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

Assessing the Gains from E-Commerce
Discussant: Yu Jeffrey Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology
9:55 am

Algorithmic Bias? An Empirical Study into Apparent Gender-Based Discrimination in the Display of STEM Career Ads
Discussant: Benjamin Edelman, Microsoft Research
10:40 am
Break
11:00 am

Scalable Price Targeting
Discussant: Ben Shiller, Brandeis University
11:45 am

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

Labor Market Equilibration: Evidence from Uber
Discussant: Andrey Fradkin, Boston University
Charles

The Death of a Technical Skill: Evidence from the Demise of Adobe Flash
Discussant: James Bessen, Boston University
2:15 pm
Ballroom

The Value of Flexible Work: Evidence from Uber Drivers
Discussant: Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER
Charles

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

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

Limiting the Market for Information as a Tool of Governance: Evidence from Russia
Discussant: Michael E. Kummer, Nova School of Business & Economics (Nova SBE)
4:15 pm
Ballroom

The Ostrich in Us: Selective Attention to Financial Accounts, Income, Spending, and Liquidity
Discussant: Michael Grubb, Boston College
Charles

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

Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency
Discussant: Bo Cowgill, Columbia University
9:45 am

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

Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence: Prediction versus Judgment
Discussant: Hal R. Varian, Google
11:35 am

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

Surge Pricing Solves the Wild Goose Chase
Discussant: Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
2:15 pm

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