Inaugural Research Symposium • Economics of Digital Services • Penn Carey Law

Symposium Agenda

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
1:00 p.m.	Welcoming Remarks Christopher S. Yoo, Founding Director, Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition, University of Pennsylvania Rakesh Vohra, Co-Director, The Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
1:15 p.m.	The Economics of Digital Services: Views from Enforcement Agency Leaders Makan Delrahim, University of Pennsylvania; former Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice Jon Leibowitz, former Chairman, Federal Trade Commission moderator: Herbert Hovenkamp, University of Pennsylvania
2:00 p.m.	Consumer Surplus and Technology Releases in the App Ecosystem Jin-Hyuk Kim, University of Colorado Boulder Yidan Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology Liad Wagman, Illinois Institute of Technology
2:30 p.m.	Break
2:45 p.m.	Macroeconomic Analysis of Digital Advertising Jeremy Greenwood, University of Pennsylvania Yueyuan Ma, University of Pennsylvania Mehmet Yörükoglu, Koç University
3:15 p.m.	The Effect of Ad-Blocking and Anti-Tracking on Consumer Behavior Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University Cristobal Cheyre, Cornell University Li Jiang, George Washington University Alisa Frik, University of California, Berkeley Florian Schaub, University of Michigan
3:45 p.m.	Break
4:00 p.m.	Data Neutrality and Market Competition Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania Soo Jin Kim, ShanghaiTech University
4:30 p.m.	Economics of Digital Services: Views from Enforcement Economists Andrew Sweeting, University of Maryland; former Director, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission Michael Katz, University of California, Berkeley; former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice moderator: Aviv Nevo, University of Pennsylvania; former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice
5:15 p.m.	End of day
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
9:00 a.m.	Media Plurality and News Consumption: The Impact of Search Engines on the Media Industry Joan Calzada, University of Barcelona Nestor Duch, European Union, Joint Research Center Ricard Gil, Queen’s University
9:30 a.m.	Quantifying the User Value of Social Media Data Avinash Collis, University of Texas at Austin Ananya Sen, Carnegie Mellon University Alex Moehring, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University
10:00 a.m.	Smart Contracts, IoT Sensors and Democratization of Competitive Landscape Yannis Bakos, New York University Hanna Halaburda, New York University
10:30 a.m.	Break
10:45 a.m.	Competition in Cloud Computing Juan Camilo Castillo, University of Pennsylvania Amit Gandhi, University of Pennsylvania
11:15 a.m.	Big Data Adoption and Employment in Small and Medium Enterprises Ricard Gil, Queen’s University
11:45 a.m.	End of day