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September 6
Auyon Siddiq, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Title: Platform Disintermediation; Information Effects and Pricing Remedies
Time: 11 a.m. - noon
Location: R1240
September 20
Ricky Roet-Green, University of Rochester, Simon Business School
Title: Foresee the Next Line: Customer Strategies and Information Disclosure in Tandem Queues
Time: 11:00 am- 12:00 pm
Location: R1240
September 27
Gad Allon, Wharton
Title: Strategic Decision-Making in the Gig Economy: Labor Flexibility and Incentives
Time: 11:00 am-12:00 pm
Location: R1240
OCTOBER 4
Antonio Moreno, Harvard
Title: Assortment Curation in Online Marketplaces
Abstract: Most online sales worldwide take place in online marketplaces that connect buyers
with third-party seller. The presence of numerous third-party sellers leads to a proliferation of
options for each product, making it difficult for customers to choose between the available
options. Online marketplaces adopt algorithmic tools to curate how the different options in an
assortment are presented to customers. This talk will discuss some of the key differences
between retailers and marketplaces, and different mechanisms for algorithmic assortment
curation in marketplaces. We will focus on one such tool (an “algorithmic buybox”), that
algorithmically chooses one option to be presented prominently to customers. We leveraged
the staggered introduction of buybox within a prominent product category in a leading online
marketplace to study how introducing buybox for algorithmic assortment curation impacts
marketplace dynamics, exploring consequences for customers, sellers, and the marketplace
operator.
Time: 11:00 am-12:00 pm
Location: R1240
OCTOBER 11
Dennis Zhang, Olin Business School
Title: The Impact of Recommender Systems on Content Consumption and Production: Evidence from Field Experiments and Structural Modeling
Time: 11:00 am-12:00 pm
Location: R0220
OCTOBER 18
Prasanna (Sonny) Tambe, Wharton
Title: Political Polarization and Tech Talent
Abstract: We demonstrate that growing political polarization influences the application behaviors
of technology workers in the startup labor market. We analyze data from a leading job search
platform for high-tech startups in the window surrounding the Supreme Court ruling on Dobbs v.
Jackson Women's Health Organization. The analysis yields three insights: i) following Dobbs,
application rates to new jobs in states with trigger laws fell relative to jobs in states with
legislatures that maintained the legality of abortion; ii) the fall in application rates was primarily
in in-person jobs; and iii) the differences are most pronounced among applicants who have
more power to choose employers. A compensating differential analysis reveals that startups in
trigger-law states had to offer about 15% higher compensation to attract talent than those in
protected states.
Time: 11:00 am-12:00 pm
Location: R1240
NOVEMBER 8
Stefan Wager, Stanford
Title: Optimal Mechanisms for Demand Response: An Indifference Set Approach
Time: 11:00 am-12:00 pm
Location: R1240
NOVEMBER 15
Mor Armony, NYU Stern School of Business
Title: Queue configurations and customer ownership: An Analytical and experimental investigation
Abstract: Contrary to traditional queueing theory, recent field studies in health care and call centers
indicate that pooling queues may not lead to operational efficiencies relative to dedicated
queues. We use an equilibrium queueing model analysis and a series of controlled experiments
to examine the conditions under which this may be the case and to test several behavioral
mechanisms that may explain why. We also examine whether the order in which servers are
exposed to one type of queue configuration versus another has an impact on their performance,
and why.
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 pm
Location: R1240
NOVEMBER 22
Jeannette Song, Duke Fuqua School of Business
Title: Index-Based Yield Protection for Smallholder Farmers
Time: 11:00 am-12:00 pm
Location: R1240