* Carlos E. Noton, University of Warwick, "Revealing Bargaining Power through Actual Wholesale Prices"

* Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER; Theresa Kuchler, Stanford University; Jonathan D. Levin, Stanford University and NBER; and Neel Sundaresan, eBay Research Labs, "Learning from Seller Experiments in Online Markets" (NBER Working Paper No. 17385)

Summaries of these papers may be found at: http://www.nber.org/~confer/2012/IOs12/summary.htm