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15 mins per paper: 10 min presentation +4 min Q&A +1 min changeover
| Paper | Authors |
| Strategic Fit in Digital Transformation: Exploration vs. Exploitation in the Age of Cloud Computing | Kristina McElheran and Wang Jin |
| The Welfare Effects of Access to Mobile Data | Martin Quinn, Miguel Godinho de Matos and Christian Peukert |
| Economic Loss of Cookie Lifetime Restrictions | Klaus Miller and Bernd Skiera |
| Mobile Advertising as a Customer Retention Strategy: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment | Aaron Cheng and Ting Li |
| The Impact of GDPR on Ad-Supported Content Providers | Vincent Lefrere, Logan Warberg, Cristobal Cheyre, Veronica Marotta and Alessandro Acquisti |
| Placement disclosure in ad auctions: Evidence from a policy change | Sıla Ada, Nadia Abou Nabout and Elea McDonnell Feit |
| Quantifying Cross Channel Lift in Mobile App Advertising | Michael Zhao and Sinan Aral |
| Do Firms Strategically Time Data Breach Announcements? Evidence from the US for 2008-2019 | Sebastian Schuetz and Jens Foerderer |
| Paper | Authors |
| Algorithmic Transparency | Qiaochu Wang, Yan Huang and Param Vir Singh |
| How Unbiased Predictive Algorithms Create Bias? | Amit Mehra, James Zhang and Alok Gupta |
| The Tragedy of Your Upstairs Neighbors: Externalities of Home-Sharing | Apostolos Filippas and John Horton |
| A Model for Value Co-Creation through Cross-Producer Bundles | Hemant Bhargava |
| Electoral Competition in the Age of Social Media: Implications on Party Policies and Media Reports | Chao Ding, Wael Jabr and Hong Guo |
| Search Engine Advertising Strategies when Contracting with an Online Search Infomediary: A Game-Theoretic Model | Siddharth Bhattacharya, Abhishek Roy, Subodha Kumar and Sunil Wattal |
| Optimal Platform Price Discrimination and Measuring the Value of Network Effects | Seth Benzell and Avinash Collis |
| The Use of Fines to Enforce Data Portability | Vaarun Vijairaghavan, Barrie Nault and Hooman Hidaji |
| Paper | Authors |
| Meeting over Meat: How do Offline Meetups Impact Online Activity in a Hybrid Foodie Community? | Yash Babar and Yuqing Ren |
| Online Exploration when Search Topic and Popularity Ranking Are Decoupled: Insights on Echo Chambers | Sagit Bar-Gill and Neil Gandal |
| The Filter Bubble Effect Of Algorithmic Ranking On Social Media | Kayla Guangrui Li, Sunil Mithas, Zhixing Zhang and Kar Yan Tam |
| Spillover Effect of Hosting “Bad” Online Reviews: An Empirical Investigation | Yulia Vorotyntseva, Subodha Kumar and Paul Pavlou |
| The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side? Tourist Bias in Online Restaurant Ratings | Hong Hong, Dapeng Xu, Qiang Ye and Michael Zhang |
| Facebook Paid Partnership: The Role of Relevance in Video Sponsorship | Shahryar Doosti, Stephanie Lee and Yong Tan |
| Finding Wisdom in the House: An Empirical Study on the Impact of Enterprise Social Media on Knowledge Exchange | Bin Zhang, Yongcheng Zhan and Mingming He |
15 mins per paper: 10 min presentation +4 min Q&A +1 min changeover
| Paper | Authors |
| Wifi Usage on Campus and Students Academic Performance | Rodrigo Belo, Pedro Ferreira, Yael Inbar and Ryan Turner |
| Engineering Value: The Returns to Technological Talent and Investments in Artificial Intelligence | Daniel Rock |
