NET Institute Conference on Network Economics

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

and the Fubon Center for Technology, Business and Innovation

 

December 7, 2018

Stern School of Business, NYU,

Rm T415, 40 West 4th Street, New York [MAP]

Preliminary Program

(also at http://www.netinst.org/2018_Fall_conference.htm)

Conference Booklet

8:30-8:55     Continental Breakfast

8:55-9:00     Introductory Remarks

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

 

9:00-11:00   Pricing and Competition in Platforms

 

1.    Babur De los Santos, Daniel P. O’Brien and Matthjis R. Wildenbeest (speaker), Agency Pricing and Bargaining: Evidence from the E-Book Market

Discussant: Hanna Halaburda, Stern NYU

 

2.    Daniel Ershov, Competing with Superstars in the Mobile App Market

Discussant: Raluca Ursu, Stern NYU

 

3.    Bo Cowgill (speaker) and Cosmina Dorobantu, Competition and Specificity in Market Design: Evidence from Geotargeted Advertising.

Discussant: Tommasso Bondi, Stern NYU

 

11:10-12:30 Competition in Telecommunications

 

1.    Brian McManus, Aviv Nevo, Zachary Nolan (speaker), and Jonathan W. Williams, Steering Incentives and Bundling Practices in the Telecommunications Industry

Discussant: Michael Dickstein, Stern NYU

 

2.    Mo Xiao (speaker) and Zhe Yuan, License Complementarity and Package Bidding: The U.S. Spectrum Auctions

Discussant: Daniel Stackman, Stern NYU

 

12:30-1:30   Lunch and networking

 

1:30-4:10     Ride-hailing Platforms; Peer influence; Ratings Design

 

1.    Haoyuan Liu, Wen Wen (speaker), and Andrew B. Whinston, Peer influence in the workplace: Evidence from an enterprise digital platform

Discussant: Arun Sundararajan, Stern NYU

 

2.    Mishal Ahmed, Erik Johnson (speaker) and Byung-Cheol Kim, The Impact of Uber and Lyft on Taxi Service Quality: Evidence from New York City

Discussant: John Horton, Stern NYU

 

3.    Leon Yang Chu (speaker), Zhixi Wan and Dongyuan Zhan, Harnessing the Double-edged Sword via Routing: Information Provision on Ride-hailing Platforms.

Discussant: Maher Said, Stern NYU

 

4.    Nikhil Vellodi, NYU, Ratings Design and Barriers to Entry

Discussant: Yossi Spiegel, Tel Aviv University

 

4:25-            Cocktails

                     Conference RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/2018NETconf