SI 2017 IT and Digitization

Erik Brynjolfsson, Shane Greenstein, Susan Athey, and Hal R. Varian, Organizers

July 20-21, 2017


Ballroom

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

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
Discussant: Yu Jeffrey Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology
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
Discussant: Benjamin Edelman, Microsoft
10:40 am
Break
11:00 am
Jean-Pierre H. Dubé, University of Chicago and NBER
Sanjong Misra, University of Chicago

Scalable Price Targeting
Discussant: Ben Shiller, Brandeis University
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
Discussant: Ashish Arora, Duke University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSIONS
1:30 pm
Ballroom
Jonathan Hall, Uber
John Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Dan Knoepfle, Uber

Labor Market Equilibration: Evidence from Uber
Discussant: Andrey Fradkin, Boston University
Charles
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
Discussant: James Bessen, Boston University
2:15 pm
Ballroom
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
Discussant: Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER
Charles
Kevin Boudreau, Northeastern University and NBER

Amateurs: Low-Cost Development, Market Participation & Innovation on Digital Platforms
Discussant: Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Ballroom
Rita Almeida, The World Bank
Carlos Corseuil, IPEA
Jennifer P. Poole, American University

The Impact of Digital Technologies on Skills: Do Labor Policies Matter?
Discussant: Pascual Restrepo, Boston University and NBER
Charles
Klaus Ackermann, Monash University

Limiting the Market for Information as a Tool of Governance: Evidence from Russia
Discussant: Michael E. Kummer, University of East Anglia
4:15 pm
Ballroom
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
Discussant: Michael Grubb, Boston College
Charles
Jesse C. Shore, Boston University
Jiye Baek, Boston University
Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Boston University

Network Structure and Patterns of Information Diversity on Twitter
Discussant: Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
PRIT Group Dinner
Hotel Marlowe, 2nd Floor (across the street from the Sonesta)
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
Discussant: Bo Cowgill, Columbia University
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
Discussant: Thomas N. Hubbard, Northwestern University and NBER
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
Discussant: Hal R. Varian, Google
11:35 am
Giorgio Presidente, University of Oxford

Labor Services At Will: Regulation of Dismissal and Investment in Industrial Robots
Discussant: Frank Levy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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
Discussant: Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
2:15 pm
Sinan Aral, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paramveer Dhillon, University of Michigan

Digital Paywall Design: Implications for Subscription Rates & Cross-channel Demand
Discussant: Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
3:10 pm
Posters:
Jing Gong, Brad N. Greenwood, Yiping Song
Uber Might Buy Me a Mercedes Benz: An Empirical Investigation of Sharing Platforms and Durable Goods Purchase
Graham Beattie, Ruben Durante, Brian G. Knight, Ananya Sen
Advertising Spending and Media Bias: Evidence from News Coverage of Car Safety Recalls
Carl Mela, Hana Choi
Online Marketplace Advertising
Wen Wen, Feng Zhu
How Do Complementors Respond to the Threat of Platform Owner Entry? Evidence from the Mobile App Market
Itai Ater, Oren Rigbi
The Effects of Mandatory Disclosure of Supermarket Prices
James D. Adams, Ameya Hate
Theorems, Lemmas, and Apps: the Making of Industrial Software
Tingting Nian, Yuyuan Zhu, Vijay Gurbaxani
The Impact Of The Sharing Economy On Household Finance
Shan Huang, Sinan Aral, Jeffrey(Yu) Hu, Erik brynjolfsson
Social Influence Across Products: A Large-Scale Randomized Experiment in Social Advertising
Maximilian von Ehrlich, Konstantin Buechel
Cities and the Structure of Social Interactions: Evidence from Mobile Phone Data
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
Maria Petrova, Ananya Sen, Pinar Yildirim
Social Media and Political Donations: New Technology and Incumbency Advantage in the United States
R. Scott Hiller, Scott Savage, Donald Waldman
Using Aggregate Market Data to Estimate Patent Damages
Thomas W. Frick, Rahul Telang
Pay For What You Get - Incentive Misalignments in Programmatic Advertising
Sam Ransbotham
Open Source Code and the Risk of Attacks based on Software Vulnerabilities
James Bessen
Automation and Jobs: When Technology Boosts Employment
4:00 pm
Wine & Cheese Reception
5:00 pm
Adjourn