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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMICS RESEARCH, INC.

 

 

 

Economics of Digitization

 

 

 

Shane Greenstein, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, Organizers

 

 

 

February 24, 2012

 

 

 

SIEPR

 

Stanford University

 

Stanford, CA

 

 

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

 

 

THURSDAY,  FEBRUARY 23:

 

 

6:00 pm

Group Dinner

 

Il Fornaio Restaurant, 520 Cowper Street

 

(at the Garden Court Hotel), Palo Alto

 

 

FRIDAY,  FEBRUARY 24:

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Lesley Chiou, Occidental College

Catherine Tucker,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

Copyright, Digitization, and Aggregation

 

 

 

Discussant:  Ajay Agrawal of University of Toronto and NBER

 

 

9:45 am

Monic Sun, Stanford University

 Feng Zhu, University of Southern California

 

Ad Revenue and Content Commercialization: Evidence from Blogs

 

 

 

Discussant:  Robin Lee, New York University

 

 

10:30 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

Joo Hee Oh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Il-Horn Hann, University of Maryland

 

Piracy Propagation of Information Goods: Demand and Supply-side Dynamics in P2P Networks

 

 

 

Discussant:  Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

 

11:45 am

Susan Athey, Harvard University and NBER

Markus Mobius, Iowa State University and NBER

 

The Effect of Localization on News Consumption

 

 

 

Discussant:  Jeffrey Prince, Indiana University

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:30 pm

Erik Brynjolfsson - Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Joo Hee Oh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

The Attention Economy: Measuring the Value of Free Goods on the Internet

 

 

 

Discussant:  Timothy Bresnahan, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

2:30 pm

Break

 

 

2:45 pm

Rachel Soloveichik and David Wasshausen, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

Copyright-Protected Assets in the National Accounts

 

 

 

Discussant: Nick Bloom, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

3:30 pm

Break

 

 

3:45 pm

Panel: Transactions costs and music in this era of copyright

 

Kevin Montler, Google Inc.

 

Elizabeth Moody, Google Inc.

 

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn