Seminar Topics

Speakers for 2021-2022:

• October 6: Tianyi Wang, Princeton —"Media, Pulpit, and Populist Persuasion: Evidence from Father Coughlin"
   
• November 3:  Jason Choi, Rutgers — "Open and Private Exchanges in Display Advertising"
   
• December 1:  Ricardo Puglisi, University of Pavia — "The Revealed Demand for Hard vs. Soft News: Evidence from Italian TV Viewership"
   
• February 2:  Alexandre Garel, Audencia Business School — "Music sentiment and stock returns around the world"
   
• March 2: Ken Wilbur, UCSD — "How Viewer Tuning, Presence and Attention Respond to Ad Content and Predict Brand Search Lift"
   
• April 6:  Kristoffer Nimark (Cornell), "Attention Costs, Economies of Scale and Markets for Information"
   
• May 11: Nikita Melnikov, Princeton — "Mobile Internet and Political Polarization" 
   
• June 1: Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University — "How does the new antitrust paradigm affect media markets?"

Speakers for 2020-2021:

• October 7:  Jim Snyder, Harvard — "Measuring the Partisan Behavior of  U.S. Newspapers, 1880 to 1980”
   
• November 4:  Alexandre de Cornière, TSE —“Data and Competition: a General Framework with Applications to Mergers, Market Structure, and Privacy"
   
• December 4:  Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth —“The effectiveness of fact-checking on COVID-19 misperceptions”
   
• February 3:  Christian Peukert, Lausanne — “The Editor vs. the Algorithm: Targeting, Data and Externalities in Online News“
   
• March 3:  L Maria Petrova, Pompeu Fabra, NES — “Echo Chambers: Does Online Network Structure Affect Political Polarization”
   
• April 7:  Ro’ee Levy, MIT — “Social Media, News Consumption, and Polarization: Evidence from a Field Experiment“
   
• May 5:  Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford — “Digital Addiction”

Speakers for 2019-2020:

• October 2, 2019: Brian Knight, Brown University – "Opposition Media, State Censorship, and Political Accountability: Evidence from Chavez's Venezuela"
   
• November 6, 2019: Daniel Treisman, UCLA – "Informational Autocrats"
   
• December 4, 2019: Dirk Bergemann, Yale University – "The Economics of Social Data"
   
• February 5, 2020: David Godes, University of Maryland –"Media Bias in the Presence of Feedback"
   
• March 4, 2020: Anna Tuchman, Northwestern University - Kellogg – "Generalizable and Robust TV Advertising Effects"
   
• May 6, 2020: Charles Angelucci and Andrea Prat, Columbia University – "Measuring Voters’ Knowledge of Political News"  (Seminar broadcast as a live webinar via Zoom.)
   
• June 2, 2020: Andrey Simonov, Columbia University – "The Persuasive Effect of Fox News: Non-Compliance with Social Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic" (Seminar broadcast as a live webinar via Zoom.)

Speakers for 2018-2019:

• October 3, 2018: Jim Snyder, Harvard University – “Is Soft News a Turn-Off? Evidence from Italian TV News Viewership”
   
• November 7, 2018: Sarah Moshary, University of Chicago – “Price Discrimination in Political Advertising: Evidence from the 2012 US Presidential Elections”
   
• December 5, 2018: Zsolt Katona, UC Berkeley: “The Impact of Curation Algorithms on Social Network Content Quality and Structure”
   
• February 6, 2019: Dean Eckles, MIT: "Established publishers' adoption of native advertising"
   
• March 6, 2019: Daniel Stone, Bowdoin – "What Drives Demand for Media Slant?"
   
• April 3, 2019: David Yang, Harvard-MIT: “The Impact of Media Censorship: 1984 or Brave New World?”
   
• May 1, 2019: Jacopo Perego, Columbia University: “Media Competition and the Source of Disagreement” (TBC)

Speakers for 2017-2018:

• October 4, 2017: Leopoldo Fergusson (Universidad de los Andes), "Social Media and Collective Action Around the World: Evidence from Facebook"
   
• November 1, 2017: Michael Sinkinson (Yale School of Management), "Media Competition and News Diets"
   
• December 6, 2017: Alexandre de Corniere (Toulouse School of Economics), "Social Media and the News Industry"
   
• February 7, 2018: Marcus Mobius (Microsoft Research), "The Impact of Aggregators on Internet News Consumption"
   
• March 7, 2018: *CANCELED* James Snyder (Harvard University), "Is Soft News a Turn-Off? Evidence from Italian TV News Viewership"
   
• April 4, 2018: *CANCELED* Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago)
   
• May 2, 2018: Adam Szeidl (Central European University), "Media Capture through Favor Exchange"

Speakers for 2016-2017:

• October 5, 2016: Neil Gandal (Tel Aviv University) “Online Exploration, Content Choice & Filter Bubbles: An Experiment.”
   
