Thursday, July 16

11:00 am

Digitization and Pre-Purchase Information: The Causal and Welfare Impacts of Reviews and Crowd Ratings

Imke C. Reimers, Cornell University
Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER

Discussant:
Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University and NBER

11:40 am

The Value of Competitor Information: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Hyunjin Kim, INSEAD

Discussant:
Alan T. Sorensen, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER (slides)

12:20 pm

Panel: Covid and Digitization
Moderator: Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
Panelists:
John Friedman, Brown University and NBER
Joshua Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
Lisa Kahn, University of Rochester and NBER

1:10 pm

Session on New Data

Advanced Technologies Adoption and Use by U.S. Firms: Evidence from the Annual Business Survey (slides)

Nikolas Zolas, U.S. Department of State
Zachary Kroff, U.S. Census Bureau
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto
David N. Beede, U.S. Census Bureau
Cathy Buffington, U.S. Census Bureau
Nathan Goldschlag, U.S. Census Bureau
Lucia Foster, U.S. Census Bureau
Emin Dinlersoz, U.S. Census Bureau

Measuring the Pace of Innovation: Evidence from Algorithms

Yash Sherry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Neil Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Measuring Automation in Aggregate Data (slides)

Joseba Martinez, London Business School
Johan Moen-Vorum, London Business School

2:00 pm

Break

Parallel Sessions, 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Session A - ICT and Labor
Session B: - Digital Media and Policy

2:15 pm

The Role of Social Capital in the U.S. Economy: Evidence from Employee-Level Professional Connections from LinkedIn

Shelley Xin Li, University of Southern California
Frank Nagle, Harvard University
Aner Zhou, University of Southern California

Discussant:
Prasanna Tambe, University of Pennsylvania

2:15 pm

The Pirate Bay & Box Office Buccaneers (slides)

Klaus Ackermann, Monash University
Wendy A. Bradley, Southern Methodist University
Jack F. Cameron, Monash University

Discussant:
Michael D. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University

2:45 pm

Automatic Reaction: What Happens to Workers at Firms that Automate?

James Bessen, Boston University
Maarten Goos, Utrecht University
Anna M. Salomons, Tilburg University & Utrecht University
Wiljan van den Berge, Utrecht University

Discussant:
Robert Seamans, New York University

2:45 pm

Multi-Sided Platform Strategy, Taxation, and Regulation: A Quantitative Model and Application to Facebook

Seth G. Benzell, Chapman University
Avinash Collis, Carnegie Mellon University

Discussant:
Andrey Fradkin, Boston University

3:15 pm

Squeezing Space: ICT and Capital-Biased Technical Change (slides)

Timothy J. DeStefano, Georgetown University
Richard Kneller, University of Nottingham
Jonathan D. Timmis, World Bank

Discussant:
Chris Forman, Cornell University

3:15 pm

Estimating the Impact of Airbnb on the Local Economy: Evidence from the Restaurant Industry

Suman Basuroy, University of Texas
Yongseok Kim, University of Texas at San Antonio
Davide Proserpio, University of Southern California

Discussant:
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER

3:45 pm

Digitization Salon - Community whine and cheers

4:45 pm

Adjourn

Friday, July 17

11:00 am

Social Media, News Consumption, and Polarization: Evidence from a Field Experiment (slides)

Roee Levy, Tel Aviv University

Discussant:
Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER

11:40 am

The Value of Information in Competitive Markets: The Impact of Big Data on Small and Medium Enterprises (slides)

Jose Galdon-Sanchez, Universidad Publica de Navarra
Ricard Gil, IESE Business School
Guillermo Uriz-Uharte, University College London

Discussant:
Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto (slides)

Privacy Policy

12:20 pm

Privacy & Market Concentration: Intended & Unintended Consequences of the GDPR (slides)

Garrett Johnson, Boston University
Scott Shriver, University of Colorado at Boulder
Samuel Goldberg, Stanford University

12:50 pm

European Privacy Law and Global Markets for Data

Christian W. Peukert, HEC Lausanne
Stefan Bechtold, ETH Zurich
Michail Batikas, Nova School of Business and Economics
Tobias Kretschmer, LMU Munich

Discussant:
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER

1:20 pm

The Value of Privacy...7 minutes each followed by Q&A
Moderator: Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Valuing Intrinsic and Instrumental Preferences for Privacy (slides)

Tesary Lin, Boston University

How Much is Privacy Worth Around the World and Across Platforms?

Jeffrey Prince, Indiana University
Scott Wallsten, Technology Policy Institute

The Value of Privacy: Evidence from Online Borrowers

Huan Tang, University of Pennsylvania

2:20 pm

Lightning Talks…4 minutes each

Who Benefits from Surge Pricing?

Juan Camilo Castillo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Hunting for Talent: Firm-Driven Labor Market Search in America

Sharique Hasan, Duke University
Rembrand M. Koning, Harvard University
Ines Black, Duke University

Quality Competition at the Competitive Margin in US Residential Broadband Markets (slides)

Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas at Austin
Pablo I. Varas, University of Texas at Austin

Do Workers Discriminate against their Outgroup Employers? Evidence from the Gig Economy

Sher Afghan Asad, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Ritwik Banerjee, IIM Bangalore
Joydeep Bhattacharya, Iowa State University

How Does A Firm Adapt in A Changing World? The Case of Prosper Marketplace (slides)

Xinlong Li, Nanyang Technological University
Andrew Ching, Johns Hopkins University

Getting On The Map: The Impact of Online Listings on Business Performance

Michael Luca, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Abhishek Nagaraj, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Gauri Subramani, Lehigh University

Merger Analysis in the App Economy: An Empirical Model of Ad-Sponsored Media (slides)

Kohei Kawaguchi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Toshifumi Kuroda, Tokyo Keizai University
Susumu Sato, Hitotsubashi University

The Effect of Online Shopping on the Healthfulness of Grocery Purchases (slides)

Katherine A. Harris-Lagoudakis, Iowa State University

Local News, UGC and Professionals: Evidence from Citizen Journalism

Ananya Sen, Carnegie Mellon University
Joerg Claussen, University of Munich
Pedro Ferreira, Carnegie Mellon University

Dog Eat Dog: Measuring Returns to Scale Using a Digital Platform Merger

Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
Jessica Y. Fong, University of Michigan
Andrey Fradkin, Boston University

Algorithmic Pricing and Competition: Empirical Evidence from the German Retail Gasoline Market

Stephanie Assad, Queen's University
Robert Clark, Queen's University
Daniel Ershov, Toulouse School of Economics
Lei Xu, Bank of Canada

Hiring as Exploration (slides)

Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Lindsey R. Raymond, Microsoft Research
Peter Bergman, University of Texas at Austin and NBER

Smart Contracts, IoT Sensors, and Efficiency: Automated Execution vs. Better Information

Hanna Halaburda, New York University
Yannis Bakos, New York University

3:15 pm

Adjourn

3:30 pm

Digitization Salon - Community whine and cheers

4:30 pm

Adjourn