Program
Updated: November 8, 2023
All session times noted are in U.S. Pacific Standard time zone.
Wednesday, November 8
2:00 PM - 2:05 PM Welcome and Opening Remarks | Grand Ballroom AB
Wilko Schulz-Mahlendorf, Director of ML and Economics, Amazon Health
2:05 PM - 2:45 PM Outlook for Economics Careers in Industry | Grand Ballroom AB
Chris Nosko, VP Economist, Core AI, Amazon
Ellen Zentner, NABE President; Chief U.S. Economist, Morgan Stanley
Moderator: Wilko Schulz-Mahlendorf, Director of ML and Economics, Amazon Health
For reference: Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies (Athey, Luca)
2:50 PM - 3:30 PM Putting Econometrics into Practice | Grand Ballroom AB
Stefan Wager, Associate Professor of Operations, Information & Technology, Stanford Graduate School of Business | Slides
Moderator: Dominic Coey, Director, Research Science, Meta
3:30 PM - 3:50 PM Networking Break | Grand Ballroom CD
3:50 PM - 4:45 PM Remote Work and the Geography of Housing Prices and Wages | Grand Ballroom AB
Steve Davis, William H. Abbott Distinguished Service Professor of International Business and Economics, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Daryl Fairweather, Chief Economist, RedFin
Michael Wilkerson, Partner and Director of Analytics, ECONorthwest
Moderator: Issi Romem, Economist and Founder, MetroSight
4:50 PM - 5:30 PM Infrastructure Investment and Policy Implications | Grand Ballroom AB
Peter Blair Henry, Class of 1984 Senior Fellow, Stanford University’s Hoover Institution; Senior Fellow, Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Chair, NBER Board of Directors
Moderator: Erica Groshen, Senior Economics Advisor, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Networking Reception | Grand Ballroom CD
7:00 PM Small Group Dinners | Area Restaurants (registration required; to be placed on waitlist, please email [email protected])
Thursday, November 9
7:45 AM - 9:30 AM Breakfast | Grand Ballroom CD
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Poster Session Lightning Talks | Grand Ballroom E
Moderator: Benjamin Leyden, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Business Economics, Cornell University
Boyoon Chang, PhD Candidate in Economics, University of Oregon
“Why Firms Buy: Dynamic Games of Acquisition Among Tech Giants”
Luise Eisfeld, Assistant Professor, HEC Lausanne
“Entry and Acquisitions in Software Markets”
Arnab Palit, PhD Candidate, Boston College
“Cost Complementarities and Package Bidding for K-12 Broadband”
Emma Schwager, Principal Statistician, Woods & Poole Economics, Inc.
”An Examination of Demographic Time Series Data from 1980 to 2010”
Michael Sullivan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Business School
“Price Controls in a Multi-Sided Market”
Emma Wiles, PhD Candidate in Management Science, MIT Sloan School of Management
"Algorithmic Writing Assistance on Jobseekers' Resumes Increases Hires"
Zhu Zhu, Senior Analyst, Decision Science, Wayfair
“The Effects of Online Review Ratings: A Case Study of the Hotel Industry”
This year’s Tech Economics Conference Lightning Talks/Poster Sessions will be hosted by The NABE Foundation in honor of Liam Emsbo-Mattingly. The son of a former NABE President, Liam passed away suddenly in 2022. Liam was captivated by technology and was an innovator at heart, and so it is a fitting tribute that this session of short, cutting-edge talks be held in his memory.
