CESifo Area Conference on the Economics of Digitization 2022
CESifo, Munich
Scientific Organizer: Professor Stephen P. Ryan
The 2022 CESifo Area Conference on the Economics of Digitization will be held as an on-site event in Munich. The keynote lecture will be delivered by Dina Mayzlin (USC Marshall).
Program
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09:00 - 09:10
Welcome and Introduction
STEPHEN P. RYAN, Area Director of the CESifo Area on the Economics of DigitizationParallel Session 1a, Ludwig Erhard Room
Data
Chair: Georgios Petropoulos09:15 – 09:50
Data Analytics and Firm Productivity: The Importance of Technological and Organizational Architecture
SAM CAO (Stockholm School of Economics)09:50 – 10:25
Off-platform Tracking and Data Externalities
Luis Aguiar, CHRISTIAN PEUKERT (HEC Lausanne), Maximilian Schäfer and Hannes Ullrich10:25 – 11:00
Towards Efficient Information Sharing in Network Markets
Bertin Martens, Geoffrey Parker, GEORGIOS PETROPOULOS (MIT) and Marshall Van AlstyneParallel Session 1b, Peggy and Richard Musgrave Room
Remote Work and the Offline Marketplace
Chair: Thomas Fackler09:15 – 09:50
Amazon and the Evolution of Retail
TOMMASO BONDI (Cornell University)09:50 – 10:25
The Future of Work and Consumption in Cities after the Pandemic: First Evidence from Germany
Jean-Victor Alipour, Oliver Falck, Simon Krause, CARLA KROLAGE (ifo Institute) and Sebastian Wichert (ifo Institute)10:25 – 11:00
Gravity in Online Collaborations and Productivity of Remote Teams
THOMAS FACKLER (ifo Institute), Michael Hofmann and Nadzeya Laurentsyeva11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
Session 2 – Plenary Session -
Keynote Lecture11:30 – 12:30
Firms' Management of Social Interactions
DINA MAYZLIN (Marshall School of Business)12:30 – 13:40
Lunch
Session 3 – Plenary Session, Ludwig Erhard Room
Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award Candidates
Chair: Stephen Ryan13:40 – 14:25
Can Gender-Blind Algorithmic Pricing Eliminate the Gender Gap?
OZGE DEMIRCI (University of Warwick)14:25 – 15:10
Digital Infrastructure and Local Economic Growth: Early Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa
VALENTIN LINDLACHER (Technical University Dresden)15:10 – 15:30
Coffee Break
Parallel Session 4a, Ludwig Erhard Room
Digitization
Chair: Franziska Kaiser15:30 – 16:05
Digitalization and Cross-Border Tax Fraud: Evidence from e-Invoicing in Italy
WOJCIECH STILLER (Berlin School of Economics and Law) and Marwin Heinemann16:05 – 16:40 Digital Transformation, Risky Investments & Hosting Platform Rivals
SHIVA SHEKHAR (Tilburg University and CESifo), Sarvesh Bandhu and Marshall Van Alstyne16:40 – 17:15 Batman Forever? Digitization, Reuse, and Intellectual Property Rights
FRANZISKA KAISER (HEC Lausanne), Alexander Cuntz and Christian PeukertParallel Session 4b, Peggy and Richard Musgrave Room
Technology Adoption and Ethical Dilemmas
Chair: Gerd Muehlheusser15:30 – 16:05 Adoption and Utilization of Device-Assisted Telemedicine
DAN ZELTZER (Tel-Aviv University), Liran Einav, Joseph Rashba, Yehezkel Waisman, Motti Haimi and Ran Balicer16:05 – 16:40 Explaining Smartphone Adoption in India
VATSALA SHREETI (Bank for International Settlements)16:40 – 17:15 Autonomous Vehicles: Moral Dilemmas and Adoption Incentives
GERD MUEHLHEUSSER (University of Hamburg) and Eberhard Feess19:00 Conference Dinner
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Session 5 – Plenary Session, Ludwig Erhard Room
Recommendation and Promotion
Chair: Ulrich Laitenberger09:15 – 09:50
The Economics of Recommender Systems: Evidence from a Field Experiment on MovieLens
GUY ARIDOR (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University), Duarte Goncalves, Ruoyan Kong, Daniel Kluver and Joseph Konstan09:50 – 10:25
Bye-box: An Analysis of Non-promotion on the Amazon Marketplace
Matthias Hunold, ULRICH LAITENBERGER (Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris) and Guillaume Thébaudin10:25 – 10:45
Coffee Break
Parallel Session 6a, Ludwig Erhard Room
Search Engines, Advertising and Television
Chair: Joan Calzada10:45 – 11:20
Television and the Labor Market: Evidence from Natural Experiments in West and East Germany
ADRIAN CHADI (University of Konstanz), Sven Hartmann and Manuel Hoffmann11:20 – 11:55
Ad Value in Sponsored Search Auctions and Impact of High Competition in the Ad Auction
PAL PALLAVI (Stevens Institute of Technology) and Dongwoo Kim11:55 – 12:30
Do Search Engines Increase Concentration in Media Markets?
JOAN CALZADA, Nestor Duch-Brown and Ricard GilParallel Session 6b, Peggy and Richard Musgrave Room
The Online Marketplace and Consumer Demand
Chair: Stephan Seiler10:45 – 11:20
Competition for Prominence
FABRIZIO CIOTTI (Université Catholique de Louvain) and Leonardo Madio11:20 – 11:55
Platforms under Joint Ownership
MARKUS REISINGER (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management), Martin Peitz11:55 – 12:30
Flexible Demand Estimation with Search Data
Tomomichi Amano, Andrew Rhodes and STEPHAN SEILER (Imperial College London & CEPR)12:30 – 13:40
Lunch
Session 7 – Plenary Session, Ludwig Erhard Room
Networks and Reputation
Chair: Chiara Belletti13:40 – 14:15
Selection, Consumption, and New Music Discovery in an Online Social Network: A Dyadic Approach
JOHANNES LOH (BI Norwegian Business School)14:15 – 14:50
Career Concerns on a Digital Platform: When Reputation Works and When it Doesn’t
CHIARA BELLETTI (Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris), Elizaveta Pronkina and Michelangelo RossiSession 8 – Plenary Session, Ludwig Erhard Room
Fake Reviews and Fake News
Chair: Matilde Giaccherini14:55 – 15:30
Incentives to Fake Reviews in Online Platforms
GUSTAVO QUINDERE SARAIVA (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)15:10 – 15:30
Vax Populi: the Social Costs of Online Vaccine Skepticism
MATILDE GIACCHERINI (University of Rome "Tor Vergata"), Joanna Aleksandra Kopinska, Gabriele Rovigatti16:05
Farewell Comments