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	Sam Ransbotham, Boston College Eric M. Overby, Georgia Institute of Technology Michael C. Jernigan, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Electronic Trace Data and Legal Outcomes: The Effect of Electronic Medical Records on Malpractice Claim Resolution Time
9:55 am	Frank Nagle, Harvard University Crowdsourced Digital Goods and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Open Source Software
11:00 am	Daniel Bjorkegren, Columbia University The Adoption of Network Goods: Evidence from the Spread of Mobile Phones in Rwanda
11:45 am	Giovanni Mastrobuoni, Collegio Carlo Alberto Crime is Terribly Revealing: Information Technology and Police Productivity
1:30 pm	Ben Zou, Purdue University The Alibaba Effect: Spatial Consumption Inequality and the Welfare Gains from E-Commerce
1:30 pm	Joshua Gans, University of Toronto and NBER Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER Mara Lederman, University of Toronto Exit, Tweets, and Loyalty
2:10 pm	James Bessen, Boston University How Computer Automation Affects Occupations: Technology, jobs, and skills
2:10 pm	Lesley Chiou, Occidental College Vertical Integration and Antitrust in Search Markets
2:50 pm	Anuj Kumar, University of Florida Amit Mehra, UT Dallas Remedying Education with Personalized Learning: Evidence from Randomized Field Experiment in India
2:50 pm	Rodrigo Belo, Nova SBE Pedro Ferreira, Carnegie Mellon University Miguel Godinho de Matos, Catolica Lisbon School of Business & Economics Filipa Reis, Carnegie Mellon University The Impact of Time-shift Television on TV Viewership Behavior
3:50 pm	Brett R. Gordon, Northwestern University Florian Zettelmeyer, Northwestern University and NBER A Comparison of Approaches to Advertising Measurement: Evidence from Big Field Experiments at Facebook
3:50 pm	Michael Kummer, University of East Anglia Olga Slivko, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Michael Zhang, Stanford University Economic Downturn and Volunteering: Do Economic Crises Affect Content Generation on Wikipedia?
4:30 pm	Dominik Gutt, Erasmus University Rotterdam Philipp Herrmann, Paderborn University Mohammad S. Rahman, Purdue University Crowd-Driven Competitive Intelligence: Understanding the Relationship between Local Market Structure and Online Rating Distributions
4:30 pm	Dean Eckles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology René F. Kizilcec, Stanford University Eytan Bakshy, Facebook Network Effects in Broadcast–Interpersonal Communication Technologies: Evidence from Field Experiments on Facebook
Friday, July 22
9:10 am	Gregory Lewis, Amazon Georgios Zervas, Boston University The Welfare Impact of Consumer Reviews: A Case Study of the Hotel Industry
10:20 am	Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER Andrey Fradkin, Boston University Market Structure with the Entry of Peer-to-Peer Platforms: The Case of Hotels and Airbnb
11:30 am	Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University Kamran Bilir, University of Wisconsin-Madison Alan T. Sorensen, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Information and Innovation Diffusion: The Case of Pharmaceuticals in the United States
2:40 pm	Aija Leiponen, Cornell University Invention Machines: How Control Instruments and Information Technologies Drove Global Technological Progress over a Century of Invention