Sunday, March 23, 2025 

16:00-17:00 Walk from DIW Berlin to Museumsinsel

17:00-19:30 Museumsinsel: Guided architecture tour

19:30 Dinner at Zur Gerichtslaube in Nikolaiviertel (Google maps)

Monday, March 24, 2025 

8:30-9:40 Coffee and registration (DIW Berlin, Ostrom Hall)

9:40-9:45 Welcome

9:45-10:45 Digital Media (8 minutes presentation, 2 minutes Q&A)
Chair: Carl Kreuzberg (DIW Berlin)

• • Maja Adena (WZB): Enhancing Responsible Citizenship Through News Consumption: An Experiment on Newsfeed Composition

  • Klaus Miller (HEC Paris): Clicks vs. Commitments: The Economic Trade-Offs of Polarizing News Content

  • Rémi Devaux (Institut Mines Telecom Business School): Should I Stay or Should I Go? Social Media Advertising in Times of Boycott

  • Martina Pocchiari (Esade Business School): The Heterogeneous Effect of Digitizing Community Activities on Community Participation

  • Kai Zhu (Bocconi University): The Economics of Digital Resistance in China

  • Sebastian Valet (ZEW Mannheim): Competition among digital services: Evidence from the Meta outage 2021

10:45-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-12:30 Parallel Sessions

Session A: Online Demand (Ostrom Hall, 15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion, 5 minutes Q&A)
Chair: Themistoklis Kampouris (DIW Berlin)

• Fan Zhang (Nova SBE): A Method to Estimate Discrete Choice Models that is Robust to Consumer Search
  Discussant: Yongdong Liu (University College London)

• Martin Quinn (Rotterdam School of Management): Hit the GAS: Designing Optimal Generalized Ad-supported Subscription Mechanisms
  Discussant: Kevin Tran (University of Bristol)

• Florian Hett (University of Mainz): Testing and interpreting the effectiveness of causal machine learning – an economic theory approach
  Discussant: Jeremiah Lewis (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Session B: Online Content (Room Karl Popper, 15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion, 5 minutes Q&A)
Chair: Maja Adena (WZB)

• Nicole Venus (USI Lugano): The representation of female economists on Wikipedia
  Discussant: Michael Ward (University of Texas, Arlington)

• Marita Freimane (University of Zurich and KU Leuven): Gender Bias, Feedback, and Productivity
  Discussant: Dainis Zegners (Rotterdam School of Management)

• Shrabastee Banerjee (Tilburg University): Governance Shocks and User Engagement: Lessons from the 2023 Reddit ‘Go Dark’ Protests
  Discussant: Rémi Devaux (Institut Mines Telecom Business School)

12:30-13:45 Lunch

13:45-15:00 Parallel Sessions

Session A:  Political Economy (Ostrom Hall, 15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion, 5 minutes Q&A)
Chair: Marita Freimane (University of Zurich and KU Leuven)

• Elliot Motte (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Insult Politics in the Age of Social Media
  Discussant: Liyang Zhou (Bocconi University)

• Francesco Capozza (WZB): Politicized Scientists: Credibility Cost of Political Expression on Twitter
  Discussant: Lachlan Deer (Tilburg University)

Session B:  Privacy (Room Karl Popper, 15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion, 5 minutes Q&A)
Chair: Tomaso Duso (DIW Berlin and TU Berlin)

• Bernd Skiera (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt): Granular Control and Privacy Decisions: Evidence from Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT)
  Discussant: Florian Dost (BTU Cottbus)

• Raveesh Mayya (NYU Stern School of Business): Privacy Spillovers across Competing Platforms

Discussant: Michail Batikas (Nova SBE)

• • Aarushi Kalra (Brown University): Hate in the Time of Algorithms: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment on Online Behavior 

Discussant: Jacopo Bregolin (University of Liverpool)

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-17:00 Data and AI (8 minutes presentation, 2 minutes Q&A)
Chair: Martin Quinn (Rotterdam School of Management)

• Otto Kässi (ETLA Economic Research): Winners and Losers of Generative AI: Early Evidence of Shifts in Freelancer Demand

