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 |
The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from over a Million Rideshare Drivers
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| 9:50 am |
Data Analytics Supports Decentralized Innovation Communities
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| 10:30 am | Break | |||
| 10:50 am |
The Impact of Big Data on Firm Performance: An Empirical Investigation
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| 11:30 am |
Steering Incentives and Bundling Practices in the Telecommunications Industry
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| 12:10 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:10 pm |
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
Ballroom
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Unemployment and Online Labor
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2:00 pm
Skyline
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The Dark Side of Technological Progress? Impact of E-Commerce on Employees at Brick-and-Mortar Retailers
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2:30 pm
Ballroom
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Monopsony in Online Labor Markets
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2:30 pm
Skyline
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How E-Commerce Improves the Brick and Mortar Shopping Experience: Explaining the Post-2002 Slowdown
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3:00 pm
Ballroom
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Death by Pokémon GO: The Economic and Human Cost of Using Apps While Driving
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3:00 pm
Skyline
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Mark-ups in the Digital Era
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| 3:30 pm | Break | |||
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3:40 pm
Ballroom
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The Impact of Technology Procurement Regulations on Social Value and National Competitiveness
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3:40 pm
Skyline
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Concentration and Internet Advertising: The Rise of Buyer Power
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4:10 pm
Ballroom
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Platform Governance Matters: How Platform Gatekeeping Affects Knowledge Sharing among Complementors
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4:10 pm
Skyline
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The Effects of Search Advertising on Competitors: An Experiment Before a Merger
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4:40 pm
Ballroom
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More Women in Tech? Evidence from a Field Experiment Addressing Social Identity
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4:40 pm
Skyline
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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 |
The Marginal Congestion of a Taxi in New York City
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| 9:45 am |
Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Taxis and Uber
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| 10:30 am | Break | |||
| 10:50 am |
Engineering a Separating Equilibrium
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| 11:30 am |
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 |
The Effect of Internet on Political Mobilization
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| 2:50 pm | Break | |||
| 3:05 pm |
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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Can (S)he Code? Gender Bias in an Open Source Software Community |
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Proprietary Data, Competition, and Consumer Effort: An Application to Telematics in Auto Insurance |
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Competition, Contracts, and Creativity: Evidence from Novel Writing in a Platform Market |
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When Transparency Fails: Bias and Financial Incentives in Ridesharing Platforms |
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Platforms, Power, and Preferential Placement: Evidence from Spotify Playlists |
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How Important is Coordination for Perishable Commodity Markets? Evidence from Micro-Transactions in Agricultural Markets in Pakistan |
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To Hide or Not to Hide? An Empirical Study on the Effect of Firm Identity on the Dynamics of Crowdsourcing |
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Incentives Can Reduce Bias in Online Reviews |
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The Role of Technology in Mortgage Lending |
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Competition in Network Industries: Evidence from Mobile Telecommunications in Rwanda |
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Hacking Corporate Reputations |
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The Scale and Scope of Online Retail |
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Interacting User-Generated Content Technologies: How Q&As Affect Ratings and Reviews |
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| 5:15 pm | Reception | |||