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Thursday, July 18:
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8:30 am
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Coffee
and Pastries
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Morning General Session
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9:00 am
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Ashwini Agrawal, New York
University
Prasanna Tambe, New York
University
Technological
Investment and Labor Outcomes: Evidence from Private Equity
Discussant: Timothy Bresnahan, Stanford University
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Peng Huang, University of Maryland
Marco Ceccagnoli, Georgia Institute of Technology
Chris Forman, Georgia Institute of Technology
D.J. Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology
IT Knowledge Spillovers and
Productivity: Evidence from Enterprise Software
Discussant: Lorin Hitt,
University of Pennsylvania
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10:30 am
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Break
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11:00 am
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Seth Freedman, Indiana University
Haizhen Lin, Indiana University
Jeffrey Prince, Indiana University
Are
There Heterogeneous Effects of Electronic Medical
Record Adoption on Patient Health Outcomes?
Discussant: Amalia Miller, University of Virginia
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Peter Newberry, Pennsylvania State University
An
Empirical Study of Observational Learning
Discussant: Joel
Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER
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12:30 pm
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Lunch
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Afternoon Session: Two Parallel Tracks until Final Panel
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Track 1. Broadband and Access Markets (continues in
Ballroom A)
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1:30 pm
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Aviv Nevo, Northwestern University and NBER
John Turner, University of Georgia
Jonathan Williams, University of Georgia
Usage-Based
Pricing and Demand for Residential Broadband
Discussant: Scott
Savage, University of Colorado
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2:15 pm
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Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas at Austin
Federal
Subsidies and Broadband Competition
Discussant: Scott Wallsten, Technology Policy
Institute
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3:00 pm
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Break
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3:15 pm
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Miguel Godinho de Matos, Carnegie Mellon University
Pedro Ferreira, Carnegie Mellon University
Rahul Telang,
Carnegie-Mellon University
Michael D. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
The Impact of Popularity
on the Sales of Movies in Video-on-Demand: a Randomized Experiment
Discussant: Dylan Walker, Boston University
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4:00 pm
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Heekyung Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Impact of Free
Access on the Diffusion of Scholarly Ideas
Discussant: Glenn Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
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Track 2. Privacy and Public
Knowledge (Parkview Room – East Tower)
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1:300 pm
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Idris Adjerid, Carnegie
Mellon University
Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University
Rema Padman, Carnegie
Mellon University
Rahul Telang,
Carnegie-Mellon University
Julia Adler-Milstein, University of Michigan
The
Impact of Privacy Regulation and Informed Consent on Technology Adoption: The
Case of Health Information Exchanges
Discussant: Avi Goldfarb, University of
Toronto
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2:15 pm
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Jin-Hyuk Kim, University of Colorado
Liad Wagman, Northwestern
University
Screening Incentives and Privacy Protection in
Financial Markets: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
Discussant: Jonathan Levin, Stanford University and NBER
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3:00 pm
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Break
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3:15 pm
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Michael Luca, Harvard University
Digitizing
Disclosure: The Case of Restaurant Hygiene Grades
Discussant: Chris Dellarocas, Boston University
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4:00 pm
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Ravi Bapna,
University of Minnesota
Jui Ramaprasad, McGill
University
Galit Shmueli, Indian
School of Business
Akhmed Umyarov, Carlson
School of Management (U of Minnesota)
One-Way
Mirrors and Weak-Signaling in Online Dating: A Randomized Field Experiment
Discussant: Ali Hortacsu, University of
Chicago and NBER
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4:45 pm
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Personal Information and Data Ownership
Panelists: Sandy
Pentland, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Chris Sundermeier, Reputation.com
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5:15 pm
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Adjourn
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6:30 pm
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Group Dinner at the Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
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Friday, July 19:
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8:00 am
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Coffee
and Pastries
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General Session, Joint with IO Group
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8:30 am
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Michael Dinerstein, Stanford University
Liran Einav, Stanford University
and NBER
Jonathan Levin, Stanford University and NBER
Neel Sundaresan, eBay Research Labs
Consumer Price Search
and Platform Design in Internet Commerce
Discussant: Gregory Lewis, Harvard University and NBER
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Bronwyn H. Hall, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Christian Helmers, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Georg von Graevenitz, LMU
Technology
Entry in the Presence of Patent Thickets
Discussant: Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
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10:00 am
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Break
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10:15 am
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Hongbin Cai, Peking
University
Ginger Jin, University of Maryland and NBER
Chong Liu, Peking University
Li-An Zhou, Peking University
More
Trusting, Less Trust? An Investigation of Early e-Commerce in China
Discussant: Florian Zettlemeyer,
Northwestern
University
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11:00 am
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Panel: What Can Economics Learn from Machine Learning?
