NET Institute Conference on Network Economics
Sponsored by the NET Institute, http://www.NETinst.org/
and the Entertainment, Media and Technology Program of the Stern School of Business
May 8, 2009
Stern School of Business, NYU, 44 West 4th Street, New York [MAP]
Program
(also at http://www.NETinst.org/2009_conference.htm)
8:30-9:00 Continental
breakfast (Room 5-50)
9:00-9:15 Introductory remarks
Thomas Cooley, Dean, Stern School of Business, NYU
Nicholas Economides, Executive
Director, NET Institute and
Ariel Pakes, Director, NET Institute, Harvard University and NYU
9:15-10:45 Internet
search and advertising
Chairman: Panos Ipeirotis, School of
Business, NYU
1. Song Yao and Carl F. Mela, Duke University, A Dynamic Model for Sponsored Search Advertising. [Presentation]
Discussant: Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto [Presentation]
2. Yi Zhu and Kenneth C. Wilbur, University of Southern California, Strategic Bidding in Hybrid CPC/CPM Auctions. [Presentation]
Discussant: Heski Bar-Isaac, Stern School of Business, NYU [Presentation]
3. Babur De los Santos, Indiana University, Consumer Search on the Internet. [Presentation]
Discussant: Sergei Koulayev, Columbia University [Presentation]
11:00-12:30 Digital rights, privacy, and two-sided pricing
Chairman: John Asker, Stern School of Business, NYU
1. Jin-Hyuk Kim, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, Digital Rights Management and Technological Tying. [Presentation]
Discussant: Feng
Zhu, University of Southern California [Presentation]
2.
Curtis
Taylor and Liad Wagman, Duke
University, Who
Benefits from Online Privacy? [Presentation]
Discussant: John Asker, Stern School of Business, NYU [Presentation]
3.
Jay Pil Choi,
Michigan State University, and Byung-Cheol Kim,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Net Neutrality and Investment
Incentives. [Presentation]
Discussant, Alexei Alexandrov, University of Rochester [Presentation]
1:00-2:15 Lunch
2:15-4:15 Open
source, open standards, beta versions and entrepreneurship
Chairman: Allan Collard-Wexler, Stern School of Business, NYU
1. Marc Blatter, University of Bern, and Andras Niedermayer, Northwestern University, Informational Hold-Up, Disclosure Policy, and Career Concerns on the Example of Open Source Software Development. [Presentation]
Discussant: Curtis Taylor, Duke University [Presentation]
2. Tim Simcoe, University of Toronto, Dave Waguespack, University of Maryland, and Lee Fleming, Harvard Business School, What's in a (Missing) Name? Status and Signaling in Open Standards Development. [Presentation]
Discussant: Kenneth C.
Wilbur, University of Southern
California [Presentation]
3. Amit Mehra and Gireesh Shrimali, Indian School of Business, Introduction of Software Products and Services Through Public Beta Launches. [Presentation]
Discussant: Joyee Deb, Stern School of Business, NYU [Presentation]
4. Pehr-Johan Norback, Lars Persson,
and Joacim Tag, Research Institute
of Industrial Economics, Stockholm Entrepreneurial
Innovations in Network Industries. [Presentation]
Discussant: Vasiliki Skreta, Stern School
of Business, NYU [Presentation]
4:15-5:45 Reception