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Platform Strategy 2026<\/h2>\n

28 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>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
8:00 AM<\/td>8:30 AM<\/td>0:30<\/td>Breakfast<\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8:30 AM<\/td>8:35 AM<\/td>0:05<\/td>Welcome<\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8:35 AM<\/td>10:05 AM<\/td>1:30<\/td>Long
Talks<\/td>		A network approach to interoperability<\/td>Guofu Tan<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>The economics of algorithmic personalization: Evidence from an educational technology platform<\/td>Emil Palikot<\/strong>
Susan Athey
Shanjukta Nath
Keshav Agrawal
Ayush Kanodia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>When does algorithm beat data? Gaining momentum in dynamic platform competition<\/td>Hanna Halaburda
Sarit Markovich
Yaron Yehezkel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:05 AM<\/td>10:30 AM<\/td>0:25<\/td>Break<\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30 AM<\/td>11:30 AM<\/td>1:00<\/td>Short
Talks<\/td>		Platform Power in Healthcare: How EHR Systems Shape Physician Referrals and Competition<\/td>Meizi Zhou
Bin Gu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>MS-Bridge: A Deep Multi-Stakeholder Multi-Objective Recommendation Model for Two-Sided Media Platforms<\/td>Pan Li<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>Platform-within-Platform: Data Network Effects and Competitive Catch-up<\/td>Huiyi Litan<\/strong>
Di Zhou
Ke Rong<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>How Fake Review Alerts Help the Platform<\/td>Ted Matherly<\/strong>
Jared Watson
Amna Kirmani<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>Regression Towards the Mean? Valuations and Investor Returns When Unicorn Platforms Go Public or Are Acquired<\/td>Sarah Walker<\/strong>
Michael Cusumano
Annabelle Gawer
David Yoffie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>Platform Governance and Automated Enforcement: Evidence from YouTube Content ID<\/td>Christian Peukert
Sverrir Arnorsson
Stefan Bechtold
Catherine Tucker<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>To Conform or Not To Conform: Affiliate Program Design and Recommendations Conformity<\/td>Xudong Zheng
Itay Fainmesser<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>Addictive Platform Design: Competition, Awareness, and Regulation<\/td>Francesco Decarolis<\/strong>
Miguel Risco
Carl Christian Groh
Rafael Jim\u00e9nez-Dur\u00e1n
Martino Banchio<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>Focality Dynamics and Platform Competition<\/td>Hongxia Ma<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>Just trading opportunists? How crypto token airdrops shape open platform contributions<\/td>Georg Schiffner
Patrick Pollok
Frank Piller<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>News Consumption, Recommender Systems, and Polarization<\/td>Mingduo Zhao<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:30 AM<\/td>12:00 PM<\/td>0:30<\/td>Break<\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:00 PM<\/td>1:00 PM<\/td>1:00<\/td>Long
Talks<\/td>		How B2B Platforms Evolve Differently: Value Creation, Platform Architecture, and Integration Cost Sharing<\/td>Boyoon Chang<\/strong>
Georgios Petropoulos
Didier Bonnet
Geoffrey Parker<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>Sherlocking: The Effect of Platform-Owner Entry on the Competitive Behavior of Third-Party Firms<\/td>Benjamin Leyden<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1:00 PM<\/td>2:00 PM<\/td>1:00<\/td>Lunch<\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:00 PM<\/td>3:30 PM<\/td>1:30<\/td>Long
Talks<\/td>		Curbing Hidden Advertisements in Children's Videos: The Limits of Platform Policies<\/td>Vasundhara Sharma
Sumeet Kumar
Ashish Agarwal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>Content Creator Multihoming and Attention Spillovers Across Platforms<\/td>Xinzhi Rao<\/strong>
Jingyan Dai
Yulin Hao
Liangfei Qiu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>Marketplace or Reseller? Optimal Platform Model under Disintermediation<\/td>Danhou Li<\/strong>
Jinan Lin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:30 PM<\/td>4:00 PM<\/td>0:30<\/td>Break<\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4:00 PM<\/td>5:00 PM<\/td>1:00<\/td>Short
Talks<\/td>		When Competition is Not Zero-Sum: Interview Capacity and Screening Technologies in Matching Platforms<\/td>Xi Jing
Bin Gu
Abraham Seidmann
Vera Tilson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>Supplier Scale, Competition, and Consumer Experience in Platforms<\/td>Xueyun Luo
Chris Forman
Mohammad Rahman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>Google AI Overviews and Publisher Traffic: Evidence from a Field Experiment<\/td>Saharsh Agarwal
Ananya Sen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>\u201cFrenemy\u201d of Two Giants: Amazon and Apple<\/td>Ksenia Shakhgildyan<\/strong>
Muxin Li<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>Does Generative AI Crowd Out Human Creators? Evidence from Pixiv<\/td>Ginger Jin<\/strong>
Sueyoul Kim
Eungik Lee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>Beyond Search: LLM Adoption and Web Traffic Concentration<\/td>Cristiana Firullo
Samira Gholami
Cristobal Cheyre
Alessandro Acquisti<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>The Transmission of Trade Shocks in Digital Markets<\/td>Jorge Klinnert<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>Supplier Responses to Platform Recommendations in Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce<\/td>Ziwei Cong<\/strong>
Yi Chen
Yixing Chen
Liwen Hou<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>Platform's Surprise Discounts with Salient Consumers<\/td>Chang Dong
Rachel Chen
Juan Li<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>Antitrust Enforcement and the Redirection of Platform M&A Strategy<\/td>Yangyang Cheng
Daniel Sokol<\/strong>

Carmelo Cennamo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go! How Superstars Influence Content Liquidity on Live Platforms<\/td>Dominik Gutt
Jens Foerderer
Brad Greenwood<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5:00 PM<\/td>5:30 PM<\/td>0:30<\/td>Break<\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5:30 PM<\/td>6:30 PM<\/td>1:00<\/td>Long
Talks<\/td>		Consumer Choice between Recommendation Algorithms - Experimental Evidence<\/td>Felix Schleef<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td>Privacy Spillovers across Competing Platforms<\/td>Raveesh Mayya
Jiding Zhang<\/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>\n<\/tr>\n
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