NET Institute Conference on Network Economics

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

and the Center for Global Economy and Business

December 9, 2016

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

Preliminary Program

(also at http://www.netinst.org/2016_conference.htm)

Conference Booklet

8:15-8:45        Continental Breakfast (Room 3-120)

8:45-8:55        Introductory Remarks

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

8:55-10:55      Broadband

1.   Kyle Wilson, University of Arizona, Does Public Competition Crowd Out Private Investment?  Evidence from Municipal Provision of Internet Access,

Discussant: Jonathan W. Williams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2.   Tedi Skiti, Duke University, Strategic Technology Adoption and Entry Deterrence in the U.S. Local Broadband Markets

Discussant: Kyle Wilson, University of Arizona

 

3.   Jacob B. Malone, University of Georgia, Aviv Nevo, Northwestern University and Jonathan W. Williams (speaker), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Tragedy of the Last Mile: Congestion Externalities in Broadband Networks.

Discussant: Christiaan Hogendorn, Wesleyan

11:10-1:10      Dynamic Competition and Entry

1.   Christian Catalini (speaker) and Catherine Tucker, MIT Sloan School of Management, Seeding the S-Curve? The Role of Early Adopters in Diffusion.

Discussant: Feng Zhu, Harvard Business School

2.   Wen Wen, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin and Feng Zhu (speaker), Harvard Business School, How Do Complementors Respond to the Threat of Platform Owner Entry?  Evidence from the Mobile App Market.

Discussant: Christian Catalini, MIT

3.   Gaston Llanes (speaker), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Andre Mantovani, University of Bologna and Barcelona Institute of Economics and Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Entry into Complementary Good Markets with Network Effects.

Discussant: Sonia Gilbukh, Stern NYU

1:10-2:10        Lunch

2:10-4:50         Competition in Network Industries

1.   Zemin Zachary Zhong, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, Targeted Search and Platform Design.

Discussant: Maher Said, Stern NYU

2.   Chengsi Wang (speaker), University of Mannheim and Julian Wright, National University of Singapore, Platform Investment and Price Parity Clauses.

Discussant: Hanna Halaburda, Stern NYU

3.   Xiao Liu (speaker), Stern School of Business, NYU, Dokyun Lee, Carnegie Mellon University and Kannan Srinivasan, Carnegie Mellon University, The Effect of Word of Mouth on Sales: New Answers from the Comprehensive Consumer Journey Data

Discussant: Chen Liang, University of Arizona

4.   Alex Wood-Doughty, University of California, Santa Barbara, Do Employers Learn from Public, Subjective, Performance Reviews?

Discussant: John Horton, Stern School of Business, NYU

4:50-                Cocktails

                        Conference RSVP at http://bit.ly/NETConference2016