Economics of Digitization
Organized by Shane Greenstein, Josh Lerner, Scott Stern, and Avi Goldfarb
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
March 3, 2017
SIEPR at Stanford University

Friday, March 3

9:10 am

Effects of Copyrights on Science: Evidence from the WWII Book Republication Program

Barbara Biasi, Yale University and NBER
Petra Moser, New York University and NBER

10:00 am

What Do News Aggregators Do? Evidence from Google News in Spain and Germany

Joan Calzada, Universitat de Barcelona
Ricard Gil, University of Navarra

11:10 am

Price Salience and Product Choice

Thomas Blake, Amazon, Inc.
Sarah Moshary, University of California, Berkeley
Kane Sweeney, eBay Research Labs
Steven Tadelis, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

12:01pm

Using Massive Online Choice Experiments to Measure Changes in Well-being

Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
Felix Eggers, University of Groningen
Avinash Gannamaneni, Carnegie Mellon University

1:50 pm

Will Ad Blocking Break the Internet?

Ben Shiller, Brandeis University
Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER

2:55 pm

‘Mobile’izing Agricultural Advice: Technology Adoption, Diffusion and Sustainability

Shawn Cole, Harvard University and NBER
A. Nilesh Fernando, University of Notre Dame

4:00 pm

Does Technology Substitute for Nurses? Staffing Decisions in Nursing Homes

Susan Feng Lu, University of Toronto
Huaxia Rui, University of Rochester
Abraham Seidmann, University of Rochester