The workshop aims to bring together researchers from Economics, Information Systems, Law, Marketing, Strategy, and related fields who study Digitization.
We thank the Swiss National Science Foundation for generous funding.

Organizers: Christian Peukert, Jérémie Haese, Franziska Kaiser and Anthi Kiouka. 

Sunday, March 19, 2023

17:00-18:30 - City tour. Meeting point:  Place Saint-François (Metro M1/M2: Lausanne Flon)
18:30 - Get-together and informal dinner at Luigia Lausanne

Monday, March 20, 2023: Extranef Building, Room 109

09:00-09:20 - Coffee and registration

09:20-09:30 - Welcome address

09:30-10:50 - Diversity and Development (25 minutes presentation, 10 minutes discussion, 5 minutes Q&A)

Chair: Martin Quinn (Rotterdam School of Management)

• Emil Palikot (Stanford): Effective and scalable programs to facilitate labor market transitions for women in technology
  Discussant: Sagit Bar Gill (Tel Aviv University)

• Alp Sungu (London Business School - virtual): The Digital Lives of the Poor: Entertainment Traps and Information Isolation
  Discussant: Martin Quinn (Rotterdam School of Management)

10:50-11:20 - Coffee

11:20-12:40 - Lightning Session (10 minutes presentation, 1 minute Q&A)

Chair: Anthi Kiouka (HEC Lausanne)

• Arletta Gorecka (Strathclyde): Competition law and privacy: omnipotence of EU competition law

• Farshad Ravasan (Oxford): (Under) Investment in cyber skills and data protection enforcement: Evidence from activity logs of the UK Information Commissioner's Office

• Tobias Wenzel (University of Düsseldorf): Privacy spillovers and interoperability in network markets

• Dominik Gutt (Rotterdam School of Management -virtual): How Free Market Entry Affects Market Quality: Evidence from Non-Fungible Tokens

• Sarah Lemaire (Joint Research Center EC): Have I seen you before? Measuring the value of tracking in digital advertising

12:50-13:50 - Lunch

14:00-15:15 - Platforms and Competition (25 minutes presentation, 10 minutes discussion, 5 minutes Q&A)

Chair: Jérémie Haese (HEC Lausanne)

• Anna Kerkhof (ifo): Complementor Reactions to Platform Control – Evidence from the YouTube “Adpocalypse”

Discussant: Verena Dorner (WU Vienna)

• Luis Aguiar (University of Zurich): Countervailing Platform Power: Spotify and the Major Record Labels, 2017-2020

Discussant: Franziska Kaiser (HEC Lausanne)

• Luise Eisfeld (Toulouse School of Economics): Entry and Acquisitions in Software Markets

Discussant: Jérémie Haese (HEC Lausanne)

16:00-16:30 - Coffee

16:30-17:50 - Data Sharing and Regulation (25 minutes presentation, 10 minutes discussion, 5 minutes Q&A)

Chair: Tobias Wenzel (University of Düsseldorf)

• Georgios Petropoulos (MIT): Towards Efficient Information Sharing in Network Markets
  Discussant: Sameer Mehta (Rotterdam School of Management)

• Flavio Pino (Politecnico di Torino): Mandated data sharing in hybrid marketplaces
  Discussant: Tobias Wenzel (University of Düsseldorf)

19:00 - Dinner at Brasserie de Montbenon

Tuesday, March 21, 2023: Amphimax Building, Room 414

09:30-10:50 - Algorithms and Data (25 minutes presentation, 10 minutes discussion, 5 minutes Q&A)

Chair: Hannes Ullrich (DIW Berlin and University of Copenhagen)

• Sagit Bar-Gill (Tel Aviv University): Designing Optimal Chatbot Interactions based on Sentiment Analysis: an Experiment
  Discussant: Michelangelo Rossi (Télécom Paris)

• Ehsan Valavi (MIT): Time-dependency, data flow, and competitive advantage
  Discussant: Hannes Ullrich (DIW Berlin and University of Copenhagen)

10:50-11:20 - Coffee

11:20-12:40 - Lightning Session (10 minutes presentation, 1 minute Q&A)

Chair: Jérémie Haese (HEC Lausanne)

• Anthi Kiouka (HEC Lausanne): Specializing in Generality? Technology and Market Strategy

• Mathias Beck (ETH Zurich): Productivity effects of IT investments: the role of innovation and competition

• Mathilde Abel (Sorbonne Nouvelle): Bargaining power in platform economy: the drivers’ perspective on the Uber multi-sided market

• Jonas Hannane (DIW Berlin): Advertising as Signal in Online Labor Markets

• Dainis Zegners (Rotterdam School of Management): Attention and Negativity in Online News

12:50-13:50 - Lunch

14:00-16:00 - Platform Business Models (25 minutes presentation, 10 minutes discussion, 5 minutes Q&A)

Chair: Rodrigo Belo (Nova School of Business)

• Christian Peukert (HEC Lausanne): Off-Platform Tracking and Data Externalities

Discussant: Shrabastee Banerjee (Tilburg University)

• Kai Zhu (Bocconi): Unintended Consequences of Platform Monetization: An Empirical Study of a Two-Sided Market for Book Promotions

Discussant: Dominik Gutt (Rotterdam School of Management - virtual)

• Klaus Miller (HEC Paris): Sophisticated Consumers with Inertia: Long-Term Implications from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

Discussant: Rodrigo Belo (Nova School of Business)

16:00-16:30 - Coffee

16:30-17:50 - Data and Privacy Regulation (25 minutes presentation, 10 minutes discussion, 5 minutes Q&A)

Chair: Reinhold Kesler (University of Zurich)

• Xinchen Ma (London School of Economics): The Supply and Demand for Data Privacy: Evidence from Mobile Apps

Discussant: Michail Batikas (Rennes School of Business)

• Sam Cao (Stockholm School of Economics): Regulatory shock and organizational adaptation: how data architecture modularity and data interoperability affect firm performance in response to GDPR

Discussant: Reinhold Kesler (University of Zurich)

17:50-18:00 - Announcements 

19:00 - Informal Dinner at Chalet Suisse

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Meeting point: 10.10am at Lausanne Main Station, platform 5.
Hike and visit to Lavaux vineyards (about 1.5h easy hike, no gear necessary)
12:30 Lunch at Auberge de la Gare Grandvaux
Return to Lausanne Main Station at about 2pm 

You can get to Lausanne by flying to Geneva or Zurich.
Geneva is 1 hour by train and Zurich is 2.5 hours by train. Both airports are efficient and trains run very reliably.

The campus of UNIL & EPFL is situated along Lake Geneva on the outskirts of downtown Lausanne. We recommend that you either stay in the city center (about 15-20 minutes to campus by public transport, Hotel Moxy or Hotel Mad House)  or on campus (Hotel Starling or Hotel SwissTech, within walking distance from the conference venue).