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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
The St. Regis
Deer Valley 2300 Deer Valley Drive East Park City, Utah PRELIMINARY PROGRAM |
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THURSDAY, JUNE, 6: |
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8:15 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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8:50 am |
Welcome and introductions |
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9:00 am |
Ajay Agrawal and Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto and NBER |
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Elizabeth Lyons, University of
Toronto |
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Digitization
and the Contract Labor Market: A Research Agenda Discussant:
Christopher
Stanton, University of Utah |
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9:45 am |
Michael Baye, Babur De los Santos, and Matthijs Wildenbeest, Indiana University |
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Searching for Physical and
Digital Media: The Evolution of Platforms For Finding Books |
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Discussant:
Marc Rysman, Boston University |
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10:30 am |
Break |
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11:00 am |
Catherine Mann, Brandeis
University |
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Discussant:
Amalia Miller, University of Virginia |
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11:45 am |
Randall Lewis, Google, Inc Justin Rao,
Microsoft Research David Reiley, Yahoo!
Research |
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Discussant:
Pat Bajari, Amazon |
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12:30 pm |
Lunch |
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1:45 pm |
Joshua Gans, University
of Toronto and NBER |
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Some Economics of Pure Digital Currencies |
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Discussant:
Glen Weyl, University of Chicago |
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2:30 pm |
Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro, University of Chicago
and NBER |
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Discussant:
Ben Jones, Northwestern University and NBER |
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3:15 pm |
Break |
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3:45 pm |
Erik Brynjolfsson, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and NBER |
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Lynn, Wu, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology |
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The Future of Prediction: How Google Searches
Foreshadow Housing Prices and Sales |
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Discussant:
Liran Einav, Stanford
University and NBER |
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4:30 pm |
Hal Varian, Google Inc. |
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Bayesian Variable Selection for Nowcasting Economic
Time Series |
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Discussant:
Bronwyn Hall, University
of California at Berkeley and NBER |
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5:15
pm |
Adjourn |
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6:30 pm |
Reception and Group Dinner |
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FRIDAY, JUNE 7: |
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8:30 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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9:00 am |
Joel Waldfogel,
University of Minnesota and NBER |
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And the Bands Played On: Digital Disintermediation and
the Quality of New Recorded Music |
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Discussant:
Alan Sorensen, University of Wisconsin and NBER |
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9:45 am |
Megan MacGarvie,
Boston University and NBER |
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Petra Moser, Stanford
University and NBER |
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Copyright and the Profitability of Authorship -
Evidence from Book Contracts in the Romantic Period |
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Discussant:
Koleman Strumpf,
University of Kansas |
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10:30 am |
Break |
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11:00
am |
Tatiana Komarova,
London School of Economics |
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Estimation of Treatment Effects from
Combined Data: Identification versus Data Security |
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Discussant:
Phil Leslie, University
of California at Los Angeles and NBER |
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11:45
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Brett Danaher, Wellesley
College |
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Pro
Copyright Enforcement in a Digital Age |
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Discussant:
Heidi Williams, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and NBER |
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12:30
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Lunch |
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1:45
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Timothy Simcoe, Boston
University and NBER |
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The Endogenous Modularity of the Internet |
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Discussant:
Tim Bresnahan, Stanford University and NBER |
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2:30
pm |
Scott Wallsten,
Technology Policy Institute What
Are We Not Doing When We're Online, And How Much Is That Worth? |
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Discussant:
Chris Forman, Georgia Institute of Technology |
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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 |
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Discussant:
Ashish Arora, Duke
University and NBER |
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4:30 pm |
Avi Goldfarb, Shane Greenstein,
Catherine Tucker: Wrap-up |
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5:00
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Adjourn |
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