• Anastasia Danilov (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Do AI skills improve employment chances? Evidence from a field experiment

• Christian Peukert (HEC Lausanne): Copyright, Licensing and AI Training Data: Evidence from 2 Billion Images

• Sverrir Arnórsson (University of Zurich): Balancing Acts: YouTube’s Content Moderation and the Economics of Copyright Enforcement

• Susanne Klausing (London School of Economics and Political Science): The Impact of Privacy Regulation on Data Processing Innovation: Evidence from the California Consumer Privacy Act

• Maximilian Schaefer (IMT Business School): When should we expect non-decreasing returns from data in prediction tasks?

• Antoine Dubus (ETH Zurich): Learning-by-doing in Data Markets

19:00 Dinner at acht&dreissig (Google maps)

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

9:00-9:30 Coffee (DIW Berlin, Ostrom Hall)

9:30-10:45 Platforms (15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion, 5 minutes Q&A)
Chair: Christian Peukert (HEC Lausanne)

• • Luis Aguiar (University of Zurich): Platform Power Struggle: Spotify and the Major Record Labels

Discussant: Ulrich Laitenberger (Tilburg University)

• • Rosa Ferrer (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Targeting Viewers’ Heterogeneous Ad Aversion: Evidence from a Two-Sided Market

Discussant: Narine Yegoryan (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

• Ruiqi Sun (University of Toronto): Blocking the Giants: Theory and Evidence from the Great Firewall
  Discussant: Kai Zhu (Bocconi University)

10:45-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-12:15 Digital Content and Innovation (8 minutes presentation, 2 minutes Q&A)
Chair: Temulun Borjigen (DIW Berlin)

• Michael Ward (University of Texas, Arlington): Digitization and Pedigree Bias in Academic Research

• Michaela Draganska (Drexel University): Measuring the Variety of Digital Content Portfolios and Its Impact on Subscription Behavior

• Luca Rossi (Telecom Paris): Picture Perfect? The Impact of Images on Sales in Second-Hand Marketplaces

• Lachlan Deer (Tilburg University): Online Word of Mouth and the Performance of New Products

• Alex Cuntz (WIPO, UN): The Future is Under the Glass: Protecting Digital Designs

• Mimansa Bairathi (University College London): Consumer Value of Privacy: Evidence from an Online Retailer

12:15-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Keynote address

Gregory Crawford (Chief Economist at Zalando, Professor of Economics at University of Zurich)
The Future of Academic Research in Digital Economics and Empirical IO (?)
Chair: Hannes Ullrich (DIW Berlin and University of Copenhagen)

14:30-15:00 Coffee break

15:00-16:15 Platforms (8 minutes presentation, 2 minutes Q&A)
Chair: Luis Aguiar (University of Zurich)

• Ohad Volvovitch (Tel Aviv University): Product Returns and Lifetime Value in Subscription Retail

• Ulrich Laitenberger (Tilburg University): Platform Search Regulation and Sustainability: The case of Fashion E-Commerce 

• Thomas Jungbauer (Cornell University): Search Platforms: Big Data and Sponsored Positions

• Kevin Tran (University of Bristol): Transparency of Add-On Fees on Peer-to-Peer Platforms: Evidence from Airbnb

• Ambre Nicolle (ISTO, LMU Munich): Threats, Bans, and Competition: Ripple Effects in the Global Smartphone Market

• Uğurcan Dündar (WU Vienna): Getting the Pace Right: When Are Simple Heuristics in Real-Time Bidding Profitable?

16:15-16:45 Coffee break

16:45-17:10 Innovation (15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion, 5 minutes Q&A)
Chair: Nikos Mylonopoulos (Alba Business School)

• Jie Zhou (MIT): Firewall for Innovation
  Discussant: Georgios Petropoulos (University of Southern California)

17:10-17:30 Wrap-up Session (15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes Q&A)

• • Franziska Kaiser (University of Zurich and HEC Lausanne): The Evolution of Research on the Digital Economy

17:30 Announcements & Farewell

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