SI 2020 IT and Digitization

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

July 16-17, 2020

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, July 16
11:00 am
Imke C. Reimers, Cornell University
Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER

Digitization and Pre-Purchase Information: The Causal and Welfare Impacts of Reviews and Crowd Ratings
Discussant: Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University and NBER
11:40 am
Hyunjin Kim, INSEAD

The Value of Competitor Information: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Discussant: Alan T. Sorensen, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER (slides)
12:20 pm
Panel: Covid and Digitization
Moderator: Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
Panelists:
John Friedman, Brown University and NBER
Joshua Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
Lisa Kahn, University of Rochester and NBER
1:10 pm
Session on New Data
Nikolas Zolas, U.S. Department of State
Zachary Kroff, U.S. Census Bureau
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER
Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto
David N. Beede, U.S. Census Bureau
Cathy Buffington, U.S. Census Bureau
Nathan Goldschlag, U.S. Census Bureau
Lucia Foster, U.S. Census Bureau
Emin Dinlersoz, U.S. Census Bureau

Advanced Technologies Adoption and Use by U.S. Firms: Evidence from the Annual Business Survey (slides)
Yash Sherry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Neil Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Measuring the Pace of Innovation: Evidence from Algorithms
Joseba Martinez, London Business School
Johan Moen-Vorum, London Business School

Measuring Automation in Aggregate Data (slides)
2:00 pm
Break
Parallel Sessions, 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
Session A - ICT and Labor
Session B: - Digital Media and Policy
2:15 pm
Session A
Shelley Xin Li, University of Southern California
Frank Nagle, Harvard University
Aner Zhou, University of Southern California

The Role of Social Capital in the U.S. Economy: Evidence from Employee-Level Professional Connections from LinkedIn
Discussant: Prasanna Tambe, University of Pennsylvania
2:15 pm
Session B
Klaus Ackermann, Monash University
Wendy A. Bradley, Southern Methodist University
Jack F. Cameron, Monash University

The Pirate Bay & Box Office Buccaneers (slides)
Discussant: Michael D. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
2:45 pm
Session A
James Bessen, Boston University
Maarten Goos, Utrecht University
Anna M. Salomons, Utrecht University
Wiljan van den Berge, Utrecht University

Automatic Reaction: What Happens to Workers at Firms that Automate?
Discussant: Robert Seamans, New York University
2:45 pm
Session B
Seth G. Benzell, Chapman University
Avinash Collis, Carnegie Mellon University

Multi-Sided Platform Strategy, Taxation, and Regulation: A Quantitative Model and Application to Facebook
Discussant: Andrey Fradkin, Boston University
3:15 pm
Session A
Timothy J. DeStefano, Georgetown University
Richard Kneller, University of Nottingham
Jonathan D. Timmis, World Bank

Squeezing Space: ICT and Capital-Biased Technical Change (slides)
Discussant: Chris Forman, Cornell University
3:15 pm
Session B
Suman Basuroy, University of Texas
Yongseok Kim, University of Texas at San Antonio
Davide Proserpio, University of Southern California

Estimating the Impact of Airbnb on the Local Economy: Evidence from the Restaurant Industry
Discussant: Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER
3:45 pm
Digitization Salon - Community whine and cheers
4:45 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 17
11:00 am
Roee Levy, Tel Aviv University

Social Media, News Consumption, and Polarization: Evidence from a Field Experiment (slides)
Discussant: Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER
11:40 am
Jose Galdon-Sanchez, Universidad Publica de Navarra
Ricard Gil, IESE Business School
Guillermo Uriz-Uharte, University College London

The Value of Information in Competitive Markets: The Impact of Big Data on Small and Medium Enterprises (slides)
Discussant: Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto (slides)
Privacy Policy
12:20 pm
Garrett Johnson, Boston University
Scott Shriver, University of Colorado at Boulder
Samuel Goldberg, Stanford University

Privacy & Market Concentration: Intended & Unintended Consequences of the GDPR (slides)
12:50 pm
Christian W. Peukert, HEC Lausanne
Stefan Bechtold, ETH Zurich
Michail Batikas, Nova School of Business and Economics
Tobias Kretschmer, LMU Munich

European Privacy Law and Global Markets for Data
Discussant: Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER
1:20 pm
The Value of Privacy...7 minutes each followed by Q&A
Moderator: Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Tesary Lin, Boston University

Valuing Intrinsic and Instrumental Preferences for Privacy (slides)
Jeffrey Prince, Indiana University
Scott Wallsten, Technology Policy Institute

How Much is Privacy Worth Around the World and Across Platforms?
Huan Tang, University of Pennsylvania

The Value of Privacy: Evidence from Online Borrowers
2:20 pm
Lightning Talks…4 minutes each
Juan Camilo Castillo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Who Benefits from Surge Pricing?
Sharique Hasan, Duke University
Rembrand M. Koning, Harvard University
Ines Black, Duke University

Hunting for Talent: Firm-Driven Labor Market Search in America
Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas at Austin
Pablo I. Varas, University of Texas at Austin

Quality Competition at the Competitive Margin in US Residential Broadband Markets (slides)
Sher Afghan Asad, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Ritwik Banerjee, IIM Bangalore
Joydeep Bhattacharya, Iowa State University

Do Workers Discriminate against their Outgroup Employers? Evidence from the Gig Economy
Xinlong Li, Nanyang Technological University
Andrew Ching, Johns Hopkins University

How Does A Firm Adapt in A Changing World? The Case of Prosper Marketplace (slides)
Michael Luca, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Abhishek Nagaraj, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Gauri Subramani, Lehigh University

Getting On The Map: The Impact of Online Listings on Business Performance
Kohei Kawaguchi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Toshifumi Kuroda, Tokyo Keizai University
Susumu Sato, Hitotsubashi University

Merger Analysis in the App Economy: An Empirical Model of Ad-Sponsored Media (slides)
Katherine A. Harris-Lagoudakis, Iowa State University

The Effect of Online Shopping on the Healthfulness of Grocery Purchases (slides)
Ananya Sen, Carnegie Mellon University
Joerg Claussen, University of Munich
Pedro Ferreira, Carnegie Mellon University

Local News, UGC and Professionals: Evidence from Citizen Journalism
Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
Jessica Y. Fong, University of Michigan
Andrey Fradkin, Boston University

Dog Eat Dog: Measuring Returns to Scale Using a Digital Platform Merger
Stephanie Assad, Queen's University
Robert Clark, Queen's University
Daniel Ershov, Toulouse School of Economics
Lei Xu, Bank of Canada

Algorithmic Pricing and Competition: Empirical Evidence from the German Retail Gasoline Market
Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Lindsey R. Raymond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter Bergman, University of Texas at Austin and NBER

Hiring as Exploration (slides)
Hanna Halaburda, New York University
Yannis Bakos, New York University

Smart Contracts, IoT Sensors, and Efficiency: Automated Execution vs. Better Information
3:15 pm
Adjourn
3:30 pm
Digitization Salon - Community whine and cheers
4:30 pm
Adjourn