8:15 AM - 9:15 AM Job Market Mentoring (closed session; sign-up required) | Grand Ballroom GH
9:30 AM - 10:20 AM Machine Learning and Macroeconomics | Grand Ballroom AB
Emi Nakamura, Chancellor's Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley | Slides
Moderator: Ellen Zentner, NABE President; Chief U.S. Economist, Morgan Stanley
10:20 AM - 10:25 AM Presentation of NABE Fellow Awards to Patrick Bajari and Michael Luca | Grand Ballroom AB
Presented by: Ellen Zentner, NABE President; Chief U.S. Economist, Morgan Stanley
10:25 AM - 11:10 AM Sizing the Opportunity of AI for Business | Grand Ballroom AB
Pat Bajari, Partner, Managing Director for Core AI, Chief Economist, Keystone Strategy
Michael Chui, Partner, McKinsey Global Institute, McKinsey & Company
Moderator: Lisa Emsbo-Mattingly, CBE, Portfolio Manager, Strategic Advisors, Fidelity Investments
11:10 AM - 11:40 AM Networking Break/Poster Session | Grand Ballroom CD and Foyer
11:40 AM - 12:35 PM Concurrent Sessions
Session I - I Recruit Economists - Ask Me Anything! | Grand Ballroom AB
Jackie Mills, Manager, Talent Acquisition, The Brattle Group
Renee Stewart, Senor Technical Recruiter, Amazon
Moderator: Kyle Kretschman, Head of Economics, Spotify
Session II - Selected Topics on Experiments | Grand Ballroom E
Session hosted by the Economic Science Association
Gonzalo Arrieta, PhD Candidate in Economics, Stanford University | Slides
"Procedural Decision - Making In The Face Of Complexity"
Brian Jabarian, Howard and Nancy Marks Principal Researcher, The University of Chicago Booth Business School
"Generation Next: Experimentation with AI"
Moderator/Speaker: Jessica B. Hoel, Colorado College | Slides
"Ill-informed beliefs: Misperceptions of the costs of unplanned parental absences"
Session III - Innovations in Forecasting | Grand Ballroom F
Zachary Legge, Senior Economist, Zillow
David Savlowitz, CEO and Founder, Competitive Analytics
Moderator: Huiwen Hu, Senior Lead Data Science Engineer, DraftKings
12:35 PM - 1:30 PM Networking Lunch | Grand Ballroom GH
Student attendee? Grab lunch on your own and be back by 1:35 PM for the concurrent sessions.
1:35 PM - 2:30 PM Concurrent Sessions
Session I - Applications of Causal Inference in Observational Settings | Grand Ballroom AB
Allen Tran, Content Data Science, Netflix | Slides
Eray Turkel, Economist, Google | Slides
Katrina Yang, Data Scientist, Google
Moderator: Chris Khawand, Principal Economist, Amazon
Session II - Quality and Reviews in Marketplaces | Grand Ballroom E
Andrey Fradkin, Assistant Professor, Boston University Questrom School of Business | Slides
Brett Hollenbeck, Associate Professor, UCLA Anderson School of Management | Slides
Sonia Jaffe, Principal Researcher, Microsoft
Moderator: Peter Coles, Data Science Lead, Central Strategy and Insights, Airbnb
Session III - People Analytics: Exploring Workplace Dynamics and Challenges | Grand Ballroom F
Dara Lee Luca, Senior Economist, Manager, Amazon
Lucas Puente, Senior Director, Survey Science and Quantitative Research, Slack | Slides
Moderator/Speaker: Liz Wilke, Chief Economist, Gusto | Slides
2:30 PM - 2:55 PM Networking Break/Poster Session | Grand Ballroom CD and Foyer
2:55 PM - 3:50 PM Concurrent Sessions
Session I - Solutions to Real-World Challenges in Marketing Measurement in the Post-Cookie Era | Grand Ballroom AB
Mike Anderson, Data Scientist, Google
Sam Barrows, Data Science Manager, Marketing, Airbnb
Yufei Wu, Senior Data Scientist/Economist, Airbnb
Jacob Zhu, Lead Data Scientist, Airbnb
Moderator: Phil Sonn, Senior Data Scientist, Apple
Session II - Best Practices for Measuring a Changing Economy | Grand Ballroom E
Jeffrey Barnett, Chief of the Expenditure and Income Division, Bureau of Economic Analysis | Slides
Steve Coffey, Executive Advisor, Circana | Slides
