Economics of Digitization

Shane Greenstein, Josh Lerner, Scott Stern, and Avi Goldfarb, Organizers

March 3, 2017

SIEPR at Stanford University

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, March 3
9:10 am
Barbara Biasi, Yale University and NBER
Petra Moser, New York University and NBER

Effects of Copyrights on Science: Evidence from the WWII Book Republication Program
10:00 am
Joan Calzada, Universitat de Barcelona
Ricard Gil, Queen's University

What Do News Aggregators Do? Evidence from Google News in Spain and Germany
11:10 am
Thomas Blake, Amazon
Sarah Moshary, University of California, Berkeley
Kane Sweeney, eBay Research Labs
Steven Tadelis, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Price Salience and Product Choice
12:01pm
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
Felix Eggers, University of Groningen
Avinash Gannamaneni, Carnegie Mellon University

Using Massive Online Choice Experiments to Measure Changes in Well-being
1:50 pm
Ben Shiller, Brandeis University
Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER

Will Ad Blocking Break the Internet?
2:55 pm
Shawn Cole, Harvard University and NBER
A. Nilesh Fernando, University of Notre Dame

‘Mobile’izing Agricultural Advice: Technology Adoption, Diffusion and Sustainability
4:00 pm
Susan Feng Lu, Purdue University
Huaxia Rui, University of Rochester
Abraham Seidmann, University of Rochester

Does Technology Substitute for Nurses? Staffing Decisions in Nursing Homes