Industrial Organization Program Meeting (Program and Working Group Meetings‪)‬

The NBER's Industrial Organization (IO) Program, directed by Nancy L. Rose of MIT, met jointly with NBER's Program on Environmental and Energy Economics at Stanford University on February 8. Erin T. Mansur, NBER and Yale School of Management, and Catherine Wolfram, NBER and University of California, Berkeley, organized the combined session. On the following day, the 10 Program held its winter meeting, also at Stanford University. The following papers were discussed during the two-day gathering: Haitao Yin, University of Michigan, and Howard Kunreuther and Matthew W. White, University of Pennsylvania and NBER, "Risk-Based Pricing and Risk-Reducing Effort: Does the Private Insurance Market Reduce Environmental Accidents?"