WISE 2004: Workshop on Information Systems and Economics

Sponsored by the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland

The program is pasted below.  The hyperlinks in the title will take you to the paper extended abstract.  For those of you who want it all, you can download all the abstracts in the program (All Abstracts Warning: 8.7MB zip file)

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Time Track 1 Track 2
     
Saturday Sat 1.1 Mechanism Design Sat 1.2 Information in Supply Chains
9:00-10:30AM Sat-1.1.1 Using Auction Mechanisms for Pricing Information Goods Bundles (G Anandalingam, Abhishek Pani)

Discussant:  TBA

Sat-1.2.1 Information Leakage in Vertical Contracts (Manu Goyal, Krishnan Anand)

Discussant:  Shankar Sundaresan (Session Chair)

  Sat-1.1.2 Putting Your Money Where your Mouth Is - Information Elicitation Mechanism Design When Agents Privately Know their Quality of Information (Fang Fang, Maxwell Stinchcombe, Andrew Whinston)

 Discussant:  Marshall Van Alstyne (Session Chair)

Sat-1.2.2 Supply Auctions and Relational Contracts for Procurement (Tunay Tunca, Stefanos Zenios)

Discussant:  Jianqing Chen

  Sat-1.1.3 Multi-Attribute Online Descending Price Procurement Auctions (Eli Snir)

Discussant: Ed Pinker

Sat-1.2.3 Supply Chain Learning and Spillovers in Vendor Managed Inventory (Yuliang Yao, Yan Dong, Martin Dresner)

Discussant:  Kevin Zhu

10:30-11:30AM Sat 2.1 Electronic Markets I Sat 2.2 Online Consumer Behavior I
  Sat-2.1.1 Does the Internet Complement Other Marketing Channels?  Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment (Erik Brynjolfsson, Eric Anderson, Jeffrey Hu ,Duncan Simester)

Discussant:  Pei-Yu Chen (Session Chair)

Sat-2.2.1 Whither Mobile Services Market?  Portraying Profiles of Mobile Users and Exploring their Economic Behavior (Ioanna Constantiou, Jan Damsgaard, Lars Knutsen)

Discussant:  Joesph Bailey

  Sat-2.1.2 Is Online Word of Mouth a Complement or Substitute to Traditional Means of Consumer Conversion (Neveen Awad, Chris Dellarocas, Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang)

 Discussant:  Wenjing Duan

Sat-2.2.2 Product Information Availability in the Internet:  Implications for the Structure of Markets with Differentiated Products (Panos Markopoulos, Eric Clemons)

Discussant:  Michael Smith (Session Chair)

11:30-11:45AM Break
11:45-12:45AM Sat 3.1 Electronic Exchanges Sat 3.2 Online Consumer Behavior II
  Sat-3.1.1 Automation versus Intermediation:  Evidence from Treasuries Going Off the Run (Terry Hendershott, Michael Barclay, Kenneth Kotz)

Discussat:  Tunay Tunca

Sat-3.2.1 Self-Selection and Information Role of Online Product Reviews (Xinxin Li, Lorin Hitt)

Discussant:  Rajiv Dewan (Session Chair)

  Sat-3.1.2 A Club or a Commons: Exclusivity vs. Open Access in E-Exchanges (Bruce Weber)

Discussant:  Avi Seidmann (Session Chair)

Sat-3.2.2 Online Reputations with Noisy Transactions:  An Experimental Study (Sarah Rice)

Discussant:  Neveen Farag Awad

12:45-2:00PM Lunch
2:00-3:30PM Sat 4.1 Software Economics Sat 4.2 Electronic Markets II
  Sat-4.1.1 Management of Successive Generations of a Software Product (Amit Mehra, Avi Seidmann)

Discussant: Don Harter

Sat-4.2.1 Impact of Secondary Electronic Markets on Information Goods Suppliers (Anindya Ghose, Ramayya Krishnan, Rahul Telang)

Discussant: Erik Brynjolfsson (Session Chair)

  Sat-4.1.2 The Evolving Market for Independent Software Vendors and other Value Added Resellers (Hila Etzion, Rajiv Dewan)

Discussant: Bin Gu

Sat-4.2.2 Internet Exchanges for Used Goods (Michael Smith, Rahul Telang)

Discussant:  Eli Snir

  Sat-4.1.3 Adoption of Technology-Mediated Distance Education Among Higher Education Institutions (Zafer Ozdemir, Kemal Altinkemer, John Barron)

Discussant:  David Croson (Session Chair)

Sat-4.2.3 Monopoly Profits in a Competitive Market for Undifferentiated Information goods via Differentiated Pricing Schemes (VC Choudhary)

Discussant:  Ram Chellappa

3:30-3:45PM Break
3:45-4:45PM Sat 5.1 Innovation in Information Goods Sat 5.2 Empirical Research in Online Auctions I
  Sat-5.1.1 A Mechanism for Providing Innovation Incentives for Digital Goods (Erik Brynjolfsson, Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang)

Discussant:  Arun Sundararajan (Session Chair)

Sat-5.2.1 Internet Auction Equilibrium Selection:  Theory, Evidence and Impact of Strategic Bidding Behavior (D.J. Wu, Fang Zhong, Sridhar Narasimhan, Han Zhang)

