Virtual Digital Economy Seminar
An open online international and inter-institutional seminar on the digital economy
All seminars are on Thursdays at 8:00am Los Angeles - 11:00am New York - 4:00pm London - 5:00pm Berlin - 6:00pm Tel Aviv.
The schedule can be imported as a Google calendar here or as an ics file here.
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Schedule - Spring 2020
Thursday, April 9 - Joel Waldfogel (University of Minnesota)
Digitization and Product Discovery: The Causal and Welfare Impacts of Reviews and Crowd Ratings
Watch the video on YouTubeThursday, April 23 - Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto)
Could Machine Learning be a General Purpose Technology? Evidence from Online Job Postings
Watch the video on YouTubeThursday, April 30 - Catherine Tucker (MIT)
Social Distancing, Internet Access and Inequality
Watch the video on YouTubeThursday, May 7 - Anindya Ghose (New York University)
Mobile Targeting Using Customer Trajectory Patterns and Nudging Mobile Customers with Real-Time Social Dynamics
Watch the video on YouTubeThursday, May 14, 5:00-6:30pm Berlin - Special Panel Session on "Merger Policy in Digital Markets" with Luis Cabral (New York University), Fiona Scott-Morton (Yale University), and Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College London), moderated by Tomaso Duso (DIW Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin)
Watch the video on YouTubeThursday, May 21 - Dina Mayzlin (University of Southern California)
Influencing the Influencers
Watch the video on YouTubeThursday, June 11 - Matthew Gentzkow (Stanford University)
Polarization and Public Health: Partisan Differences in Social Distancing during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Watch the video on YouTubeThursday, June 18 - Anja Lambrecht (London Business School)
Apparent Algorithmic Bias and Algorithmic Learning
Watch the video on YouTubeThursday, June 25 - Lynn Wu (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
The Robot Revolution: Managerial and Employment Consequences for Firms
Watch the video on YouTubeSpecial Partner Event: Friday, June 26, 3:30-5:30pm Berlin - BCCP Virtual Mini-Conference on "Regulatory Challenges in Digital Markets: the Future of Artificial Intelligence for Policy Making" with Daniel Björkegren (Brown University), Joanna Bryson (Hertie School of Governance), Anna Christmann (German Green Party, Spokesperson of German Parliamentary Study Commission on Artificial Intelligence), and Cass Sunstein (Harvard University), moderated by Hannes Ullrich (DIW Berlin and University of Copenhagen).
Watch the video on YouTubeThursday, July 9 - Chris Forman (Cornell University)
Firm Organization in the Digital Age: IT Use and Vertical Transactions in U.S. Manufacturing
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Format
Each seminar lasts 60 minutes
45 minutes of presentation
15 minutes of moderated discussion
Once signed up for the mailing list, you will receive a Zoom and a YouTube link before each session.
A moderator collects audience questions in the Zoom chat. The audience will be muted. The moderator will relay clarification questions or unmute selectively during the talk. Remaining questions will be collected and asked in the moderated discussion.
The seminar will be recorded (subject to the speaker's preferences) so that participants asking question would also appear in the recording.
Just like other initiated virtual seminars, this is an experiment and details are subject to change.
Contact
For feedback or suggestion, please contact us at videseminar@gmail.com.
Organizers
This is a non-profit project initiated and organized by:
Luis Aguiar (UZH), Stefan Bechtold (ETHZ), Daniel Ershov (TSE), Ulrich Kaiser (UZH), Reinhold Kesler (UZH), Tobias Kretschmer (LMU), Miguel Godinho de Matos (Católica-Lisbon), Gal Oestreicher-Singer (TAU), Christian Peukert (ETHZ&Católica-Lisbon), Imke Reimers (Northeastern), Hannes Ullrich (DIW&UCPH)