SI 2016 Economics of IT and Digitization

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

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
9:55 am	Crowdsourced Digital Goods and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Open Source Software
11:00 am	The Adoption of Network Goods: Evidence from the Spread of Mobile Phones in Rwanda
11:45 am	Crime is Terribly Revealing: Information Technology and Police Productivity
1:30 pm	The Alibaba Effect: Spatial Consumption Inequality and the Welfare Gains from E-Commerce
1:30 pm	Exit, Tweets, and Loyalty
2:10 pm	How Computer Automation Affects Occupations: Technology, jobs, and skills
2:10 pm	Vertical Integration and Antitrust in Search Markets
2:50 pm	Remedying Education with Personalized Learning: Evidence from Randomized Field Experiment in India
2:50 pm	The Impact of Time-shift Television on TV Viewership Behavior
3:50 pm	A Comparison of Approaches to Advertising Measurement: Evidence from Big Field Experiments at Facebook
3:50 pm	Economic Downturn and Volunteering: Do Economic Crises Affect Content Generation on Wikipedia?
4:30 pm	Crowd-Driven Competitive Intelligence: Understanding the Relationship between Local Market Structure and Online Rating Distributions
4:30 pm	Network Effects in Broadcast–Interpersonal Communication Technologies: Evidence from Field Experiments on Facebook
Friday, July 22
9:10 am	The Welfare Impact of Consumer Reviews: A Case Study of the Hotel Industry
10:20 am	Market Structure with the Entry of Peer-to-Peer Platforms: The Case of Hotels and Airbnb
11:30 am	Information and Innovation Diffusion: The Case of Pharmaceuticals in the United States
2:40 pm	Invention Machines: How Control Instruments and Information Technologies Drove Global Technological Progress over a Century of Invention