Discussant: Jennifer Zhang

  Sat-5.1.2 Determining Optimal Software Patent Design (David Pingry, Matt Thatcher)

Discussant:  Ruhai Wu

Sat-5.2.2 Design Online Auctions with Past Performance Information  (De Liu, Jianqing Chen, Andrew Whinston)

Discussant:  Siva Viswanathan (Session Chair)

4:45-5:45PM Sat 6.1 Intellectual Property and Piracy Sat 6.2 Software Quality
  Sat-6.1.1 Darknets, DRM and Trusted Computing:  Economic Incentives for Platform Providers (Alessandro Acquisti)

Discussant:  Yannis Bakos (Session Chair)

Sat-6.2.1 Monopoly, Software Quality and Liability (Byung Cho Kim, Pei-Yu Chen, Tridas Mukhopadhyay)

Discussant:  Huseyin Cavusoglu

  Sat-6.1.2 The Benefits of Piracy- A Competitive Perspective (Bin Gu, Vijay Mahajan)

Discussant:  Il-Horn Hann

Sat-6.2.2 Effect of Vulnerability Disclosures on Market Value of Software vendors - An Event Study Analysis (Sunil Wattal, Rahul Telang)

Discussant:  Hasan Cavusoglu (Session Chair)

6:30PM Dinner
     
Sunday Sun 1.1 IT Management Sun 1.2 Empirical Research in Online Auctions II
9:00-10:00AM Sun-1.1.1 New IT Architecture: Implications and Market Structure (Pei-Yu Chen, Shin-yi Wu)

Discussant: Yanbin Tu

Sun-1.2.1 Consumer Surplus in Online Auctions  (Ravi Bapna, Wolfgang Jank, Galit Shmueli)

Discussant: Larry West

  Sun-1.1.2 IT Orientation, CIO reporting structure and Firm Performance: To Whom Should the CIO Report? (Paul Pavlou, Rajiv Banker, Nan Hu)

Discussant:  Matt Thatcher

 

Sun-1.2.2 Bidder Strategies, Valuations and the Winner's Curse:  An Empirical Investigation (Chuck Wood, Robert Easley)

Discussant: Terry Hendershott (Session Chair)

10:00-11:00AM Sun 2.1 Information, Incentives and Organization Sun 2.2 Software Competition
  Sun-2.1.1 The Allocation of Purchasing Decision Rights in Firms:  The Case of IT Investments (David Fitoussi)

Discussant:  Xia Zhao

Sun-2.2.1 Competition and Cooperation in the Bundled Software Market (David Croson, Adam Saunders)

Discussant: Roy Jones

  Sun-2.1.2 Operational Impact of Information Sharing between Firms (Anjana Susarla, Anitesh Barua, Prabudev Konana, Andrew Whinston)

Discussant: Ravi Mantena (Session Chair)

Sun-2.2.2 Two-sided Competition of Propretary vs. Open Source Technology Platforms and the Implications for the Software Industry (Evangelos Katsamakas, Nicholas Economides)

Discussant: Fred Riggins (Session Chair)

11:00-11:15AM Break
11:15-12:45PM Sun 3.1 Outsourcing & Firm Boundaries Sun 3.2 Network Economics
  Sun-3.1.1 Product Complexity & Productivity in Off-Shore Outsourcing of Services:  Evidence from Cross Country, Longitudinal Survey Data (Ravi Aron, Eric Clemons)

Discussant: Anand Gopal (Session Chair)

Sun-3.2.1 Dynamic Pricing of Network Goods with Boundedly Rational Consumers (Roy Radner, Arun Sundararajan)

Discussant:  Philipp Afeche (Session Chair)

  Sun-3.1.2 Relative Importance, Specificity of Investments and Ownership in Interorganizational Systems (Kunsoo Han, Robert Kauffman, Barrie Nault)

Discussant:  Chris Forman

Sun-3.2.2 The Economics of Two-Party Communication and Thwarting Spam (Rick Wash, Thede Loder, Marshall VanAlstyne)

Discussant:  TBA

  Sun-3.1.3 ASPs versus Enterprise Software Solutions (Dan Ma, Avi Seidmann)

Discussant:  Anjana Susarla

Sun-3.2.3 Multiattribute Nonlinear Pricing of Network Goods (Thomas Weber)

Discussant:  Kerem Tomak

12:45-2:30PM Lunch (Special Guest Speaker)
2:30-3:45PM Panel Session (Economic Dynamics)
3:45-4:00PM Break
4:00-5:45PM Sun 4.1 Special Session: Research from the Doctoral Consortium
  Sun-4.1.1 Returns to Managerial and Technical Competiencies of IT Professionals:  Evidence from the U.S. (M.S. Krishnan, Sunil Mithas)  
  Sun-4.1.2 Economic Returns to Open Source Participation: A Panel Data Analysis (Il-Horn Hann, Jeff Roberts, Sandra Slaughter, Roy Fielding)  
  Sun-4.1.3 The Impact of Online Movie Reviews on Box Office Performance (Michael Zhang, Chris Dellarocas, Neveen Awad)  
  Sun-4.1.4 When Online Reviews Meet Hyperdifferentiation:  A Study of the Craft Beer Industry (Gordon Gao, Eric Clemons, Lorin Hitt)  

 

   
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