
	Thursday, July 20
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Presenter 25 minutes; Discussant 10 minutes; 10 minutes Q & A
9:00 am	Introduction
9:10 am	Assessing the Gains from E-Commerce Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER Ben Klopack, Texas A&M University Jonathan D. Levin, Stanford University and NBER Wayne Best, Visa, Inc. Discussant: Yu Jeffrey Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology
9:55 am	Algorithmic Bias? An Empirical Study into Apparent Gender-Based Discrimination in the Display of STEM Career Ads Anja Lambrecht, London Business School Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Discussant: Benjamin Edelman, Microsoft
10:40 am	Break
11:00 am	Scalable Price Targeting Jean-Pierre H. Dubé, University of Chicago and NBER Sanjong Misra, University of Chicago Discussant: Ben Shiller, Brandeis University
11:45 am	The IT Boom and Other Unintended Consequences of Chasing the American Dream Gaurav Khanna, University of California, San Diego Nicolas Morales, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Discussant: Ashish Arora, Duke University and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch
	AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSIONS
1:30 pm	Labor Market Equilibration: Evidence from Uber Jonathan Hall, Uber John Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Dan Knoepfle, Uber Discussant: Andrey Fradkin, Boston University
	The Death of a Technical Skill: Evidence from the Demise of Adobe Flash John Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Prasanna Tambe, University of Pennsylvania Discussant: James Bessen, Boston University
2:15 pm	The Value of Flexible Work: Evidence from Uber Drivers M. Keith Chen, University of California at Los Angeles Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University and NBER Peter E. Rossi, University of California at Los Angeles Emily Oehlsen, University of Oxford Discussant: Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER
	Amateurs: Low-Cost Development, Market Participation & Innovation on Digital Platforms Kevin Boudreau, Northeastern University and NBER Discussant: Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	The Impact of Digital Technologies on Skills: Do Labor Policies Matter? Rita Almeida, The World Bank Carlos Corseuil, IPEA Jennifer P. Poole, American University Discussant: Pascual Restrepo, Boston University and NBER
	Limiting the Market for Information as a Tool of Governance: Evidence from Russia Klaus Ackermann, Monash University Discussant: Michael E. Kummer, University of East Anglia
4:15 pm	The Ostrich in Us: Selective Attention to Financial Accounts, Income, Spending, and Liquidity Michaela Pagel, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER Arna Olafsson, Copenhagen Business School Discussant: Michael Grubb, Boston College
	Network Structure and Patterns of Information Diversity on Twitter Jesse C. Shore, Boston University Jiye Baek, Boston University Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Boston University Discussant: Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER
5:00 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	PRIT Group Dinner Hotel Marlowe, 2nd Floor (across the street from the Sonesta)
	Friday, July 21
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency Zoe B. Cullen, Harvard University and NBER Bobak Pakzad-Hurson, Brown University Discussant: Bo Cowgill, Columbia University
9:45 am	Economies before Scale: Lifecycle Dynamics and I.T. Productivity in Young Firms Wang Jin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto Discussant: Thomas N. Hubbard, Northwestern University and NBER
10:30 am	Break
10:50 am	Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence: Prediction versus Judgment Ajay K. Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER Joshua Gans, University of Toronto and NBER Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER Discussant: Hal R. Varian, Google
11:35 am	Labor Services At Will: Regulation of Dismissal and Investment in Industrial Robots Giorgio Presidente, University of Oxford Discussant: Frank Levy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12:20 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Surge Pricing Solves the Wild Goose Chase Juan Camilo Castillo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Glen Weyl, Microsoft Dan Knoepfle, Uber Discussant: Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
2:15 pm	Digital Paywall Design: Implications for Subscription Rates & Cross-channel Demand Sinan Aral, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Paramveer Dhillon, University of Michigan Discussant: Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
3:10 pm	Posters:
	Jing Gong, Brad N. Greenwood, Yiping Song Uber Might Buy Me a Mercedes Benz: An Empirical Investigation of Sharing Platforms and Durable Goods Purchase
	Graham Beattie, Ruben Durante, Brian G. Knight, Ananya Sen Advertising Spending and Media Bias: Evidence from News Coverage of Car Safety Recalls
	Carl Mela, Hana Choi Online Marketplace Advertising
