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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Economics of Digitization: An Agenda


Shane Greenstein, Avi Goldfarb and Catherine Tucker, Organizers

June 6 and 7, 2013

 

The St. Regis Deer Valley

 2300 Deer Valley Drive East

Park City, Utah

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, JUNE, 6:

8:15 am

Continental Breakfast

 

8:50 am

Welcome and introductions

 

9:00 am

Ajay Agrawal and Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto and NBER
John Horton,
oDesk Research

 

Elizabeth Lyons, University of Toronto

 

Digitization and the Contract Labor Market: A Research Agenda

 

Discussant: Christopher Stanton, University of Utah

 

 

9:45 am

Michael Baye, Babur De los Santos, and Matthijs Wildenbeest,

Indiana University

 

Searching for Physical and Digital Media: The Evolution of Platforms For Finding Books

 

 

Discussant: Marc Rysman, Boston University

 

10:30 am

Break

 

11:00 am

Catherine Mann, Brandeis University

Information Lost (Apologies to Milton)

 

 

Discussant: Amalia Miller, University of Virginia

 


 

11:45 am

Randall Lewis, Google, Inc

Justin Rao, Microsoft Research

David Reiley, Yahoo! Research

Measuring the Effects of Advertising: The Digital Frontier

 

Discussant: Pat Bajari, Amazon

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

1:45 pm

Joshua Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
Hanna Halaburda, Harvard University

 

Some Economics of Pure Digital Currencies  

 

 

Discussant: Glen Weyl, University of Chicago

 

 

2:30 pm

Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Ideology and the Demand for News Online   (background paper)

 

Discussant: Ben Jones, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

3:15 pm

Break

 

3:45 pm

Erik Brynjolfsson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

Lynn, Wu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

The Future of Prediction: How Google Searches Foreshadow Housing Prices and Sales

 

 

Discussant: Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER

 

4:30 pm

Hal Varian, Google Inc.

 

 Bayesian Variable Selection for Nowcasting Economic Time Series  

 

 

Discussant: Bronwyn Hall, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

 

 

5:15 pm

Adjourn

 

6:30 pm

Reception and Group Dinner

 

FRIDAY, JUNE 7:

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

9:00 am

Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

And the Bands Played On: Digital Disintermediation and the Quality of New Recorded Music

 

 

Discussant: Alan Sorensen, University of Wisconsin and NBER

 

9:45 am

Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER

 

Petra Moser, Stanford University and NBER

 

Copyright and the Profitability of Authorship - Evidence from Book Contracts in the Romantic Period

 

 

Discussant: Koleman Strumpf, University of Kansas

 

10:30 am

Break

 

11:00 am

Tatiana Komarova, London School of Economics
Denis Nekipelov, University of California at Berkeley
Evgeny Yakovlev, New Economic School

 

Estimation of Treatment Effects from Combined Data: Identification versus Data Security

 

 

Discussant: Phil Leslie, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER

 

 

11:45 am

Brett Danaher, Wellesley College
Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Pro Copyright Enforcement in a Digital Age

 

 

Discussant: Heidi Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:45 pm

Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER

 

The Endogenous Modularity of the Internet

 

 

Discussant: Tim Bresnahan, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

2:30 pm

Scott Wallsten, Technology Policy Institute

What Are We Not Doing When We're Online, And How Much Is That Worth?

 

 

Discussant: Chris Forman, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

 

3:45 pm

Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER

Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

The Nature & Incidence of Software Piracy: Evidence from Windows

 

 

 

Discussant: Ashish Arora, Duke University and NBER

 

 

4:30 pm

Avi Goldfarb, Shane Greenstein, Catherine Tucker: Wrap-up

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn