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SI 2012
Economics of IT and Digitization Workshop |
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Erik
Brynjolfsson, Shane Greenstein, Susan Athey, Hal Varian, and Nicholas Bloom,
Organizers |
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July
19-20, 2012 |
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Royal
Sonesta Hotel |
Ballroom
A, West Tower |
40 Edwin
Land Boulevard |
Cambridge,
MA |
PROGRAM |
Wednesday, July 18 |
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Thursday, July 19 |
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Alejandro Zentner, Michael
D. Smith, and Cuneyd Kaya, Bricks Clicks Blockbusters and Long Tails: How
Video Rental Patterns Change as Consumers Move Online |
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Friday,
July 20 |
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8:30 am |
Coffee and pastries |
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Parallel Session I, Ballroom A, West
Tower |
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9:00 am |
Ravi Bapna, University of Minnesota |
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Akhmed Umyarov, University of
Minnesota |
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9:45 am |
Break |
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10:00 am |
Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon
University |
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Rajiv Garg, Carnegie Mellon
University |
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To Be or Not to Be Linked on LinkedIn: Online Social
Networks and Job Search |
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Discussant: Misiek Piskorski,
Harvard University |
10:45 am |
Break |
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11:00 am |
Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon
University |
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Christina Fong, Carnegie Mellon
University |
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An
Experiment in Hiring Discrimination via Online Social Networks (not available
for download) |
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Parallel Session II, Charles A, East
Tower |
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9:00 am |
Yu (Jeffrey) Hu, Purdue University |
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Michael D. Smith, Carnegie Mellon
University |
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The Impact of Ebook Distribution on
Print Sales: Analysis of a Natural Experiment |
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Discussant: Judy Chevalier, Yale
University and NBER |
9:45 am |
Break |
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10:00 am |
Jeffrey Prince, Indiana University |
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Shane Greenstein, Northwestern University
and NBER |
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Discussant: Ali Yorukoglu, Stanford
University and NBER |
10:45 am |
Break |
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11:00 am |
Masakazu Ishihara, New York
University |
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Andrew Ching, University of Toronto |
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Discussant: Ben Shiller, Brandeis
University |
Joint afternoon with Industrial
Organization |
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11:45 am |
Lunch and Panel: Hal Varian, Google
Inc., Moderator |
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1:30 pm |
Elisa Celis, University of
Washington |
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Gregory Lewis, Harvard University
and NBER |
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Markus Mobius, Iowa State University
and NBER |
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Hamid Nazerzadeh, University of
Southern California |
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Buy-it-now
or Take-a-chance: Price Discrimination through Randomized Auctions |
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Discussant: Jon Levin, Stanford
University and NBER |
2:15 pm |
Joerg Claussen, Ifo Institute,
University of Munich |
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Tobias Kretschmer, LMU Munich |
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Philip Mayrhofer, CDTM, LMU & TU
Munich |
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Incentives for Quality
over Time The Case of Facebook Applications |
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Discussant: Jen Brown, Northwestern
University and NBER |
3:00 pm |
Break |
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3:30 pm |
Liran Einav, Stanford University and
NBER |
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Chiara Farronato, Stanford
University |
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Jonathan D. Levin, Stanford
University and NBER |
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Neel Sundaresan, eBay Research Labs |
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Sales
Mechanisms in Online Markets: What Happened to Internet Auctions? |
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Discussant: Patrick Bajari, University of Minnesota and
NBER |
4:14 pm |
Dina Mayzlin, Yale University |
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Yaniv Dover, Yale University |
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Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University
and NBER |
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Promotional Reviews: An Empirical
Investigation of Online Review Manipulation |
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Discussant: Michael Luca, Harvard
University |
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5:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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