NET Institute Conference on Network Economics

 

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

and the Center for Global Economy and Business

 

April 20, 2012

 

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

 

Preliminary Program

(also at http://www.NETinst.org/2012_conference.htm)

 

Conference Booklet

 

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

 

9:00-9:15        Introductory Remarks

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

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

 

9:15-10            Keynote: Edward Felten, Princeton University and Federal Trade Commission

                        Privacy and Security on the Internet

 

10:15-12:15    Pricing and Value in Network Markets

 

Chairman: Nicholas Economides

1.      Eyal Carmi, Tel Aviv University, Barak Libai, The Arison School of Business, Gal Oestreicher-Singer, Tel Av iv University, Ohad Yassin, Tel Aviv University, Assessing Value in Product Networks [Presentation]

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

 

2.      James Rutt, University of Cambridge, Aggregators and the News Industry: Charging for Access to Content [Presentation]

Discussant: Heski Bar-Isaac, Stern School of Business [Presentation]

 

3.      Yizao Liu, University of Connecticut, Huaxia Rui, University of Texas at Austin, Andrew Whinston, University of Texas at Austin, Whose and What Chatter Matters? The Impact of Tweets on Movie Sales [Presentation]

Discussant: Allan Collard-Wexler, Stern School of Business, NYU [Presentation]

 

4.      Chris Forman, Georgia Institute of Technology, Eric Overby, Georgia Institute of Technology, The Effect of Electronic Commerce on Geographic Trade and Price Variance in a Business-to-Business Market [Presentation]

Discussant: Nathan Yang, University of Toronto [Presentation]

 

12:15-1:15      Lunch

                        Keynote: Rick Whitt, Google

 

1:30-3:00        Platforms and Exclusive Contracts

 

Chairman: Alex Tuzhilin

1.      Hanna Halaburda, Harvard Business School, and Yaron Yehezkel, Tel Aviv University, Platform Competition under Asymmetric Information [Presentation]

Discussant: Alessandro Gavazza, Stern School of Business [Presentation]

 

2.      Andre Veiga, Toulouse School of Economics, E. Glen Weyl, University of Chicago, Multidimensional Heterogeneity and Platform Design [Presentation]

Discussant: Ignacio Esponda, Stern School of Business, NYU [Presentation]

 

3.      Pradeep K. Chintagunta, University of Chicago, Hongju Liu, University of Connecticut, Ting Zhu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Wireless Carriers’ Exclusive Handset Arrangements: An Empirical Look at the iPhone [Presentation]

Discussant: Yossi Spiegel, Tel Aviv University [Presentation]

 

3:15-4:45        Advertising, Search, and Matching

 

Chairman: Ariel Pakes

1.      Lesley Chiou, Occidental College, and Catherine Tucker, MIT, How Does Content Aggregation Affect Users’ Search for Information? [Presentation]

Discussant: Chris Forman, Georgia Tech [Presentation]

 

2.      Roy Mill, Stanford University, Hiring and Learning in Online Global Labor Markets [Presentation]

Discussant, Rob Seamans, Stern School of Business, NYU [Presentation]

 

3.      L. Elisa Celis, University of Washington, Gregory Lewis, Harvard University, Markus M. Mobius, Microsoft Research New England, and Hamid Nazerzadeh, University of Southern California, Buy-it-now or Take-a-chance: A New Pricing Mechanism for Online Advertising [Presentation]

Discussant, Jidong Zhou, Stern School of Business/NYU [Presentation]

 

4:45-6:00        Cheese and Wine Reception

 

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