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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