Economics of Digitization.

• Position: Conferences

"Economics of Digitization," an NBER conference supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, took place at Stanford on March 3. Research Associates Shane Greenstein and Josh Lerner of Harvard University and Scott Stern of MIT organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Barbara Biasi, Stanford University, and Petra Moser, New York University and NBER, "Effects of Copyrights on Science: Evidence from the WWII Book Republication Program"

* Joan Calzada, University of Barcelona, and Ricard Gil, Johns Hopkins University, "What Do News Aggregators Do? Evidence from Google News in Spain and Germany"

* Thomas Blake, eBay Research Labs; Sarah Moshary, University of Pennsylvania; Kane Sweeney, Uber; and Steven Tadelis, University of California, Berkeley, and NBER, "Price Salience and Product Choice"

* Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT and NBER; Felix Eggers, University of Groningen (Netherlands); and Avinash Gannamaneni, MIT, "Using Massive Online Choice...