ISB NBER 2024

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Information and Competition in the Digital Economy

Hyderabad, India – December 14 - 15, 2024

ISB-NBER 2024

The third annual ISB-NBER conference on Economic Policy and the Indian Economy will be held at the Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad on December 14-15, 2024. The meeting will focus on the measurement and consequences of competition in digital markets for goods and services, including financial services, and on the impact of public policies on the degree of competition and its consequences. The meeting will be co-organized by Shilpa Aggarwal (ISB) and Amit Seru (Stanford University and NBER).

Priority topics for discussion at the conference include, but are not limited to:

The extent to which digital platform firms have, and exercise, market power, and the consequences of this market power on goods and services as well as data.
The effect of regulatory policies, including competition policy, in digital markets, and the measurement of policy effects in various countries.
The role of entry in limiting the competitive power of incumbents in digital platform markets and on innovation and growth.
Acquisitions, scale economies, and other explanations for the growth of “mega-firms” in the digital economy.

The conference will spotlight research on the India and the South Asian region, but studies of other regions are welcome, particularly when their findings have broad implications for the analysis of digital market competition.

Agenda

Friday, December 13
07:00 pm	Conference Dinner, ITC Kohenur
Saturday, December 14
09:00 am	Coffee and Tea
09:30 am	Monopsony Power in the Gig Economy Jack W. Fisher, University of Virginia Discussant: Michael Luca, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
10:35 am	Break
10:50 am	Regulating Competing Payment Networks Lulu Wang, Northwestern University Discussant: Tommaso Valletti, Imperial College London
11:55 am	Lunch
01:00 pm	Spillover Effects in Complementary Markets: A Study of the Indian Cellphone and Wireless Service Markets Chirantan Chatterjee, University of Sussex Ying Fan, University of Michigan and NBER Debi Prasad Mohapatra, University of Massachusetts Amherst Discussant: Shane Greenstein, Harvard University and NBER
02:05 pm	Break
02:20 pm	Shadow Banks on the Rise: Evidence Across Market Segments Kim F. Cramer, London School of Economics Pulak Ghosh, India Institute of Management Bangalore Nirupama Kulkarni, CAFRAL Nishant Vats, Washington University in St Louis Discussant: Viral V. Acharya, New York University and NBER
03:45 pm	Open Banking and Digital Payments: Implications for Credit Access Shashwat Alok, Indian School of Business Pulak Ghosh, India Institute of Management Bangalore Nirupama Kulkarni, CAFRAL Manju Puri, Duke University and NBER Discussant: Tania Babina, Columbia University and NBER
05:00 pm	Panel Discussion (TBA)
07:00 pm	Dinner
Sunday, December 15
09:00 am	Coffee and Tea
09:30 am	Platform Information Provision and Consumer Search: A Field Experiment Lu Fang, Zhejiang University Yanyou Chen, University of Toronto Chiara Farronato, Harvard University and NBER Zhe Yuan, Zhejiang University Yitong Wang, Alibaba Group Discussant: Zhiguo He, Stanford University and NBER
10:35 am	Break
10:50 am	Demographics and Technology Diffusion: Evidence from Mobile Payments Nicolas Crouzet, Northwestern University Apoorv Gupta, Dartmouth College Pulak Ghosh, India Institute of Management Bangalore Filippo Mezzanotti, Northwestern University and NBER Discussant: Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago and NBER
11:55 am	Lunch
01:00 pm	The Digital Welfare of Nations: New Measures of Welfare Gains and Inequality Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University and NBER Avinash Collis, Carnegie Mellon University Asad Liaqat, Meta Platforms, Inc Daley Kutzman, Meta Platforms, Inc Haritz Garro, Facebook Daniel Deisenroth, Meta Platforms, Inc Nils Wernerfelt, Northwestern University Jae Joon Lee, Stanford University Discussant: Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago and NBER
02:05 pm	Break
02:20 pm	Algorithmic Drivers of Online Behavior: Evidence from a Large-Scale RCT in India Aarushi Kalra, Brown University Discussant: Shilpa Aggarwal, Indian School of Business
04:00 pm	Adjourn

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Saturday, December 14

Sunday, December 15

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