Digitization Tutorial
Organized by Avi Goldfarb
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
March 17-18, 2021
on Zoom.us

Wednesday, March 17

11:00 am

Warm Up

11:45 am

Digital economics -- Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER
(Reading: Digital Economics in the Journal of Economic Literature)
(slides)

12:45 pm

Group Discussion

1:15 pm

Break

1:45 pm

Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER
Digitization, the Value of New Products, and Product Discovery
(reading1)
(reading2)
(reading3)

2:45 pm

Break

3:00 pm

Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University and NBER
Digitization and Antitrust
(reading1)
(reading2)
(reading3)

4:00 pm

Break

4:15 pm

Group discussions

5:00 pm

Adjourn

Thursday, March 18

11:00 am

Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Data, Privacy and Discrimination
(reading1)
(reading2)
(reading3)
(slides)

12:00 n

Group discussions

12:30 pm

Break

1:00 pm

Daniel Bjorkegren, Brown University
Digitization and Developing Societies
(slides) (reading list)

2:00 pm

Group discussions

3:00 pm

Break

3:15 pm

Digital economics wrap up
(slides)

4:15 pm

Adjourn