Panelists: Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER
Hal Varian, University of California at Berkeley
Andreas
Weigend, Stanford University
John
Langford, Microsoft
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12:00 pm
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Lunch and Panel with IO
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1:30 pm
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Lynn Wu, University of Pennsylvania
Chingyung Lin, University of Pennsylvania
Network-biased
Technical Change: Evidence from the Adoption of Social Media in a Consulting
Organization
Discussant: Marshall
van Alstyne, Boston University
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Chris Forman, Georgia Institute of Technology
Kristina McElheran, Harvard University
The
Digital Erosion of Firm Boundaries: Complementarities between IT Use and
Production Chain Organization in US Manufacturing
Discussant: Chad Syverson, University of
Chicago and NBER
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3:00 pm
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Break
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3:30 pm
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Yann Algan, Sciences Po
Yochai Benkler, Harvard
University
Mayo Fuster Morell,
Autonomous University of Barcelona
Jerome Hergueux, Harvard University
Cooperation
in a Peer Production Economy: Experimental Evidence from Wikipedia
Discussant: Shane Greenstein, Northwestern University and NBER
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4:15 pm
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Poster Slam: Five Minute Mini-Presentations
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Abhishek Nagaraj, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Does Copyright Affect Creative Reuse? Evidence from the Digitization of
Baseball Digest
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Brett Danaher, Wellesley College
Michael D. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
Gone in 60 Seconds: The Impact of the Megaupload
Shutdown on Movie Sales
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Laura Gee, Tufts University
Jason Jones, University of California at San Diego
Social Networks and Labor Markets: How Strong Ties Relate to Job
Transmission Using Facebook's Social Network
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Dan Breznitz,
University of Toronto
Vincenzo Palermo, Georgia Institute of Technology
One Targeting Too Far? Empirical Inquiry Into The Effectiveness Of Behavioral
Targeting Within An Online Advertisement Technology Mix
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Anita Rao,
University of Chicago
Online Content Pricing: Purchase and Rental Markets
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Rodrigo Belo, Carnegie Mellon
University
Pedro Ferreira, Carnegie Mellon University
Is Social Influence Always Positive? Evidence from a Very Large Mobile
Network
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Daniel Elfenbein,
Washington University in St. Louis
Raymond Fisman, Columbia University and NBER
Brian McManus, University of North Carolina
Market Structure, Reputation, and the Value of Quality Certification
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Xiahua Wei, University of California at San Diego
Wei Chen, University of California at San Diego
Kevin Zhu, University of California at San Diego
Motivating Contributions to Online Knowledge Communities: Reputation and
Virtual Rewards
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Rajiv Garg, Carnegie Mellon University
Rahul Telang,
Carnegie-Mellon University
App Economy: Demand and Cost Structure for Mobile App Store
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Bertin Martens, European Commission
Smaranda Pantea,
Institute for Prospective Technological Studies
Explaining Consumer Demand for Internet Services: Evidence from EU Clickstream Data
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5:15 pm
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Posters and Wine in Foyer
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