SI 2023 Digital Economics and Artificial Intelligence
Organized by Erik Brynjolfsson, Avi Goldfarb, and Catherine Tucker
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Microsoft Github, and the Tides Foundation
July 19-21, 2023
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, July 19
Afternoon joint with Entrepreneurship and Innovation Groups
1:30 pm

The Welfare Effects of Gender-Inclusive Intellectual Property Creation: Evidence from Books

Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER

Discussant:
Rembrand M. Koning, Harvard University
2:30 pm

From Predictive Algorithms to Automatic Generation of Anomalies

Sendhil Mullainathan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Ashesh Rambachan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussant:
Colin Camerer, California Institute of Technology
3:10 pm
Break
3:30 pm

Distorted Innovation: Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?

Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Discussant:
Manuel Trajtenberg, Tel Aviv University and NBER
4:20 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, July 20
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:50 am
Introductions
9:00 am

Exporting the Surveillance State via Trade in AI

Martin Beraja, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Andrew Kao, Harvard University
David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER
Noam Yuchtman, University of Oxford

Discussant:
Alexey Makarin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9:40 am

Mobile Money, Interoperability and Financial Inclusion

Nicola Limodio, Bocconi University
Markus K. Brunnermeier, Princeton University and NBER
Lorenzo Spadavecchia, Bocconi University

Discussant:
Tania Babina, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am

Algorithmic Bilinguals

Prasanna Tambe, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant:
Anna M. Salomons, Tilburg University
11:20 am

Combining Human Expertise with Artificial Intelligence: Experimental Evidence from Radiology

Nikhil Agarwal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Alex Moehring, Purdue University
Pranav Rajpurkar, Harvard University
Tobias Salz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Discussant:
Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Lightning Round Papers (5 minutes per paper)

Experimental Evidence on the Productivity Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence

Shakked Noy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Whitney W. Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Algorithmic Writing Assistance on Jobseekers’ Resumes Increases Hires

Emma van Inwegen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Zanele T. Munyikwa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John J. Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Artificial Intelligence and Debt Collection: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Yijun Zhou, Florida State University

Artificial Intelligence and Information Production in Selection Markets: Experimental Evidence from Insurance Intermediation

Xing Liu, Tsinghua University

Price Controls in a Multi-Sided Market

Michael Sullivan, University of British Columbia

The Role of Advertisers and Platforms in Monetizing Misinformation: Descriptive and Experimental Evidence

Wajeeha Ahmad, Stanford University
Ananya Sen, Carnegie Mellon University
Chuck Eesley, Stanford University
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER

The Spread of (Mis)information: A Social Media Experiment in Pakistan

Sarojini Hirshleifer, University of California, Riverside
Mustafa Naseem, University of Michigan
Agha Ali Raza, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Arman B. Rezaee, University of California, Davis

Algorithmic Policing

Ranae Jabri, The University of Sydney

Choice Architecture, Privacy Valuations, and Selection Bias in Consumer Data

Tesary Lin, Boston University
Avner Strulov-Shlain, University of Chicago
1:50 pm
Break
2:10 pm

A Model of the Data Economy

Maryam Farboodi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Laura Veldkamp, Columbia University and NBER

Discussant:
Anastassia Fedyk, University of California, Berkeley
2:50 pm

Estimating the Value of Offsite Data to Advertisers on Meta

Nils C. Wernerfelt, Northwestern University
Anna Tuchman, Northwestern University
Bradley Shapiro, University of Chicago and NBER
Robert Moakler, Meta

Discussant:
Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University and NBER
3:30 pm
Break
3:50 pm

Platform Search Design and Market Power

Tai Lam, University of California, Los Angeles

Discussant:
Olivia R. Natan, University of California, Berkeley
4:30 pm

Anonymity and Identity Online: An Empirical Study

Florian Ederer, Boston University and NBER
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Yale University and NBER
Kyle Jensen, Yale University
5:10 pm
Adjourn
6:30 PM
Group Dinner - Royal Sonesta (Parkview Room)
Friday, July 21
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Industrial Organization
8:30 am

Advertising as Coordination: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Apostolos Filippas, Fordham University
John J. Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Diego U. Urraca, Independent

Discussant:
Sarah Moshary, University of California, Berkeley
9:30 am

Pricing and Efficiency in a Decentralized Ride-Hailing Platform

Renata Gaineddenova, Harvard University

Discussant:
Nicholas Buchholz, Princeton University
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am

Data, Privacy Laws and Firm Production: Evidence from GDPR

Mert Demirer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Diego J. Jiménez Hernández, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Dean Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sida Peng, Microsoft Research

Discussant:
Garrett Johnson, Boston University
12:00 pm
Lunch and Adjourn