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SI 2024 Digital Economics and Artificial Intelligence
Organized by Erik Brynjolfsson, Avi Goldfarb, and Catherine Tucker Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Microsoft Github July 17-19, 2024 Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA Format: 20 minutes speaker/10 minutes discussant/10 minutes Q & A |
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Session on White Collar Work
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| Wednesday, July 17 | |
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Afternoon Joint Session with Entrepreneurship and Innovation Groups
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| 1:30 pm |
Finding Diamonds in the Rough: Data-Driven Opportunities and Pharmaceutical Innovation
Discussant:
Ryan R. Hill, Northwestern University |
| 2:10 PM |
Automated Social Science: Language Models as Scientist and Subjects
Discussant:
Florenta Teodoridis, University of Southern California |
| 2:50 pm |
Break
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| 3:10 PM |
Quantifying the Impact of AI on Productivity and Labor Demand: Evidence from U.S. Census Microdata
Discussant:
Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto |
| 3:50 pm |
Adjourn
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| Thursday, July 18 | |
| 8:30 am |
Coffee and Pastries
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| 9:00 am |
Introductions
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| 9:10 am |
Sources of Market Power in Web Search: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Discussant:
Sarah Moshary, University of California, Berkeley |
| 9:50 am |
Platform Information Provision and Consumer Search: A Field Experiment
Discussant:
Elisabeth Honka, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 10:30 am |
Break
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| 11:00 am |
Copyright Policy Options for Generative Artificial Intelligence
Discussant:
Abhishek Nagaraj, University of California, Berkeley and NBER |
| 11:40 am |
Less Than Meets The Eye: Simultaneous Experiments As A Source Of Algorithmic Seeming Collusion
Discussant:
John Asker, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER |
| 12:20 pm |
Lunch
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| 1:30 pm |
The Digital Welfare of Nations: New Measures of Welfare Gains and Inequality
Discussant:
Shane Greenstein, Harvard University and NBER |
| 2:10 pm |
Break
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| 2:40 pm |
Lightning Round
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| 2:40 pm |
Price Competition Under Information (Dis)Advantage |
| 2:50 pm |
Information Disclosure via Platform Endorsement in Online Healthcare |
| 3:00 pm |
Can Platform Accountability Reduce Sex Trafficking? Evidence from the Price Effect |
| 3:10 pm |
Data Science for Justice: Evidence from a Nationwide Randomized Experiment in Kenya |
| 3:20 pm |
Open Banking and Customer Data Sharing: Implications for FinTech Borrowers |
| 3:30 pm |
COPPAcalypse? The Youtube Settlement's Impact on Kids Content |
| 3:40 pm |
Consumer Surveillance and Financial Fraud |
| 3:50 pm |
Strategic Behavior and AI Training Data |
| 4:00 pm |
Adjourn
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| 6:30 pm |
Group Dinner at Royal Sonesta in Skyline ABC
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| Friday, July 19 | |
| 8:30 am |
Coffee and Pastries
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Session on White Collar Work
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| 9:00 am |
Generative AI and Distributed Work: Evidence from Open Source Software
Discussant:
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER |
| 9:40 am |
The Short-Term Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Employment: Evidence from an Online Labor Market
Discussant:
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER |
| 10:20 am |
Break
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| 10:30 am |
The Market Effects of Algorithms |
| 10:40 am |
Balancing User Privacy and Personalization |
| 10:50 am |
Optimal Comprehensible Targeting |
| 11:00 am |
Rising Stars (15 minutes each plus 5 Q&A)
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| 12:00 pm |
Lunch
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Afternoon Joint Session with Industrial Organization
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| 1:30 pm |
Decision-Making with Machine Prediction: Evidence from Predictive Maintenance in Trucking
Discussant:
Daniel Björkegren, Columbia University |
| 2:10 pm |
Break
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| 2:25 pm |
When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media
Discussant:
Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER |
| 3:05 pm |
Break
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| 3:20 pm |
Trust at Scale: The Economic Limits of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains
Discussant:
Hanna Halaburda, New York University |
| 4:00 pm |
Adjourn
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