The workshop aims to bring together researchers from economics, information systems, law, marketing, strategy, and related fields who study digitization and its impact.

The deadline for paper submissions was December 15, 2025 (11.59pm EST).

For any issue please contact us at dew2026@alba.acg.edu

Please note that no formal proceedings will be published, and all rights to submitted papers remain with the authors.

We are delighted to announce two exciting keynote speakers: 

·      Shane Greenstein, the Martin Marshall Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

·      Marshall Van Alstyne, the Allen and Kelly Questrom Professor at Boston University. 

A cultural activity for the participants will take place on March 18.

Organizing Team:

• Panos Adamopoulos, Emory University Goizueta Business School

• Michail Batikas, Nova School of Business & Economics

• George Chondrakis, ESADE Business School

• Apostolos Filippas, Gabelli School of Business

• Giannis Kanellopoulos, Tilburg School of Economics and Management

• Harris Kyriakou, ESSEC Business School

• Nikos Mylonopoulos, Alba Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece

• Stella Pachidi, King’s Business School

• Georgios Petropoulos, USC Marshall School of Business

• Nancy Pouloudi, Athens University of Economics and Business

• Vilma Todri, Emory University Goizueta Business School

• Dimitris Tsekouras, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

• Konstantina Valogianni, IE Business School

Location: ALBA Graduate Business School, Athens

Parallel Sessions: 15 minutes presentation, 6 minutes discussion, 4 minutes Q&A

Plenary Flash Sessions: 8 minutes presentation, 2 minutes Q&A

Sunday, March 15, 2026

17:30 – 18:00 | Meet at Museum of Acropolis 

18:00 – 20:00 | Guided visit at Museum of Acropolis (kindly note that admission and related costs are at participants’ own expense)

20:30 – Dinner (kindly note that dinner will be at participants’ own expense) 

Monday, March 16, 2026

08:30 – 09:00 | Coffee and Registration

09:00 – 09:15 | Welcome Address

09:15 – 10:30 | Keynote Address 1

Chair: Nikos Mylonopoulos (Alba Graduate Business School)

Shane Greenstein 

(Harvard Business School)

The Empirical Economics of Co-invention

10:30 – 10:40 | Coffee Break

10:40 – 11:55 | Parallel Sessions I 

Track A: Social Media, Polarization & Persuasion

Chair: Dimitrios Tsekouras (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

●      Engagement vs. Commitment: The Economic Trade-Offs of Polarizing News Content

Klaus Miller (HEC Paris)

Discussant: Christian Peukert (HEC Lausanne)

●      Inflating views: The effect of paid views on music consumption 

May Truong (IE University)

Discussant: Kai Zhu (Bocconi University)

●      How Does Social Media Shape Information Diffusion? Evidence from Canada's Online News Act

Luis Aguiar (University of Zurich)

Discussant: Dimitrios Tsekouras (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Track B: Platform Economics: Competition & Regulation

Chair: Harris Kyriakou (ESSEC Business School)

●      Competition-as-a-Service: How subscription bundles reshape platform competition and seller performance

Ambre Elsas-Nicolle (Mines Paris - PSL)

Discussant: Ting Li (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

●      Behavioral Responses on Digital Platforms: Regulation and Service Provider Dynamics

Katia Meggiorin (Stevens Institute of Technology)

Discussant: Jörg Claussen (LMU Munich)

●      An Empirical Investigation of Algorithmic Failure in the App Store

Alireza Hajighasemi (ESSEC Business School)

Discussant: Verina F. Que (Nanyang Technological University)

11:55 – 12:15 | Coffee Break

12:15 – 13:15 | Plenary Flash Session A – Part 1: Digital Content, AI & Society

Chair: Markos Zachariadis (University of Manchester)

(8 minutes presentation, 2 minutes Q&A)

●      LLM Time Machines: Valuing digital goods over time — Avinash Collis (Carnegie Mellon University)

●      Scaling the Returns to Automation: Algorithms, Robots and Organizational Learning— Christian Peukert (HEC Lausanne)

●      AI adoption in primary care: The case of antibiotic prescribing — Hannes Ullrich (DIW Berlin and University of Copenhagen)

●      Working with Generative AI vs Humans: The Impact on Wellbeing — Eirini Spiliotopoulou (Tilburg University)

●      How Socio-Political Events Shape Consumption: Evidence from Music Streaming — Luca Rossi (Nova SBE)

●      The Effect of Misinformation Correction on Post Perception and Reply Behavior — Jacob Schildknecht (Justus Liebig University Giessen)

13:15 – 14:50 | Lunch

14:50 – 16:05 | Parallel Sessions II

Track A: Generative AI: Adoption, Productivity and Market Structures

Chair: Manos Gkeredakis (IESE Business School)

●      Generative AI and Market Structure in Open Source Software: Evidence from GitHub Copilot

Michail Batikas (Nova SBE)

Discussant: Klaus Miller (HEC Paris)

●      GenAI as a Coding Partner: Productivity Gains at the Cost of Sustainability and Maintenance

Feiyang Xu (Tilburg University)

Discussant: David Nguyen (Stanford University)

●      Early adoption of generative AI: Users, uses, and behavioral change

Sebastian Valet (ZEW Mannheim / KIT)

Discussant: Liyang Zhou (Bocconi University)

Track B: Human-AI Collaboration & Signaling

Chair: Konstantina Valogianni (IE University)

●      Fool's Gold: AI as a Signal Disruptor

Francesco Balocco (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Discussant: Benjamin Manning (MIT)

●      Responsive Advisors, Indifferent Clients: Evidence from a Field Experiment on the Role of Explainable AI in Financial Advice

Lena Liebich (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Discussant: Verana Dorner (WU Vienna)

