Economics of Digitization.

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A conference on "Economics of Digitization" took place at Stanford University on March 1-2. Research Associates Shane Greenstein and Josh Lerner of Harvard University and Scott Stern of MIT organized the meeting, which was sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Ananya Sen, MIT, and Catherine Tucker, MIT and NBER, "Information Shocks and Internet Silos: Evidence from Creationist-Friendly Curriculum"

* Elizabeth Lyons, University of California, San Diego, and Laurina Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Research as Leisure: Experimental Evidence on Voluntary Contributions to Science"

* Daniel Bjorkegren, Brown University, and Darrell Grissen, "Behavior Revealed in Mobile Phone Usage Predicts Loan Repayment"

* Neil Thompson, MIT, and Douglas Hanley, University of Pittsburgh, "Science is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial"

* Christian W. Peukert, Catholic University of Portugal, and Imke C. Reimers, Northeastern University, "Digital Disintermediation and the Market for Ideas"

* Brett W. Hollenbeck, University of California, Los Angeles...

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