Munich

MAY 12-13, 2022

The 5th doctoral workshop was hosted at the Ifo Institute in May 2022. The best paper award was granted by the organizing committee to Felix Chopra from University of Bonn for empirical research on the impact of media on financial decisions.

Thursday

12 MAY 2022

9:45 – 10:00 welcome by the local organizer: OLIVER FALCK (ifo Institute)

Session 1: platform I

Chair: Oliver Falck (Ifo Institute)

10:00 – 10:30 Short Term Cost of Cash and Mobile Financial Services: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India

Vatsala Shreeti (Toulouse School of Economics), Hélia Costa, and Mauro Pisu

10:30 – 11:00 Improving Matching Efficiency in Two-Sided Markets Using a Mutual Popularity Ranking Approach

Tobias Lehmann (University of Lausanne)

11:00 – 11:30 coffee BREAK

Session 2: Economic Impacts of Digital Transformation

Chair: Lukasz Grzybowski (Telecom Paris)

11:30 – 12:00 Digital Infrastructure and Local Economic Growth: Early Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa

Valentin Lindlacher (ifo Institute), and Moritz Goldbeck

12:00 – 12:30 Sources of Limited Consideration and Market Power in E-Commerce: The Case of Contact Lenses

Michael Sullivan (Yale University)

12:30 – 13:00 The Value of Connectivity: Examining the Effects of High-Speed Broadband Internet Expansion on Real Estate Prices in Germany

Simon Krause (ifo Institute), Thomas Fackler, and Oliver Falck

13:00 – 14:00 buffet lunch

Session 3: AI

Chair: Axel Gautier (Université de Liege)

14:00 – 14:30 The Diffusion of Digital Technologies and its Consequences in the Labor Market

Felix Grimm (University of Heidelberg), and Christina Gathmann

14:30 – 15:00 Adaptive Discrimination in Algorithmic Pricing: Evidence from Insurance Industry

Ozge Demirci (University of Warwick)

15:00 – 15:30 User Data and Endogenous Entry in Online Markets

Flavio Pino (Polytechnic University of Turin), Carlo Cambini, Laura Abrardi, and Raffaele Congiu

15:30 – 16:00 coffee BREAK

Session 4: Platform II

Chair: Marc Bourreau (Telecom Paris)

16:00 – 16:30 Private Labels in Marketplaces

Radostina Shopova (University of Vienna)

16:30 – 17:00 The Effect of Interoperability on Ad-funded Platform Competition when Consumers can Multi-Home

Guillaume Thebaudin (Telecom Paris), Marc Bourreau, and Adrien Raizonville

17:00 – 17:30 Competition for Prominence

Fabrizio Ciotti (Catholic University of Louvain), and Leonardo Madio

18:30 Dinner

Friday

13 MAY 2022

Session 5: media

Chair: Paul Belleflamme (Catholic University of Louvain)

9:00 – 9:30 Have I seen you before? Measuring the Value of Tracking for Digital Advertising

Sarah Lemaire (Toulouse School of Economics), and Grazia Cecere

9:30 – 10:00 Debunking “fake news” on Social Media: Short- and Longer-Term Effects of Fact Checking and Media Literacy Interventions

Lara Marie Muller (University of Cologne), Anna Kerkhof, Johannes Münster, and Felix Mindl