| The Role of Decision Support Systems in Attenuating Racial Biases in Healthcare Delivery | Kartik Krishna Ganju, Hilal Atasoy, Brad Greenwood and Jeff McCullough |
| Effects of Intensity of Pushed/Pulled Health-Hazard Information on Online and Offline Treat-Coping Activities | Ying-Qiu Dong, Khim-Yong Goh, Yunkun Zhao and Liwen Hou |
| Workplace Automation and the Gender Gap in College Enrollment | Amanda Chuan |
| Technological Standardization and the Generalizability of Human Capital: The Impact of Enabling Platform Technologies on Employee Mobility | Milan Miric and Hakan Ozalp |
| Diversify or Specialize? Demand-Reputation Trade-offs and Career Paths in Online Labor Markets | Marios Kokkodis |
| The Interplay of People, Technology, and Organizational Practices in Algorithmic Decision Making: An Experimental Study with Reviewing Loan Applications | Anh Luong, Nanda Kumar and Karl Lang |
| Paper | Authors |
| Let’s go to the movies! Subscription Services and Box Office Revenue | Mingyue Zhang, Jesse Bockstedt and Tingting Song |
| Estimating the Value of Destination Disclosure: a Dynamic Structural Model in a Transportation Network | Weilong Wang, Jinyang Zheng, Karthik Kannan and Fei Ren |
| Context-Dependent Preferences and Image-Based Deep-Learning Recommendations | Heeseung Andrew Lee, Kihwan Nam and Wonseok Oh |
| The Effect of Voice AI on Consumer Purchase and Search Behavior | Chenshuo Sun, Zijun Shi, Xiao Liu and Anindya Ghose |
| Does Face Payment Affect Users’ Purchase Behavior? Evidence from a Natural Experiment | Gen Li, Jing Wang and Jason Chan |
| The Impact of Airbnb’s Entry on Financial Delinquency | Jinan Lin, Tingting Nian and Vijay Gurbaxani |
| Knowledge is Like Money: A Demand Estimation for Paid-Knowledge Products | Yue Jin, Jinyang Zheng, Jinghua Huang and Yong Tan |
| Status Downgrade: The Impact of Losing Status on a User Generated Content Platform | Vandith Pamuru, Wreetabrata Kar and Warut Khern-Am-Nuai |
| Paper | Authors |
| Birds of a Feather Flock Together (More) in the Age of Trump: Ethnic Homophily in Crowdfunding | Deserina Sulaeman |
| Product-driven Entrepreneurs and Online Crowdfunding Campaign | Lin Hu, Zhenhua Wu and Bin Gu |
| Battle of Genders: A Large-Scale Empirical Analysis on Emotions, Gender, and Donations in Medical Crowdfunding | Yun Young Hur, Fujie Jin, Yuan Cheng, Xitong Li and Jeffrey Hu |
| Getting Behind Closed Doors: Developing Fan Engagement in Subscription-Based Crowdfunding | Yu-Kai Lin, Arun Rai and Yukun Yang |
| Cryptocurrency Innovations and Returns | Vasundhara Sharma, Ashish Agarwal and Anitesh Barua |
| Status (dis)Advantage: Effect of Stakeholder Diversity and Deviation in Group Norms in Online Matrimonial Platforms | Sabari Rajan Karmegam, Anand Gopal and David Waguespack |
| The Secret to Finding Love: A Field Experiment of Choice Structure in Online Dating Platform | Jaehwuen Jung, Hyungsoo Lim, Dongwon Lee and Chul Kim |
| Network Attraction: Quality vs. Availability in Two Sided Markets | Kyungmin Lee, Nitin Joglekar and Marshall Van Alstyne |
30 mins per paper: 20 min presentation + 5 min discussion + 4 mins Q&A
Session Chair: Huang He
| Paper | Authors | Discussant |
| The Impact of AI-powered Shelf Monitoring on Product Sales: Analysis of a Natural Experiment | Yipu Deng, Jinyang Zheng, Liqiang Huang and Karthik Kannan | Jason Chan |
| The Impacts of Prediction Technologies on Relational Contracts | Parinaz Naghizadeh, Thanh Nguyen and Shai Vardi | Chris Dellarocas |