Katie Genadek, Principal Economist for Economic Directorate, Director of Decennial Census Digitization and Linkage Project, U.S. Census Bureau | Slides
Moderator: Michael McDonough, Chief Economist for Financial Products, Bloomberg LP
Session III - Selected Talks on Antitrust and Competition Policy | Grand Ballroom F
Kevin Christensen, Director, DC Office, Berkeley Research Group
Georgios Petropoulos, Research Associate; MIT Sloan School of Management; Digital Fellow, Digital Economy Lab, Stanford HAI | Slides
Moderator: Paul Liu, Director, Economics, Google
4:00 PM - 4:50 PM Economic Analysis in the Digital Economy: Applications in Transportation and Advertising | Grand Ballroom AB
Session hosted by National Bureau of Economic Research
Steve Tadelis, Professor, Sarin Chair in Strategy and Leadership at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business | Slides
Shoshana (Susana) Vasserman, Assistant Professor of Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business; Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research | Slides
Michael Ostrovsky, Fred H. Merrill Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Topsort | Slides
Moderator: Michael Luca, Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
4:55 PM - 5:45 PM Labor Market Outlook: Insights from Real-Time Data Sources | Grand Ballroom AB
Svenja Gudell, Chief Economist, Indeed | Slides
Karin Kimbrough, Chief Economist, LinkedIn | Slides
Ben Zweig, CEO, Revelio Labs | Slides
Moderator: Sylvain Leduc, Executive Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
5:45 PM - 6:45 PM Networking Reception | Grand Ballroom CD and Foyer
Friday, November 10
7:30 AM - 8:15 AM Breakfast | Grand Ballroom CD
8:15 AM - 9:00 AM Do Algorithms Collude? | Grand Ballroom AB
Zach Brown, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan | Slides
Jeanine Miklos-Thal, Fred H. Gowen Professor of Economics and Management, Simon Business School, University of Rochester
Moderator: Benjamin Leyden, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Business Economics, Cornell University
9:05 AM - 9:50 AM Opportunities for Generative AI to Transform Business | Grand Ballroom AB
Erik Brynjolfsson, Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI); Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab | Slides
Moderator: Wilko Schulz-Mahlendorf, Director of ML and Economics, Amazon Health
9:50 AM - 10:35 AM Networking Break/Small Informal Chats (chats will be from 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM)
Chat I - A Career in Tech: The First Five Years | Camino Real (2nd floor)
Colin Gray, Principal Economist, Wayfair
Samuel Moy, Senior Applied Scientist, Uber
Sophie Sheng, Economist, LinkedIn
Chat II - Thinking of Jumping from Academia to Industry? | Bayshore (2nd floor)
Peter Coles, Data Science Lead, Central Strategy and Insights, Airbnb
Chris Glynn, Director of Data Science, Indeed.com
Ruben Lobel, Data Scientist, Airbnb
Dara Lee Luca, Senior Economist, Manager, Amazon
Chat III - Manager or Senior IC? Navigating Midcareer Decisions | Sonoma (lobby level)
Ayal Chen-Zion, Staff Data Scientist, Netflix
Dimitriy Masterov, Principal, FRACE
Rose Tan, Economist, LinkedIn
Chat IV - Women in Tech | Napa 1 (lobby level)
Sarah Ali, Vice President of Economic Forecasting, Indiana Economic Development Corporation
Svenja Gudell, Chief Economist, Indeed
Elda Pema, Staff Data Scientist, Airbnb
Chat V - Ten Years in Tech: What Have We Learned? | Napa 3 (lobby level)
Duncan Gilchrist, Co-Founder, Delphina
Wilko Schulz-Mahlendorf, Director of ML and Economics, Amazon Health
Chat VI - The Past and Future of Academic/Tech Collaborations | Central (2nd floor)
Lisa Simon, Chief Economist, Revelio Labs
Aaron Terrazas, Chief Economist, Glassdoor
10:35 AM - 11:30 AM Concurrent Sessions
Session I - LLM Applications in B2B Monetization | Grand Ballroom AB
Boyu Wang, Principal Data Scientist, Snowflake | Slides
