SI 2022 IT and Digitization
Erik Brynjolfsson, Avi Goldfarb, and Catherine Tucker, Organizers
July 21-22, 2022
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Amazon, and the Tides Foundation
Ballroom A
Format: 20 minutes speaker/10 minutes discussant/10 minutes Q & A
| 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
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| 9:50 am |
Luca Braghieri, Bocconi University Roee Levy, Tel Aviv University Alexey Makarin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Social Media and Mental Health
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| 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?
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 2:40 pm |
Francesco Decarolis, Bocconi University Muxin Li, University of Pennsylvania Filippo Alber. Paternollo, Columbia University Competition and Defaults in Online Search
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 11:20 am |
Germán Gutiérrez, University of Washington The Welfare Consequences of Regulating Amazon
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| 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
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| 2:00 pm |
Katharine G. Abraham, University of Maryland and NBER John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER Claire Y. Hou, Congressional Budget Office Kristin Sandusky, US Census Bureau James Spletzer, U.S. Census Bureau, retired Driving the Gig Economy
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| 2:40 pm | Break | |||
| 3:00 pm | Lightning Round Papers (5 minutes per paper) | |||
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Flavio Calvino, OECD Luca Fontanelli, University of Brescia A Portrait of AI Adopters: Evidence from France |
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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 |
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Andrey Fradkin, Boston University David Holtz, University of California, Berkeley Do Incentives to Review Help the Market? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Airbnb |
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Gaurav Kankanhalli, University of Pittsburgh Preetesh Kantak, Indiana University Alan Kwan, Hong Kong University Internet Search Activity and Firms' Intangible Capital Acquisition |
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Benjamin T. Leyden, Cornell University Platform Design and Innovation Incentives: Evidence from the Product Ratings System on Apple's App Store |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Mingyi Hua, Ivey Business School, Western University Decrypting the Digital Economy: The Digital Alpha and Its Origins |
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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 |
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Yanyou Chen, University of Toronto Yao Luo, University of Toronto Zhe Yuan, Zhejiang University Driving the Drivers: Algorithmic Wage-Setting in Ride-Hailing |
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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 |
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| 4:10 pm | Adjourn and Reception in Ballroom Foyer | |||