Economics of Digitization.

• Position: Conferences - Brief article - Conference notes

An NBER Conference on the Economics of Digitization took place at Stanford University on February 24, 2012. NBER Research Associates Shane Greenstein of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, Josh Lerner of the Harvard Business School, and Scott Stern of MIT's Sloan School, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Lesley Chiou, Occidental College, and Catherine Tucker, MIT and NBER, "Copyright, Digitization, and Aggregation"

* Monic Sun, Stanford University, and Feng Zhu, University of Southern California, "Ad Revenue and Content Commercialization: Evidence from Blogs"

* Joo Hee Oh, MIT, and Il-Horn Hann, University of Maryland, "Piracy Propagation of Information Goods: Demand and Supply-side Dynamics in P2P Networks"

* Susan Athey, Harvard...