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.
Follow us on Twitter: @DigitalEconOrg.
Schedule - Spring 2021
The full schedule will be announced soon. Confirmed speakers include:
Thursday, February 18 - Pinar Yildirim (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
Strategic Automation and Decision-Making Authority
Watch recording on YouTubeThursday, March 4 - Feng Zhu (Harvard Business School)
Competition, Contracts, and Creativity: Evidence from Novel Writing in a Platform MarketThursday, March 25 - Jorge Guzman (Columbia Business School)
Measuring Founding Strategy
Watch recording on YouTubeThursday, April 8 - Julia Cagé (Sciences Po)
Social Media and Newsroom Production Decisions
Watch recording on YouTubeThursday, April 22 - Chiara Farronato (Harvard Business School)
Dog Eat Dog: Measuring Network Effects Using a Digital Platform Merger
Watch recording on YouTubeThursday, May 6 - John J. Horton (MIT Sloan)
The Production and Consumption of Social Media
Watch recording on YouTubeThursday, May 20 - Robert Seamans (Stern, New York University)
Robots at Work in China
Watch recording on YouTubeThursday, June 3 - Diane Coyle (University of Cambridge)
Free Digital Goods and Economic Welfare
Watch recording on YouTube
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.
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, Shachar Reichman (TAU), Christian Peukert (HEC Lausanne), Imke Reimers (Northeastern), Hannes Ullrich (DIW&UCPH)