
	Thursday, July 18
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Introductions
9:10 am	Is There a Gender Wage Gap in Online Labor Markets? Evidence from Over 250,000 Projects and 2.5 Million Wage Bill Proposals Estrella Gomez-Herrera, European Commission Frank Mueller-Langer, European Commission Discussant: Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER
9:55 am	Regulating Privacy Online: The Early Impact of the GDPR on European Web Traffic and E-commerce Samuel Goldberg, Stanford University Garrett Johnson, Boston University Scott Shriver, University of Colorado at Boulder Discussant: Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
10:40 am	Break
11:00 am	Can Technology Solve the Principal-Agent Problem? Evidence from Pollution Monitoring in China Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago and NBER Guojun He, University of Hong Kong Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego and NBER Tong Liu, National University of Singapore Discussant: Christopher R. Knittel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
11:45 am	Consumer Protection in an Online World: An Analysis of Occupational Licensing Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER Andrey Fradkin, Boston University Bradley Larsen, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER Discussant: Ryan C. McDevitt, Duke University and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch
	Parallel Sessions
1:30 pm	Who Drives Digital Innovation? Evidence from the U.S. Medical Device Industry Ariel Dora Stern, Hasso Plattner Institute Cirrus Foroughi, Harvard University Discussant: Mara Lederman, University of Toronto
1:30 pm	Experienced Segregation Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER Billy A. Ferguson, Stanford University Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER Tobias Schmidt Discussant: Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
2:05 pm	The Employment Consequences of Robots: Firm-level Evidence Jay Dixen, Statistics Canada Bryan Hong, New York University Lynn Wu, University of Pennsylvania Discussant: Robert Seamans, New York University
2:05 pm	Fanning the Flames of Hate: Social Media and Hate Crime Karsten Müller, National University of Singapore Carlo Schwarz, Bocconi University Discussant: Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
2:40 pm	Complements or Substitutes? Firm Level Management of Labor and Technology (slides) Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University and NBER Robert Seamans, New York University Raphael Martins, New York University Discussant: John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
2:40 pm	Leisure-enhancing Technological Change (slides) Lukasz Rachel, University College London Discussant: Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Steering in Online Markets: The Role of Platform Incentives and Credibility Moshe A. Barach, University of Minnesota John Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Joseph Golden, PerfectRec.com Discussant: Catherine Thomas, London School of Economics
3:30 pm	Consumer Scores and Price Discrimination Gonzalo Cisternas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alessandro Bonatti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Discussant: Joshua S. Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
4:05 pm	Referral Programs for Platform Growth: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment (slides) Rodrigo Belo, Nova SBE Ting Li, Erasmus University Discussant: Elizabeth Mishkin, Uber
4:05 pm	The Market for Data Privacy Tarun Ramadorai, Imperial College London Antoine Uettwiller, Imperial College London Ansgar Walther, Imperial College London Discussant: Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER
4:40 pm	Strategic Behavior in Contests with Ability Heterogeneous Agents: Evidence from Field Data Christoph Riedl, Northeastern University Tom Grad, Copenhagen Business School Christopher Lettl, Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien Discussant: Jennifer Brown, University of Utah
4:40 pm	Much Ado About Nothing? Online Platform Parity Clauses and the EU Booking.com Case Andrea Mantovani, University of Bologna Claudio A. Piga, University of Genova Carlo Reggiani, University of Manchester Discussant: Carl Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
5:15 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Reception and Dinner at Hotel Marlowe (Serrano Ballroom BC) across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel
	Friday, July 19
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Morning Joint with IO
9:00 am	Buying Data from Consumers: The Impact of Monitoring Programs in U.S. Auto Insurance (slides) Yizhou Jin, University of Toronto Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University and NBER Discussant: Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland and NBER
