Economics of Digitization
Organized by Shane Greenstein, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
March 22, 2019
Stanford University Graduate School of Business, S

Thursday, March 21

6:00 pm

Group Dinner - MacArthur Park Restaurant, 27 University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA

Friday, March 22

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast - Mid Vidalakis Room

9:00 am

Introductions

9:10 am

Digitization and the Demand for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project

Abhishek Nagaraj, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Imke C. Reimers, Cornell University

Discussant:
Hong Luo, University of Toronto

The Cost of Convenience: Ridesharing and Traffic Fatalities

John M. Barrios, Yale University and NBER
Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER
Livia Hanyi Yi, Boston College

Discussant:
Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University and NBER

10:40 am

Break

11:10 am

Nonrivalry and the Economics of Data (slides)

Charles I. Jones, Stanford University and NBER
Christopher Tonetti, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER

The Welfare Effects of Social Media

Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER
Luca Braghieri, Bocconi University
Sarah Eichmeyer, Bocconi University
Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER

12:40 pm

Lunch - Mid Vidalakis Room

1:40 pm

Spatial Competition and Missing Data: an Application to Cloud Computing

Shuang Wang, Boston University
Jacob LaRiviere, Amazon, Inc.
Aadharsh Kannan, Amazon, Inc.

Discussant:
Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto

Cloud Computing and Firm Growth

Timothy J. DeStefano, Georgetown University
Richard Kneller, University of Nottingham
Jonathan D. Timmis, The World Bank

Discussant:
Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto

3:05 pm

Break

3:30 pm

More Amazon Effects: Online Competition and Pricing Behaviors

Alberto Cavallo, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Timothy F. Bresnahan, Stanford University

There's An App (Update) For That: Understanding Product Updating Under Digitization

Ben T. Leyden, Cornell University

Discussant:
Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Boston University

5:00 pm

Adjourn