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Platform Strategy 2025<\/h2>\n

15 July, Conference<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section>\n
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Start<\/th>End<\/th>Length<\/th><\/td>Papers<\/th>Speakers (bold) and
co-authors<\/strong><\/th>		Discussants<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
8:00 AM<\/td>8:30 AM<\/td>0:30<\/td>Breakfast<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8:30 AM<\/td>8:35 AM<\/td>0:05<\/td>Welcome<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8:35 AM<\/td>10:05 AM<\/td>1:30<\/td>Long
Talks<\/td>		#3 Beyond Funding: Platform-Backed Venture Capital and Digital Competition<\/a><\/td>Zheng Liu<\/strong>
Umit Gurun
Steven Xiao<\/td>		Robin Nowak<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>#117 Converging \u201cTruths\u201d? The Role of Digital Knowledge Platforms for Information Flows across Language Barriers and History<\/a><\/td>Sebastian Steffen
Michael Kummer<\/strong><\/td>		Aarushi Kalra<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>#40 Platform competition with intertwined network effects: theory and evidence<\/a><\/td>Bruno Carballa-Smichowski<\/strong><\/td>Benjamin Casner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:05 AM<\/td>10:30 AM<\/td>0:25<\/td>Break<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30 AM<\/td>11:30 AM<\/td>1:00<\/td>Short
Talks<\/td>		#1 The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment<\/a><\/td>Erik Brynjolfsson
Avinash Collis<\/strong>
Daniel Deisenroth
Haritz GarroDaley Kutzman
Asad Liaqat
Nils Wernerfelt<\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>#42 Attenuating Racial Price Differentials in the Housing Market: Evidence from iBuyers<\/a><\/td>Yuan Cheng
Chris Forman<\/strong>
Peng Liu<\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>#78 The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets<\/a><\/td>Aaron Kaye<\/strong><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>#110 Rejection Design for Crowdsourcing Platforms<\/a><\/td>Zijing Hu<\/strong>
Xuying Zhao<\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>#115 Platform Openness: Evidence from Bug Bounty Programs<\/a><\/td>Sarit Markovich<\/strong>
Tobias Kretschmer
Aviram Zrahia<\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>#128 Platform Recommendation Algorithms, Niche Market Entry, and Quality Competition<\/a><\/td>Gaoyang Cai
Xia Han
Grace Gu<\/strong><\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>#129 Multihoming on Social Media Platforms: The Role of Content Moderation<\/a><\/td>Jonathan Gomez<\/strong>
Ramnath Chellappa
Emma Zhang<\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>#132 Characterizing Big Tech's Competitive Acquisition Behavior: Strategic Convergence and Strategic Persistence<\/a><\/td>Boyoon Chang<\/strong><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>#138 Do user innovation and producer innovation act as complements or as substitutes in the market for product add-ons?: The case of downstream co creation in video games<\/a><\/td>Jing Tang<\/strong>
Richard Makadok<\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:30 AM<\/td>12:00 PM<\/td>0:30<\/td>Break<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:00 PM<\/td>1:00 PM<\/td>1:00<\/td>Long
Talks<\/td>		#64 Bending the Law, Breaking the Platform: How Algorithmic Creative Compliance Backfires in the Gig Economy<\/a><\/td>Bilgehan Uzunca<\/strong><\/td>Liz Altman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>#25 The Value of Non-traditional Credentials in the Labor Market<\/a><\/td>Susan Athey
Emil Palikot<\/strong><\/td>		Aaron P. Kaye<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1:00 PM<\/td>2:00 PM<\/td>1:00<\/td>Lunch<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:00 PM<\/td>3:30 PM<\/td>1:30<\/td>Long
Talks<\/td>		#50 Beyond Automation: The Impact of Robotaxi Services on Ride-Hailing Consumer Behavior<\/a><\/td>Tong Shen<\/strong>
Chen Liang
Xinxin Li
Chunxiao Li<\/td>		Debashish Ghose<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>#103 Opt-In to Innovation? The Effects of Apple\u2019s App Tracking Transparency Policy on Complementor Innovation<\/a><\/td>Robin Nowak<\/strong>
Rebecca Janssen
Patrick Figge<\/td>		Grace Gu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>#148 The Freedom to Choose: The Effects of Ad Choice Architecture on Video Ad Performance in Online Streaming<\/a><\/td>Siddharth Bhattacharya
Debashish Ghose<\/strong>
Gordon Burtch<\/td>		Georgios Petropoulos<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:30 PM<\/td>4:00 PM<\/td>0:30<\/td>Break<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4:00 PM<\/td>5:00 PM<\/td>1:00<\/td>Short
Talks<\/td>		#140 Encouraging Online Knowledge Contributions - Evidence from a Field Experiment<\/a><\/td>Yikun Jiang<\/strong><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>#145 Igniting Innovation: Evidence from PyTorch on Technology Control in Open Collaboration<\/a><\/td>Daniel Yue
Frank Nagle<\/strong><\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>#146 How Platform Transparency Shapes Provider Choices: Evidence from A Natural Experiment on Lyft<\/td>Rubing Li<\/strong>
Xiao Liu
Arun Sundararajan<\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>#154 Platform Design to Curb Misinformation<\/a><\/td>Vasundhara Sharma<\/strong>
Ashish Agarwal
Anitesh Barua<\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>#157 Truth Warrants Increase Economic Value and Accelerate Product Sales in Digital Marketplaces<\/a><\/td>Swapneel Mehta<\/strong>
Aaron Nichols
Nina Mazar
Marshall van Alstyne<\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>#162 Delivering Higher Pay? The Impacts of a Task-Level Pay Standard in the Gig Economy<\/a><\/td>Yuan An<\/strong>
Andrew Garin
Brian Kovak<\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>#164 The Effect of Supplier Activism: Twitch Streamers Boycotting Against Hate Raid Get More Viewers and Followers<\/td>Alice Jang<\/strong>
Sumin Lim<\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>#165 Managing Multihoming Workers in the Gig Economy<\/a><\/td>Park Sinchaisri<\/strong>
Gad Allon
Maxime Cohen
Ken Moon<\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>#169 Designing Inclusive Platforms: Experimental Evidence from Pinterest<\/a><\/td>Madhav Kumar<\/strong>
Pedro Silva
Ashudeep Singh
Abhay Varmaraja<\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5:00 PM<\/td>5:30 PM<\/td>0:30<\/td>Break<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5:30 PM<\/td>6:30 PM<\/td>1:00<\/td>Long
Talks<\/td>		#81 Decentralization and the Law of the Jungle: An Empirical Investigation of Ethereum\u2019s Market Mechanism<\/a><\/td>Hanna Halaburda<\/strong>
Daniel Obermeier<\/td>		Bruno Carballa-Smichowski<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>#28 Hate in the Time of Algorithms: Evidence on Online Behavior from a Large-Scale Experiment<\/a><\/td>Aarushi Kalra<\/strong><\/td>Avinash Collis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7:00 PM<\/td><\/td><\/td>Dinner<\/td>Center for Computing and Data Sciences Building
665 Commonwealth Ave, Bosto
MA 02215
17th Floor<\/td>		<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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