SI 2024 Digital Economics and Artificial Intelligence
Erik Brynjolfsson, Avi Goldfarb, and Catherine Tucker, Organizers
July 17-19, 2024
Supported by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Github and the Tides Foundation
Ballroom A
Format: 20 minutes speaker/10 minutes discussant/10 minutes Q & A
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Session on White Collar Work |
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| Wednesday, July 17 | ||||
| Afternoon Joint Session with Entrepreneurship and Innovation Groups | ||||
| 1:30 pm |
Matteo Tranchero, University of Pennsylvania Finding Diamonds in the Rough: Data-Driven Opportunities and Pharmaceutical Innovation
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| 2:10 PM |
Benjamin S. Manning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kehang Zhu, Harvard University John J. Horton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Automated Social Science: Language Models as Scientist and Subjects
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| 2:50 pm | Break | |||
| 3:10 PM |
Dean Alderucci, Carnegie Mellon University Sagar V. Baviskar, Carnegie Mellon University Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Nathan Goldschlag, U.S. Census Bureau Eduard Hovy, Carnegie Mellon University Andrew Runge, Duolingo Prasanna Tambe, University of Pennsylvania Nikolas Zolas, U.S. Department of State Quantifying the Impact of AI on Productivity and Labor Demand: Evidence from U.S. Census Microdata
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| 3:50 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Thursday, July 18 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 9:00 am | Introductions | |||
| 9:10 am |
Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER Juan Camilo Castillo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER Leon Musolff, University of Pennsylvania Tobias Salz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Sources of Market Power in Web Search: Evidence from a Field Experiment
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| 9:50 am |
Lu Fang, Zhejiang University Yanyou Chen, University of Toronto Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER Zhe Yuan, Zhejiang University Yitong Wang, Alibaba Group Platform Information Provision and Consumer Search: A Field Experiment
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| 10:30 am | Break | |||
| 11:00 am |
Joshua S. Gans, University of Toronto and NBER Copyright Policy Options for Generative Artificial Intelligence
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| 11:40 am |
Xavier Lambin, ESSEC Business School Less Than Meets The Eye: Simultaneous Experiments As A Source Of Algorithmic Seeming Collusion
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| 12:20 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:30 pm |
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER Avinash Collis, Carnegie Mellon University Asad Liaqat, Meta Platforms, Inc Daley Kutzman, Meta Platforms, Inc Haritz Garro, Facebook Daniel Deisenroth, Meta Platforms, Inc Nils Wernerfelt, Northwestern University Jae Joon Lee, Stanford University The Digital Welfare of Nations: New Measures of Welfare Gains and Inequality
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| 2:10 pm | Break | |||
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2:40 pm
Ballroom A
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Lightning Round |
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| 2:40 pm |
Nan Chen, National University of Singapore Hsin-Tien Tiffany Tsai, National University of Singapore Price Competition Under Information (Dis)Advantage |
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| 2:50 pm |
Jiajia Zhan, Imperial College London Xu Zhang, London Business School Fu Hongqiao, Peking University Information Disclosure via Platform Endorsement in Online Healthcare |
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| 3:00 pm |
Helen Shuxuan Zeng, Carnegie Mellon University George Chen, Carnegie Mellon University Brett Danaher, Chapman University Michael D. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University Can Platform Accountability Reduce Sex Trafficking? Evidence from the Price Effect |
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| 3:10 pm |
Matthieu Chemin,, McGill University Daniel Chen, Toulouse School of Economics Vincenzo Di Maro, The World Bank Paul Kimalu, Judiciary of Kenya Momanyi Mokaya, Conference Board of Canada Manuel Ramos-Maqueda, The World Bank Data Science for Justice: Evidence from a Nationwide Randomized Experiment in Kenya |
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| 3:20 pm |
Rachel J. Nam, Goethe University Frankfurt Open Banking and Customer Data Sharing: Implications for FinTech Borrowers |
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| 3:30 pm |
Garrett Johnson, Boston University Tesary Lin, Boston University James C. Cooper, George Mason University Liang Zhong, Boston University COPPAcalypse? The Youtube Settlement's Impact on Kids Content |
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| 3:40 pm |
Bo Bian, University of British Columbia Michaela Pagel, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER Devesh Raval, Federal Trade Commission Huan Tang, University of Pennsylvania Consumer Surveillance and Financial Fraud |
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| 3:50 pm |
Christian Peukert, HEC Lausanne Florian Abeillon, HEC Lausanne Franziska Kaiser, HEC Lausanne Jérémie Haese, HEC Lausanne Alexander Staub, HEC Lausanne Strategic Behavior and AI Training Data |
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| 4:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| 6:30 pm | Group Dinner at Royal Sonesta in Skyline ABC | |||
| Friday, July 19 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
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Session on White Collar Work |
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| 9:00 am |
Manuel Hoffmann, Harvard University Sam J. Boysel, Harvard University Frank Nagle, Harvard University Sida Peng, Microsoft Kevin Xu, GitHub, Inc. Generative AI and Distributed Work: Evidence from Open Source Software
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| 9:40 am |
Xiang Hui, Washington University in St. Louis Oren Reshef, Washington University in St. Louis Luofeng Zhou, New York University The Short-Term Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Employment: Evidence from an Online Labor Market
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| 10:20 am | Break | |||
| 10:30 am |
Lindsey R. Raymond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Market Effects of Algorithms |
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| 10:40 am |
Malika Korganbekova, Northwestern University Cole Zuber, Kensho Technologies Balancing User Privacy and Personalization |
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| 10:50 am |
Walter W. Zhang, University of Chicago Optimal Comprehensible Targeting |
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11:00 am
Ballroom A
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Rising Stars (15 minutes each plus 5 Q&A) | |||
| 12:00 pm | Lunch | |||
| Afternoon Joint Session with Industrial Organization | ||||
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1:30 pm
Ballroom A
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Adam S. Harris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Maggie Yellen, Federal Trade Commission Decision-Making with Machine Prediction: Evidence from Predictive Maintenance in Trucking
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| 2:10 pm | Break | |||
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2:25 pm
Ballroom A
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Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER Benjamin R. Handel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Rafael Jimenez-Duran, Bocconi University Christopher Roth, University of Cologne When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media
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| 3:05 pm | Break | |||
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3:20 pm
Ballroom A
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Eric Budish, University of Chicago and NBER Trust at Scale: The Economic Limits of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains
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| 4:00 pm | Adjourn | |||