Lisa M. George, PhD PERMANENT (ON LEAVE 2018-2019) Associate Professor Department of Economics Hunter College 695 Park Avenue New York, NY 10065 212-772-5437 lisa.george@hunter.cuny.edu CURRENT Visiting Scholar Business Economics and Public Policy The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania 3600 Locust Walk Philadelphia, PA 19104 609-238-6111 EDUCATION Ph.D., Applied Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2001 M.A., Applied Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1998 Master of Engineering, Civil Engineering, Cornell University, 1990 B.S., Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell University, 1989 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York Associate Professor of Economics, 2010-Present Assistant Professor of Economics, 2003-2010 Editor-in-Chief, Information Economics and Policy, 2011-2016 The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Visiting Associate Professor of Business and Public Policy, 2011-2012 Michigan State University Assistant Professor of Economics, 2001-2003 Lieutenant, US Navy, Office of Naval Reactors, Washington, DC, 1990-1995 LIVE TESTIMONY EXPERIENCE Economic Expert Testimony on behalf of the Canadian Claimants Group, Distribution of Cable Royalty Funds Consolidated Proceeding No. 14-CRB-0010-CD (2010-2013), United States Copyright Royalty Board, The Library of Congress, District of Columbia. Testimony March 5, 2018. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Organizer & Scientific Advisor, Media Economics Workshop, 2005-Present Organizer & Founder, New York City Media Seminar, 2013-Present National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Panelist, Research: Art Works Program, 2016-2017 Scientific Committee, Florence School of Regulation/ EU Media Pluralism Project, 2011-Present International Industrial Organization Committee (IIOC), Program Committee Chair, 2013-2015
TEACHING Industrial Organization & Strategy; Economics of the Media; Microeconomics; Business & Public Policy; Law & Economics WORKING PAPERS The News Hour: Welfare Estimation in the Market for Local TV News (2017) (with Matthew J. Baker, Hunter College). Revision under review: Rand Journal of Economics. Local News Online: Aggregators, Geo-Targeting and the Market for Local News (2016) (with Christiaan Hogendorn, Wesleyan). Revision under review:: Journal of Industrial Economics. Social Networks, Social Communication and the Demand for News (2017) (with Christian Peukert, University of Zurich). Revise & resubmit, Information Economics and Policy. The Long Tail of Online News Visits (2019) with Christiaan Hogendorn and Hengyi Zhu, Weslyan University) YouTube Decade: Cultural Convergence in Recorded Music (2015) (with Christian Peukert, University of Zurich). NET Institute Working Paper No. 14-11. Under revision. The Market for Diversity in Local Television News (2013) (with Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Harvard Business School). Under revision. PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS George, Lisa M. and Christiaan Hogendorn (2012). Aggregators, Search and the Economics of New Media Institutions. Information Economics and Policy, Vol. 22 (1) pp. 40-51. Baker, Matthew J. and George, Lisa M. (2010) The Role of Television in Household Debt: Evidence from the 1950's, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 10(1) (Advances), Article 41. George, Lisa M. (2009) National Television and the Market for Local Products: The Case of Beer. Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 57 (1) pp. 85-111. George, Lisa M. (2008) The Internet and the Market for Daily Newspapers. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 8 (1) (Advances), Article 26. George, Lisa M. (2007). What s Fit to Print: The Effect of Ownership Concentration on Product Variety in Daily Newspaper Markets. Information Economics and Policy, Vol. 19, No. 3-4, pp. 285-303. George, Lisa M. and Joel Waldfogel (2006). The New York Times and the Market for Local Newspapers. American Economic Review, Vol. 96, No. 1, pp. 435-477. George, Lisa M. and Joel Waldfogel (2003). Who Affects Whom in Daily Newspaper Markets? Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 11, pp. 765-785. Ambrose, Brent, Lisa M. George and Peter Linneman (1998). Casino Development: What We Need To Know. Wharton Real Estate Review, Vol. 2. -2-
BOOK CHAPTERS, REVIEW ARTICLES, ETC. George, Lisa M. (2018) Media Market Research, International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies, Wiley Blackwell, forthcoming. George, Lisa M. (2016). Mobile, Media & More: Contributions and Developments at Information Economics and Policy, Information Economics and Policy, Vol. 37 pp. 1 2. George, Lisa M. (2014). Out of Work? [Review of the book Out of Print: Newspapers, Journalism and the Business of News in the Digital Age, by George Brock]. Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 52(2) pp. 552-553. George, Lisa M., Filistrucchi, Lapo and Catherine Tucker (2012). Editorial: The Economics of Digital Media Markets. Information Economics and Policy, Vol. 22 (1) pp. 1-2. Expert Declaration of Lisa M. George, In the Matter of Distribution of the 2010-2013 Cable Royalty Funds Docket No. 14-CRB-0010-CD (2010-2013), December 2016. George, Lisa M., Digital Technology, Disruption and the Market for News in Robert G. Picard and Steven S. Wildman, eds. Handbook on the Economics of the Media. