Economics of Digitization.

• Position: Conference

An NBER conference on the Economics of Digitization met at Stanford on March 22. Research Associate Shane Greenstein of Harvard University, Program Director Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School, and Research Associate Scott Stern of MIT organized the meeting, which was sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Amazon, and The Tides Foundation. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Alberto Cavallo, Harvard University and NBER, "More Amazon Effects: Online Competition and Pricing Behaviors" (NBER Working Paper No. 25138)

* Charles I. Jones and Christopher Tonetti, Stanford University and NBER, "Nonrivalry and the Economics of Data"

* John M. Barrios, University of Chicago; Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER; and Livia Hanyi Yi, Rice University, "The Cost of Convenience: Ridesharing and Traffic Fatalities"

* Abhishek Nagaraj, University of California, Berkeley, and Imke C. Reimers, Northeastern University, "Digitization and the Demand for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project"

* Timothy J. DeStefano, Organisation for...