Call for Papers:
 

CEPR-JIE Conference on Applied Industrial Organization; Jerusalem, 17-19 May 2017
 

We are writing to invite you to submit a paper proposal or to express your interest in attending the 18th CEPR Conference on Applied Industrial Organization (IO), which will take place in Jerusalem, 17-19 May 2017. The event is hosted by the Economics Department of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and will be organised by Gregory S. Crawford (University of Zurich and CEPR), Alon Eizenberg (Hebrew University and CEPR), David Genesove (Hebrew University and CEPR), and Saul Lach (Hebrew University and CEPR).

Financial support for the conference is generously provided by the Ben-Porath Fund at The Maurice Falk Institute for Economic Research in Israel, the Journal of Industrial Economics, and CEPR.
 
Paper submissions and deadlines:
The deadline for submissions is Monday, 28 November, 2016 18:00 (GMT).  Authors will be notified about whether their paper has been accepted in January 2017.

Authors who are CEPR members can upload their submission on http://dev3.cepr.org/accounts/login.asp?NewURL=/accounts/config/accountconfig.asp. Authors who are not CEPR members can email their submission to Chloe Smith at csmith@cepr.org. Please indicate in your email whether you will be able to cover your own travel and accommodation costs. 

Conference details:
The Applied IO conference series seeks to contribute to the understanding of the breadth of topics analysed within the field of Industrial Organization, including demand, productivity, competition in the short- and long-run, innovation, investment, auctions, to develop empirical protocols and tests of economic models, to promote the exchange and the dissemination of results at the forefront of research, and finally, to evaluate current competition and regulation policies. It will cover the state of the art in both applied and empirical Industrial Organization.

The Keynote speeches this year will be given by:
Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google
Joe Harrington, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

The conference will be preceded by the 14th CEPR School in Applied Industrial Organization, which will take place on Tuesday 16 May 2017. The aim of the annual School is to provide a forum for intellectual exchanges between PhD students and more experienced researchers in the field of industrial organization. More senior researchers are invited to encourage their students to apply to the school. A separate invitation will be sent for the school in the following weeks.

Please forward this call to others, especially junior faculty, who might have papers suitable for the conference.
 
Papers will be selected by a committee formed by the organisers and the members of the steering committee of the Applied IO Programme.

Bart Bronnenberg (Tilburg University and CEPR)
Gregory S. Crawford (University of Zurich and CEPR)
Peter J. Davis (Cornerstone Research)
Jan De Loecker (Princeton University, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, NBER, and CEPR)
Alon Eizenberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and CEPR)
Alessandro Gavazza (London School of Economics, NBER, and CEPR)
David Genesove (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and CEPR)
Rachel Griffith (University of Manchester, IFS, and CEPR)
Saul Lach (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and CEPR)
Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim and CEPR)
Andrea Prat (Columbia University and CEPR)
Katharine Rockett (University of Essex and CEPR)
Philipp Schmidt-Dengler (University of Vienna and CEPR)
Frank Verboven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and CEPR)
Nikos Vettas (Athens University of Economics & Business and CEPR)

Funding:
We are unfortunately unable to guarantee accommodation expenses will be covered for all participants on the programme (though we will try). We will, however, assist with hotel recommendations. Please let us know with your submission whether you wish to be considered for accommodation funding. Funding priority will be given to junior faculty. As typical, travel expenses will only be covered in exceptional circumstances, according to the usual CEPR travel guidelines.
 
Contact information:
If you have any difficulties registering for this meeting, please contact Chloe Smith, Events Officer, at csmith@cepr.org or +44 (0) 207 183 8804. You may also like to read our Guidelines on how to register online for CEPR Meetings at http://www.cepr.org/content/Electronic-Meetings-Organisation.

Yours sincerely,

Greg Crawford
Alon Eizenberg
David Genesove
Saul Lach