• November 2, 2016: Hanan Halaburda (Bank of Canada and NYU) “Can We Predict the Winner in a Market with Network Effects? Competition in Cryptocurrency Market”
   
• December 7, 2016: Simon Anderson (University of Virginia)
   
• February 1, 2017: Joel Waldfogel (University of Minnesota) "Preference Externalities and the Rise of China: Measuring their Impact on Consumers and Producers in Global Film Markets"
   
• March 1, 2017: Pinar Yildirim (University of Pennsylvania) "Social Media and Political Donations: New Technology and Incumbency Advantage in the United States" with Maria Petrova and Ananya Sen
   
• April 5, 2017: Lapo Filistrucchi (University of Florence)
   
• May 3, 2017: Garrett Johnson (University of Rochester) "The Online Display Ad Effectiveness Funnel & Carryover: A Meta-study of Predicted Ghost Ad Experiments" with Randall A. Lewis and Elmar I. Nubbemeyer

Speakers for 2015-2016:

• October 7, 2015: Babur De Los Santos (Indiana University)  "E-Book Pricing and Vertical Restraints"
   
• November 11, 2015: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (Google) “New Data and Media Economics”
   
• December 2, 2015: Matthew Baker & Lisa George (Hunter College) “The News Hour: Estimating the Value of Local Television News”
   
• February 3, 2016: Brian Knight (Brown Universtiy) "The Limits of Propaganda: Evidence from Chavez's Venezuela” 
   
• March 2, 2016: Michaela Draganska (Drexel University) "Digital Content Variety and Customer Subscription Behavior: An Investigation of Adult Online Entertainment"
   
• April 6, 2016: Julia Cagé  (Sciences Po Paris) “Newspapers in Times of Low Advertising Revenues”
   
• May 4, 2016: Ruben Durante (Sciences Po Paris) "Attack when the World is Not Watching? International Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict"

Speakers for 2014-2015:

• October 1, 2014: Przemyslaw Jeziorski (UC Berkeley) “An Empirical Model of Dynamic Merger Enforcement: Choosing Ownership Caps in US Radio“
   
• November 5, 2014: Nicholas Economides (NYU) “The Economics of Net Neutrality”, more here.
   
• December 3, 2014: Stefano DellaVigna (UC Berkeley) "Does Conflect of Interest Lead to Biased Coverage? Evidence from Movie Reviews"
   
• February 4, 2015: Greg Crawford (University of Zurich) “The Welfare Effects of Vertical Integration in Multichannel Television Markets”
   
• March 4, 2015: Justin Rao (Microsoft) "Fair and Balanced? Quantifying Media Bias through Crowdsourced Content Analysis"
   
• April 1, 2015:  Jeremiah Dittmar (LSE) “New Media, Markets, and Institutional Change: Evidence from the Protestant Reformation”
   
• May 6, 2015: David Stromberg (University of Stockholm) "Social Media in China"

Speakers for 2013-2014:

• October 2, 2013: Luis Cabral (NYU), "Motion Picture Supply and Demand"
   
• November 6, 2013: Catherine Tucker (MIT), "Viral Video Ad Campaigns"
   
• December 4, 2013: Andrea Prat (Columbia Business School), "Measuring Media Power"
   
• February 5, 2014: David Stromberg (Stockholm University), "The Determinants of Media Bias in China"
   
• March 5, 2014: Joel Waldfogel (University of Minnesota), "Cinematic Explosion: Movies, Gatekeepers and Product Discovery in the Digital Era" 
   
• April 2, 2014:  Matthew Gentzkow (University of Chicago), "Do Newspapers Serve the State? Incumbent Party Influence on the US Press, 1869-1928"
   
• May 7, 2014: Tamas David-Barrett (Oxford University), "Evolutionary Foundations of Behavior on Social Media". View additional research on limitations to social group size, testing constraints on social network size, and the effects of laughter on happiness within different modes of communication.