SI 2018 IT and Digitization
Erik Brynjolfsson, Shane Greenstein, Susan Athey, and Hal R. Varian, Organizers
July 19-20, 2018
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Amazon, and the Tides Foundation
Ballroom
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
| Thursday, July 19 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 9:00 am | Introductions | |||
| 9:10 am |
Cody Cook, Yale University Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER Jonathan Hall, Uber John A. List, University of Chicago and NBER Paul Oyer, Stanford University and NBER The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from over a Million Rideshare Drivers
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| 9:50 am |
Lynn Wu, University of Pennsylvania Bowen Lou, University of Connecticut Lorin Hitt, University of Pennsylvania Data Analytics Supports Decentralized Innovation Communities
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| 10:30 am | Break | |||
| 10:50 am |
Patrick Bajari, Keystone Strategy Victor Chernozhukov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ali Hortaçsu, University of Chicago and NBER Junichi Suzuki, Amazon, Inc. The Impact of Big Data on Firm Performance: An Empirical Investigation
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| 11:30 am |
Brian McManus, University of North Carolina Aviv Nevo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Zachary Nolan, University of Delaware Jonathan W. Williams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Steering Incentives and Bundling Practices in the Telecommunications Industry
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| 12:10 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:10 pm |
Sofia Amaral-Garcia, European Commission - Joint Research Center/ Universite libre de Bruxe Mattia Nardotto, KU Leuven Carol Propper, Imperial College London Tommaso Valletti, Imperial College London Does the Internet improve health care? Evidence from the UK
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| 1:50 pm | Break | |||
| Parallel Sessions in Ballroom and Skyline Rooms | ||||
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2:00 pm
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Michael Kummer, University of East Anglia Ulrich Laitenberger, Telecom ParisTech and ZEW Olga Slivko, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Steffen VIete, ZEW Unemployment and Online Labor
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2:00 pm
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Sudheer Chava, Georgia Tech Alex Oettl, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER Manpreet Singh, Georgia Institute of Technology Linghang Zeng, Babson College The Dark Side of Technological Progress? Impact of E-Commerce on Employees at Brick-and-Mortar Retailers
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2:30 pm
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Arindrajit Dube, University of Massachusetts Amherst and NBER Jeff Jacobs, Columbia University Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER Siddharth Suri, Microsoft Research, NYC Monopsony in Online Labor Markets
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2:30 pm
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Rachel Soloveichik, Bureau of Economic Analysis How E-Commerce Improves the Brick and Mortar Shopping Experience: Explaining the Post-2002 Slowdown
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3:00 pm
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Mara Faccio, Purdue University and NBER John J. McConnell, Purdue University Death by Pokémon GO: The Economic and Human Cost of Using Apps While Driving
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3:00 pm
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Sara Calligaris, OECD Chiara Criscuolo, IFC Luca Marcolin, OECD Mark-ups in the Digital Era
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| 3:30 pm | Break | |||
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3:40 pm
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Frank Nagle, Harvard University The Impact of Technology Procurement Regulations on Social Value and National Competitiveness
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3:40 pm
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Francesco Decarolis, Bocconi University Gabriele Rovigatti, Bank of Italy Concentration and Internet Advertising: The Rise of Buyer Power
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4:10 pm
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Yuchen Zhang, Tulane University Jingjing Li, University of Virginia Tony W. Tong, University of Colorado at Boulder Platform Governance Matters: How Platform Gatekeeping Affects Knowledge Sharing among Complementors
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4:10 pm
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Joseph Golden, PerfectRec.com John Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER The Effects of Search Advertising on Competitors: An Experiment Before a Merger
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4:40 pm
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Maria Lucia Del Carpio, INSEAD Maria Guadalupe, INSEAD More Women in Tech? Evidence from a Field Experiment Addressing Social Identity