	Wen Wen, Feng Zhu How Do Complementors Respond to the Threat of Platform Owner Entry? Evidence from the Mobile App Market
	Itai Ater, Oren Rigbi The Effects of Mandatory Disclosure of Supermarket Prices
	James D. Adams, Ameya Hate Theorems, Lemmas, and Apps: the Making of Industrial Software
	Tingting Nian, Yuyuan Zhu, Vijay Gurbaxani The Impact Of The Sharing Economy On Household Finance
	Shan Huang, Sinan Aral, Jeffrey(Yu) Hu, Erik brynjolfsson Social Influence Across Products: A Large-Scale Randomized Experiment in Social Advertising
	Maximilian von Ehrlich, Konstantin Buechel Cities and the Structure of Social Interactions: Evidence from Mobile Phone Data
	Navdeep S. Sahni, Sridhar Narayanan, Kirthi Kalyanam An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Retargeted Advertising Ã¢€â€œ thee Role of Frequency and Timing
	Maria Petrova, Ananya Sen, Pinar Yildirim Social Media and Political Donations: New Technology and Incumbency Advantage in the United States
	R. Scott Hiller, Scott Savage, Donald Waldman Using Aggregate Market Data to Estimate Patent Damages
	Thomas W. Frick, Rahul Telang Pay For What You Get - Incentive Misalignments in Programmatic Advertising
	Sam Ransbotham Open Source Code and the Risk of Attacks based on Software Vulnerabilities
	James Bessen Automation and Jobs: When Technology Boosts Employment
4:00 pm	Wine & Cheese Reception
5:00 pm	Adjourn

Participants

Klaus Ackermann, Monash University
James D. Adams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and NBER
Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER
Michael J. Andrews, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Sinan Aral, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ashish Arora, Duke University and NBER
Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Arslan Aziz, University of British Columbia
Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Jiye Baek, Boston University
Patrick L. Bajari, Keystone Strategy
Yannis Bakos, New York University
Sagit Bar-Gill, Tel Aviv University
Emek Basker, U.S. Census Bureau
Salomé Baslandze, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Graham Beattie, Loyola Marymount University
Ernst R. Berndt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
James Bessen, Boston University
Daniel Björkegren, Columbia University
Joern Boehnke, Harvard University
Kevin Boudreau, Northeastern University and NBER
Wendy A. Bradley, Southern Methodist University
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
Juan Camilo Castillo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Ruiqing Cao, Stockholm School of Economics
Aaron Chatterji, Duke University and NBER
M. Keith Chen, University of California at Los Angeles
Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University and NBER
Hana Choi, University of Rochester
Jane J. Choi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Prithwiraj Choudhury, Harvard University
Iain M. Cockburn, Boston University and NBER
Avinash Collis, Carnegie Mellon University
Bo Cowgill, Columbia University
Zoe B. Cullen, Harvard University and NBER
Weijia Dai, Purdue University
James Dana, Northeastern University
Jan De Loecker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Rebecca E. De Simone, London Business School
Timothy J. DeStefano, Georgetown University
Francesco Decarolis, Bocconi University
Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Boston University
Paramveer Dhillon, University of Michigan
W. Erwin Diewert, University of British Columbia and NBER
Michael Dinerstein, University of Chicago and NBER
Jean-Pierre H. Dubé, University of Chicago and NBER
Dean Eckles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Benjamin Edelman, Microsoft
Maximilian Ehrlich, University of Bern
Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER
Glenn Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Sara Fisher Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
Pedro Ferreira, Carnegie Mellon University
Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas at Austin
Roberto Fontana, University of Pavia
Chris Forman, Cornell University
Annabelle C. Fowler, Harvard University
Andrey Fradkin, Boston University
Samuel Paul Fraiberger, New York University
Jeffrey L. Furman, Boston University and NBER
Jana Gallus, University of California at Los Angeles
Alfonso Gambardella, Bocconi University
Joshua S. Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
Miguel Godinho de Matos, Catolica Lisbon School of Business & Economics
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER
Jing Gong, Temple University
Daniel Goroff, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Brad N. Greenwood, George Mason University
Daniel P. Gross, Duke University and NBER
Michael Grubb, Boston College
Hanna Halaburda, New York University
Jonathan Hall, Uber
Dietmar Harhoff, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Ameya Hate, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Naomi Hausman, Hebrew University
Alex X. He, University of Maryland
Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University and NBER
Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University and NBER
