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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Economics of Digitization: An Agenda Pre-Conference

 

Shane Greenstein, Avi Goldfarb and Catherine Tucker, Organizers

 

June 28 and 29, 2012

 

Northwestern University

Chicago Campus, Wieboldt Hall

Kellogg School of Management

339 East Chicago Avenue

Chicago, IL

 

Program

 

Thursday, June 28:

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Ideology and the Demand for Online News

 

 

 

Michael Baye, Babur De los Santos, and Matthijs Wildenbeest, Indiana University

 

Searching for Physical and Digital Media: The Evolution of Platform Competition in Markets for Books, Music and Videos

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:30 pm

Joshua Gans, University of Toronto
Hanna Halaburda
, Harvard University

 

The Economics of Pure Digital Currencies

 

 

 

Ajay K. Agrawal and Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto and NBER
John Horton, Harvard University

Elizabeth Lyons, University of Toronto

 

Digitization of Information and the Market for Contract Labor

 

 

3:30 pm

Break

 

 

4:00 pm

Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER

Petra Moser, Stanford University and NBER

 

Dead Poet’s Property

 

 

 

Brett Danaher, Wellesley College
Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Pro Copyright Enforcement in a Digital Age

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

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.

 

 

Friday, June 29:

 

 

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Erik Brynjolfsson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Lynn, Wu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

The Future of Prediction: How Google Searches Foreshadow Housing Prices and Sales

 

 

 

Scott Wallsten, Technology Policy Institute

 

What Are We not Doing When We’re Online?

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:30 am

Hal Varian, Google Inc.

 

Predicting the Present with Google Trends

 

 

 

Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER

 

The Endogenous Modularity of the Internet

 

 

 

Randall Lewis, Google, Inc

Justin Rao, Yahoo! Research

David Reiley, Microsoft Research

 

Measuring the Effects of Advertising: The Digital Frontier

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Susan Athey, Harvard University and NBER

Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

Title to be announced

 

 

 

Catherine Mann, Brandeis University

 

Do Equity Markets Punish Firms that Lose Customer Data?

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:30 pm

Denis Nekipelov, University of California at Berkeley
Tatiana Komarova, London School of Economics
Evgeny Yakovlev
, University of California at Berkeley

 

Identification, Data Combination and the Risk of Disclosure

 

 

 

Heekyung H. Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

The Effect of Free Access on The Diffusion of Scholarly Ideas

 

 

3:30 pm

Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto

Cathiner Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Shane Greenstein, Northwestern University and NBER

Closing Remarks

 

 

4:00 pm

Adjourn