Wednesday, July
20
Joint session
with Productivity, Development, and Entrepreneurship
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12:00 n
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Lunch
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1:00 pm
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Abhishek
Nagaraj, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The
Private Impact of Public Maps: Landsat Satellite Imagery and Gold Exploration
Discussant: Robin Burgess, London School of Economics
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1:45 pm
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Joan Farre-Mensa, Harvard University
Deepak Hegde, New York University
Alexander Ljungqvist, New York University and NBER
The Bright Side of Patents
Discussant: Heidi Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
NBER
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2:30 pm
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Break
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3:00 pm
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Michela Giorcelli, Stanford University
The Long-Term Effects of Management and Technology Transfer: Evidence from
the US Productivity Program
Discussant: Raffaella Sadun,
Harvard University and NBER
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3:45 pm
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Jonas Hjort, Columbia University and NBER
Jonas Poulsen, Uppsala University
The Arrival of Fast Internet and Skilled Job Creation in Africa
Discussant: Mushfiq Mobarak,
Yale University and NBER
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4:30 pm
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Adjourn
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6:00 pm
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Clambake at
the Royal Sonesta Hotel
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Thursday,
July 21
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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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Introductions (Authors,
25 min., discussants 10 min., q & a 10 min).
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9:10 am
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Sam Ransbotham, Boston College
Eric M. Overby, Georgia Institute of Technology
Michael C. Jernigan, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical
School
Electronic
Trace Data and Legal Outcomes: The Effect of Electronic Medical Records on Malpractice
Claim Resolution Time
Discussant: David M. Cutler, Harvard University and NBER
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9:55 am
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Frank Nagle, University of Southern California
Crowdsourced
Digital Goods and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Open Source Software
Discussant: Lorin Hitt,
University of Pennsylvania
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10:40 am
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Break
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11:00 am
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Daniel Bjorkegren, Brown
University
The
Adoption of Network Goods: Evidence from the Spread of Mobile Phones in
Rwanda
Discussant: Stephen P. Ryan, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
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11:45 am
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Giovanni Mastrobuoni, University
of Essex
Crime
is Terribly Revealing: Information Technology and Police Productivity
Discussant: Justin Rao, Microsoft Research
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12:30 pm
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Lunch
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Split sessions in the afternoon
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Charles
A: Networks & Social Networks (Authors,
23 min., discussants 7 min., q & a 10 min).
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1:30 pm
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Joshua Gans, University of
Toronto and NBER
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER
Mara Lederman, University of Toronto
Exit,
Tweets, and Loyalty
Discussant: Dina Mayzlin, University of Southern
California
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2:10 pm
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Lesley Chiou, Occidental College
Vertical
Integration and Antitrust in Search Markets
Discussant: Carl Shapiro, University of California at Berkeley
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2:50 pm
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Rodrigo Belo, Erasmus
University
Pedro Ferreira, Carnegie Mellon University
Miguel Godinho de Matos, Catolica
Lisbon
Filipa Reis, Carnegie Mellon University
The
Impact of Time-shift Television on TV Viewership Behavior
Discussant: Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota
and NBER
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3:30 pm
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Break
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3:50 pm
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Brett R. Gordon, Northwestern University
Florian Zettelmeyer, Northwestern University and
NBER
Neha Bhargava, Facebook
Dan Chapsky, Facebook
A
Comparison of Approaches to Advertising Measurement: Evidence from Big Field
Experiments at Facebook
Discussant: Randall A. Lewis, Netflix, Inc.
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4:30 pm
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Dean Eckles, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
René F. Kizilcec, Stanford University
Eytan Bakshy, Facebook
Network
Effects in Broadcast–Interpersonal Communication Technologies: Evidence from
Field Experiments on Facebook
Discussant: Laura K. Gee, Tufts University
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5:10 pm
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Adjourn
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Charles
B: Innovation & Crowds (Authors,
23 min., discussants 7 min., q & a 10 min.)
