Digitization Tutorial
Martin Beraja, Avi Goldfarb, and Catherine Tucker, Organizers
March 1-2, 2023
Westin San Francisco Airport, Bayshore Ballroom, 1 Old Bayshore Highway, Millbrae, CA 94030
| Wednesday, March 1 | ||
| 1:00 pm |
Introduction to Digital Economics: Avi Goldfarb and Catherine Tucker (background reading) |
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| 2:00 pm | Break | |
| 2:15 pm |
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER (background reading 1) (background reading 2) (background reading 3) (background reading 4) |
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| 3:45 pm | Break | |
| 4:00 pm |
Pinar Yildirim, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Implications of Social Media as a New Technology (background reading 1) (background reading 2) (background reading 3) (background reading 4) |
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| 5:30 pm | Adjourn | |
| 6:00 pm | Group Dinner - Aspen Room | |
| Thursday, March 2 | ||
| 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast - Aspen Room | |
| 9:00 am |
Martin Beraja, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Artificial Intelligence and Governments: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (slides) (background reading 1) (background reading 2) (background reading 3) (background reading 4) |
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| 10:30 am | Break | |
| 10:45 am |
Charles Jones, Stanford University and NBER A.I., Data, and Economic Growth (slides) (slides-2) (background reading 1) (background reading 2) (background reading 3) |
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| 12:15 pm | Lunch - Aspen Room | |
| 1:00 pm |
Pascual Restrepo, Boston University and NBER Understanding the Effects of Technologies using the Task Framework (slides) (background reading 1) (background reading 2) (background reading 3) |
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |
| 3:00 pm | Group activity | |
| 4:30 pm | Wrap up and the market for digital economics | |
| 5:15 pm | Adjourn | |
| 6:00 pm | Group Dinner - Aspen Room | |