10:00 am	Break
10:20 am	Digital Dystopia Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics
11:10 am	Panel Discussion: Market Power in the Big Data Economy Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER Dirk Bergemann, Yale University Fiona Scott-Morton, Yale University and NBER Carl Shapiro, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Florian Zettelmeyer Northwestern University and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Peer Effects in Product Adoption Michael Bailey, Facebook Drew M. Johnston, Harvard University Theresa Kuchler, New York University and NBER Johannes Stroebel, New York University and NBER Arlene Wong, Princeton University Discussant: Dean Eckles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Sequential Bargaining in the Field: Evidence from Millions of Online Bargaining Interactions Matthew Backus, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Thomas Blake, Amazon Bradley Larsen, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER Steven Tadelis, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Discussant: John J. Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	The Efficiency of A Dynamic Decentralized Two-sided Matching Market Tracy Xiao Liu, Tsinghua University Zhixi Wan, University of Hong Kong Chenyu Yang, University of Maryland Discussant: Andrey Fradkin, Boston University
4:30 pm	Poster Session Yannis Bakos, New York University Hanna Halaburda, New York University Due Diligence and Token Tradability Bo Cowgill, Columbia University The Impact of Algorithms on Judicial Discretion: Evidence from Regression Discontinuities Nirupama Kulkarni, CAFRAL Subrata Kumar Ritadhi, CAFRAL Cash Supply Shock and Formalization -- Evidence from India's Demonetization Episode Michael A. Ribers, University of Copenhagen Hannes Ullrich, DIW Berlin Battling Antibiotic Resistance: Can Machine Learning Improve Prescribing Yangguang Huang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology A Model of Sales on Online Platforms Timothy J. DeStefano, OECD Richard Kneller, Unversity of Nottingham Jonathan Timmis, University of Nottingham Cloud and Big Data Diffusion: Are Capital Incentives an Incentive? Olga Slivko, Centre for European Economic Research Online "Brain Gain'': Do Immigrants Return Knowledge Home? Anita Rao, University of Chicago Selin Akca, University of Zurich Value of Aggregators Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Dean Alderucci, Carnegie Mellon University Eduard Hovy, Carnegie Mellon University Andrew Runge, Carnegie Mellon University Nikolas Zolas, U.S. Census Bureau Quantifying the Impact of AI on Productivity and Labor Demand: Evidence from U.S. Census Microdata Martin Watzinger, University of Munich The Adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems and the Productivity of Small Firms Emilio Calvano, University of Bologna Giacomo Calzolari, European University Institute Vincenzo Denicola, University of Bologna Sergio Pastorello, University of Bologna Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Pricing and Collusion Marcello Miccoli, Stanford University Cristina Angelico, Bocconi University Juri Marcucci, Bank of Italy Marcello Miccoli, Stanford University Filippo Quarta, Bank of Italy Can We Measure Inflation Expectations Using Twitter? Miguel Godinho de Matos, Catolica Lisbon Idris Adjerid, Virginia Tech Consumer Behavior and Firm Targeting after GDPR: The Case of a Telecom Provider in Europe Shariq Mohammed, University of Michigan Designing for Racial Impartiality: The Impact of Relocating Host Photos on the Airbnb Website Julian Kolev, SMU Wendy A. Bradley, SMU Can Piracy Increase Innovation? The Software Industry's Response to Online File Sharing Klaus Ackermann, Monash University Simon Angus, Monash University Allison Lassiter, University of Pennsylvania Paul Raschky, Monash University Internet and Subnational Economic Growth Worldwide: Evidence from A Spatial RDD Approach Jin-Hyuk Kim, University of Colorado Peter Newberry, Pennsylvania State University Liad Wagman, Illinois Institute of Technology Ran Wolff, Yahoo! Research Local Network Effects in the Adoption of a Digital Platform Alberto G. Rossi, University of Maryland Stephen Utkus, Vanguard The Needs and Wants in Financial Advice: Human versus Robo-Advising Joseba Martinez, London Business School Automation, Growth and Factor Shares Christian Volpe Martincus, Inter-American Development Bank Jeronimo Carballo, University of Colorado Marisol Rodriguez Chatruc, Inter-American Development Bank Information and Exports: Firm-Level Evidence from an Online Business Platform Matthijs Wildenbeest, Indiana University Babur De los Santos, Clemson University Daniel P. O'Brien, Compass Lexecon Agency Pricing and Bargaining: Empirical Evidence from the E-book Market
