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 |
Assessing the Gains from E-Commerce
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| 9:55 am |
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 |
Scalable Price Targeting
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| 11:45 am |
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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Labor Market Equilibration: Evidence from Uber
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Charles
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The Death of a Technical Skill: Evidence from the Demise of Adobe Flash
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2:15 pm
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The Value of Flexible Work: Evidence from Uber Drivers
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Charles
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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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The Impact of Digital Technologies on Skills: Do Labor Policies Matter?
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Charles
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Limiting the Market for Information as a Tool of Governance: Evidence from Russia
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4:15 pm
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The Ostrich in Us: Selective Attention to Financial Accounts, Income, Spending, and Liquidity
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Charles
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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 |
Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency
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| 9:45 am |
Economies before Scale: Lifecycle Dynamics and I.T. Productivity in Young Firms
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| 10:30 am | Break | |||
| 10:50 am |
Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence: Prediction versus Judgment
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| 11:35 am |
Labor Services At Will: Regulation of Dismissal and Investment in Industrial Robots
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| 12:20 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:30 pm |
Surge Pricing Solves the Wild Goose Chase
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| 2:15 pm |
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 | |||