SI 2017 IT and Digitization
Erik Brynjolfsson, Shane Greenstein, Susan Athey, and Hal R. Varian, Organizers
July 20-21, 2017
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Ballroom
Royal Sonesta Hotel
| Thursday, July 20 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| Presenter 25 minutes; Discussant 10 minutes; 10 minutes Q & A | ||||
| 9:00 am | Introduction | |||
| 9:10 am |
Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER Ben Klopack, Texas A&M University Jonathan D. Levin, Stanford University and NBER Wayne Best, Visa, Inc. Assessing the Gains from E-Commerce
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| 9:55 am |
Anja Lambrecht, London Business School Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Algorithmic Bias? An Empirical Study into Apparent Gender-Based Discrimination in the Display of STEM Career Ads
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| 10:40 am | Break | |||
| 11:00 am |
Jean-Pierre H. Dubé, University of Chicago and NBER Sanjong Misra, University of Chicago Scalable Price Targeting
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| 11:45 am |
Gaurav Khanna, University of California, San Diego Nicolas Morales, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond The IT Boom and Other Unintended Consequences of Chasing the American Dream
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |||
| AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSIONS | ||||
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1:30 pm
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Jonathan Hall, Uber John Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Dan Knoepfle, Uber Labor Market Equilibration: Evidence from Uber
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John Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Prasanna Tambe, University of Pennsylvania The Death of a Technical Skill: Evidence from the Demise of Adobe Flash
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2:15 pm
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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 Emily Oehlsen, University of Oxford The Value of Flexible Work: Evidence from Uber Drivers
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Kevin Boudreau, Northeastern University and NBER Amateurs: Low-Cost Development, Market Participation & Innovation on Digital Platforms
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| 3:00 pm | Break | |||
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3:30 pm
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Rita Almeida, The World Bank Carlos Corseuil, IPEA Jennifer P. Poole, American University The Impact of Digital Technologies on Skills: Do Labor Policies Matter?
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Klaus Ackermann, Monash University Limiting the Market for Information as a Tool of Governance: Evidence from Russia
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4:15 pm
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Michaela Pagel, Washington University in St Louis and NBER Arna Olafsson, Copenhagen Business School The Ostrich in Us: Selective Attention to Financial Accounts, Income, Spending, and Liquidity
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Jesse C. Shore, Boston University Jiye Baek, Boston University Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Boston University Network Structure and Patterns of Information Diversity on Twitter
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| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| 6:00 pm |
PRIT Group Dinner Hotel Marlowe, 2nd Floor (across the street from the Sonesta) |
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| Friday, July 21 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 9:00 am |
Zoe B. Cullen, Harvard University and NBER Bobak Pakzad-Hurson, Brown University Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency
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| 9:45 am |
Wang Jin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto Economies before Scale: Lifecycle Dynamics and I.T. Productivity in Young Firms
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| 10:30 am | Break | |||
| 10:50 am |
Ajay K. Agrawal, University of Toronto and NBER Joshua Gans, University of Toronto and NBER Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence: Prediction versus Judgment
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| 11:35 am |
Giorgio Presidente, University of Oxford Labor Services At Will: Regulation of Dismissal and Investment in Industrial Robots
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| 12:20 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:30 pm |
Juan Camilo Castillo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Glen Weyl, Microsoft Dan Knoepfle, Uber Surge Pricing Solves the Wild Goose Chase
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| 2:15 pm |
Sinan Aral, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Paramveer Dhillon, University of Michigan Digital Paywall Design: Implications for Subscription Rates & Cross-channel Demand
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| 3:10 pm | Posters: | |||
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Jing Gong, Brad N. Greenwood, Yiping Song Uber Might Buy Me a Mercedes Benz: An Empirical Investigation of Sharing Platforms and Durable Goods Purchase |
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Graham Beattie, Ruben Durante, Brian G. Knight, Ananya Sen Advertising Spending and Media Bias: Evidence from News Coverage of Car Safety Recalls |
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Carl Mela, Hana Choi Online Marketplace Advertising |
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Wen Wen, Feng Zhu How Do Complementors Respond to the Threat of Platform Owner Entry? Evidence from the Mobile App Market |
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Itai Ater, Oren Rigbi The Effects of Mandatory Disclosure of Supermarket Prices |
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James D. Adams, Ameya Hate Theorems, Lemmas, and Apps: the Making of Industrial Software |
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Tingting Nian, Yuyuan Zhu, Vijay Gurbaxani The Impact Of The Sharing Economy On Household Finance |
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Shan Huang, Sinan Aral, Jeffrey(Yu) Hu, Erik brynjolfsson Social Influence Across Products: A Large-Scale Randomized Experiment in Social Advertising |
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Maximilian von Ehrlich, Konstantin Buechel Cities and the Structure of Social Interactions: Evidence from Mobile Phone Data |
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Navdeep S. Sahni, Sridhar Narayanan, Kirthi Kalyanam An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Retargeted Advertising â€â€œ thee Role of Frequency and Timing |
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Maria Petrova, Ananya Sen, Pinar Yildirim Social Media and Political Donations: New Technology and Incumbency Advantage in the United States |
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R. Scott Hiller, Scott Savage, Donald Waldman Using Aggregate Market Data to Estimate Patent Damages |
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Thomas W. Frick, Rahul Telang Pay For What You Get - Incentive Misalignments in Programmatic Advertising |
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Sam Ransbotham Open Source Code and the Risk of Attacks based on Software Vulnerabilities |
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James Bessen Automation and Jobs: When Technology Boosts Employment |
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| 4:00 pm | Wine & Cheese Reception | |||
| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||