●      Action vs. Attention Signals for Human-AI Collaboration: Evidence from Chess

Stefanos Poulidis (INSEAD)

Discussant: Konstantina Valogianni (IE University)

16:05 – 16:25 | Coffee Break

16:25 – 17:15 | Plenary Flash Session A – Part 2: Digital Content, AI & Society

Chair: Stefanos Poulidis (INSEAD)

(8 minutes presentation, 2 minutes Q&A)

●      Measuring Welfare Gains from Digital Variety: Evidence from App-level Time Use in China — David Nguyen (Stanford University)

●      Breaking News, Live Streams: Creator Adaptation to Political Shocks on Twitch — Jens Buurveld (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

●      Political Ideology and Connective Action - An Exploratory Study — Srinaath Anbudurai (HEC Paris)

●      Generative AI and the division of labor in Knowledge Work: Evidence from Open Source Ecosystems — Lena Poinsignon (Institut Mines Telecom Business School)

●      An Ethical Expertise Perspective on the Emerging Dilemmas of AI Systems: Reorienting IS Research on AI Ethics — Manos Gkeredakis (IESE Business School)

19:00 | Reception and Conference Dinner 

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

08:30 – 09:00 | Coffee

09:00 – 10:15 | Parallel Sessions III 

Track A: The Economics of Privacy & Data Governance

Chair: Apostolos Filippas (Fordham University)

●      Consumer Value of Privacy: Evidence from an Online Retailer

Mimansa Bairathi (University College London)

Discussant: Jessica Jumee Kim (Bocconi University)

●      Designing for Data Democratization: Mechanisms from the EU Data Act

Aqib Siddiqui (London School of Economics)

Discussant: Wei Wang (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

●      How Do Past Privacy Choices Shape the Future?

Verina F. Que (Nanyang Technological University)

Discussant: Apostolos Filippas (Fordham University)

Track B: Digital Infrastructure & Network Value

Chair: Eirini Spiliotopoulou (Tilburg University)

●      Measuring Social Media Network Effects

Christos Nicolaides (University of Cyprus)

Discussant: Lukasz Grzybowski (University of Warsaw)

●      Is AI Trained on Public Money? Evidence from U.S. Data Centers

Adam Feher (University of Lausanne)

Discussant: Xin (Stella) Zhou (Bocconi University)

●      Digital Labor and Territorial Cohesion: Evidence from a Policy-Induced Broadband Expansion

Estrella Gomez Herrera (University of Balearic Islands)

Discussant: Lena Poinsignon (Institut Mines Telecom Business School)

10:15 – 10:35 | Coffee Break

10:35 – 11:35 | Plenary Flash Session B – Part 1: Platforms, Markets & Data Governance

Chair: Christos Nicolaides (University of Cyprus)

(8 minutes presentation, 2 minutes Q&A)

●      The Welfare Effects of Behavior-based Promotion Discrimination in E-commerce — Francesco Gabriele (HKUST)

●      Bias in Freelance Marketplaces: Algorithmic vs Human-Mediated Decision-Making — Vladimer Kobayashi (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

●      Democratizing the Creator Economy: Monetizing Through Subscriptions — Xin (Stella) Zhou (Bocconi University)

●      Influencer Dynamics — Kazimier Smith (MIT)

●      Reputation Restarting on Digital Platforms: Evidence from the Short-Term Rental Market — Chiara Belletti (University Paris Dauphine - PSL)

●      Defrosting the Ice Cream Machine: Repair Rights, Software Locks, and Reliability — Ulrich Laitenberger (Tilburg University)

11:35 – 13:05 | Lunch

13:05 – 14:20 | Keynote Address 2

Chair: Georgios Petropoulos (USC Marshall School of Business)

Marshall Van Alstyne 

(Boston University Questrom School of Business)

Using Markets to Clear Misinformation

14:20 – 14:40 | Coffee Break

14:40 – 15:55 | Session IV

Track A & Β: Emerging Topics, Behaviors and Methodologies

Chair: Giannis Kanellopoulos (Tilburg University)

●      The AI Democratization Paradox: Large-scale Evidence from a Decentralized Knowledge Platform

Kai Zhu (Bocconi University)

Discussant: Vladimer Kobayashi (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

●      General Social Agents

Benjamin Manning (MIT)

Discussant: Rodrigo Belo (Nova SBE)

●      Higher Minimum Wages, Happier Customers? Quasi-Experimental Evidence using Online Ratings Across the US

Casper Steehouwer (Tilburg University)

Discussant: Francesco Gabriele (HKUST)

15:55 – 16:10 | Coffee Break

16:10 – 17:00 | Plenary Flash Session B – Part 2: Platforms, Markets & Data Governance

Chair: Michail Batikas (Nova SBE)

(8 minutes presentation, 2 minutes Q&A)

●      Exploring the Impact of Food Waste Apps on Local Shoplifting — Maike Althaus (Paderborn University)

●      Demand for Smartphones and Digital Divide — Lukasz Grzybowski (University of Warsaw)

●     Cost, Power, and Participation in Decentralized Governance — Wei Wang (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

●      The Hidden Cost of Trust: Dynamic Data-Sharing in Cooperatives — Maedeh Norouzi (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

●      Recommender Systems Bias in Subscription Services — Marcin Roter (University of Passau)

17:00 – 17:20 | Wrap-up & Farewell

19:00 | Conference Dinner

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Social Event in the morning (More info later)

Alba Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece
Xenias 6-8
115 28 Athens
Locate on Google Maps

Less than 1km from ALBA (2-7 min walk)

Kolonaki area (1,8km, 20-30 min walk)

Syntagma Square area (2,8Km, Metro: Syntagma)

Historical center of Athens (3,8km)

Around 5km from ALBA