
	Thursday, July 19
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Introductions
9:10 am	The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from over a Million Rideshare Drivers Cody Cook, Stanford University Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER Jonathan Hall, Uber John A. List, University of Chicago and NBER Paul Oyer, Stanford University and NBER Discussant: Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University and NBER
9:50 am	Data Analytics Supports Decentralized Innovation Communities Lynn Wu, University of Pennsylvania Bowen Lou, University of Connecticut Lorin Hitt, University of Pennsylvania Discussant: Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto
10:30 am	Break
10:50 am	The Impact of Big Data on Firm Performance: An Empirical Investigation Patrick Bajari, Keystone Strategy Victor Chernozhukov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ali Hortaçsu, University of Chicago and NBER Junichi Suzuki, Amazon, Inc. Discussant: Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER
11:30 am	Steering Incentives and Bundling Practices in the Telecommunications Industry Brian McManus, University of North Carolina Aviv Nevo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Zachary Nolan, University of Delaware Jonathan W. Williams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Discussant: Jeffrey Prince, Indiana University
12:10 pm	Lunch
1:10 pm	Does the Internet improve health care? Evidence from the UK Sofia Amaral-Garcia, European Commission - Joint Research Center/ Universite libre de Bruxe Mattia Nardotto, KU Leuven Carol Propper, Imperial College London Tommaso Valletti, Imperial College London Discussant: Amalia R. Miller, University of Virginia and NBER
1:50 pm	Break
	Parallel Sessions in Ballroom and Skyline Rooms
2:00 pm	Unemployment and Online Labor Michael Kummer, University of East Anglia Ulrich Laitenberger, Telecom ParisTech and ZEW Olga Slivko, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Steffen VIete, ZEW Discussant: Prasanna Tambe, University of Pennsylvania
2:00 pm	The Dark Side of Technological Progress? Impact of E-Commerce on Employees at Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Sudheer Chava, Georgia Tech Alex Oettl, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER Manpreet Singh, Georgia Institute of Technology Linghang Zeng, Babson College Discussant: Emek Basker, U.S. Census Bureau
2:30 pm	Monopsony in Online Labor Markets (slides) Arindrajit Dube, University of Massachusetts Amherst and NBER Jeff Jacobs, Columbia University Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER Siddharth Suri, Microsoft Research, NYC Discussant: Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
2:30 pm	How E-Commerce Improves the Brick and Mortar Shopping Experience: Explaining the Post-2002 Slowdown (slides) Rachel Soloveichik, Bureau of Economic Analysis Discussant: Ryan C. McDevitt, Duke University and NBER
3:00 pm	Death by Pokémon GO: The Economic and Human Cost of Using Apps While Driving Mara Faccio, Purdue University and NBER John J. McConnell, Purdue University Discussant: Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER
3:00 pm	Mark-ups in the Digital Era Sara Calligaris, OECD Chiara Criscuolo, IFC Luca Marcolin, OECD Discussant: Christopher M. Snyder, Dartmouth College and NBER
3:30 pm	Break
3:40 pm	The Impact of Technology Procurement Regulations on Social Value and National Competitiveness Frank Nagle, Harvard University Discussant: Abhishek Nagaraj, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
3:40 pm	Concentration and Internet Advertising: The Rise of Buyer Power Francesco Decarolis, Bocconi University Gabriele Rovigatti, Bank of Italy Discussant: Garrett Johnson, Boston University
4:10 pm	Platform Governance Matters: How Platform Gatekeeping Affects Knowledge Sharing among Complementors Yuchen Zhang, Tulane University Jingjing Li, University of Virginia Tony W. Tong, University of Colorado at Boulder Discussant: Joshua S. Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
4:10 pm	The Effects of Search Advertising on Competitors: An Experiment Before a Merger Joseph Golden, PerfectRec.com John Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Discussant: Florian Zettelmeyer, Northwestern University and NBER
4:40 pm	More Women in Tech? Evidence from a Field Experiment Addressing Social Identity Maria Lucia Del Carpio, INSEAD Maria Guadalupe, INSEAD Discussant: Anja Lambrecht, London Business School
4:40 pm	A/B Testing Eduardo M. Azevedo, University of Pennsylvania Alex Deng, Microsoft Corporation Jose L. Montiel Olea, Cornell University Justin Rao, HomeAway Glen Weyl, Microsoft Discussant: Ya Xu, LinkedIn Corporation
5:10 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Group Dinner - Hotel Marlowe (Serrano Ballroom)
	Friday, July 20
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
	First two papers joint with Industrial Organization
9:00 am	The Marginal Congestion of a Taxi in New York City Alejandro Molnar, The World Bank Daniel Mangrum, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Discussant: Thomas N. Hubbard, Northwestern University and NBER
9:45 am	Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Taxis and Uber Meng Liu, Washington University in St. Louis Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER Jason Dowlatabadi, Uber Discussant: M. Keith Chen, University of California at Los Angeles
10:30 am	Break
10:50 am	Engineering a Separating Equilibrium John Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Ramesh Johari, Stanford University Discussant: Hema Yoganarasimhan, University of Washington
