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Pablo Boczkowski on social network news

On April 19th, 2017 the Digital Seminar series hosted Pablo Boczkowski from School of Communication at Northwestern University. Pablo gave a talk called “Social Network News.”

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Susan Athey on news consumption

On April 8th, 2015 the Digital Seminar series hosted Susan Athey from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Susan gave a talk called “Aggregators, Social Media & News Consumption.”

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Lorin Hitt on data analysis capability and the value of social media

On May 6th, 2015 the Digital Seminar series hosted Lorin Hitt from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Lorin gave a talk called “Data Analysis Capability & the Value of Social Media.”

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz on big data and new data

How much sex do people really have? Does advertising work? How many Americans are racist? Is America experiencing a hidden back-alley abortion crisis? Can you game the stock market?

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Ohad Barzilay on the determinants of Kickstarter

On September 23rd, 2015 the Digital Seminar series hosted Ohad Barzilay from the Coller School of Managment at Tel Aviv University.

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Raymond Fisman on preferences of an elite

On April 15th, 2015 the Digital Seminar series hosted Raymond Fisman from Boston University (previously at Columbia Business School). Ray gave a talk called “The Distributional Preferences of an Elite.”

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Timothy Bresnahan on mobile apps

On March 23rd, 2016 the Digital Seminar series hosted Timothy Bresnahan from the School of Humanities & Sciences at Stanford University. He gave a talk called “Demand Heterogeneity, Inframarginal Multihoming, and Platform Market Stability- Mobile Apps.”

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Robert Cannon on the internet interconnection ecosystem

On May 4th, 2016 the Digital Seminar series hosted Robert Cannon from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He gave a talk called “Evolution of the Internet Interconnection Ecosystem.”

Prasanna Tambe on how innovation affects labor market competition

On December 2nd, 2015 the Digital Seminar series hosted Prasanna Tambe from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

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Hong Luo and Julie Mortimer on copyright enforcement

On February 10th, 2016 the Digital Seminar series hosted Hong Luo from Harvard Business School and Julie Mortimer from Boston College. They gave a talk called “Copyright Enforcement: Evidence from Two Field Experiments.”

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