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Thursday, July 17
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8:30 am
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Coffee and Pastries
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9:00 am
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John Horton, Stern School of Business, New York University
Misdirected Search
Effort in a Matching Market: Causes, Consequences and a Partial Solution
Discussant: Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and
NBER
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Andrey Fradkin,
Digitization post-doc
Search Frictions
and the Design of Online Marketplaces
Discussant: Glenn Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
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10:30 am
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Break
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11:00 am
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Matt Goldman, University of California at San Diego
Justin Rao, Microsoft Research
Experiments
as Instruments: Understanding Consumer Behavior in Sponsored Search
Discussant: Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and NBER
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Chris Nosko, University of Chicago
Steven Tadelis, University of California at
Berkeley and NBER
The
Limits of Reputation in Platform Markets: An Empirical Analysis and Field
Experiment
Discussant: Gregory Lewis, Harvard University and NBER
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12:30 pm
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Lunch
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Parallel
Session to continue after lunch
1:30 pm.IO and Digitizaton joint session in
Ballroom A, West Tower
1:45 pm IO and Marketing in Parkview Room, East Tower
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1:30 pm
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Kenneth Hendricks, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER
Alan T. Sorensen, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER
The Value of an Intermediary in a Dynamic Auction Market
Discussant: Liran Einav,
Stanford University and NBER
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Matthew Willi. Chesnes, Federal Trade Commission
Weijia Dai, University of Maryland
Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland and NBER
Banning
Foreign Pharmacies from Sponsored Search: The Online Consumer Response
Discussant: Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University and NBER
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3:00 pm
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Break
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3:15 pm
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Luis Aguiar, Institute for Prospective
Technological Studies
Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER
Panning for Gold: The Random Long Tail in Music Production
Discussant: Ajay K. Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER
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Xiang Hui, The Ohio State University
Maryam Saeedi, The Ohio
State University
Xiang Hui, The Ohio State University
Neel Sundaresan, eBay Research Labs
Jack Shen, eBay
From Lemon Markets to Managed
Markets: the Evolution of eBay's Reputation System
Discussant: Sara Fisher Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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4:45 pm
5-6:30pm
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Adjourn
The NBER Working Paper Series at 20,000,
Ballroom A
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6:45 pm
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Dinner for Digitization group
Hotel Marlowe, Serrano Ballroom (across the street from the Sonesta)
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Friday, July 18
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8:30 am
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Coffee and Pastries
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Split session, Ballroom A Track -- Music and
Digital Rights
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9:00 am
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Liron Sivan, Carnegie Mellon University
Michael D. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
Rahul Telang,
Carnegie-Mellon University
Do Search Engines Influence Media Piracy? Evidence from a Randomized Field
Study
Discussant: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Harvard
University and NBER
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Koleman Strumpf,
University of Kansas
Using
Markets to Measure the Impact of File Sharing on Movie Revenues
Discussant: Julie H. Mortimer, Boston College and NBER
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10:20 am
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Break
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10:40 am
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Laurina Zhang, University of Toronto
Intellectual
Property Strategy and the Long Tail: Evidence from the Recorded Music Industry
Discussant: Brett Danaher, Wellesley College
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R. Scott Hiller, Fairfield University
Jin-Hyuk Kim, University of Colorado
Online
Music, Sales Displacement, and Internet Search: Evidence from YouTube
Discussant: Joshua Gans, University of Toronto and
NBER
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12:00 pm
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Lunch, Ballroom B
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Split session, Longfellow Room Track, West Tower -- Digitization and Policy
Dilemmas
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8:30 am
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Coffee and Pastries
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9:00 am
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Babur De los Santos, Indiana University
Matthijs Wildenbeest,
Indiana University
E-book
Pricing and Vertical Restraints
Discussant: Arun Sundararajan,
New York University
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Muhammad Z. Hydari, Carnegie Mellon University
Rahul Telang,
Carnegie-Mellon University
William M. Marella, ECRI
Saving Patient Ryan - Can Health IT Make Patient Care Safer? Evidence from
Pennsylvania Hospitals
Discussant: Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
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10:20 am
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Break
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10:40 am
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Laura K. Gee, Tufts University
The
More You Know: How Information Affects Job Search in a Large Field Experiment
Discussant: Prasanna Tambe,
New York University
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Ceren Budak, Mircrosoft Research
Sharad Goel, Microsoft
Research
Justin Rao, Microsoft Research
Georgios Zervas, Boston University
School of Management
Would ``Do Not Track" Break E-commerce and Web Publishing?
Discussant: Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and
NBER
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12:00 pm
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Lunch, Ballroom B, West Tower
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1:00 pm
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Panel: “The Future of Education”
Bharat Anand, Harvard University
Chrysanthos Dellarocas,
Boston University
Andrew Ho, Harvard University
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2:00 pm
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Erik Brynjolfsson, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and NBER
Seon Tae Kim, ITAM Business School
Joo Hee Oh, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
User-Generated
Capital and Firm Value: Theory and Evidence from Internet Firms
Discussant: Carol Corrado, The Conference Board
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Ben Shiller, Brandeis University
First-Degree
Price Discrimination Using Big Data
Discussant: Phillip Leslie, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
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4:00 pm
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Poster Slam: 5 minute mini-presentations, Ballroom Lobby
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5:00 pm
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Adjourn and reception
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