R. Scott Hiller, Fairfield University
John J. Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Jean-François Houde, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Yu Jeffrey Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Shan Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thomas N. Hubbard, Northwestern University and NBER
Xiang Hui, Washington University in St. Louis
Ayelet Israeli, Harvard University
Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland and NBER
Wang Jin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christina A. Kent, Stanford University
Gaurav Khanna, University of California, San Diego
Hyunjin Kim, INSEAD
Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
Benjamin Klopack, Texas A&M University
Elisabeth Kremp, Banque de France DGSER and NBER
Tobias Kretschmer, LMU Munich
Theresa Kuchler, New York University and NBER

Michael E. Kummer, University of East Anglia
Ohchan Kwon, Harvard University
Anja Lambrecht, London Business School
Danial Lashkari, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Aija Leiponen, Cornell University
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Phillip Leslie, Amazon
Jonathan D. Levin, Stanford University and NBER
Frank Levy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gregory Lewis, Amazon
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Meng Liu, Washington University in St. Louis
Brian Lucking, Charles River Associates
Hong Luo, Harvard University
Elizabeth Lyons, University of California at San Diego
Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER
Jacques Mairesse, CREST-ENSAE and NBER
Myriam Mariani, Bocconi University
Jeffrey S. McCullough, University of Michigan
Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto
Milan Miric, University of Southern California
Sanjog Misra, University of Chicago
Nicolas Morales, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Julie Holland Mortimer, University of Virginia and NBER
Sarah Moshary, University of California, Berkeley
Abhishek Nagaraj, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Frank Nagle, Harvard University
Leonard I. Nakamura, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London
Aviv Nevo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Peter W. Newberry, University of Georgia
Tingting Nian, University of California at Irvine
Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Harvard University
Emily Oehlsen, University of Oxford
Michaela Pagel, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Ariel Pakes, Harvard University and NBER
Bobak Pakzad-Hurson, Brown University
Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER
Jennifer Poole, American University
Giorgio Presidente, University of Oxford
Jeffrey Prince, Indiana University
Thomas W. Quan, Wayfair
Mohammad S. Rahman, Purdue University
Sam Ransbotham, Boston College
Imke Reimers, Cornell University
Pascual Restrepo, Boston University and NBER
Oren Rigbi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Daniel Rock, University of Pennsylvania
Nancy L. Rose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Huaxia Rui, University of Rochester
Stephen P. Ryan, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Navdeep S. Sahni, Stanford University
Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert Seamans, New York University
Stephan Seiler, Imperial College London
Katja Seim, Yale University and NBER
Ananya Sen, Carnegie Mellon University
Carl Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Ben Shiller, Brandeis University
Jesse C. Shore, Boston University
Oz Shy, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Daniel E. Sichel, Wellesley College and NBER
Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER
Christopher M. Snyder, Dartmouth College and NBER
Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER
Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Monic Sun, Boston University
Neel Sundaresan, eBay Research Labs
Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER
Prasanna Tambe, University of Pennsylvania
Florenta Teodoridis, University of Southern California
Neil Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marie C. Thursby, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER
Artem Timoshenko, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
Hal R. Varian, Google
Stefan Wagner, ESMT Berlin
Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER
Scott Wallsten, Technology Policy Institute
Jeremy Watson, University of Minnesota
Wen Wen, The University of Texas at Austin
Glen Weyl, Microsoft
Kevin R. Williams, Yale University and NBER
Christopher Woodruff, University of Oxford
Andy Wu, Harvard University
D.j. Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mo Xiao, University of Arizona
Lei Xu, Bank of Canada
Pinar Yildirim, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Pai-Ling Yin, Amazon
Erina Ytsma, Carnegie Mellon University
Alejandro Zentner, University of Texas at Dallas
Laurina Zhang, Boston University
Michael Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Feng Zhu, Harvard University
Ben Zou, Purdue University