Call For Papers
39th EARIE Annual Conference

2-4 September 2012, Rome (Italy)

LUISS Guido Carli & Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata"

The LUISS Guido Carli and the Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata" are very pleased to organize the 39th Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE) (Note that EARIE 2012 will run from Sunday to Tuesday.)

ABOUT THE EARIE CONFERENCE: The annual EARIE conference provides a platform to present and discuss the latest research in the wider field of industrial economics. This popular event attracts more than 400 participants annually. The conference website is http://www.earie2012.org. The EARIE 2012 will take place in the centrally located campus of LUISS Guido Carli. The social programme will include private visits to the Terme di Caracalla (Baths of Caracalla) and the Cappella Sistina (Sistine Chapel).

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: All interested researchers are invited to submit their papers, until 15 March, at http://www.webmeets.com/earie/2012, or through the conference website http://www.earie2012.org

CONFERENCE PROGRAM: The program will consist of contributed sessions and invited sessions, selected by the 2012 EARIE Scientific Committee, chaired by Y Spiegel (Tel Aviv University).

SPEAKERS: The invited keynote speakers for EARIE 2012 are L Einav (Stanford) and M Katz (Berkeley). The conference will open with an invited session on internet, online advertising and e-commerce, with S Athey (Harvard and Microsoft), P McAfee (Yahoo! Research) and H Varian (UC Berkeley and Google). Other confirmed invited presenters are L Benkard (Stanford), Y K Che (Columbia), C Fershtman (Tel Aviv), A Gambardella (Bocconi), A Skrzypacz (Stanford), J Sutton (LSE) and O Toivanen (KU Leuven).

YOUNG ECONOMISTS' ESSAY AWARDS: The purpose of the Young Economists' Essay Awards (YEEA) is to encourage young researchers to participate in the conference. The awards are given for exceptionally innovative and high-level papers written by researchers who (a) are under the age of 35 and (b) have completed their PhD less than 5 years ago.

FURTHER INFORMATION: If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at: info@earie2012.org. We would appreciate it if you could pass this Call for Papers on to other colleagues who might be interested in this event.

We look forward to seeing you this coming September in Rome!

With best regards,

The EARIE 2012 Local Organizing Committee
T Valletti (Chair), G Di Giorgio, L Giardino-Karlinger, G M Gros-Pietro, A Iozzi, G Piga