The Economics of Digitization: An Agenda

Shane Greenstein, Avi Goldfarb, and Catherine Tucker, Organizers

June 6-7, 2013

Park City, Utah

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, June 6
1
Ajay K. Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER
John Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto and NBER
Elizabeth Lyons, University of California at San Diego

Digitization and the Contract Labor Market: A Research Agenda
2
Michael Baye, Indiana University
Babur De Los Santos, Clemson University
Matthijs Wildenbeest, University of Arizona

Searching for Physical and Digital Media: The Evolution of Platforms For Finding Books
3
Catherine L. Mann, Citi

Information Lost (Apologies to Milton)
4
Randall A. Lewis, Amazon, Inc.
Justin Rao, HomeAway
David H. Reiley, Jr., Pandora Media, Inc

Measuring the Effects of Advertising: The Digital Frontier
5
Joshua Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
Hanna Halaburda, New York University

Some Economics of Pure Digital Currencies
6
Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER

Ideology and the Demand for News Online
7
Lynn Wu, University of Pennsylvania
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER

The Future of Prediction: How Google Searches Foreshadow Housing Prices and Sales
8
Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER

The Endogenous Modularity of the Internet
9
Hal Varian, Google

Bayesian Variable Selection for Nowcasting Economic Time Series
10
Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER

And the Bands Played On: Digital Disintermediation and the Quality of New Recorded Music
11
Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER
Petra Moser, New York University and NBER

Copyright and the Profitability of Authorship - Evidence from Book Contracts in the Romantic Period
12
Tatiana Komarova, London School of Economics
Denis Nekipelov, University of Virginia
Evgeny Yakovelv, New Economic School

Estimation of Treatment Effects from Combined Data: Identification versus Data Security