Papers • Economics of Digital Services • Penn Carey Law

Inaugural Economics of Digital Services Symposium (September 10-11, 2021)

Big Data Adoption and Employment in Small and Medium Enterprises

by Jose E. Galdon-Sanchez, UPNA, and Ricard Gil, Queen’s University
Blockchains, Smart Contracts and Connected Sensors: Substitutes or Complements?

by Yannis Bakos and Hanna Halaburda of New York University
Competition in Cloud Computing

by Juan Camilo Castillo, University of Pennsylvania, and Amit Gandhi, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Data Neutrality and Market Competition

by Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania, and Soo Jin Kim, ShanghaiTech University
Do Search Engines Increase Concentration in Media Markets?

by Joan Calzada, University of Barcelona; Nestor Duch-Brown, European Joint Research Center; and Ricard Gil, Queen’s University
Information Frictions and Heterogeneity in Valuations of Personal Data

by Avinash Collis, The University of Texas at Austin; Alex Moehring, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ananya Sen, Carnegie Mellon University; and Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University
The Effect of Ad-Blocking and Anti-Tracking on Consumer Behavior

by Cristobal Cheyre, Cornell University; Li Jiang, The George Washington University; Alisa Frik, University of California, Berkeley; Florian Schaub, University of Michigan; and Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University
The Value of Technology Releases in the Apple iOS App Ecosystem

by Jin-Hyuk Kim, University of Colorado Boulder; Yidan Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology; and Liad Wagman, Illinois Institute of Technology
‘You Will’: A Macroneconomic Analysis of Digital Advertising

by Jeremy Greenwood, University of Pennsylvania; Yueyuan Ma, University of Pennsylvania; and Mehmet Yörükoğlu, Koç University

Second Economics of Digital Services Symposium (September 9-10, 2022)

A Field Experiment to Study the Effect of Ad-Blocking and Anti-Tracking on Consumer Behavior (updated from 2021)

by Cristobal Cheyre, Cornell University; Zijun Ding, Carnegie Mellon University; Li Jiang, The George Washington University; Florian Schaub, University of Michigan; Jeremy Thomas, University of Michigan; and Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University

Algorithms in the Wild: Experimental Evidence from an Online Marketplace

by Vito Stefano Bramante, University of Bologna; Emilio Calvano, University of Rome-Tor Vergata; Giacomo Calzolari, European University Institute; and Maximilian Schaefer, Yale University and University of Bologna

All the Headlines that Are Fit to Change

by Tin Cheuk Leung, Wake Forest University, and Koleman Strumpf, Wake Forest University

COPPAcalypse? The YouTube Settlement’s Impact on Kids Content Creation

by Garrett Johnson, Boston University; Tesary Lin, Boston University; and James C. Cooper, George Mason University

Information Frictions and Heterogeneity in Valuations of Personal Data (updated from 2021)

by Avinash Collis, Alex Moehring, Ananya Sen, and Alessandro Acquisti

The Impact of Financing Misinformation on Exit and Voice: Experimental Evidence from Information Interventions

by Wajeeha Ahmad, Stanford University; Ananya Sen, Carnegie Mellon University; Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University; and Charles Eesley, Stanford University

The Value of Data Records

by Simone Galperti, University of California San Diego; Aleksandr Levkun, University of California San Diego; and Jacopo Perego, Columbia University