SI 2015 Economics of IT and Digitization Workshop
Organized by Erik Brynjolfsson, Shane Greenstein, Susan Athey, and Hal R. Varian
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
July 16-17, 2015
Royal Sonesta Hotel

Thursday, July 16

9:00 am

The Effect of Television Content on Pirate’s Online Activity: Evidence From a Randomized Experiment

Miguel Godinho de Matos, Catholic University of Portugal
Pedro Ferreira, Carnegie Mellon University
Michael D. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University

9:45 am

Bias and Reciprocity in Online Reviews: Evidence from Field Experiments on Airbnb

Andrey Fradkin, Boston University
Elena Grewal, Airbnb, Inc.
David Holtz, Columbia University
Matthew C. Pearson, Ashenfelter & Ashmore

11:00 am

A Short-Run View of What Computers Do: Evidence from a U.K. Tax Incentive

Paul Gaggl, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Greg Wright, University of California, Merced

11:45 am

Show Me The Way To Go Home: An Empirical Investigation of Ride Sharing and Alcohol Related Motor Vehicle Homicide

Brad N. Greenwood, George Mason University
Sunil Wattal, Temple University

1:45 pm

What Makes Geeks Tick? A Study of Stack Overflow Careers

Lei Xu, Bank of Canada
Tingting Nian, University of California, Irvine
Luis Cabral, New York University

1:45 pm

The Impact of Privacy Policy on the Auction Market for Online Display Advertising

Garrett A. Johnson, Boston University

2:30 pm

Information Frictions and Observable Experience

Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER

2:30 pm

What is a Cookie Worth?

Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon University
Arslan Aziz, University of British Columbia

3:45 pm

Reputation Inflation: Evidence from an Online Labor Market

John Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Joseph Golden, PerfectRec.com

3:45 pm

Privacy Protection, Personalized Medicine and Genetic Testing

Amalia R. Miller, University of Virginia and NBER
Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

4:30 pm

Labor Market Peer Firms

Nan Li, University of Toronto

4:30 pm

Social Media and Protest Participation: Evidence from Russia

Ruben Enikolopov, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Alexey Makarin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maria Petrova, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Friday, July 17

1:30 pm

Get With The Program: Software-Driven Innovation in Traditional Manufacturing

Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Matej Drev, Georgia Institute of Technology
Namho Kwon, Carnegie Mellon University

2:25 pm

Moore’s Law goes Multicore: The Economic Consequences of a Fundamental Change in how Computers work

Neil Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

3:20 pm

International Trade in Online Services

Bertin Martens, Tilburg University
Georgios Alaveras, Dr, IPTS