5:30 pm	Reception in Ballroom Foyer
	Friday, February 21
2:30 pm	Consumer Protection in an Online World: An Analysis of Occupational Licensing Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER Andrey Fradkin, Boston University Bradley Larsen, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER

Participants

Klaus Ackermann, Monash University
Idris Adjerid, Virginia Tech
Selin Akca, University of Zurich
Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Matthew Backus, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jiye Baek, Boston University
Yannis Bakos, New York University
Anirudha Balasubramanian, Stanford University
Sandra Barbosu
Erling Barth, Institute for Social Research and NBER
Emek Basker, U.S. Census Bureau
Matthew Beane, University of California at Santa Barbara
Rodrigo Belo, Nova SBE
Ernst R. Berndt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Daniel Björkegren, Columbia University
Thomas Blake, Amazon
Kevin Boudreau, Northeastern University and NBER
Wendy A. Bradley, Southern Methodist University
Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Timothy F. Bresnahan, Stanford University
Jennifer Brown, University of Utah
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
Emilio Calvano, LUISS University
Ruiqing Cao, Stockholm School of Economics
Jeronimo Carballo, University of Colorado at Boulder
Christian Catalini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M. Keith Chen, University of California at Los Angeles
Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University and NBER
Lesley Chiou, Occidental College
Gonzalo Cisternas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Avinash Collis, Carnegie Mellon University
Bo Cowgill, Columbia University
Zoe B. Cullen, Harvard University and NBER
Weijia Dai, Purdue University
James Dana, Northeastern University
Babur De los Santos, Clemson University
Timothy J. DeStefano, Georgetown University
Francesco Decarolis, Bocconi University
Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Boston University
Paramveer Dhillon, University of Michigan
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER
Jay Dixon, Statistics Canada
Jean-Pierre H. Dubé, University of Chicago and NBER
Sara Fisher Ellison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Adam Falk, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
Billy A. Ferguson, Stanford University
Pedro Ferreira, Carnegie Mellon University
Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas at Austin
Roberto Fontana, University of Pavia
Chris Forman, Cornell University
Cirrus Foroughi, Harvard University
Andrey Fradkin, Boston University
Jeffrey L. Furman, Boston University and NBER
Jana Gallus, University of California at Los Angeles
Joshua S. Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
Laura K. Gee, Tufts University
Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
Michela Giorcelli, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Miguel Godinho de Matos, Catolica Lisbon School of Business & Economics
Samuel Goldberg, Stanford University
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER
Estrella Gomez-Herrera, European Commission
Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago
Daniel Goroff, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Tom Grad, Copenhagen Business School
Shane Greenstein, Harvard University and NBER
Daniel P. Gross, Duke University and NBER
Michael Grubb, Boston College
Hanna Halaburda, New York University
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Dietmar Harhoff, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Naomi Hausman, Hebrew University
Guojun He, University of Hong Kong
Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University and NBER
Matthew J. Higgins, University of Utah and NBER
Jonas Hjort, University College London
Yael Hochberg, Rice University and NBER
John J. Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Jean-François Houde, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER
Yangguang Huang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Stefan Hunt, Keystone Strategy
Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland and NBER
Yizhou Jin, University of Toronto
Garrett Johnson, Boston University
Drew M. Johnston, Harvard University
Mary Kaltenberg, Pace University
Gaurav Khanna, University of California, San Diego
Hyunjin Kim, INSEAD
Julian Kolev, US Patent and Trademark Office
Elisabeth Kremp, Banque de France DGSER and NBER
Theresa Kuchler, New York University and NBER
Subrata Kumar Ritadhi, Ashoka University
Michael E. Kummer, University of East Anglia
