CESifo Area Conference on the Economics of Digitization 2022

Program

• Friday, 18 November 2022

  • 09:00 - 09:10	Welcome and Introduction STEPHEN P. RYAN, Area Director of the CESifo Area on the Economics of Digitization
    	Parallel Session 1a, Ludwig Erhard Room Data Chair: Georgios Petropoulos
    09:15 – 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 Ullrich
    10:25 – 11:00	Towards Efficient Information Sharing in Network Markets Bertin Martens, Geoffrey Parker, GEORGIOS PETROPOULOS (MIT) and Marshall Van Alstyne
    	Parallel Session 1b, Peggy and Richard Musgrave Room Remote Work and the Offline Marketplace Chair: Thomas Fackler
    09:15 – 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 Laurentsyeva
    11:00 – 11:30	Coffee Break
    	Session 2 – Plenary Session -  Keynote Lecture
    11:30 – 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 Ryan
    13:40 – 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 Kaiser
    15:30 – 16:05	Digitalization and Cross-Border Tax Fraud: Evidence from e-Invoicing in Italy WOJCIECH STILLER (Berlin School of Economics and Law) and Marwin Heinemann
    16:05 – 16:40	Digital Transformation, Risky Investments & Hosting Platform Rivals SHIVA SHEKHAR (Tilburg University and CESifo), Sarvesh Bandhu and Marshall Van Alstyne
    16:40 – 17:15	Batman Forever? Digitization, Reuse, and Intellectual Property Rights FRANZISKA KAISER (HEC Lausanne), Alexander Cuntz and Christian Peukert
    	Parallel Session 4b, Peggy and Richard Musgrave Room Technology Adoption and Ethical Dilemmas Chair: Gerd Muehlheusser
    15:30 – 16:05	Adoption and Utilization of Device-Assisted Telemedicine DAN ZELTZER (Tel-Aviv University), Liran Einav, Joseph Rashba, Yehezkel Waisman, Motti Haimi and Ran Balicer
    16:05 – 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 Feess
    19:00	Conference Dinner

• Saturday, 19 November 2022

  • 	Session 5 – Plenary Session, Ludwig Erhard Room Recommendation and Promotion Chair: Ulrich Laitenberger
    09:15 – 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 Konstan
    09:50 – 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 Thébaudin
    10:25 – 10:45	Coffee Break
    	Parallel Session 6a, Ludwig Erhard Room Search Engines, Advertising and Television Chair: Joan Calzada
    10:45 – 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 Hoffmann
    11:20 – 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 Kim
    11:55 – 12:30	Do Search Engines Increase Concentration in Media Markets? JOAN CALZADA, Nestor Duch-Brown and Ricard Gil
    	Parallel Session 6b, Peggy and Richard Musgrave Room The Online Marketplace and Consumer Demand Chair: Stephan Seiler
    10:45 – 11:20	Competition for Prominence FABRIZIO CIOTTI (Université Catholique de Louvain) and Leonardo Madio
    11:20 – 11:55	Platforms under Joint Ownership MARKUS REISINGER (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management), Martin Peitz
    11:55 – 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 Belletti
    13:40 – 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 Rossi
    	Session 8 – Plenary Session, Ludwig Erhard Room Fake Reviews and Fake News Chair: Matilde Giaccherini
    14:55 – 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 Rovigatti
    16:05	Farewell Comments