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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Economics of Digitization

 

Shane Greenstein, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, Organizers

 

March 6, 2015

 

SIEPR

366 Galvez Street

Room 130

Stanford University

Stanford, CA

 

PROGRAM

 

Thursday, March 5:

6:00 pm

Group Dinner:

MacArthur Park Restaurant

27 University Avenue

Palo Alto, Ca 94301

Friday, March 6:

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Introduction

9:05 am

Samuel Paul Fraiberger, New York University
Arun Sundararajan, New York University
Peer-to-Peer Rental Markets in the Sharing Economy

Discussant: Andrey Fradkin, NBER Digitization Fellow

9:50 am

Kevin Williams, Yale University
Thomas W. Quan,
University of Minnesota
Product Variety, Across-Market Demand Heterogeneity, and the Value of Online Retail

Discussant: Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

10:35 am

Break

11:00 am

Weijia Dai, University of Maryland
Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland and NBER
Jungmin Lee, Sogang University
Michael Luca, Harvard University

Optimal Aggregation of Consumer Ratings: An Application to Yelp.com

Discussant: Sara Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:45 am

Erik Brynjolfsson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Kristina McElheran, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Data in Action: Data-Driven Decision-Making in U.S. Manufacturing

Discussant: Jennifer Brown, Northwestern University and NBER

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

Michela Giorcelli, Stanford University
Petra Moser, Stanford University and NBER
Copyrights and Creativity: Evidence from Italian Operas

Discussant: Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER

2:30 pm

Hong Luo, Harvard University
Julie H. Mortimer, Boston College and NBER
Copyright Enforcement in Stock Photography (not available for download)

Discussant:
Peter Menell, University of California at Berkeley

3:30 pm

Panel. Data Challenges.

Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER (slides)

Hal Varian, University of California at Berkeley (slides)

Prasanna Tambe, New York University (slides)

4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

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