SI 2016 Economics of IT and Digitization
Organized by Erik Brynjolfsson, Shane Greenstein, Susan Athey, and Hal R. Varian
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
July 21-22, 2016
Royal Sonesta Hotel

Thursday, July 21

9:10 am

Electronic Trace Data and Legal Outcomes: The Effect of Electronic Medical Records on Malpractice Claim Resolution Time

Sam Ransbotham, Boston College
Eric M. Overby, Georgia Institute of Technology
Michael C. Jernigan, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

9:55 am

Crowdsourced Digital Goods and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Open Source Software

Frank Nagle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:00 am

The Adoption of Network Goods: Evidence from the Spread of Mobile Phones in Rwanda

Daniel Bjorkegren, Columbia University

11:45 am

Crime is Terribly Revealing: Information Technology and Police Productivity

Giovanni Mastrobuoni, University of Turin

1:30 pm

The Alibaba Effect: Spatial Consumption Inequality and the Welfare Gains from E-Commerce

Ben Zou, Purdue University

1:30 pm

Exit, Tweets, and Loyalty

Joshua Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER
Mara Lederman, University of Toronto

2:10 pm

How Computer Automation Affects Occupations: Technology, jobs, and skills

James Bessen, Boston University

2:10 pm

Vertical Integration and Antitrust in Search Markets

Lesley Chiou, Occidental College

2:50 pm

Remedying Education with Personalized Learning: Evidence from Randomized Field Experiment in India

Anuj Kumar, University of Florida
Amit Mehra, UT Dallas

2:50 pm

The Impact of Time-shift Television on TV Viewership Behavior

Rodrigo Belo, Nova School of Business and Economics
Pedro Ferreira, Carnegie Mellon University
Miguel Godinho de Matos, Catholic University of Portugal
Filipa Reis, Carnegie Mellon University

3:50 pm

A Comparison of Approaches to Advertising Measurement: Evidence from Big Field Experiments at Facebook

Brett R. Gordon, Northwestern University
Florian Zettelmeyer, Northwestern University and NBER

3:50 pm

Economic Downturn and Volunteering: Do Economic Crises Affect Content Generation on Wikipedia?

Michael Kummer, Nova School of Business & Economics (Nova SBE)
Olga Slivko, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Michael Zhang, Stanford University

4:30 pm

Crowd-Driven Competitive Intelligence: Understanding the Relationship between Local Market Structure and Online Rating Distributions

Dominik Gutt, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Philipp Herrmann, Paderborn University
Mohammad S. Rahman, Purdue University

4:30 pm

Network Effects in Broadcast–Interpersonal Communication Technologies: Evidence from Field Experiments on Facebook

Dean Eckles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
René F. Kizilcec, Stanford University
Eytan Bakshy, Facebook

Friday, July 22

9:10 am

The Welfare Impact of Consumer Reviews: A Case Study of the Hotel Industry

Gregory Lewis, Amazon, Inc.
Georgios Zervas, Boston University

10:20 am

Market Structure with the Entry of Peer-to-Peer Platforms: The Case of Hotels and Airbnb

Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
Andrey Fradkin, Boston University

11:30 am

Information and Innovation Diffusion: The Case of Pharmaceuticals in the United States

Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University
Kamran Bilir, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Alan T. Sorensen, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER

2:40 pm

Invention Machines: How Control Instruments and Information Technologies Drove Global Technological Progress over a Century of Invention

Aija Leiponen, Cornell University