NET Institute Conference on Network Economics

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

and the Fubon Center for Technology, Business and Innovation

 

November 15, 2019

Stern School of Business, NYU,

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

Preliminary Program

(also at http://www.netinst.org/2019_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 Restrictions, Tipping, and Disruption

 

1.    Danial Asmat (speaker) and Chenyu Yang, An Empirical Analysis of Minimum Advertised Price Restrictions

Discussant: Xinyu Cao, Stern NYU

 

2.    Sarit Markovich (speaker) and Yaron Yehezkel, Group Hug: Platform Competition with User-groups

 

Discussant: Maher Said, Stern NYU

 

3.    Wei Chen, Karen Xie (speaker), Jianwei Liu and Yong Liu How Incumbents Beat Disruptors? Evidence from Hotels’ Responses to Home-sharing Rivals

Discussant: Masakazu Ishihara, Stern NYU

 

 

11:10-12:30 Content Pricing and Rankings

 

1.    Xintong Han (speaker) and Pu Zhao, Pay for Content or Pay for Marketing? An Empirical Study on Content Pricing

 

Discussant: Apostolos Filippas, Fordham University

 

2.    Vladimir Pavlov and Ron Berman (speaker), Price Manipulation in Peer-to-Peer Markets and the Sharing Economy

 

Discussant: Danial Asmat, Department of Justice

 

12:30-1:15   Lunch and networking

 

1:15-1:55     Nicholas Economides, Antitrust investigations of tech giants

 

2:00-4:40     Perception Manipulation; Homophily; Multi-homing

 

1.    Johannes Johnen and Robert Somogyi (speaker), Deceptive Products on Platforms

 

Discussant: Rob Seamans, Stern NYU

 

2.    Luis Abreu and Doh-Shin Jeon (speaker), Homophily in Social Media and News Polarization

 

Discussant: Sarit Markovich, Northwestern University

 

3.    Yannis Bakos and Hanna Halaburda (speaker),

Platform Competition with Multihoming on Both Sides: Subsidize or Not?

 

Discussant: Yossi Spiegel, Tel Aviv University

 

4.    Chen Jin, Luyi Yang (speaker) and Kartik Hosanagar, To Brush or Not to Brush: Product Rankings, Customer Search, and Fake Orders

Discussant: Yossi Spiegel, Tel Aviv University 

 

 

4:55-            Cocktails

                     Conference RSVP at http://bit.ly/2019NetConf .