SEEK – Digital Economy Workshop

The Collegio Carlo Alberto jointly sponsors this conference with ZEW.

Organizers: Marit Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto), Toomas Hinnosaar (Collegio Carlo Alberto), Michael Kummer (ZEW), Olga Slivko (ZEW), Michael Zhang (HKUST).

Registration required. To register, send an email by June 15 to Chiara Girotti at chiara.girotti@carloalberto.org.

Program

Thursday, June 18, 2015

9:00 – 9:05: Welcome Remarks

9:05 – 10:35: Session 1

Joel Waldfogel (Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota): Streaming Reaches Flood Stage: Does Spotify Stimulate or Depress Recorded Music Sales? (joint with Luis Aguiar)

Michael Zhang  (HKUST):
Escaping the Herd: Evidence on the Need to Be Different in Social Networks (joint with Monic Sun and Feng Zhu)

10:35 – 11:00: Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30: Session 2

Shane Greenstein  (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University):
Do Experts or Collective Intelligence Write with More Bias? Evidence from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia  (joint with Feng Zhu )

Marit Hinnosaar  (Collegio Carlo Alberto):
Gender Inequality in New Media: Evidence from Wikipedia

12:30 – 13:30: Lunch

13:30 – 15:00: Session 3

Olga Slivko  (ZEW):
Unemployment and Volunteering. Does Unemployment Affect Content Generation on Wikipedia?   (joint with Michael Kummer and Michael Zhang)

Michael Kummer  (ZEW and University of Mannheim):
Money and Privacy – Android Market Evidence (joint with Patrick Schulte)

15:00 – 15:30:  Coffee Break

15:30 – 17:00: Session 4

Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College London):
Loss aversion on the phone  (joint with Christos Genakos and Costas Roumanias)

Frank Verboven ( University of Leuven):
The impact of online sales on consumers and firms – evidence from household appliances

Friday, June 19, 2015

9:00 – 10:30: Session 5

Oliver Falck (University of Munich):
Virtually No Effect? Different Uses of Classroom Computers and their Effect on Student Achievement  (with Constantin Mang and Ludger Wößmann)

Irene Bertschek (University of Mannheim and ZEW):
Social Media as a Source of Creativity: Is it Hype or is it a Serious Strategy?

10:30 – 11:00:  Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30: Session 6

Paul Belleflamme  (Université catholique de Louvain):
Competition between asymmetric two-sided platforms

Sergei Izmalkov  (New Economic School):
Online advertising world as a network: identifying markets and competition

12:30 – 13:30: Lunch

13:30 – 14:15: Session 7

Markus Mobius  (Microsoft Research and University of Michigan):
Social Media and News Consumption  (joint with Susan Athey and Jeno Pal)

14:15 – 14:45:  Coffee Break