Anbang Xu, Senior Manager, Machine Learning, NVIDIA | Slides
Liyang Zhao, Data Scientist, LinkedIn | Slides
Maggie Zhang, Senior Manager AI/ML, LinkedIn
Moderator: Fangfang Tan, Senior Manager, Data Science and Applied ML, LinkedIn
Session II - Developments in Fintech | Grand Ballroom E
Bryant Chen, Staff Data Scientist, Slope.ai | Slides
Peter Gross, Director, Analytics, Remitly | Slides
Pierre-Luc Vautrey, Research Scientist, Economics, Meta
Moderator: Mingzi Yi, Forecasting Manager, Zillow
Session III - Experimentation - Applications and Methods | Grand Ballroom F
Ari Bronsoler, Behavioral Economist, Google | Slides
Rebecca Fraenkel, Data Scientist, Google
Dimitriy Masterov, Principal, FRACE | Slides
Rustin Partow, Senior Economist/MLE II, Instacart | Slides
Moderator: Benjamin Neuwirth, Data Science Manager, Stripe
11:30 AM - 11:40 AM Transition
11:40 AM - 12:35 PM Concurrent Sessions
Session I - Harnessing Long-Range Forecasts for Strategic Operational Planning: A Deep Dive into Risk Management and Forecasting Models | Grand Ballroom AB
Ida Johnsson, Associate Director and Economist, Chewy
Rob Vigfusson, Principal Economist, Amazon | Slides
Mingzi Yi, Forecasting Manager, Zillow | Slides
Moderator: Qing Wu, Principal Economist, Google
Session II - Social Media | Grand Ballroom E
Tom Cunningham, Economist and Data Scientist | Slides
Marcel Preuss, Assistant Professor of Economics and Business Strategy, Cornell University | Slides
Vitoria Rabello de Castro, Senior Economist, Keystone Strategy | Slides
Moderator: Guy Berger, Economist
Session III - AI Policy and Regulation: Balancing Consumer Protection and Innovation | Grand Ballroom F
Kirti Gupta, Vice President & Chief Economist, Global Technology, Cornerstone Research; Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Jeffrey Prince, Professor of Business Economics, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Moderator: Michael Schwarz, Chief Economist and Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
12:35 PM - 1:35 PM Networking Luncheon | Grand Ballroom GH
Student attendee? Grab lunch on your own and be back by 1:40 PM for the concurrent sessions.
1:40 PM - 2:35 PM Concurrent Sessions
Session I - New Methods and Data for Labor Market Analysis | Grand Ballroom AB | Slides
Lucia Del Carpio, Assistant Professor of Economics, INSEAD
Emily Nix, Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics, USC Marshall School of Business
Carlo Pizzinelli, Economist, International Monetary Fund
Moderator: Pawel Adrjan, Economist and Director of EMEA and APAC Research, Indeed
Session II -Tech for the Social Good | Grand Ballroom E
Ruth Elisabeth Appel, PhD Candidate in Political Communication and Media Psychology, Stanford University
Moderator/Speaker: Michael Luca, Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School | Slides
Session III - Strategic Pricing Using Cutting-Edge Methods and Data-Driven Solutions | Grand Ballroom F
Rishi Kulkarni, Data Science Manager, IntelyCare
Lars Roemheld, Head of Pricing Science, Zalando
Daniel Schmierer, Staff Data Scientist, Airbnb
Moderator: Mona Birjandi, Senior Managing Economist, Data for Decisions
2:45 PM - 3:25 PM Interference Effects in A/B Tests | Grand Ballroom AB
Ramesh Johari, Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering (by courtesy), and Computer Science (by courtesy), Stanford University | Slides
Moderator: Duncan Gilchrist, Co-founder, Delphina
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM Future of the Economic System Given Diminishing Marginal Costs | Grand Ballroom AB
Anat Admati, Professor of Finance and Economics, Stanford University
Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google
Moderator/Speaker: Michael Schwarz, Chief Economist and Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
4:15 PM Adjournment