NET Institute Conference on Network Economics

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

and the Center for Global Economy and Business

November 20, 2015

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

Preliminary Program

(also at http://www.NETinst.org/2015_Fall_conference.htm)

Conference Booklet

8:15-8:45         Continental Breakfast (Room 550)

8:45-8:55         Introductory Remarks

Peter Henry, Dean, Stern School of Business, NYU

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

8:55-10:55       Information Generation and Value; Value of Anonymity

1.     Julia Cage (speaker), Sciences Po Paris, Nicolas Herve, Institut National de l'Audiovisuel and Marie-Luce Viaud, Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, The Production of Information in an Online World.

Discussant: Jacopo Perego, NYU

2.     Byung-Cheol Kim (speaker), Georgia Institute of Technology, and Jin Yeub Kim, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, The Economics of the Right to be Forgotten.

Discussant: Elliot Lipnowski, Stern School of Business, NYU

3.     Ni Huang (speaker), Fox School of Business, Temple University, Yili Hong, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University and Gordon Burtch, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Digital Social Visibility, Anonymity and User Content Generation: Evidence from Natural Experiments.

Discussant: Xiao Liu, Stern School of Business, NYU

11:10-1:10       Dynamic Competition, Critical Mass, Compatibility and Switching Costs

1.     Andrew Sweeting, University of Maryland and NBER, A Model of Non-Stationary Dynamic Price Competition With An Application to Platform
Design .

Discussant: Jihye Jeon, Stern School of Business, NYU

2.     Shanjun Li, Cornell University and Yiyi Zhou (speaker), Stony Brook University, Dynamics of Technology Adoption and Critical Mass: The Case of U.S. Electric Vehicle Market.

Discussant: Malika Krishna, Stern School of Business, NYU

3.     Doh-Shin Jeon (speaker), Toulouse School of Economics, Domenico Menicucci, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, and Nikrooz Nasr Esfahani, Toulouse School of Economics, Dynamics of Compatibility under Switching Costs.

Discussant: Sonia Gilbukh, Stern School of Business, NYU

1:10-2:10         Lunch

2:10-4:10         Crowdfunding, Advertising, and Broadband

1.     Jin-Hyuk Kim, University of Colorado at Boulder, Peter Newberry (speaker), Pennsylvania State University and Calvin Qiu, ICF International, An Empirical Analysis of a Crowdfunding Platform.

Discussant: Sam Fraiberger, NYU

2.     Jacob B. Malone (speaker), University of Georgia, Aviv Nevo, Northwestern University and Jonathan W. Williams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, A Snapshot of the Current State of Residential Broadband Networks.

Discussant: Christiaan Hogendorn, Wesleyan

3.     Anindya Ghose and Vilma Todri, Stern School of Business, New York University, Towards a Digital Attribution Model: Measuring the Impact of Display Advertising on Online Consumer Behavior

Discussant:  John Horton, Stern School of Business, NYU

4:10-                Cocktails

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