2014 Program
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| 8:00 AM | 8:50 AM | Breakfast at BU Executive Education Center Room 426-428. Boston University Questrom School of Business, Management, 595 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA Map Directions |
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| 8:50 AM | 9:00 AM | Opening Remarks & Dean Ken Freeman’s Welcome |
Note: all paper presentations are in room 410. | |
| Geoff Parker & Marshall Van Alstyne | ||||
| 9:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Session 1 | Presenting Author | Discussant |
| The Rise of the Sharing Economy: Estimating the Impact of Airbnb on the Hotel Industry | John Byers, Georgios Zervas, Davide Proserpio | Ohad Barzilay | ||
| The Adoption of Multi-Generational Platforms in the Presence of Intergenerational Services | Byungwan Koh, Il-Horn Hann, Marius Niculescu | Nitin Joglekar | ||
| Peer-to-Peer Rental Markets in the Sharing Economy | Samuel Fraiberger, Arun Sundararajan | Shachar Reichman | ||
| 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Coffee | ||
| 11:00 AM | 12:30 PM | Session 2 | Presenting Author | Discussant |
| Platform Competition and Compatibility Decisions: The Case of Apple’s iPad vs. Amazon’s Kindle | Feng Zhu, Ron Adner, Jianqing Chen | Arvind Karunakaran | ||
| Explaining Platform Value: Membership, Usage and Competition Effects | Claudio Panico, Carmelo Cennamo | Friedrich Bandulet | ||
| Game of Platforms: Strategic Expansion into Rival (Online) Territory | Sagit Bar-Gill | Andrei Hagiu | ||
| 12:30 PM | 1:30 PM | Lunch | ||
| 1:30 PM | 3:00 PM | Session 3 | Presenting Author | Discussant |
| Price Coherence and Adverse Intermediation | Ben Edelman, Julian Wright | Burcu Tan Erciyes | ||
| The Smartphone as a Multilayer Two-sided Platform |
Frank MacCrory, Shivendu Shivendu | Tushar Shanker | ||
| Dynamic Competition with Network Externalities: Why History Matters |
Hanna Halaburda, Bruno Jullien and Yaron Yehezkel | Marc Rysman | ||
| 3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | Coffee | ||
| 3:30 PM | 5:00 PM | Session 4 | Presenting Author | Discussant |
| Platform Choice by Mobile App Developers | Pai-Ling Yin, Tim Bresnahan, Joe Orsini | Hossein Ghasemkhani | ||
| The Processes of Ecosystem Emergence | Llewellyn D W Thomas, Erkko Autio | Jason Woodward | ||
| Open Platforms Without Software: A Study of Open Source Biology | Joel West | Brad Greenwood | ||
| 5:00 PM | 5:30 PM | Poster Slam | Presenting Author | |
| Complements in Two-Sided Markets: Platform Maturity, Indirect Network Effects and the Role of Competition | Joost Rietveld | |||
| A Double Digital Divide? Matching Platforms and HIV Incidence among the Digitally Disadvantaged | Brad Greenwood, Ritu Agarwal | |||
| Markets vs. Products: Platform Participation Decisions | Tushar Shanker, Marshall Van Alstyne | |||
| The Effects of Innovation and Breaching Strategies on Performance of Platform-Based Competitors: Insights From a Simulation Study | Gorkem Turgut Ozer, Huseyin Tanriverdi | |||
| Welfare Implications of Competing Two-Sided Platforms | Thanh Nguyen, Karthik Kannan | |||
| 5:30 PM | 5:45 PM | Walk to “The Castle” 225 Bay State Rd, Boston, MA Map | ||
| 5:45 PM | 7:00 PM | Reception and Poster Presentations | ||
| 7:00 PM | 7:20 PM | Piano Concert by Christopher Tuite | ||
| 7:20 PM | 9:00 PM | Workshop Dinner |