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015. George, Lisa M., Local News Online: Aggregators, Geo-Targeting and the Market for Local News Time Warner Cable Research Program on Digital Communications, Washington, DC, Winter 2013. George, Lisa M. and Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Diversity in Local Television News, US Federal Communications Commission Quadrennial Review, Washington, DC, July 2011. George, Lisa M. The Growth of Television and the Decline of Local Beer in Swinnen, Johan, ed. The Economics of Beer. Oxford University Press, 2011. George, Lisa M. and Joel Waldfogel (2008). National Media and Local Political Participation: The Case of the New York Times in Roumeen Islam, ed., Information and Public Choice: From Media Markets to Policymaking. Washington, DC: World Bank Publications, pp. 33-48. George, Lisa M. Ownership Concentration and Product Variety in Daily Newspaper Markets in Lorrie F. Cranor and Shane Greenstein, eds., Communications Policy and Information Technology: Promises, Problems, Prospects. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2002. George, Glenn R. and Lisa M. George (1998). The Naval Reactors Program: From Nautilus to the Millennium. Nuclear News, October 1998. GRANTS City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) Competitive Research Award, 2015-2016 (to support research on machine translation and the internet search market in the EU). City University of New York Graduate Center, GRTI Grant, 2015 (to support digital text analysis and machine learning). City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) Competitive Research Award, 2014-2015 (to support research on social networks and demand for news). City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) Competitive Research Award, 2013-2014 (to support research on newspaper paywalls). -3-
GRANTS, CONTINUED City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) Competitive Research Award, 2012-2013 (to support research on news aggregators). Time Warner Cable Research Program in Digital Communications, 2012 (to support research on news aggregators and local news markets). City University of New York Graduate Center, GRTI Grant, 2012 (to support computational research). City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) Competitive Research Award, 2011-2012 (to support research on television news markets.) Federal Communications Commission Media Ownership Study Award (with Felix Oberholzer) 2010-2011 (to study diversity in television news broadcasting.) City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) Competitive Research Award, 2010-2011 (to support research on newsroom diversity.) Reynolds Journalism Institute, 2010 (to fund a research conference on economics of the media) City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) Competitive Research Award, 2008-2009 (to support research on prescription drug advertising.) City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) Competitive Research Award, 2007-2008 (to support research on the market for local newspapers.) City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) Competitive Research Award, 2005-2006 (to support research on the role of television in the market for local beer.) SELECT RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS (2015-2017) Object America: Observations by an Economist, Observational Practices Lab, Parsons School of Design, New York, November 2017. The Programming Consequences of the FCC Broadcast Incentive Auction, TILEC Workshop on Competition Policy and Regulation in Media and Telecommunications, Tilburg University, Netherlands, June 2017. The Programming Consequences of the FCC Broadcast Incentive Auction, Florence School of Regulation Scientific Seminar, March 2017. The News Hour: Welfare Estimation in the Market for Local TV News, Keio University, Tokyo, November 2016. The Programming Consequences of the FCC Broadcast Incentive Auction, Media Economics Workshop XIV, Zurich, October 2016. The News Hour: Welfare Estimation in the Market for Local TV News, Cornell University, Ithaca, April 2016. The News Hour: Welfare Estimation in the Market for Local TV News, Federal Communications Commission, Washington D.C., April 2016. -4-
SELECT RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS (2015-2017), CONTINUED The News Hour: Welfare Estimation in the Market for Local TV News, Florence School of Regulation Scientific Seminar, March 2016. The News Hour: Welfare Estimation in the Market for Local TV News, NYC Media Seminar, New York, December 2015. YouTube Decade: Culture Converge in Recorded Music, Media Economics Workshop XIII, Stellenbosch, November 2015. Social Networks and the Demand for News, Searle Center on Law, Regulation & Economic Growth, Northwestern University, Chicago, June 2015. Social Networks and the Demand for News, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, April 2015. Social Media Week, Associated Press Panel, February 2015. DISTINCTIONS First Prize, Telecommunications Research Policy Conference Student Paper Competition, 2001 Amy Morse Public Policy Prize, University of Pennsylvania, 1996 University of Pennsylvania Doctoral Fellowship, 1995-1999 U.S. Department of Energy Superior Achievement Award, 1995 McMullin Scholarship, 1989-1990 Naval ROTC Scholarship 1985-1989 Society of American Military Engineers Gold Medal, 1987 Garden State Scholar, 1985 New Jersey Scholar, 1984 PERSONAL Married to Glenn R. George, PhD.; three children born 2002, 2004, 2007 COMMUNITY Board of Directors, EgoPo Classic Theater, Philadelphia, 2015-Present Cornell University National Campaign Committee, 2013-Present Board of Education Forecasting Advisor & Special Revenue Committee, Haddonfield, NJ, 2010-Present Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassador Network, 1995-Present Board of Trustees, Cornell Club of Philadelphia, 1997-2001 -5-