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SUMMER
INSTITUTE 2009 |
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Productivity
Program: Information Technology and Economics |
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Susan
Athey, Erik Brynjolfsson
and Hal Varian, Organizers |
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Royal
Sonesta Hotel |
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5
Cambridge Parkway |
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Cambridge,
Massachusetts |
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July
23-24, 2010 |
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PRELIMINARY
PROGRAM |
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FRIDAY, JULY 23: |
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12:00 n |
Lunch |
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12:30 pm |
Welcome |
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Panel: IT and Economics on the Internet |
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Eric Brill, eBay |
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Rich Miner, Google |
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Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM and
MIT |
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1:30 pm |
Break |
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1:40 pm |
Sinan
Aral, New York University |
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Dylan Walker, New York University |
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Discussant: Markus Mobius,
Harvard |
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2:40 pm |
Break |
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2:50 pm |
Jacob Goldenberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
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Gal Oestreicher-Singer, Tel Aviv
University |
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Schachar Reichman, Tel Aviv University |
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Discussant: Juanjuan Zhang, MIT |
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3:50 pm |
Break |
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4:10 pm |
Ananidya Ghose, New York University |
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Panos Ipeirotis, New York University |
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Beibei
Li, New York University |
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Estimating Demand in the Hotel Industry by
Mining User-Generated and Crowdsourced Content |
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Discussant: Aviv Nevo,
Northwestern |
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5:10 pm |
Adjourn |
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6:30 pm |
Group dinner, |
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Bambara Restaurant,
25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge ,MA (across the street from the Sonesta) |
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SATURDAY, JULY 24: |
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8:30 am |
Coffee and Pastries |
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9:00 am |
Rahul Telang, Carnegie-Mellon University |
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Rodrigo Belo, IST Technical University of Lisbon |
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Pedro Ferriera, Carnegie Mellon
University |
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Discussant: Shane Greenstein, Northwestern |
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10:00 am |
Break |
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10:10 am |
Prasanna Tambe, New York University |
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Lorin Hitt, University of Pennsylvania |
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Job Hopping, Knowledge Spillovers and Regional
Returns to Information Technology Investments |
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Discussant: David Autor, MIT |
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11:10 am |
Break |
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11:20 am |
Avi
Goldfarb, University of Toronto |
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Catherine Tucker, MIT |
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Discussant: Alessandro Acquisti,
Carnegie-Mellon University |
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12:20 pm |
Adjourn |
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7/11/10 |
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