Economics of digitization.

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An NBER Conference on "Economics of Digitization" took place in Palo Alto on February 21, 2014. NBER Research Associates Shane Greenstein of Northwestern University, Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School, and Scott Stern of MIT organized the program. These papers were discussed:

* Jin-Hyuk Kim, University of Colorado, and Tin Cheuk Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong, "Quantifying the Impacts of Digital Rights Management and E-Book Pricing on the E-Book Reader Market"

* Yongdong Liu, Denis Nekipelov, and Minjung Park, University of California, Berkeley, "Timely versus Quality Innovation: The Case of Mobile Applications on iTunes and Google Play"

* Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT and NBER; Tomer Geva, Tel Aviv University; and Shachar Reichman, MIT, "Crowd-Squared: Amplifying the Predictive Power of Large-Scale Crowd-Based Data"

* Glenn Ellison, MIT and NBER, and Sara Fisher Ellison, MIT, "Match Quality, Search, and the Internet...