SI 2023 Digital Economics and Artificial Intelligence

Erik Brynjolfsson, Avi Goldfarb, and Catherine Tucker, Organizers

July 19-21, 2023

Ballroom A

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 19
Afternoon joint with Entrepreneurship and Innovation Groups
1:30 pm
Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota and NBER

The Welfare Effects of Gender-Inclusive Intellectual Property Creation: Evidence from Books
Discussant: Rembrand M. Koning, Harvard University
2:30 pm
Sendhil Mullainathan, University of Chicago and NBER
Ashesh Rambachan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

From Predictive Algorithms to Automatic Generation of Anomalies
Discussant: Colin Camerer, California Institute of Technology
3:10 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Distorted Innovation: Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?
Discussant: Manuel Trajtenberg, Tel Aviv University and NBER
4:20 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, July 20
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:50 am
Introductions
9:00 am
Martin Beraja, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Andrew Kao, Harvard University
David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER
Noam Yuchtman, University of Oxford

Exporting the Surveillance State via Trade in AI
Discussant: Alexey Makarin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9:40 am
Nicola Limodio, Bocconi University
Markus K. Brunnermeier, Princeton University and NBER
Lorenzo Spadavecchia, Bocconi University

Mobile Money, Interoperability and Financial Inclusion
Discussant: Tania Babina, Columbia University and NBER
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am
Prasanna Tambe, University of Pennsylvania

Algorithmic Bilinguals
Discussant: Anna M. Salomons, Utrecht University
11:20 am
Nikhil Agarwal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Alex Moehring, Purdue University
Pranav Rajpurkar, Harvard University
Tobias Salz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Combining Human Expertise with Artificial Intelligence: Experimental Evidence from Radiology
Discussant: Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Lightning Round Papers (5 minutes per paper)
Shakked Noy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Whitney W. Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Experimental Evidence on the Productivity Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Emma van Inwegen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Zanele T. Munyikwa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John J. Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Algorithmic Writing Assistance on Jobseekers’ Resumes Increases Hires
Yijun Zhou, Baruch College

Artificial Intelligence and Debt Collection: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Xing Liu, Tsinghua University

Artificial Intelligence and Information Production in Selection Markets: Experimental Evidence from Insurance Intermediation
Michael Sullivan, University of Western Ontario

Price Controls in a Multi-Sided Market
Wajeeha Ahmad, Stanford University
Ananya Sen, Carnegie Mellon University
Chuck Eesley, Stanford University
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER

The Role of Advertisers and Platforms in Monetizing Misinformation: Descriptive and Experimental Evidence
Sarojini Hirshleifer, University of California, Riverside
Mustafa Naseem, University of Michigan
Agha Ali Raza, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Arman B. Rezaee, University of California, Davis

The Spread of (Mis)information: A Social Media Experiment in Pakistan
Ranae Jabri, University of Sydney

Algorithmic Policing
Tesary Lin, Boston University
Avner Strulov-Shlain, University of Chicago

Choice Architecture, Privacy Valuations, and Selection Bias in Consumer Data
1:50 pm
Break
2:10 pm
Maryam Farboodi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Laura Veldkamp, Columbia University and NBER

A Model of the Data Economy
Discussant: Anastassia Fedyk, University of California at Berkeley
2:50 pm
Nils C. Wernerfelt, Northwestern University
Anna Tuchman, Northwestern University
Bradley Shapiro, University of Chicago and NBER
Robert Moakler, Meta

Estimating the Value of Offsite Data to Advertisers on Meta
Discussant: Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University and NBER
3:30 pm
Break
3:50 pm
Tai Lam, University of California, Los Angeles

Platform Search Design and Market Power
Discussant: Olivia R. Natan, University of California, Berkeley
4:30 pm
Florian Ederer, Boston University and NBER
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Yale University and NBER
Kyle Jensen, Yale University

Anonymity and Identity Online: An Empirical Study
5:10 pm
Adjourn
6:30 PM
Group Dinner - Royal Sonesta (Parkview Room)
Friday, July 21
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Industrial Organization
8:30 am
Apostolos Filippas, Fordham University
John J. Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Diego U. Urraca, Independent

Advertising as Coordination: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Discussant: Sarah Moshary, University of California, Berkeley
9:30 am
Renata Gaineddenova, Harvard University

Pricing and Efficiency in a Decentralized Ride-Hailing Platform
Discussant: Nicholas Buchholz, Princeton University
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am
Mert Demirer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Diego J. Jiménez Hernández, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Dean Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sida Peng, Microsoft

Data, Privacy Laws and Firm Production: Evidence from GDPR
Discussant: Garrett Johnson, Boston University
12:00 pm
Lunch and Adjourn