SI 2015 Economics of IT and Digitization Workshop

Erik Brynjolfsson, Shane Greenstein, Susan Athey, and Hal R. Varian, Organizers

July 16-17, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, July 16
9:00 am
9:00 am
Miguel Godinho de Matos, Catolica Lisbon School of Business & Economics
Pedro Ferreira, Carnegie Mellon University
Michael D. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University

The Effect of Television Content on Pirate’s Online Activity: Evidence From a Randomized Experiment
9:45 am
9:45 am
Andrey Fradkin, Boston University
Elena Grewal, Airbnb, Inc.
David Holtz, University of California, Berkeley
Matthew C. Pearson, Ashenfelter & Ashmore

Bias and Reciprocity in Online Reviews: Evidence from Field Experiments on Airbnb
11:00 am
11:00 am
Paul Gaggl, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Greg Wright, University of California, Merced

A Short-Run View of What Computers Do: Evidence from a U.K. Tax Incentive
11:45 am
11:45 am
Brad N. Greenwood, George Mason University
Sunil Wattal, Temple University

Show Me The Way To Go Home: An Empirical Investigation of Ride Sharing and Alcohol Related Motor Vehicle Homicide
1:45 pm
1:45 pm
1:45 pm
Lei Xu, Bank of Canada
Tingting Nian, University of California at Irvine
Luis Cabral, New York University

What Makes Geeks Tick? A Study of Stack Overflow Careers
1:45 pm
Garrett A. Johnson, Boston University

The Impact of Privacy Policy on the Auction Market for Online Display Advertising
2:30 pm
2:30 pm
2:30 pm
Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER

Information Frictions and Observable Experience
2:30 pm
Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon University
Arslan Aziz, University of British Columbia

What is a Cookie Worth?
3:45 pm
3:45 pm
3:45 pm
John Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Joseph Golden, PerfectRec.com

Reputation Inflation: Evidence from an Online Labor Market
3:45 pm
Amalia R. Miller, University of Virginia and NBER
Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Privacy Protection, Personalized Medicine and Genetic Testing
4:30 pm
4:30 pm
4:30 pm
Nan Li, University of Toronto

Labor Market Peer Firms
4:30 pm
Ruben Enikolopov, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Alexey Makarin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maria Petrova, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Social Media and Protest Participation: Evidence from Russia
Friday, July 17
1:30 pm
1:30 pm
Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Matej Drev, Georgia Institute of Technology
Namho Kwon, Carnegie Mellon University

Get With The Program: Software-Driven Innovation in Traditional Manufacturing
2:25 pm
2:25 pm
Neil Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Moore’s Law goes Multicore: The Economic Consequences of a Fundamental Change in how Computers work
3:20 pm
3:20 pm
Bertin Martens, Bruegel (Brussels) and TILEC (Tilburg University)
Georgios Alaveras, Dr, IPTS

International Trade in Online Services