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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

Scholarly Communication, Open Science & its Impact

Joshua Gans and Fiona Murray, Organizers

October 25, 2012

Le Méridien Cambridge-MIT

Robert B. Taylor Room

20 Sidney Street

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Welcome and Introduction, Joshua Gans
8:45 am	Session 1: Open Access Publications
	Mark McCabe, University of Michigan Christopher Snyder, Dartmouth College and NBER The Economics of Open-Access Journals
	Frank Mueller-Langer, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law Richard Watt, University of Canterbury Optimal Pricing and Quality of Academic Journals and the Ambiguous Welfare Effects of Forced Open Access: A Two-Sided Model
	Timo Boppart, University of Zurich Kevin E. Staub, University of Zurich Online Accessibility of Academic Articles and the Diversity Of Economics
	Giovanni B. Ramello, University of Eastern Piedmont Open Access Journals & Academics’ Behaviors (slides)
	Discussant: Christian Zimmermann, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
10:45 am	Break
11:15 am	Session 2: Open Science
	Lin Jiang, University of Missouri Jerry Thursby, Georgia Institute of Technology Marie Thursby, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER Scientific Disclosure and the Faces of Competition
	Chiara Franzoni, Politecnico di Milano Henry Sauermann, Georgia Institute of Technology Crowd Science:The Organization of Scientific Research in Open Collaborative Projects
	Discussant: Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:15 pm	Lunch – Room Hunsaker A
1:30 pm	Session 3: Collaboration and Selection in Science
	Kevin Boudreau, London Business School Eva C. Guinan, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Karim Lakhani, Harvard University Christoph Riedl, Harvard University A Bias for “Normal” Science? Field Evidence from Medical Research Funding Proposal Evaluations
	Ajay K. Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto Florenta Teodoridis, University of Toronto Does Knowledge Accumulation Increase the Returns to Collaboration? Evidence from the Collapse of the Soviet Union
	Paul David, Stanford University Cooperation, Creativity and Closure in Scientific Research Networks: Modeling the Simpler Dynamics of Invisible Colleges
	Discussant: Danielle Li, Northwestern University
3:30 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Panel Session: How funders and journals are dealing with practical problems and challenges associated with access to data, materials and methods developed by the scientific community Moderator: Fiona Murray, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Panelists: Kent Anderson, Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery and Julia L. Greenstein, JDRF
5:30 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Conference Dinner – Le Méridien Cambridge-MIT, Lan Jen Chu Room