The Economics of Digitization: An Agenda
Organized by Shane Greenstein, Avi Goldfarb, and Catherine Tucker
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
June 6-7, 2013
Park City, Utah

Thursday, June 6

1

Digitization and the Contract Labor Market: A Research Agenda

Ajay K. Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER
John Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Nicola Lacetera, University of Bologna and NBER
Elizabeth Lyons, University of California, San Diego

2

Searching for Physical and Digital Media: The Evolution of Platforms For Finding Books

Michael Baye, Indiana University
Babur De Los Santos, Clemson University
Matthijs Wildenbeest, University of Arizona

3

Information Lost (Apologies to Milton)

Catherine L. Mann, Citi

4

Measuring the Effects of Advertising: The Digital Frontier

Randall A. Lewis, Amazon, Inc.
Justin Rao, HomeAway
David H. Reiley, Jr., Pandora Media, Inc

5

Some Economics of Pure Digital Currencies

Joshua Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
Hanna Halaburda, New York University

6

Ideology and the Demand for News Online

Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER

7

The Future of Prediction: How Google Searches Foreshadow Housing Prices and Sales

Lynn Wu, University of Pennsylvania
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER

8

The Endogenous Modularity of the Internet

Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER

9

Bayesian Variable Selection for Nowcasting Economic Time Series

Hal Varian, Google

10

And the Bands Played On: Digital Disintermediation and the Quality of New Recorded Music

Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER

11

Copyright and the Profitability of Authorship - Evidence from Book Contracts in the Romantic Period

Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER
Petra Moser, New York University and NBER

12

Estimation of Treatment Effects from Combined Data: Identification versus Data Security

Tatiana Komarova, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Denis Nekipelov, University of Virginia
Evgeny Yakovelv, New Economic School