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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Economics of Digitization

Supported by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Shane Greenstein, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, Organizers

March 4, 2016

SIEPR

366 Galvez Street

Stanford University

Stanford, CA

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Thursday, March 3:
6:00 pm	Group Dinner – MacArthur Park Restaurant, 27 University Avenue, Palo Alto
Friday, March 4:
9:00 am	Introduction
9:10 am	Garrett A. Johnson, University of Rochester Randall A. Lewis, Netflix, Inc. Elmar I. Nubbemeyer, Google, Inc. Ghost Ads: Improving the Economics of Measuring Ad Effectiveness Discussant: David Reiley, Pandora Media, Inc
9:55 am	Timothy F. Bresnahan, Stanford University and NBER Xing Li, Stanford University Pai-Ling Yin, Stanford University Paying Incumbents and Customers to Enter an Industry: Buying Downloads Discussant: Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER
10:40 am	Break
11:00 am	Alexander White, Tsinghua University Glen Weyl, Microsoft Research New England Insulated Platform Competition Discussant: John Morgan, University of California at Berkeley
11:45 am	Leonard Nakamura, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Rachel Soloveichik, Bureau of Economic Analysis Capturing the Productivity Impact of the “Free” Apps and Other Online Media Discussant: Ryan McDevitt, Duke University
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Bo Cowgill, Columbia University Human Bias and Machine Learning: Evidence from Resume Screening Mitch Hoffman, University of Toronto Lisa B. Kahn, Yale University and NBER Danielle Li, Harvard University Discretion in Hiring Discussant: Ajay Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER
2:20 pm	Break
2:40 pm	Peter W. Newberry, Pennsylvania State University Jean-François Houde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Katja Seim, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Sales Tax, E-commerce, and Amazon's Fulfillment Center Network Discussant: Brad Larsen, Stanford University and NBER
3:25 pm	Break
3:45 pm	Panel: Sree Ramaswamy, McKinsey Global Institute Digital America: A Tale of the Haves and Have-mores Discussants: Chris Forman, Georgia Institute of Technology Mark Doms, Former Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, Department of Commerce
4:30 pm	Adjourn