| UnFair Machine Learning Algorithms | Runshan Fu, Manmohan Aseri, Param Vir Singh and Kannan Srinivasan | Lizhen Xu |
Session Chair: Hongyan Xu
| Paper | Authors | Discussant |
| Gender Gaps in Equity Crowdfunding: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment | Sofia Bapna and Martin Ganco | Ohad Barzilay |
| Tradable Tokens, Demand Discovery and Funding for New Ventures | Yannis Bakos and Hanna Halaburda | VC Choudhary |
| How Does Big Data Impact Small Investors’ Decision Quality? Evidence from a Natural Experiment | Taha Havakhor, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Tianjian Zhang and Chenqi Zhu | Keongtae Kim |
Session Chair: Jorg Claussen
| Paper | Authors | Discussant |
| Extended Abstract on the Use of Personal Data for Crafting and Precision Targeting of Fake News | Eric K Clemons | Soumya Sen |
| Effects of Content Sourcing Strategy on Online News Subscription | Xiaoli Yang and Nachiketa Sahoo | Jorg Claussen |
| How Media Ownership Impacts Information Skews: A Study of Televised News Using Massive-Scale Text Transcripts | Kai Zhu and Dylan Walker | Shawndra Hill |
30 mins per paper: 20 min presentation + 5 min discussion + 4 mins Q&A
Session Chair: Brett Danaher
| Paper | Authors | Discussant |
| Disrupting Class: Using Video Analytics and Machine Learning to Understand Student Behavior Online | Mi Zhou, George Chen, Pedro Ferreira and Michael Smith | Dokyun Lee |
| The Impact of Internet Water Armies on Online and Offline media: An Analysis of Movie Industry | Xueyan Yin, Ying Liu, Pei-Yu Chen and Zhan Shi | Brett Danaher |
| Cross-channel Engagement: The Effect of Mobile TV Streaming on Traditional TV Viewership | Katsiaryna Siamionava, Sabyasachi Mitra, Sridhar Narasimhan, Yevgeniy Puzyrev and Leting Wu | Ananya Sen |
Session Chair: Sagit Bar-Gill
| Paper | Authors | Discussant |
| Chat More and Contribute Better: An Empirical Study of a Knowledge-sharing Community | Xiaomeng Chen, Chris Forman and Michael Kummer | Brad Greenwood |
| Peer Recognition Increases Content Generation but Reduces Content Novelty | Gordon Burtch, Qinglai He, Yili Hong and Dokyun Lee | Anjana Susarla |
| Do Curation Algorithms Amplify the Effect of Trolls on Users? | Amy Pei and Dina Mayzlin | Sagit Bar-Gill |
Session Chair: Olga Slivko
| Paper | Authors | Discussant |
| Search Frictions, Sorting and Matching in Two-Sided Markets | Hyesung Yoo, Song Yao, Ravi Bapna and Jui Ramaprasad | Rodrigo Belo |
| Do corporate contributions spur innovative activity in online crowdsourced goods? Evidence from the Linux kernel | Do Yoon Kim and Mike Teodorescu | Olga Slivko |
| Effects of Individualistic, Cooperative, Competitive, and Coopetitive Gamification on Fitness Mobile App Use: A Longitudinal Field Experiment | Jun Zhang, Qiqi Jiang, Wenping Zhang, Lele Kang, Paul Lowry and Xiong Zhang | Jui Ramaprasad |
15 mins per paper: 10 min presentation + 4 min Q&A + 1 min changeover
Plenary Session Chair: Miguel Godinho de Matos
| Paper | Authors |
| Network centralization and collective intelligence: a randomized experiment | Jesse Shore, Ethan Bernstein and Alice Jayoung Jang |
| Product Variety and Asymmetric Competition: Scalable Market Mapping using Customer Journeys | Madhav Kumar, Dean Eckles and Sinan Aral |
| The Editor vs. the Algorithm: Returns to Data and Externalities in Online News | Jorg Claussen, Christian Peukert & Ananya Sen |
