Call for Papers

The 22nd Annual International Industrial Organization Conference 

Park Plaza, Boston, Massachusetts

May 3-5, 2024

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The 22nd annual International Industrial Organization Conference will be held in person from 

May 3-5 at the Park Plaza in Boston, Massachusetts. The conference will be hosted by the Department of Economics at Northeastern University. The conference will include panel discussions and contributed sessions on all topics in industrial organization including antitrust economics and regulation. 

We are pleased to announce that Kenneth Hendricks will receive the Distinguished Fellow Award, and David Sappington will receive the Distinguished Service Award.

We are also happy to announce that the conference will feature three invited sessions:

Digital Economics

• Organizer: Andrew Rhode, Toulouse School of Economics
• Chair: Andrew Rhode, Toulouse School of Economics
• Presenters:   Alessandro Bonatti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Justin Johnson, Cornell University; Jacopo Perego, Columbia University; Greg Taylor, University of Oxford

Healthcare and Industrial Organization

• Organizer: Elena Prager, University of Rochester
• Chair: Leemore Dafny, Harvard University
• Presenters:  Ryan McDevitt, Duke University; Martin Gaynor, Carnegie Mellon University; Juan Pablo Atal, University of Pennsylvania; Ashley Swanson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Information Design in Industrial Organization

• Organizer: Fei Li, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Chair: Jidong Zhou, Yale University
• Presenters:   Nima Haghpanah, University of Pennsylvania; Shota Ichihashi, Queen’s University; Teddy Kim, Emory University; Fei Li, University of North Carolina, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

To submit a paper, please visit:

DEADLINES: Paper submissions through the web link above will be accepted through January 31, 2024. There is no submission fee. Decisions will be announced by February 23, 2024. Paper presenters must register by March 4, 2024. 

CONFERENCE GUIDELINES: Only one paper is allowed per submitter. The individual submitting the paper is expected to present if accepted. Paper acceptances are also conditional on the submitter's willingness to serve as a discussant in another session of the conference. Discussants are selected from conference presenters and attendants. If you wish to propose a full session, contact the Program Chair, Mo Xiao at mxiao@arizona.edu.

Again this year, the Industrial Organization Society is pleased to award the following two prizes which include an honorarium of $2,500. To be considered for one of the prizes, completed papers must be uploaded to the conference website by January 31, 2024.

• The 16th annual University of Florida Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize will be awarded for the best paper in antitrust economics.



• The 16th annual University of Florida Public Utility Research Center Prize will be awarded for the best paper in regulatory economics.

RISING STAR SESSIONS: The Rising Star sessions showcase the best graduate student research in industrial organization, and provide emerging scholars with both heightened visibility and expert feedback on their research. Session chairs and discussants are drawn from established Industrial Organization scholars, and many of the presenters in Rising Star sessions develop long-standing professional relationships with their session participants. To ensure we give student work consideration for these prestigious sessions, all graduate student submissions must go through the Rising Stars Area on the submission portal. Papers that are not selected for a Rising Star session will be considered for inclusion in a general session at the IIOC. 

SPONSORED SESSIONS: This year there will be several sessions devoted to frontier topics that are sponsored by companies and institutes working on issues related to Industrial Organization. The Industrial Organization Society will select relevant topics and the program committee will select papers that are best fit with these topics. All conference submissions related to these topics will be considered for inclusion in these sessions.

SPONSORS: 2024 sponsors will be announced soon. Last year's sponsors included: AlixPartners. Amazon, Analysis Group, applEcon, Bates White, Brattle Group, Charles River Associates, Compass Lexecon, Cornerstone, Keystone Strategy, NERA, Secretariat Economists, University of Florida PPRC, University of Florida PURC, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:  Gaurab Aryal, Washington University; Heski Bar-Isaac, University of Toronto; Zach Brown, University of Michigan; Chris Conlon, New York University; Nicolas de Roos, University of Sydney; Chiarra Farronato, Harvard University; Alberto Galasso, University of Toronto; Paul Grieco, Pennsylvania State University; Martin Hackmann, UCLA; Chun-Yu Ho, University at Albany, SUNY; Brett Hollenbeck, University of California, Los Angeles; Karam Kang, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Thomas Koch, Federal Trade Commission; Haizhen Lin, Indiana University; Qihong Liu, University of Oklahoma; Jingfeng Lu, National University of Singapore; Fernando Luco, Texas A&M University; Charles Murry, Boston College; Peter Newberry, University of Georgia; Aniko Oery, Carnegie Mellon University; Devesh Raval, Federal Trade Commission; Imke Reimers, Cornell University; Andrew Rhodes, Toulouse School of Economics; Gloria Sheu, Federal Reserve Board of Governors; Michelle Sovinsky, University of Mannheim; Ashley Swanson, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Matthijs Wildenbeest, University of Arizona; Jonathan Williams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

PROGRAM CHAIR: Mo Xiao, University of Arizona

FURTHER INFORMATION: 

The conference website will provide updated registration and schedule information. The preliminary conference program will be posted in early April.

We look forward to receiving your submissions.

Sincerely,

Mo Xiao

Program Committee Chair