Economics of Artificial Intelligence
Ajay K. Agrawal, Joshua S. Gans, Avi Goldfarb, and Catherine Tucker, Organizers
September 24-25, 2020
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Creative Destruction Lab
on Zoom.us
| Thursday, September 24 | ||||
| 9:50 am | Small Group Meeting #1 (Authors and Discussants) | |||
| 10:20 am | Small Group Meeting #2 (Authors and Discussants) | |||
| 10:45 am | Small Group Meeting #3 (Authors and Discussants) | |||
| 11:10 am | Break | |||
| 11:25 am | Large Group Discussion Introductions | |||
| 11:45 am |
Kate Bundorf, Duke University and NBER Maria Polyakova, Stanford University and NBER Ming Tai-Seale, University of California, San Diego How do Humans Interact with Algorithms? Experimental Evidence from Health Insurance
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| 12:15 pm |
Dirk Bergemann, Yale University Alessandro Bonatti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tan Gan, Yale University The Economics of Social Data
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| 12:45 pm | Break | |||
| 1:30 pm |
Sean Cao, University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business Wei Jiang, Emory University and NBER Baozhong Yang, Georgia State University Alan L. Zhang, Florida International University How to Talk When a Machine is Listening: Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI
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| 2:00 pm |
Ashesh Rambachan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago and NBER Sendhil Mullainathan, University of Chicago and NBER An Economic Approach to Regulating Algorithms
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| 2:30 pm |
Stephanie Assad, Queen's University Robert Clark, Queen's University Daniel Ershov, Toulouse School of Economics Lei Xu, Bank of Canada Algorithmic Pricing and Competition: Empirical Evidence from the German Retail Gasoline Market
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| 3:00 pm | Break | |||
| 3:15 pm |
Emma J. Pierson, Cornell University David M. Cutler, Harvard University and NBER Jure Leskovec, Stanford University Sendhil Mullainathan, University of Chicago and NBER Ziad Obermeyer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER An Algorithmic Approach to Explaining Why the Underserved Feel More Pain
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| 3:45 pm |
Martin Beraja, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER Noam Yuchtman, University of Oxford Data-Intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from AI Firms in China
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| 4:15 pm |
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Pascual Restrepo, Boston University and NBER Jonathon Hazell, London School of Economics AI and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies
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| 4:50 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Friday, September 25 | ||||
| 9:50 am | Small Group Meeting #1 (Authors and Discussants) | |||
| 10:20 am | Small Group Meeting #2 (Authors and Discussants) | |||
| 10:45 am | Small Group Meeting #3 (Authors and Discussants) | |||
| 11:10 am | Break | |||
| 11:25 am | Large Group Discussion Introductions | |||
| 11:45 am |
Katherine A. Stapleton, University of Oxford Michael Webb, Stanford University Automation, Trade and Multinational Activity: Micro Evidence from Spain
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| 12:15 pm |
Debraj Ray, New York University and NBER Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University and NBER Growth, Automation and the Long Run Share of Labor
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| 12:45 pm | Break | |||
| 1:30 pm |
Laura Blattner Scott T. Nelson, University of Chicago How Costly is Noise? Data and Disparities in the US Mortgage Market
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| 2:00 pm |
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Lindsey R. Raymond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Peter Bergman, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Hiring as Exploration
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| 2:30 pm |
Stephan T. Zheng, Salesforce Research Alexander Trott, Salesforce Research Sunil Srinivasa, Salesforce Research Nikhil Naik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Melvin Gruesbeck, Salesforce Research David Parkes, Harvard University Richard Socher The AI Economist: Improving Equality and Productivity with AI-Driven Tax Policies
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| 3:00 pm | Break | |||
| 3:15 pm |
Anton Korinek, University of Virginia and NBER Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University and NBER Steering Technological Progress
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| 3:45 pm |
Simona Abis, Columbia University Laura Veldkamp, Columbia University and NBER The Changing Economics of Knowledge Production
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| 4:20 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Friday, March 26 | ||||
| 1:00 pm |
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Lindsey R. Raymond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Peter Bergman, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Hiring as Exploration |
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