NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Universities Research Conference
Economics of the Information Economy
May 7 and 8, 2004
Judith Chevalier and Joel Waldfogel, Organizers
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
FRIDAY, MAY 7:
12:00 N Lunch and Registration
Session I. Economics of Privacy
1:00 PM HAL VARIAN, FREDRICK WALLENBERG, and GLENN WOROCH,
UC, Berkeley
Who Signed Up for the Do-Not-Call List THEODORE LODER, RICHARD WALSH and MARSHALL VAN ALSTYNE,
University of Michigan Information Asymmetry and Thwarting Spam Discussant: CURTIS TAYLOR, Duke University 2:30 PM Break Session II. Internet Advertising 3:00 PM PATRICK SCHOLTEN, Bentley College The Propensity to Advertise Price Online: MARK STEGEMAN, Virginia Polytechnic Institute Information Goods and Advertising: An Economic Model of the Internet Discussant: AUSTAN GOOLSBEE, University of Chicago and NBER 4:30 PM Adjourn 6:00 PM Group Dinner Royal Sonesta Hotel SATURDAY, MAY 8: 8:30 AM Continental Breakfast Session III. The Communications Infrastructure 9:00 AM NICHOLAS ECONOMIDES, New York University BRIAN VIARD and KATJA SEIM, Stanford University Quantifying the Benefits of Entry into Local Phone Service EUGENIO MIRAVETE, University of Pennsylvania Competitive Nonlinear Pricing in Duopoly Equilibrium: The Early U.S. Cellular Telephone Industry Discussant: INGO VOGELSANG, Boston University> 10:30 AM Break Session IV IT adoption, organization and Productivity 11:00 AM RON BORZEKOWSKI, Federal Reserve Board In through the Out Door: The Role of Outsourcing in the Adoption of
Internet Technologies by Credit Unions PAUL GERTLER, UC, Berkeley and NBER TIM SIMCOE, UC, Berkeley Disease Management: Using Standards and Information Technology to Improve Medical Care Productivity Discussant: LISA LYNCH, Tufts University and NBER 12:30 PM Lunch Session V. Economics of Media and Entertainment 2:00 PM DAVID WATERMAN, Indiana University The Effects of Technological Change on the Quality and Variety of
Information Products FELIX OBERHOLZER, Harvard University KOLEMAN STRUMPF, University of North Carolina The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis DAVID BALAN, PAT DEGRABA, and ABRAHAM WICKELGREN Federal Trade Commission Media Mergers and the Ideological Content of Programming Discussant: STEVEN WILDMAN, Michigan State University 4:00 PM Adjourn 5/5/04