NET Institute

NET Institute Conference on Network Economics

Sponsored by the NET Institute, http://www.NETinst.org/,
the Institute for Business Innovation, Haas School of Business,
and the iSchool, UC Berkeley

June 7, 2013

Berkeley Skydeck [MAP]

Preliminary Program
(also at http://www.NETinst.org/2013_conference.htm)


8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast


9:00-9:15 Introductory Remarks
Nicholas Economides, Executive Director, NET Institute, Stern School of Business, NYU & Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Anno Saxenian, Dean, iSchool, UC Berkeley


9:15-10:45 Two-sided markets
Chairman: Ben Hermalin, UC Berkeley

1. Bar Ifrach, Stanford University, “Monopoly Pricing in the Presence of Social Learning.”
Discussant: Ganesh Iyer, Haas School, UC Berkeley

2. Byung-Cheol Kim, Jeongsik Lee (Speaker), and Hyunwoo Park, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Two-Sided Platform Competition in the Online Daily Deals Promotion Market.”
Discussant: Miguel Villas-Boas, Haas School, UC Berkeley (invited)

3. Santiago R. Balseiro, Omar Besbes, and Gabriel Y. Weintraub, Columbia University, “Auctions for Online Display Advertising Exchanges: Approximations and Design.”
Discussant: Lee Fleming, UC Berkeley


11:00-12:30 Network Neutrality and Regulatory Issues in Network Markets
Chairman: Michael Katz, UC Berkeley

1. Laura Nurski, University of Leuven, “Net Neutrality, Foreclosure and the Fast Lane: An Empirical Study of the UK.”
Discussant: Glenn Woroch, UC Berkeley

2. Ricard Gil (Speaker), and Mitsukuni Nishida, Johns Hopkins University, “Does Regulation Drive Competition? Evidence from the Spanish Local TV Industry.”
Discussant: Alex Wolitzky, Stanford University

3. Lapo Filistrucchi, Tilburg University, Luigi Luini, University of Siena, and Andrea Mangani (Speaker), University of Pisa, “Banning Ads from Prime-Time State Television: Lessons from France.”
Discussant: Przemek Jeziorski, UC Berkeley


1:00-2:15 Lunch; Keynote speaker: TBA


2:15-4:15 Network Marketplaces, Intermediaries, and Network Formation

Chairman: Nicholas Economides, NYU and UC Berkeley

1. Andrey Fradkin, Stanford University, “Do Online Marketplaces Become More Efficient Over Time?”
Discussant: Monic Sun, GSB, Stanford University

2. Jason Chan (Speaker), and Anindya Ghose, New York University, “Internet’s Dirty Secret: Assessing the Impact of Online Intermediaries on the Outbreak of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.”
Discussant, Zsolt Katona, Haas School, UC Berkeley

3. Doh-Shin Jeon, and Nikrooz Nasr Esfahani (Speaker), Toulouse School of Economics, “News Aggregators and Competition Among Newspapers in the Internet.”
Discussant: TBA

4. Monic Sun (Speaker), Stanford University, Xiaoquan Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Feng Zhu, University of Southern California, “To Belong or to Be Different? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in China.”
Discussant, Michael Dickstein, Stanford University


4:15-5:30 Cheese and Wine Reception

To attend the conference it is required that you RSVP at http://netinst2013.eventbrite.com