The Joint CSIO/IDEI Industrial Organization Workshop
April 26-27, 2000
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

        The CSIO jointly sponsored this workshop with the Institut D’Economie Industrielle at the University of Toulouse.  A list of the papers presented follows.  Select a title to download an electronic copy of the paper.



Jean Tirole
"Cooperation Among Competitors: The Economics Of Credit Card Associations"
(joint with Jean-Charles Rochet)

Robert Porter

Empirical Implications of Equilibrium Bidding in First-Price Symmetric Common Value Auctions
CSIO Working Paper #0008  (joint with Ken Henricks and Joris Pinkse)

Jacques Cremer
“The Industrial Economics of the Internet Backbone”

This lecture was based on three papers:
“The Pricing of Critical applications in the Internet” (joint with Cyril Hariton),
Network Externalities and Universal Service Obligation in the Internet"
Connectivity in the Commercial Internet”  (joint with Patrick Rey and Jean Tirole)

Asher Wolinsky
“Second Opinions and Price Competition: Inefficiency in the Market for Expert Advice”
(joint with Wolfgang Pesendorfer)

Claude Crampes
“Product Specification, Multi-Product Screening and Bundling: The Case of Pay TV”
(joint with Abraham Hollander)

David Dranove and Mark Satterthwaite
“Information is Good Except When Its Not:  The Effect of Health Care Quality Report Cards”
(joint with Daniel Kessler and Mark McClellan)

Patrick Rey
“Capacity Constraints, Mergers and Collusion”
(joint with O. Compte and F. Jenny)

William Rogerson
On the Use of Simple Menus of Linear Contracts in Cost-Based Procurement and Regulation