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4:40 pm
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Eduardo M. Azevedo, University of Pennsylvania Alex Deng, Microsoft Corporation Jose L. Montiel Olea, Cornell University Justin Rao, HomeAway Glen Weyl, Microsoft A/B Testing
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| 5:10 pm | Adjourn | |||
| 6:00 pm | Group Dinner - Hotel Marlowe (Serrano Ballroom) | |||
| Friday, July 20 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| First two papers joint with Industrial Organization | ||||
| 9:00 am |
Alejandro Molnar, The World Bank Daniel Mangrum, Federal Reserve Bank of New York The Marginal Congestion of a Taxi in New York City
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| 9:45 am |
Meng Liu, Washington University in St. Louis Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER Jason Dowlatabadi, Uber Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Taxis and Uber
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| 10:30 am | Break | |||
| 10:50 am |
John Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Ramesh Johari, Stanford University Engineering a Separating Equilibrium
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| 11:30 am |
Pascual Restrepo, Yale University and NBER Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Work
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| 12:15 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:10 pm |
Panel: The Economic Implications of Autonomous Vehicles Moderator: Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER Jonathan Hall, Uber Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University and NBER (background paper) John Leonard, Toyota Research Institute and MIT |
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| 1:55 pm | Break | |||
| 2:10 pm |
Klaus Ackermann, Monash University Simon D. Angus, Monash University Roland Hodler, University of St.Gallen Paul Raschky, Monash University The Effect of Internet on Political Mobilization
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| 2:50 pm | Break | |||
| 3:05 pm |
Tomomichi Amano, Harvard University Andrew Rhodes, Toulouse School of Economics Stephan Seiler, Imperial College London Large-scale Demand Estimation with Search Data
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| 3:45 pm | Break and Poster set-up | |||
| 4:00 pm | Poster Session (Ballroom Lobby) | |||
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Tingting Nian, University of California at Irvine Lei Xu, Bank of Canada Sanjeev Dewan, University of California Irvine Can (S)he Code? Gender Bias in an Open Source Software Community |
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Imke C. Reimers, Cornell University Ben Shiller, Brandeis University Proprietary Data, Competition, and Consumer Effort: An Application to Telematics in Auto Insurance |
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Yanhui Wu, University of Hong Kong Feng Zhu, Harvard University Competition, Contracts, and Creativity: Evidence from Novel Writing in a Platform Market |
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Jorge Mejia, Indiana University Chris Parker, American University When Transparency Fails: Bias and Financial Incentives in Ridesharing Platforms |
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Luis Aguiar, University of Zurich Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER Platforms, Power, and Preferential Placement: Evidence from Spotify Playlists |
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Saher Asad, George Washington University How Important is Coordination for Perishable Commodity Markets? Evidence from Micro-Transactions in Agricultural Markets in Pakistan |
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Ho Cheung Brian Lee, Penn State University To Hide or Not to Hide? An Empirical Study on the Effect of Firm Identity on the Dynamics of Crowdsourcing |
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Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Nadav Klein, University of Chicago Andrew Chamberlain, Glassdoor, Inc. Morgan Smart, Facebook Incentives Can Reduce Bias in Online Reviews |
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Andreas Fuster, EPFL and Swiss Finance Institute Matthew C. Plosser, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Philipp Schnabl, New York University and NBER James Vickery, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia The Role of Technology in Mortgage Lending |
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Daniel Bjorkegren, Columbia University Competition in Network Industries: Evidence from Mobile Telecommunications in Rwanda |
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Pat Akey, INSEAD Stefan Lewellen, Pennsylvania State University Inessa Liskovich, AirBnB Hacking Corporate Reputations |
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Alex W. Chernoff, Bank of Canada The Scale and Scope of Online Retail |
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Shrabastee Banerjee, Boston University Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Boston University Georgios Zervas, Boston University Interacting User-Generated Content Technologies: How Q&As Affect Ratings and Reviews |
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| 5:15 pm | Reception | |||