NET Institute Conference on Network Economics

 

Sponsored by the NET Institute, http://www.NETinst.org/

and the Stern School of Business

 

April 16, 2010

 

Stern School of Business, NYU, 44 West 4th Street, New York [MAP]

 

Preliminary Program

(also at http://www.NETinst.org/2010_conference.htm)

 

Conference Booklet

 

8:30-9:00         Continental Breakfast (Room 5-50)

 

 

9:00-9:15         Introductory Remarks

                        Ingo Walter, Vice Dean and Dean of Faculty, Stern School of Business, NYU

Nicholas Economides, Executive Director, NET Institute and Stern School of Business, NYU

 

 

9:15-10:45       Internet Search and Competition Online

Chairman: Sébastien Lahaie, Yahoo Research

 

1.      Heski Bar-Issaac (Speaker), Stern School of Business, New York University, Guillermo Caruana, CEMFI, and Vicente Cuñat, London School of Economics, Search, Design and Market Structure [Presentation]

Discussant:  Konstantinos Serfes, Drexel University [Presentation]

 

2.      Ramon Casadesus-Masanell (Speaker), Harvard Business School, and Feng Zhu, University of Southern California,  “Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals [Presentation]

Discussant: Gaston Llanes, Harvard Business School [Presentation]

 

3.      Andrea Pozzi  (Speaker), Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance, Shopping Cost and Brand Exploration in Online Grocery [Presentation]

Discussant: Juanjuan Zhang, MIT Sloan School of Management [Presentation]

 

 

11:00-12:30     Innovation, Standards, and Network Creation

 

Chairman: Alexander Tuzhilin, Stern School of Business, New York University

 

1.      German Lambardi (Speaker), GREMAQ, Toulouse School of Economics, “Software Innovation and the Open Source Threat [Presentation]

Discussant: Arun Sundararajan, Stern School of Business, NYU [Presentation]

 

2.      Toby Kretschmer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Eugenio Miravete (Speaker), University of Texas at Austin, and José Pernías, Universitat Jaume I, “Competitive Pressure and the Adoption of Complementary Innovations,” [Presentation]

Discussant: John Asker, Stern School of Business, NYU [Presentation]

 

3.      Reto Hofstetter, University of Bern, Scott K. Shriver  (Speaker), Stanford University, and Harikesh Nair, Stanford University, “Network Effects, User-Generated Content, and Social Ties: Evidence from an Online Social Network,” [Presentation]

Discussant:  Chris Forman, Georgia Institute of Technology [Presentation]

 

 

1:00-2:15         Lunch; Keynote speaker: Chris Meyers, Microsoft [Presentation]

 

 

2:15-4:15         Two-sided Competition, Switching Costs and Learning

 

Chairman: Glen Weyl, Harvard University

 

1.      Hong Guo, University of Notre Dame, Subhajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida, and Hsing Kenny Cheng (Speaker), Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida, “The Economic Effect of Broadband User Discrimination,” [Presentation]

Discussant: Robin S. Lee, Stern School of Business, NYU [Presentation]

 

2.      Stefan Behringer  (Speaker), Universität Mainz and Lapo Filistrucchi, Tilburg University and University of Florence, “Price Wars in Two-Sided Markets: The case of the UK Quality Newspapers,” [Presentation]

Discussant, Alessandro Gavazza [Presentation]

 

3.      Jaiwei Chen  (Speaker), University of California-Irvine, “Switching Costs in Network Industries,” [Presentation]

Discussant: Yossi Spiegel, Tel Aviv University [Presentation]

 

4.      Anindya Ghose (Speaker), and Sang-Pil Han, Stern School of Business, New York University, “A Structural Model of User Learning and Dynamics in Mobile Phone Content Services,” [Presentation]

Discussant, Sha Yang [Presentation]

 

 

4:15-5:30         Cheese and Wine Reception

           

RSVP at http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/economics/rsvp/