SI 2022 IT and Digitization

Erik Brynjolfsson, Avi Goldfarb, and Catherine Tucker, Organizers

July 21-22, 2022

Ballroom A

Format: 20 minutes speaker/10 minutes discussant/10 minutes Q & A

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, July 21
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Introductions
9:10 am
Guy Aridor, Northwestern University

Drivers of Digital Attention: Evidence from a Social Media Experiment
Discussant: Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
9:50 am
Luca Braghieri, Bocconi University
Roee Levy, Tel Aviv University
Alexey Makarin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Social Media and Mental Health
Discussant: Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER
10:30 am
Break
10:50 am
Francesco D’Acunto, Georgetown University
Alberto G. Rossi, Georgetown University
Pulak Ghosh, India Institute of Management Bangalore

How Costly are Cultural Biases?
Discussant: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Stanford University
11:30 am
Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER
Theresa Kuchler, New York University and NBER
David Snitkof, Ocrolus
Johannes Stroebel, New York University and NBER
Jun Wong, University of Chicago

Automation in Small Business Lending Can Reduce Racial Disparities: Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program
Discussant: Kalinda Ukanwa, University of Southern California
12:10 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Imke C. Reimers, Cornell University
Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER

The First Sale Doctrine and the Digital Challenge to Public Libraries
Discussant: Shane Greenstein, Harvard University and NBER
1:40 pm
Break
2:00 pm
Bradley Larsen, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Timothy J. Ryan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Steven H. Greene, North Carolina State University
Marc J. Hetherington, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Rahsaan D. Maxwell, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Steven Tadelis, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Counter-stereotypical Messaging and Partisan Cues: Moving the Needle on Vaccines in a Polarized U.S.
Discussant: Brett R. Gordon, Northwestern University
2:40 pm
Francesco Decarolis, Bocconi University
Muxin Li, University of Pennsylvania
Filippo Alber. Paternollo, Bocconi University

Competition and Defaults in Online Search
Discussant: Joshua S. Gans, University of Toronto and NBER
3:20 pm
Break
3:40 pm
Joonas V. Tuhkuri, Stockholm University
Aapo Stenhammar, Aalto University
Johannes Hirvonen, Aalto University

New Evidence on the Effect of Technology on Employment and Skill Demand
Discussant: Pascual Restrepo, Boston University and NBER
4:20 pm
Petri Böckerman, Labour Institute for Economic Research
Liisa T. Laine, University of Missouri
Mikko Nurminen, The Social Insurance Institution of Finland
Tanja Saxell, VATT Institute for Economic Research

Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing
Discussant: Leila Agha, Harvard University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Reception and Group Dinner in Longfellow Room
Friday, July 22
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Rafael Jimenez, Bocconi University

The Economics of Content Moderation: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Hate Speech on Twitter
Discussant: Pinar Yildirim, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
9:40 am
Ruben Enikolopov, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Michael Rochlitz, University of Bremen
Koen Schoors, Gent University
Nikita Zakharov, University of Freiburg

The Effect of Independent Online Media in an Autocracy
Discussant: Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics
10:20 am
Break
Two Joint Papers with the IO Group
10:40 am
Olivia R. Natan, University of California, Berkeley

Choice Frictions in Large Assortments
Discussant: Julie Holland Mortimer, University of Virginia and NBER
11:20 am
Germán Gutiérrez, University of Washington

The Welfare Consequences of Regulating Amazon
Discussant: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Stanford University
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:20 pm
Prithwiraj Choudhury, Harvard University
Tarun Khanna, Harvard University
Christos Makridis, Stanford University
Kyle L. Schirmann, Harvard Business School

Is Hybrid Work the Best of Both Worlds? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Discussant: Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
2:00 pm
Katharine G. Abraham, University of Maryland and NBER
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Claire Y. Hou, University of Maryland, College Park
Kristin Sandusky, US Census Bureau
James Spletzer, U.S. Census Bureau, retired

Driving the Gig Economy
Discussant: Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University and NBER
2:40 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Lightning Round Papers (5 minutes per paper)
Flavio Calvino, OECD
Luca Fontanelli, University of Brescia

A Portrait of AI Adopters: Evidence from France
Michail Batikas, Nova School of Business and Economics
Yi Liu, Rennes School of Business
Milan Miric, University of Southern California
Hakan Ozalp, University of Amsterdam

Impact of Privacy Regulation on Experimentation and Innovation
Andrey Fradkin, Boston University
David Holtz, University of California, Berkeley

Do Incentives to Review Help the Market? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Airbnb
Gaurav Kankanhalli, University of Pittsburgh
Preetesh Kantak, Indiana University
Alan Kwan, Hong Kong University

Internet Search Activity and Firms' Intangible Capital Acquisition (slides)
Benjamin T. Leyden, Cornell University

Platform Design and Innovation Incentives: Evidence from the Product Ratings System on Apple's App Store
Alp Sungu, University of Pennsylvania
Kamalini Ramdas, London Business School

Capping Mobile Data Access Creates Value for Bottom-of-the-Pyramid Consumers – Experimental Evidence from a Mumbai Settlement
Meizi Zhou, Boston University
Xuelin Li, Columbia University
Gordon Burtch, Boston University

Healthcare across Boundaries: Urban-Rural Differences in the Financial and Healthcare Consequences of Telehealth Adoption (slides)
Sandeep Bhupatiraju, World Bank
Daniel Chen, Toulouse School of Economics
Ritesh Das, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shareen Joshi, Georgetown University
Peter Neis, CERDI

Impact of free legal search on rule of law: Evidence from Indian Kanoon
Jesper Akesson, The Behavioralist
Robert W. Hahn, University of Oxford
Robert D. Metcalfe, Columbia University and NBER
Manuel Monti-Nussbaum, The Behavioralist

The Impact of Fake Reviews on Demand and Welfare
Mingyi Hua, Ivey Business School, Western University

Decrypting the Digital Economy: The Digital Alpha and Its Origins
Sai Chand Chintala, Cornell University
Jura Liaukonyte, Cornell University
Nathan Yang, Cornell University

Browsing the Aisles or Browsing the App? How Online Grocery Shopping is Changing What We Buy
Yanyou Chen, University of Toronto
Yao Luo, University of Toronto
Zhe Yuan, Zhejiang University

Driving the Drivers: Algorithmic Wage-Setting in Ride-Hailing
Xiang Hui, Washington University in St. Louis
Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland and NBER
Meng Liu, Washington University in St. Louis

Designing Quality Certificates: Insights from eBay
4:10 pm
Adjourn and Reception in Ballroom Foyer