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1:30 pm
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Ben Zou, Michigan State University
Weiming Zhu, University of Maryland
Jingting Fan, University of Maryland
Lixin Tang, Shanghai University of Finance and
Economics
The Alibaba
Effect: Spatial Consumption Inequality and the Welfare Gains from E-Commerce
Discussant: Feng Zhu, Harvard University
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2:10 pm
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James Bessen, Boston University
How
Computer Automation Affects Occupations: Technology, jobs, and skills
Discussant: David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and NBER
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2:50 pm
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Anuj Kumar, University of Florida
Amit Mehra, UT Dallas
Remedying
Education with Personalized Learning: Evidence from Randomized Field
Experiment in India
Discussant: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Harvard
University
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3:30 pm
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Break
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3:50 pm
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Michael Kummer, ZEW Mannheim
Olga Slivko, Centre for European
Economic Research
Michael Zhang
Economic
Downturn and Volunteering: Do Economic Crises Affect Content Generation on
Wikipedia?
Discussant: Stephan Seiler, Stanford University
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4:30 pm
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Philipp Herrmann, Paderborn University
Dominik Gutt, Paderborn University
Mohammad S. Rahman, Purdue University
Crowd-Driven
Competitive Intelligence: Understanding the Relationship between Local Market
Structure and Online Rating Distributions
Discussant: Mo Xiao,
University of Arizona
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5:10 pm
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Adjourn
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6:00 pm
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Group dinner at Hotel Marlowe (Serrano BC)
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Friday,
July 22
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8:30 am
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Coffee and pastries
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Morning joint with IO (Authors,
25 min., discussants 10 min., q & a 15 min)
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9:00 am
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Keneth Arrow, Stanford University
L. Kamran Bilir,
University of Wisconsin
Alan Sorensen, University of Wisconsin and NBER
Information
and Innovation Diffusion: The Case of Pharmaceuticals in the United States
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Discussant: Benjamin Handel, University of California
at Berkeley and NBER
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9:50 am
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Break
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10:05 am
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Chiara Farronato, Harvard
University
Andrey Fradkin, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Market
Structure with the Entry of Peer-to-Peer Platforms: The Case of Hotels and
Airbnb
Discussant: Matthew Backus, Columbia University and NBER
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10:55 am
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Break
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11:10 am
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Greg Lewis, Microsoft Research
New England and NBER
Georgios Zervas, Boston University
The
Welfare Impact of Consumer Reviews: A Case Study of the Hotel Industry
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Discussant: Ryan
McDevitt, Duke University
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12:00 pm
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Lunch
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1:20 pm
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Panel: Artificial Intelligence and the Workforce
Moderator: Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT and NBER
Daron Acemoglu, MIT and NBER
Rod Brooks, Rethink Robotics
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn
and Greylock Ventures
Laurence Kotlikoff, BU and NBER
Gill Pratt, Toyota Research Institute
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2:20 pm
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Break
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2:40 pm
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Pantelis
Koutroumpis, Imperial College London
Aija Leiponen, Cornell
University
Llewellyn Thomas, Imperial College London and Abu Dhabi School of Management
Invention
Machines: How Control Instruments and Information Technologies Drove Global
Technological Progress over a Century of Invention
Discussant: Paul M. Romer, New York University and
NBER
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3:20 pm
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Break
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3:40 pm
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Poster slam (5
min. each)
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Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel, Michael Bailey, Rachel Cao, Social
Networks and Housing Markets
Zhi Da, Xing Huang, Harnessing the Wisdom of Crowds
Lei Xu, Mitchell Hoffman, Sibo
Guo, Voluntary
Contribution to Online Public Goods: Who Contributes What on GitHub &
Stack Overflow?
Timothy J. DeStefano, Richard Kneller, Jonathan D. Timmis, Information
Communication Technologies and Firm Performance: Evidence for UK Firms
Gordon Burtch, Seth Carnahan, Brad N. Greenwood,
Can You Gig It? An Empirical Examination of the Gig-Economy and
Entrepreneurial Activity
Fujie Jin, Andy Wu, Lorin Hitt, Social is the New Financial: How Startups’ Social Media Activities Influence Funding
Outcomes
Georg von Graevenitz, Christian Helmers,
Valentine Millot, Oliver Turnbull, Does Online Search Increase Sales?
Evidence from Big Data for Car Markets in Germany and the UK
Weijia Dai, Michael Luca, Effectiveness of Paid Search Advertising: Experimental Evidence
Hanna Halaburda, Neil Gandal,
Can
We Predict the Winner in a Market with Network Effects? Competition in
Cryptocurrency Market
Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang, Targeting, Retargeting, and the
Effectiveness of Search Engine Advertising: Evidence from Randomized Field
Experiments
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4:30 pm
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Adjourn
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4:30-6:00 pm
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Wine and cheese in Ballroom Foyer
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