Karim Lakhani, Harvard University
Bradley Larsen, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Mara Lederman, University of Toronto
Robin S. Lee, Harvard University and NBER
Phillip Leslie, Amazon

Jonathan D. Levin, Stanford University and NBER
Gregory Lewis, Amazon
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Ting Li, Erasmus University
Tong Liu, National University of Singapore
Hong Luo, University of Toronto
Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER
Jacques Mairesse, CREST-ENSAE and NBER
Andrea Mantovani, University of Bologna
Juri Marcucci, Bank of Italy
Joseba Martinez, London Business School
Jeffrey S. McCullough, University of Michigan
Ryan C. McDevitt, Duke University and NBER
Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto
Marcello Miccoli, Bank of Italy
Elizabeth Mishkin, Uber
Abdul Raheem Shariq Mohammed, Northeastern University
Julie Holland Mortimer, University of Virginia and NBER
Sarah Moshary, University of California, Berkeley
Karsten Müller, National University of Singapore
Frank Nagle, Harvard University
Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London
Aviv Nevo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Peter W. Newberry, University of Georgia
Derek Ozkal, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Michaela Pagel, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Ariel Pakes, Harvard University and NBER
Bobak Pakzad-Hurson, Brown University
Georgios Petropoulos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lia Petrose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert S. Pindyck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Jennifer Poole, American University
Jeffrey Prince, Indiana University
Yi Qian, University of British Columbia and NBER
Lukasz Rachel, University College London
Mohammad S. Rahman, Purdue University
Tarun Ramadorai, Imperial College London
Carlo Reggiani, University of Manchester
Imke Reimers, Cornell University
Pascual Restrepo, Yale University and NBER
Michael A. Ribers, University of Copenhagen
Christoph Riedl, Northeastern University
Daniel Rock, University of Pennsylvania
Marisol Rodriguez Chatruc, Inter-American Development Bank
Nancy L. Rose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Alberto G. Rossi, Georgetown University
Andrew J. Runge 2684649, Carnegie Mellon University
Stephen P. Ryan, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER
Anna M. Salomons, Utrecht University
Carlo Schwarz, Bocconi University
Daniela Scur, Cornell University
Robert Seamans, New York University
Katja Seim, Yale University and NBER
Carl Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Ben Shiller, Brandeis University
Daniel E. Sichel, Wellesley College and NBER
Timothy Simcoe, Boston University and NBER
Olga Slivko, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Christopher M. Snyder, Dartmouth College and NBER
Alan T. Sorensen, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Christopher T. Stanton, Harvard University and NBER
Claudia Steinwender, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Ariel Dora Stern, Hasso Plattner Institute
Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Monic Sun, Boston University
Dan Svirsky, Uber Technologies, Inc.
Steven Tadelis, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Prasanna Tambe, University of Pennsylvania
Florenta Teodoridis, University of Southern California
Catherine Thomas, London School of Economics
Neil Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marie C. Thursby, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER
Jonathan D. Timmis, World Bank
Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics
Manuel Trajtenberg, Tel Aviv University and NBER
Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Antoine Uettwiller, Imperial College London
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
Hal R. Varian, Google
Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University and NBER
Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER
Ansgar Walther, Imperial College London
Zhixi Wan, University of Hong Kong
Xiupeng Wang, Northeastern University and Stanford Digital Economy Laboratory
Martin Watzinger, University of Muenster
Matthijs Wildenbeest, University of Arizona
Kevin R. Williams, Yale University and NBER
Arlene Wong, Princeton University
Christopher Woodruff, University of Oxford
Andy Wu, Harvard University
D.j. Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Lynn Wu, University of Pennsylvania
Chenyu Yang, University of Maryland
Pai-Ling Yin, Amazon
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
Michael Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nikolas Zolas, U.S. Department of State
Ben Zou, Purdue University