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Prof @CKGSB & @USCmarshall. Study digital tech & digital transformation (big data, GPT, privacy, networks, mobile & IoT). Prev @Facebook @LivingSocial @Adobe

Los Angeles, CA
Joined October 2009
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🚨🚨 New Working Paper !!! 🚨🚨 @ralucamursu, Elisabeth Honka, and I wrote a survey paper about the use of the sequential search model for empirical work. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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My new piece on @Entrepreneur: Social sharing, altruistic motive, community connection, and data-driven algorithmic distribution -- how they can help small businesses in your local community recover post-pandemic (& some recent field experiment research~) entrepreneur.com/article/372…
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4 Digital Strategies for Small Businesses Recovering Post-Pandemic | by @TianshuUSC entm.ag/RFuAOu
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Interesting... Incentives for people to help elders navigate this process. Makes me think of @TianshuUSC's work on "bring a friend" incentives in blood donation in China doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2018.30…
If you're accompanying someone who is 75+ to a COVID-19 vaccine appointment, you can get one too, starting tomorrow. wbur.org/commonhealth/2021/0…
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🚨🚨 I am very excited that our paper (with Ilya Morozov, Xiaojing Dong, Liwen Hou) is now forthcoming at Marketing Science (tinyurl.com/y6tjcbnk). We tried to backtrack when we started working on this project and ended up remembering a conversation at ... 1/7
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Great 1st session of the fall @mit_ide seminar series today with @deaneckles! Excited for the rest of this semester's speakers: @zoebcullen @DG_Rand @5harad @KHosanagar @bocowgill @abdavidson @informor @reneegosline @johnjhorton @mounialalmas Schedule: bit.ly/2GFojCh
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Very much looking forward to this conversation with a dear friend and mentor! 👇 Join us!
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The full list of @mit_ide Platform Summit videos is here youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
Replying to @InfoEcon @g2parker
Can you please share the full list of 2020 summit videos as they are unlisted on Youtube... Thank you...
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Algorithms can learn to collude.
Can't contain my excitement - our Algo Collusion paper has been cleared for publication on the American Economic Review. Special thanks to the #NBERAI folks (@joshgans @professor_ajay @avicgoldfarb @ce_tucker) and to @jcremer for getting us funds early on :)
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Good question by @seanjtaylor. Reminds me of a series of work by DellaVigna and Pope such as JPE paper ‘Predicting Experimental Results: Who Knows What?’ and ‘Forecasting the Results of Experiments: Piloting an Elicitation Strategy’ and ‘Stability of Experimental Results’
I got an interesting question today: Say before each A/B test you run, you ask your team to estimate the outcome. You collect a year's worth of data and find a handful of people are very good at forecasting which tests will perform well. What do you do with this information?
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It’s been fun to present at @nberpubs Summer Institute today. Thanks to the organizers, the audience and our discussant @avicgoldfarb! Lots of great comments. The paper is here: cepr.org/active/publications…
Now at @nberpubs SI IT & Digitization @cpeukert presenting our paper on privacy and competition (GDPR effects) (cc @StefanBechtold @tkretschmer_LMU )
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Great discussion here, including many folks (I think correctly) warning against creating goals for model performance, instead focusing on business goals. Anyone have interesting advice for mapping model metrics into business metrics? (Besides the standard cost of FP/FN stuff)
Folks who work on predictive models as part of your product/team roadmap: How do choose your (quantitative) goals for model improvement? - Do you goal on absolute or relative performance? - Relative to your baseline or to previous model? - How do you choose the goal threshold?
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🎉A new WP & talk announcement! I'll be presenting my JMP on "The Value of Competitor Information" tmrw @nber IT& #Digitization. Details below and summary thread to follow soon Paper+schedule w/ other amazing papers conference.nber.org/sched/SI… Livestream: youtube.com/channel/UC79ELlH…
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Delighted to share that our paper titled “Demand Effects of the Internet-of-Things Sales Channel: Evidence from Automating the Purchase Process”, co-authored with Panagiotis Adamopoulos and Anindya Ghose, has been accepted for publication at Information Systems Research.
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🤖 Revolution: join us this Thursday with @lynnwu02 in the #VIDEseminar
🚨#VIDEseminar w/ Lynn Wu @lynnwu02 on "The Robot Revolution: Managerial and Employment Consequences for Firms" 🔜 Thursday, June 25, 11am New York, 5pm Berlin. Open to anyone! Info and signup: digitalecon.org/seminar 🧑‍🏫Season finale on July 9 w/ Chris Forman @CornellDyson
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Very interesting and timely work!
Really cool work by Feng Zhu and coauthors that shows that women researchers' productivity was disproportionately negative during COVID-19 while men's productivity went up. These effects are even stronger at top institutions papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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#scecr2020 is a wrap! Muchas gracias @JuiRamaprasad @gburtch @KValogianni @kartikGanju @kir1 🙏Great panel on future of business education with the inimitable Ritu Agarwal, @aghose @ignaciogafo. Back to Real Madrid in person next year..
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Very interesting and surprising findings by @SunnyfaceBeibei, Utarra and Mike: Displaying Fake Reviews Increases Consumer Trust in Review Platform informs.org/About-INFORMS/Ne…
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