Social and Political Economy Conference Series: Data, Markets, and Privacy
This conference series brings together faculty and graduate students from across Hopkins, as well as scholars from other universities, regulators, and industry leaders, to study and discuss social, political, and economic forces that shape our world.
This conference is a yearly joint venture of the Economics Department at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Carey Business School, and is generously supported this year by the SNF Agora Institute.
Program Co-Chairs: Chen Cheng, Itay Fainmesser,(Johns Hopkins Carey Business School), Yiqing Xing and Marcelo Ariel Fernandez (The Economics Department, Johns Hopkins University's Krieger School of Arts & Sciences 2018 – 2024).
Agenda
Friday, September 8
9 – 10 a.m. - Breakfast
10 – 10:40 a.m.
Speaker: Michael Schwarz, Microsoft
Paper: “Big and small questions about data, market and privacy in the evolving world”
10:40 – 11:20 a.m.
Speaker: Helen Nissenbaum, Cornell Tech
Paper: “Privacy as Data Governance”
11:20 - 11:50 a.m. – Coffee Break
11:50 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Arina Nikandrova, City, University of London
Paper: “Data Linkage between Markets: Does the Emergence of an Informed Insurer Cause Consumer Harm?”
12:30 – 2:30 p.m. – Lunch
2:30 – 3:10 p.m.
Speaker: Dirk Bergemann, Yale University
Paper: "How Do Digital Advertising Auctions Impact Product Prices?"
3:10 – 3:50 p.m.
Speaker: Azarakhsh Malekian, University of Toronto
Paper: “A Model of Behavioral Manipulation”
3:50 – 4:20 p.m. – Coffee Break
4:20 – 5 p.m.
Speaker: Tesary Lin, Boston University
Paper: "Choice Architecture, Privacy Valuations, and Selection Bias in Consumer Data" (pdf) 5.5 mb
Saturday, September 9
8:30 – 9:30 a.m. - Breakfast
9:30 – 10:10 a.m.
Speaker: Munther Dahleh, MIT
Paper: "Information Design under Uncertainty"
10:10 – 10:50 a.m.
Paper: “Optimal Data Acquisition with Privacy-Aware Agents”
10:50 - 11:20 a.m. – Coffee Break
11:20 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Speaker: Itay Fainmesser, Johns Hopkins University
Paper: "Learning Through Market Segmentation"
12 – 2 p.m. – Lunch