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   SUMMER
  INSTITUTE 2009  | 
 
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   Productivity
  Program: Information Technology and Economics  | 
 
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   Susan
  Athey, Erik Brynjolfsson
  and Hal Varian, Organizers  | 
 
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   Royal
  Sonesta Hotel  | 
 
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   5
  Cambridge Parkway  | 
 
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   Cambridge,
  Massachusetts  | 
 
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   July
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   PRELIMINARY
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   FRIDAY, JULY 23:  | 
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   12:00 n  | 
  
   Lunch  | 
 
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   12:30 pm   | 
  
   Welcome  | 
 
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   Panel: IT and Economics on the Internet  | 
 
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   Eric Brill, eBay  | 
 
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   Rich Miner, Google  | 
 
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   Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM and
  MIT  | 
 
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   1:30 pm   | 
  
   Break  | 
 
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   1:40 pm      | 
  
   Sinan
  Aral, New York University  | 
 
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   Dylan Walker, New York University  | 
 
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   Discussant: Markus Mobius,
  Harvard  | 
 
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   2:40 pm  | 
  
   Break  | 
 
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   2:50 pm   | 
  
   Jacob Goldenberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem  | 
 
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   Gal Oestreicher-Singer, Tel Aviv
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   Schachar Reichman, Tel Aviv University  | 
 
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   Discussant: Juanjuan Zhang, MIT  | 
 
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   3:50 pm  | 
  
   Break  | 
 
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   4:10 pm  | 
  
   Ananidya Ghose, New York University  | 
 
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   Panos Ipeirotis, New York University  | 
 
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   Beibei
  Li, New York University  | 
 
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   Estimating Demand in the Hotel Industry by
  Mining User-Generated and Crowdsourced Content   | 
 
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   Discussant: Aviv Nevo,
  Northwestern  | 
 
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   5:10 pm  | 
  
   Adjourn  | 
 
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   6:30 pm  | 
  
   Group dinner,   | 
 
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   Bambara Restaurant,
  25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge ,MA (across the street from the Sonesta)  | 
 
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   SATURDAY, JULY 24:  | 
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   8:30 am  | 
  
   Coffee and Pastries  | 
 
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   9:00 am  | 
  
   Rahul Telang, Carnegie-Mellon University  | 
 
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   Rodrigo Belo, IST  Technical University of Lisbon  | 
 
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   Pedro Ferriera, Carnegie Mellon
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   Discussant: Shane Greenstein, Northwestern  | 
 
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   10:00 am  | 
  
   Break  | 
 
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   10:10 am  | 
  
   Prasanna Tambe, New York University  | 
 
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   Lorin Hitt, University of Pennsylvania  | 
 
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   Job Hopping, Knowledge Spillovers and Regional
  Returns to Information Technology Investments  | 
 
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   Discussant: David Autor, MIT  | 
 
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   11:10 am  | 
  
   Break  | 
 
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   11:20 am  | 
  
   Avi
  Goldfarb, University of Toronto  | 
 
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   Catherine Tucker, MIT  | 
 
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   Discussant: Alessandro Acquisti,
  Carnegie-Mellon University  | 
 
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   12:20 pm  | 
  
   Adjourn  | 
 
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   7/11/10  | 
  
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