Economics of Digitization
Organized by Shane Greenstein, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
February 24, 2012
SIEPR at Stanford University

Friday, February 24

1

Copyright, Digitization, and Aggregation

Lesley Chiou, Occidental College
Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

2

Ad Revenue and Content Commercialization: Evidence from Blogs

Monic Sun, Boston University

3

Piracy Propagation of Information Goods: Demand and Supply-side Dynamics in P2P Networks

Joo Hee Oh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Il-Horn Hann, University of Maryland, College Park

4

The Effect of Localization on News Consumption

Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER
Markus Mobius, University of Michigan

5

The Attention Economy: Measuring the Value of Free Goods on the Internet

Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
Joo Hee Oh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology