Economics of Digitization
Joel Waldfogel, Michael Luca, and Shane Greenstein, Organizers
March 6, 2020
Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Oberndorf Room, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA
| Thursday, March 5 | ||||
| 6:00 pm | Group Dinner - MacArthur Park Restaurant, 27 University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA | |||
| Friday, March 6 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast | |||
| 9:00 am | Introductions | |||
| 9:10 am |
M. Keith Chen, University of California at Los Angeles Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University and NBER Peter E. Rossi, University of California at Los Angeles Lindsey Currier, Harvard University Suppliers and Demanders of Flexibility: the Demographics of Gig Work
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Milan Miric, University of Southern California Pai-Ling Yin, Amazon Population-Level Evidence of the Gender Gap in Technology Entrepreneurship
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| 10:40 am | Break | |||
| 11:10 am |
Joerg Claussen, University of Munich Christian W. Peukert, HEC Lausanne Ananya Sen, Carnegie Mellon University The Editor vs. the Algorithm: Returns to Data and Externalities in Online News
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Zach Y. Brown, University of Michigan and NBER Alexander MacKay, University of Virginia Competition in Pricing Algorithms
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| 12:40 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:00 pm |
Panel: Information, Misinformation, and Censorship: How the Internet is Reshaping Democratic Beliefs and Outcomes Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER Matt Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER Pinar Yildirim, University of Pennsylvania David Yang, Harvard University |
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| 2:00 pm | Break | |||
| 2:15 pm |
Leif Brandes, University of Lucerne David Godes, University of Maryland Dina Mayzlin, University of Southern California What Drives Extremity Bias in Online Reviews? Theory and Experimental Evidence
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Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft Research Matthew Jackson, Stanford University Glen Weyl, Microsoft Verifying Identity as a Social Intersection
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| 3:45 pm | Break | |||
| 4:00 pm |
Mohammed Alyakoob, University of Southern California Mohammad S. Rahman, Purdue University Shared Prosperity (or Lack Thereof) in the Sharing Economy
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| 4:45 pm | Adjourn | |||