Event – CESifo Area Conference

CESifo Area Conference on the Economics of Digitization 2019

22 – 23 November 2019


Munich
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The 2019 CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Digitization brought together 21 researchers who are working in the digitization to present and discuss their ongoing research. The keynote lecture was delivered by Denis Nekipelov (University of Virginia).

This years' Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award was presented to Daniel Ershov for his paper "Consumer Product Discovery Costs, Entry, Quality and Congestion in Online Markets" and to Benjamin T. Leyden for his Paper “There’s an App (Update) for That: Understanding Product Updating Under Digitization”.

Scientific organizer(s): Ryan, Stephen P.

Papers

Estimating the Costs of Standardization: Evidence from the Movie Industry
EL HADI CAOUI (University of Toronto)

The Editor vs. the Algorithm: Economic Returns to Data and Externalities in Online News
JÖRG CLAUSSEN (LMU Munich), Christian Peukert, and Ananya Sen

Partisan Selective Engagement: Evidence from Facebook
MARCEL GARZ (Jönköping International Business School), Jil Sörensen, and Daniel F. Stone

Overfunding and Signaling Effects of Herding Behavior in Crowdfunding
SVATOPLUK KAPOUNEK (Mendel University in Brno) and Zuzana Kučerová

 

Exclusive Data, Price Manipulation and Market Leadership
Yiquan Gu, LEONARDO MADIO (Université catholique de Louvain), and Carlo Reggian

How Does Competition Affect Reputation Concerns? Theory and Evidence from Airbnb
MICHELANGELO ROSSI (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Do Capital Incentive Policies Distort the Adoption of Cloud Technologies and Big Data?
Timothy DeStefano, Nick Johnstone, Richard Kneller, and JONATHAN TIMMIS (International Finance Corporation - World Bank)

There’s an App (Update) for That; Understanding Product Updating under Digitization
BENJAMIN T. LEYDEN (Cornell University)