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Economics of Digitization: An Agenda
Pre-Conference |
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Shane Greenstein, Avi Goldfarb and Catherine Tucker, Organizers |
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June 28 and
29, 2012 |
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Northwestern
University |
Chicago Campus, Wieboldt
Hall |
Kellogg School of Management |
339 East Chicago Avenue |
Chicago, IL |
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Program |
Thursday,
June 28: |
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12:00 n |
Lunch |
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1:00 pm |
Matthew Gentzkow
and Jesse Shapiro, University of Chicago and NBER |
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Ideology
and the Demand for Online News |
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Michael Baye, Babur De los Santos, and Matthijs
Wildenbeest, Indiana University
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Searching
for Physical and Digital Media: The Evolution of Platform Competition in
Markets for Books, Music and Videos |
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2:00 pm |
Break |
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2:30 pm |
Joshua Gans, University of Toronto |
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The
Economics of Pure Digital Currencies |
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Ajay
K. Agrawal and Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto
and NBER Elizabeth
Lyons, University of Toronto |
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Digitization
of Information and the Market for Contract Labor |
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3:30 pm |
Break |
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4:00 pm |
Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER Petra
Moser, Stanford University and NBER |
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Dead
Poets Property |
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Brett
Danaher, Wellesley College |
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Pro
Copyright Enforcement in a Digital Age |
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5:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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5:30 pm |
Bus transport from hotel to
Greenstein home |
6:00 pm |
Reception at the Greenstein home |
10:00 pm |
Bus transport from Greenstein home
to hotel. |
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Friday,
June 29: |
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8:00 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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9:00 am |
Erik Brynjolfsson, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and NBER Lynn,
Wu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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The
Future of Prediction: How Google Searches Foreshadow Housing Prices and Sales |
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Scott Wallsten, Technology Policy Institute |
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What
Are We not Doing When Were Online? |
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10:00 am |
Break |
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10:30 am |
Hal Varian,
Google Inc. |
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Predicting
the Present with Google Trends |
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Timothy Simcoe, Boston University
and NBER |
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The
Endogenous Modularity of the Internet |
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Randall
Lewis, Google, Inc Justin
Rao, Yahoo! Research David Reiley, Microsoft Research |
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Measuring
the Effects of Advertising: The Digital Frontier |
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12:00 n |
Lunch |
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1:00 pm |
Susan Athey,
Harvard University and NBER Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and NBER |
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Title to be announced |
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Catherine Mann, Brandeis University |
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Do
Equity Markets Punish Firms that Lose Customer Data? |
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2:00 pm |
Break |
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2:30 pm |
Denis Nekipelov, University of California at
Berkeley |
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Identification,
Data Combination and the Risk of Disclosure |
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Heekyung H. Kim, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology |
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The
Effect of Free Access on The Diffusion of Scholarly Ideas |
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3:30 pm |
Avi
Goldfarb, University of Toronto Cathiner
Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Shane Greenstein, Northwestern
University and NBER Closing Remarks |
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4:00 pm |
Adjourn |