11:30 am	Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Work Pascual Restrepo, Yale University and NBER Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Discussant: Luis Garicano, London School of Economics
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:10 pm	Panel: The Economic Implications of Autonomous Vehicles Moderator: Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER Jonathan Hall, Uber Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University and NBER (background paper) John Leonard, Toyota Research Institute and MIT
1:55 pm	Break
2:10 pm	The Effect of Internet on Political Mobilization Klaus Ackermann, Monash University Simon D. Angus, Monash University Roland Hodler, University of St.Gallen Paul Raschky, Monash University Discussant: Simon Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
2:50 pm	Break
3:05 pm	Large-scale Demand Estimation with Search Data Tomomichi Amano, Harvard University Andrew Rhodes, Toulouse School of Economics Stephan Seiler, Imperial College London Discussant: Ben Shiller, Brandeis University
3:45 pm	Break and Poster set-up
4:00 pm	Poster Session (Ballroom Lobby)
	Can (S)he Code? Gender Bias in an Open Source Software Community Tingting Nian, University of California at Irvine Lei Xu, Bank of Canada Sanjeev Dewan, University of California Irvine
	Proprietary Data, Competition, and Consumer Effort: An Application to Telematics in Auto Insurance Imke C. Reimers, Cornell University Ben Shiller, Brandeis University
	Competition, Contracts, and Creativity: Evidence from Novel Writing in a Platform Market Yanhui Wu, University of Hong Kong Feng Zhu, Harvard University
	When Transparency Fails: Bias and Financial Incentives in Ridesharing Platforms Jorge Mejia, Indiana University Chris Parker, American University
	Platforms, Power, and Preferential Placement: Evidence from Spotify Playlists Luis Aguiar, University of Zurich Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER
	How Important is Coordination for Perishable Commodity Markets? Evidence from Micro-Transactions in Agricultural Markets in Pakistan Saher Asad, George Washington University
	To Hide or Not to Hide? An Empirical Study on the Effect of Firm Identity on the Dynamics of Crowdsourcing Ho Cheung Brian Lee, Penn State University
	Incentives Can Reduce Bias in Online Reviews Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Nadav Klein, University of Chicago Andrew Chamberlain, Glassdoor, Inc. Morgan Smart, Facebook
	The Role of Technology in Mortgage Lending Andreas Fuster, EPFL and Swiss Finance Institute Matthew C. Plosser, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Philipp Schnabl, New York University and NBER James Vickery, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
	Competition in Network Industries: Evidence from Mobile Telecommunications in Rwanda Daniel Bjorkegren, Columbia University
	Hacking Corporate Reputations Pat Akey, University of Toronto Stefan Lewellen, Pennsylvania State University Inessa Liskovich, AirBnB
	The Scale and Scope of Online Retail Alex W. Chernoff, Bank of Canada
	Interacting User-Generated Content Technologies: How Q&As Affect Ratings and Reviews Shrabastee Banerjee, Boston University Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Boston University Georgios Zervas, Boston University
5:15 pm	Reception

Participants

Klaus Ackermann, Monash University
James D. Adams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and NBER
Tomomichi Amano, Harvard University
Sofia Amaral-Garcia, European Commission - Joint Research Center/ Universite libre de Bruxe
Joseph Anderson, Stanford University
Saher Asad, George Washington University
Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Eduardo M. Azevedo, University of Pennsylvania
Matthew Backus, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Patrick L. Bajari, Keystone Strategy
Shrabastee Banerjee, Boston University
Sandra Barbosu
Emek Basker, U.S. Census Bureau
Salomé Baslandze, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Ernst R. Berndt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Daniel Björkegren, Columbia University
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Kevin Boudreau, Northeastern University and NBER
Timothy F. Bresnahan, Stanford University
Jennifer Brown, University of Utah
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
Sara Calligaris, OECD
Ruiqing Cao, Stockholm School of Economics
Christian Catalini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M. Keith Chen, University of California at Los Angeles
Alex W. Chernoff, Bank of Canada
Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University and NBER
Lesley Chiou, Occidental College
Prithwiraj Choudhury, Harvard University
Avinash Collis, Carnegie Mellon University
Bo Cowgill, Columbia University
Chiara Criscuolo, IFC
Zoe B. Cullen, Harvard University and NBER
Weijia Dai, Purdue University
James Dana, Northeastern University
Jan De Loecker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Timothy J. DeStefano, Georgetown University
Francesco Decarolis, Bocconi University
Lucia Del Carpio, INSEAD
Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Boston University
Paramveer Dhillon, University of Michigan
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER
Jason Dowlatabadi, Uber
Arindrajit Dube, University of Massachusetts Amherst and NBER
Dean Eckles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mara Faccio, Purdue University and NBER
Adam Falk, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
