Economics of Digitization
Shane Greenstein, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, Organizers
March 22, 2019
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Amazon, and The Tides Foundation
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 |
Abhishek Nagaraj, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Imke C. Reimers, Cornell University Digitization and the Demand for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project
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John M. Barrios, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER Livia Hanyi Yi, Boston College The Cost of Convenience: Ridesharing and Traffic Fatalities
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| 10:40 am | Break | |||
| 11:10 am |
Charles I. Jones, Stanford University and NBER Christopher Tonetti, Stanford University and NBER Nonrivalry and the Economics of Data
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Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER Luca Braghieri, Bocconi University Sarah Eichmeyer, Bocconi University Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER The Welfare Effects of Social Media
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| 12:40 pm | Lunch - Mid Vidalakis Room | |||
| 1:40 pm |
Shuang Wang, Boston University Jacob LaRiviere, Amazon Aadharsh Kannan, Amazon Spatial Competition and Missing Data: an Application to Cloud Computing
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Timothy J. DeStefano, Georgetown University Richard Kneller, University of Nottingham Jonathan D. Timmis, World Bank Cloud Computing and Firm Growth
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| 3:05 pm | Break | |||
| 3:30 pm |
Alberto Cavallo, Harvard University and NBER More Amazon Effects: Online Competition and Pricing Behaviors
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Ben T. Leyden, Cornell University There's An App (Update) For That: Understanding Product Updating Under Digitization
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| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||