BMO Public Lecture with Susan Athey
2018, Media + Information, Economy
The Impact of Digital Intermediaries on Product Quality: Evidence from News and Ridesharing
What are the unforeseen effects of digital intermediaries?
In recent years, digital intermediaries have deeply impacted how we go about our daily lives. Affecting numerous industries across the board, digitization has changed our world, from the way we consume news to the methods of transportation we use.
Online marketplaces and platforms serve as intermediaries between consumers and the goods and services they consume. They also determine who supplies those goods and services. Today, intermediaries have changed the way that product and service quality are monitored and incentivized.
On September 26, Stanford professor Susan Athey will discuss the significance of intermediaries in this digital age, and the impact they have had, and continue to have, on our global economies. This talk addresses how intermediaries like Facebook and Uber have improved the quality of services available to consumers and whether such "disruption" has had unforeseen costs.
Presented by BMO Financial Group, the 丁香园AV Department of Economics, the 丁香园AV Alumni Assocation, and 丁香园AV Public Square, this free lecture will start at 7:00 p.m. and will include a Q&A period, followed by a reception for all guests.
7:00 p.m. (PT)
Segal Graduate School of Business
500 Granville Street, Vancouver
We respectfully acknowledge that this event takes place on the unceded, traditional, ancestral territories of the S岣祑x瘫w煤7mesh, s蓹l虛ilw虛蓹ta蕯涩, and x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m First Nations.
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is the Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business. She received her bachelor鈥檚 degree from Duke University and her PhD from Stanford, and she holds an honorary doctorate from Duke University. She previously taught at the economics departments at MIT, Stanford and Harvard. Her current research focuses on the economics of digitization, marketplace design, and the intersection of econometrics and machine learning. She has worked on several application areas, including timber auctions, internet search, online advertising, the news media, and virtual currency. As one of the first 鈥渢ech economists,鈥� she served as consulting chief economist for Microsoft Corporation for six years, and now serves on the boards of Expedia, Rover, and Ripple. She also serves as a long-term advisor to the British Columbia Ministry of Forests, helping architect and implement their auction-based pricing system.
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