Pedro Ferreira, Carnegie Mellon University
Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas at Austin
Chris Forman, Cornell University
Andrey Fradkin, Boston University
Jeffrey L. Furman, Boston University and NBER
Joshua S. Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
Luis Garicano, London School of Economics
Laura K. Gee, Tufts University
Todd D. Gerarden, Cornell University
Michela Giorcelli, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Miguel Godinho de Matos, Catolica Lisbon School of Business & Economics
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER
Daniel Goroff, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Shane Greenstein, Harvard University and NBER
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
Naomi Hausman, Hebrew University
Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University and NBER
Jonas Hjort, University College London
Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER
Ali Hortaçsu, University of Chicago and NBER
John J. Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER
Thomas N. Hubbard, Northwestern University and NBER
Xiang Hui, Washington University in St. Louis
Stefan Hunt, Keystone Strategy
Wang Jin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Garrett Johnson, Boston University
Paul Joskow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Hyo Kang, University of Southern California
Gaurav Khanna, University of California, San Diego
Hyunjin Kim, INSEAD
Christopher R. Knittel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Daniel T. Knoepfle, Uber
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
Anja Lambrecht, London Business School
Ho Cheung Brian Lee, Penn State University
John Leonard, Toyota Research Institute
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Jonathan D. Levin, Stanford University and NBER

Gregory Lewis, Amazon
Randall A. Lewis, Amazon, Inc.
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Jingjing Li, University of Virginia
Inessa Liskovich, AirBnB
Meng Liu, Washington University in St. Louis
Bowen Lou, University of Connecticut
Michael Luca, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Hong Luo, Harvard University
Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER
Daniel Mangrum, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Luca Marcolin, OECD
Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Dina Mayzlin, University of Southern California
Jeffrey S. McCullough, University of Michigan
Ryan C. McDevitt, Duke University and NBER
Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto
Erin L. McGuire, Mondelez International
Brian McManus, University of North Carolina
Amalia R. Miller, University of Virginia and NBER
Elizabeth Mishkin, Uber
Sanjog Misra, University of Chicago
Alejandro Molnar, The World Bank
José Luis Montiel Olea, Cornell University
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
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER
Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London
Mattia Nardotto, KU Leuven
Peter W. Newberry, University of Georgia
Tingting Nian, University of California at Irvine
Zachary Nolan, University of Delaware
Alexander Oettl, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER
Scott Orr, UBC Sauder School of Business
Paul Oyer, Stanford University and NBER
Michaela Pagel, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Ariel Pakes, Harvard University and NBER
Bobak Pakzad-Hurson, Brown University
Chris Parker, American University
Jeffrey Prince, Indiana University
Mohammad S. Rahman, Purdue University
Imke Reimers, Cornell University
Pascual Restrepo, Yale University and NBER
Daniel Rock, University of Pennsylvania
Nancy L. Rose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Stephen P. Ryan, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Maryam Saeedi, Carnegie Mellon University
Robert Seamans, New York University
Stephan Seiler, Imperial College London
Katja Seim, Yale University and NBER
Carl Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Kathryn L. Shaw, Stanford University and NBER
Ben Shiller, Brandeis University
Jesse C. Shore, Boston University
Daniel E. Sichel, Wellesley College and NBER
Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER
Manpreet Singh, Georgia Institute of Technology
Christopher M. Snyder, Dartmouth College and NBER
Rachel Soloveichik, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Alan T. Sorensen, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER
Claudia Steinwender, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Monic Sun, Boston University
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
Tony W. Tong, University of Colorado at Boulder
Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
Hal R. Varian, Google
James Vickery, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER
Lucy Xiaolu Wang, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Michael Webb, Stanford University
Glen Weyl, Microsoft
Jonathan W. Williams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kevin R. Williams, Yale University and NBER
Andy Wu, Harvard University
Lynn Wu, University of Pennsylvania
Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER
Ya Xu, LinkedIn Corporation
Erina Ytsma, Carnegie Mellon University
Alejandro Zentner, University of Texas at Dallas
Georgios Zervas, Boston University
Florian Zettelmeyer, Northwestern University and NBER
Laurina Zhang, Boston University
Yuchen Zhang, Tulane University
Michael Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Feng Zhu, Harvard University
Ben Zou, Purdue University