| Cross-Sampling Physical Products Through E-Commerce Warehouses: Experimental Evidence from Alibaba | Brian Rongqing Han, Tianshu Sun, Leon Yang Chu and Lixia Wu |
30 mins per paper: 20 min presentation + 5 min discussion + 4 mins Q&A
Session Chair: Panos Adamopolous
| Paper | Authors | Discussant |
| Cure or Poison? Identity Verification and the Creation of Fake News on Social Media | Shuting Ada Wang, Min-Seok Pang and Paul A. Pavlou | Panos Adamopolous |
| Do Ads Harm News Consumption? | Shunyao Yan, Klaus Miller and Bernd Skiera | Kiron Ravindran |
| Spillovers from Online Engagement: The Effects of Digital Paywall Activation on Subscriber Revenue and Retention | Eric Overby, Adithya Pattabhiramaiah and Lizhen Xu | Ravi Bapna |
Session Chair: Edward McFowland III
| Paper | Authors | Discussant |
| The impact of social media usage on academic performance and well-being: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial | Avinash Collis and Felix Eggers | Bill Rand |
| Can Peer Influence Hamper Success? Exploring Numerous Products’ Diffusion Processes in a Social Platform | Neta Livneh, Lev Muchnik and Jacob Goldenberg | Edward McFowland III |
| Location-Based Mobile Targeting: Push or Pull? | Dominik Molitor, Martin Spann, Anindya Ghose and Philipp Reichhart | Sanjeev Dewan |
Session Chair: Vilma Todri
| Paper | Authors | Discussant |
| Dog Eat Dog: Measuring Returns to Scale Using a Digital Platform Merger | Chiara Farronato, Jessica Fong and Andrey Fradkin | Dave Holtz |
| Impact of Quality-Tiering in a Sharing Economy Platform: Evidence from Airbnb | Jooho Kim, Sanjeev Dewan and Tingting Nian | Vilma Todri |
| Friend or Foe? Bike-sharing and Ride-sharing in New York City | Young-Jin Kwon, Seonkyung Agnes Yang, Sang-Yong Tom Lee and Seung Hyun Kim | Xitong Li |
30 mins per paper: 20 min presentation + 5 min discussion + 4 mins Q&A
Session Chair: Michail Batikas
| Paper | Authors | Discussant |
| In Reviews We Trust: The Dark Side of Review Incentive Programs | Gabriela Alves Werb and Thomas Paul | Dominik Gutt |
| Shedding Light on the Dark: The Impact of Legal Enforcement on Darknet Transactions | Jason Chan, Shu He, Dandan Qiao and Andrew Whinston | Michail Batikas |
| Evaluating the Economic and Security Benefits of Bug Bounty Program | Jiali Zhou and Kai-Lung Hui | Byungjoon Yoo |
Session Chair: Idris Adjerid
| Paper | Authors | Discussant |
| Delaying Informed Consent: An Empirical Investigation of Mobile Apps’ Upgrade Decisions | Raveesh Mayya and Siva Viswanathan | Beibei Li |
| Fear of Losing Financial Information? Testing the Enhanced APCO Framework in the Context of Mobile Banking | Laura Brandimarte, Marco Terlizzi, Otavio Sanchez and Sue Brown | Idris Adjerid |
| How to Sell a Dataset? Pricing Policies for Data Monetization | Sameer Mehta, Milind Dawande, Ganesh Janakiraman and Vijay Mookerjee | Min-Seok Pang |
Session Chair: Hilal Atasoy
| Paper | Authors | Discussant |
| Occupational Change: Automation and Reskilling Risks | Sebastian Steffen and Erik Brynjolfsson | Hilal Atasoy |
| AI vs. Human: The Effect of Artificial Intelligence-Based Mobile Interventions on Health Behavior Change | Nakyung Kyung, Hyeokkoo Eric Kwon and Sanghee Lim | Tuan Phan |
| Adoption of Predictive Analytics: Impact of Model Interpretability | Daehwan Ahn, Abdullah Almaatouq and Kartik Hosanagar | Markus Weinmann |
