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
Matteo Tranchero, University of Pennsylvania

Finding Diamonds in the Rough: Data-Driven Opportunities and Pharmaceutical Innovation
Discussant: Ryan R. Hill, Northwestern University
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
Discussant: Florenta Teodoridis, University of Southern California
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 (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
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
Discussant: Sarah Moshary, University of California, Berkeley
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
Discussant: Elisabeth Honka, University of California, Los Angeles
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am
Joshua S. Gans, University of Toronto and NBER

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

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
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
Discussant: Shane Greenstein, Harvard University and NBER
2:10 pm
Break
2:40 pm
Ballroom A
Lightning Round
2:40 pm
Nan Chen, National University of Singapore
Hsin-Tien Tiffany Tsai, National University of Singapore

Price Competition Under Information (Dis)Advantage
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
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
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
3:20 pm
Rachel J. Nam, Goethe University Frankfurt

Open Banking and Customer Data Sharing: Implications for FinTech Borrowers
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
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
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
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
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
Discussant: David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
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
Discussant: Danielle Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
10:20 am
Break
10:30 am
Lindsey R. Raymond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Market Effects of Algorithms
10:40 am
Malika Korganbekova, University of Chicago
Cole Zuber, Kensho Technologies

Balancing User Privacy and Personalization
10:50 am
Walter W. Zhang, University of Pennsylvania

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
Adam S. Harris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maggie Yellen, Federal Trade Commission

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
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
Discussant: Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
3:05 pm
Break
3:20 pm
Ballroom A
Eric Budish, University of Chicago and NBER

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