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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Economics of Digitization

Supported by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Shane Greenstein, Josh Lerner, Scott Stern, and Avi Goldfarb, Organizers

March 3, 2017

SIEPR

366 Galvez Street

Stanford University

Stanford, CA

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Thursday, March 2
6:00 pm	Group Dinner – MacArthur Park Restaurant, 27 University Avenue,
	Palo Alto, CA
Friday, March 3
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Introduction
9:10 am	Barbara Biasi, Stanford University Petra Moser, New York University and NBER Effects of Copyrights on Science: Evidence from the WWII Book Republication Program Discussant: Abhishek Nagaraj, University of California at Berkeley
10:00 am	Joan Calzada, Universitat de Barcelona Ricard Gil, Johns Hopkins University What Do News Aggregators Do? Evidence from Google News in Spain and Germany Discussant: Mike Bailey, Facebook
10:50 am	Break
11:10 am	Thomas Blake, ebay Research Labs Sarah Moshary, University of Pennsylvania Kane Sweeney, eBay Research Labs Steven Tadelis, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Price Salience and Product Choice Discussant: Chiara Farronato, Harvard University
12:00 n	Erik Brynjolfsson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Felix Eggers, University of Groningen Avinash Gannamaneni, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Using Massive Online Choice Experiments to Measure Changes in Well-being Discussant: Jeffrey Prince, Indiana University
12:50 pm	Lunch
1:50 pm	Ben Shiller, Brandeis University Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER Will Ad Blocking Break the Internet? Discussant: Joshua Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
2:40 pm	Break
2:55 pm	Shawn Cole, Harvard University and NBER A. Nilesh Fernando, University of Notre Dame ‘Mobile’izing Agricultural Advice: Technology Adoption, Diffusion and Sustainability Discussant: Elizabeth Lyons, University of California at San Diego
3:45 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Susan Feng Lu, Purdue University Huaxia Rui, University of Rochester Abraham Seidmann, University of Rochester Does Technology Substitute for Nurses? Staffing Decisions in Nursing Homes Discussant: Jeffrey McCullough, University of Michigan
4:50 pm	Adjourn