SI 2024 Digital Economics and Artificial Intelligence

Erik Brynjolfsson, Avi Goldfarb, and Catherine Tucker, Organizers

July 17-19, 2024

Ballroom A

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

Conference Code of Conduct

Session on White Collar Work
Wednesday, July 17
Afternoon Joint Session with Entrepreneurship and Innovation Groups
1:30 pm

Finding Diamonds in the Rough: Data-Driven Opportunities and Pharmaceutical Innovation
Discussant: Ryan R. Hill, Northwestern University
2:10 PM

Automated Social Science: Language Models as Scientist and Subjects
Discussant: Florenta Teodoridis, University of Southern California
2:50 pm
Break
3:10 PM

Quantifying the Impact of AI on Productivity and Labor Demand: Evidence from U.S. Census Microdata (slides)
Discussant: Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto
3:50 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, July 18
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Introductions
9:10 am

Sources of Market Power in Web Search: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Discussant: Sarah Moshary, University of California, Berkeley
9:50 am

Platform Information Provision and Consumer Search: A Field Experiment
Discussant: Elisabeth Honka, University of California, Los Angeles
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am

Copyright Policy Options for Generative Artificial Intelligence (slides)
Discussant: Abhishek Nagaraj, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
11:40 am

Less Than Meets The Eye: Simultaneous Experiments As A Source Of Algorithmic Seeming Collusion
Discussant: John Asker, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
12:20 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

The Digital Welfare of Nations: New Measures of Welfare Gains and Inequality
Discussant: Shane Greenstein, Harvard University and NBER
2:10 pm
Break
2:40 pm
Ballroom A
Lightning Round
2:40 pm

Price Competition Under Information (Dis)Advantage
2:50 pm

Information Disclosure via Platform Endorsement in Online Healthcare
3:00 pm

Can Platform Accountability Reduce Sex Trafficking? Evidence from the Price Effect
3:10 pm

Data Science for Justice: Evidence from a Nationwide Randomized Experiment in Kenya
3:20 pm

Open Banking and Customer Data Sharing: Implications for FinTech Borrowers
3:30 pm

COPPAcalypse? The Youtube Settlement's Impact on Kids Content
3:40 pm

Consumer Surveillance and Financial Fraud
3:50 pm

Strategic Behavior and AI Training Data
4:00 pm
Adjourn
6:30 pm
Group Dinner at Royal Sonesta in Skyline ABC
Friday, July 19
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
Session on White Collar Work
9:00 am

Generative AI and Distributed Work: Evidence from Open Source Software
Discussant: David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
9:40 am

The Short-Term Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Employment: Evidence from an Online Labor Market
Discussant: Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
10:20 am
Break
10:30 am

The Market Effects of Algorithms
10:40 am

Balancing User Privacy and Personalization
10:50 am

Optimal Comprehensible Targeting
11:00 am
Ballroom A
Rising Stars (15 minutes each plus 5 Q&A)
12:00 pm
Lunch
Afternoon Joint Session with Industrial Organization
1:30 pm
Ballroom A

Decision-Making with Machine Prediction: Evidence from Predictive Maintenance in Trucking
Discussant: Daniel Björkegren, Columbia University
2:10 pm
Break
2:25 pm
Ballroom A

When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media
Discussant: Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
3:05 pm
Break
3:20 pm
Ballroom A

Trust at Scale: The Economic Limits of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains
Discussant: Hanna Halaburda, New York University
4:00 pm
Adjourn