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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Economics of Digitization

Shane Greenstein, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, Organizers

February 21, 2014

SIEPR

Stanford University

Stanford, CA

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Thursday, February 20:
6:00 pm	Group Dinner - Zibibbo Restaurant, 30 Kipling St., Palo Alto, CA
Friday, February, 21:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Glenn Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Sara Fisher Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Match Quality, Search, and the Internet Market for Used Books Discussant: Phil Leslie, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
9:40 am	Aleksi Aaltonen, London School of Economics Stephan Seiler, Stanford University Cumulative Knowledge and Open Source Content Growth: The Case of Wikipedia Discussant: Andreea Gorbatai, University of California at Berkeley
10:20 am	Break
10:50 am	Timothy F. Bresnahan, Stanford University Joseph Orsini, Stanford University Pai-Ling Yin, Stanford University Platform Choice by Mobile App Developers Discussant: Jennifer Brown, Northwestern University and NBER
11:30 am	Yongdong Liu, University of California at Berkeley Denis Nekipelov, University of California at Berkeley Minjung Park, University of California at Berkeley Timely versus Quality Innovation: The Case of Mobile Applications on iTunes and Google Play Discussant: Joshua Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
12:10: pm	Lunch
1:20 pm	Aguiar Luis, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER Digitization, Copyright, and the Welfare Effects of Music Trade (not available for download) Discussant: Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto
2:00 pm	Break
2:20 pm	Jin-Hyuk Kim, University of Colorado Tin Cheuk Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong Quantifying the Impacts of Digital Rights Management and E-Book Pricing on the E-Book Reader Market Discussant: Ben Shiller of Brandeis University
3:00 pm	Break
3:20 pm	Erik Brynjolfsson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Tomer Geva, Tel Aviv University Shachar Reichman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Crowd-Squared: Amplifying the Predictive Power of Large-Scale Crowd-Based Data Discussant: Justin Rao, Microsoft
4:00 pm	Adjourn