On sabbatical spring 2023.

3/23/2022

I sat with my co-author and friend, Ruslan Momot, and our host Debra Mao, for a conversation about digital privacy, incentives, and welfare. Much of the conversation is based on findings in our paper Digital Privacy (joint with Andrea Galeotti).

1/27/2022

I had a interesting conversation with Joshua Porterfield of the JHU Pandemic Data Initiative about health data, privacy, and social networks. Here's his coverage of it:

10/4/2021

An article by my co-author and friend, Ruslan Momot, who is also on the job market in OM, about our joint work with Andrea Galeotti on digital privacy:

8/19/2021

Korean media interview with my co-author, Ruslan Momot, about our joint work (also joint with Andrea Galeotti) on digital privacy:

12/4/2020

A nice article by my co-author, Ruslan Momot, about our joint work (also joint with Andrea Galeotti) on digital privacy:

7/24/2020

A byproduct of the COVID-19 pandemic and of social distancing is a sharp increase in online activity. This magnifies existing digital privacy challenges and introduces new ones. There is a lot that we don't yet understand, but some that we do. A short interview that I gave on the issue is available here. It is based on my paper Digital Privacy with Andrea Galeotti and Ruslan Momot.

3/21/2020

Thank you to Luohan Academy for covering our work in their Frontiers magazine. While it is correct that we recommend enforcement against online adversaries, our policy recommendations also include regulation of digital businesses, in particular, holding businesses liable for damage to users and a minimal level of data protection requirement. Scroll down for a video of a short talk in which I cover our main results and policy recommendations.

3/5/2020

Update: the Privacy Workshop at Princeton was a great learning experience. Here's a 25-minute video of my talk:

2/18/2020

Looking forward to this week's Privacy Workshop at Princeton, with a wonderful set of speakers that I hope to learn a lot from.

2/14/2020

The 4th Conference on Social and Political Economics is coming up. This year's conference will be at The Carey Campus on April 24-25 and will be titled The Sharing/Gig Economy. The program and free registration are here.

9/24/2019

My co-author, Ruslan Momot, is on the US market in Operations Management. In a new paper, Ruslan and I, together with Andrea Galeotti, develop a framework to study Digital Privacy. We find that—contrary to public opinion—advertisement-driven companies do not invariably retain more of their users’ data than do transaction-driven companies, and that measuring the direct damage inflicted by malicious parties on users significantly underestimates the welfare loss and the loss of consumer surplus due to adversarial activity.

5/6/2019

From La Réclame on my work with Andrea Galeotti on The Market for Online Influence (in French):

4/16/19

From the HUB on my work with Andrea Galeotti on The Market for Online Influence:

4/5/19

I'm co-organizing (with Chen Cheng, Marcelo Fernandez, and Yiqing Xing) the 3rd Conference on Social and Political Economics. This year's conference will be on Hopkins' Homewood Campus on May 3-4 and will be titled (De)centralization and Incentives. The program and free registration are here.

2/19/19

In a new paper, joint with Dominique Lauga and Elie Ofek, we study a model of Ratings, Reviews, and the Marketing of New Products. We show that whether consumers share just ratings or full reviews online has implications to the firm's pricing and advertising efforts, and affects profits and welfare.

3/19/19

In a recent paper, joint with Andrea Galeotti, we develop a model of The Market for Online Influence and study the growing practice of Influencer Marketing. The paper was covered by Changing Business Magazine and by the London Business School Review. Here's a trailer: