NET Institute Conference on Network Economics

 

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

and the Center for Global Economy and Business

April 17, 2015

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

Preliminary Program

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

Conference Booklet

8:30-9:00         Continental Breakfast (Room 1-100)

9:00-9:05         Introductory Remarks

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

9:05-10:50       Quality in Network Markets, Newspapers, and Retail Chains

1.      Alexandre de Corniere and Greg Taylor (speaker), University of Oxford, Quality Provision in the Presence of a Biased Intermediary. [Presentation]

Discussant: Jidong Zhou, Stern School of Business, NYU

2.      Abdallah Salami and Robert Seamans (speaker), NYU Stern School of Business, The Effect of the Internet on Newspaper Readability. [Presentation]

Discussant: Lisa George, Hunter College

3.      Mitsukuni Nishida (speaker), Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, and Nathan Yang, Yale School of Management, Better Together? Retail Chain Performance Dynamics in Store Expansion Before and After Mergers. [Presentation]

Discussant: Tobias Salz, NYU

11:00-12:45     eBooks, Telecommunications, and Bitcoin

1.      Neil Gandal, Tel Aviv University and CEPR, and Hanna Halaburda (speaker), Bank of Canada, CESifo and INE PAN, Competition in the Cryptocurrency Market. [Presentation]

Discussant: Rodney Garratt, NY Federal Reserve Bank

2.      Babur De los Santos and Matthijs R. Wildenbeest (speaker), Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, E-book Pricing and Vertical Restraints. [Presentation]

Discussant: Ricard Gil, Johns Hopkins University

3.      Matthew Ellman, Institute for Economic Analysis (CSIC) and Barcelona GSE, and Sjaak Hurkens (speaker), Institute for Economic Analysis (CSIC) and Barcelona GSE & IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Optimal Crowdfunding Design. [Presentation]

Discussant: Arun Sundararajan, Stern School of Business, NYU

12:45-2:00       Lunch

2:00-3:45         Health, Crowdfunding, and Optimal Pricing

1.      Sunita Desai, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Electronic Health Information Exchange, Switching Costs and Network Effects. [Presentation]

Discussant: Malika Krishna, Stern School of Business, NYU

2.      Ricard Gil (speaker), Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Evsen Korkmaz, Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam, and Ozge Sahin, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Optimal Pricing of Access and Secondary Goods with Repeat Purchases: Evidence from Online Grocery Shopping and Delivery Fees. [Presentation]

Discussant: Patrick Sun, Columbia University

3.      Patrick Sun, Columbia University, Quality Competition in Mobile Telecommunications: Evidence from Connecticut. [Presentation]

Discussant: Kei Kawai, Stern School of Business, NYU

3:45-4:30        Cheese and Wine Reception

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