This grant provides continued operational and administrative support to the Economics of Digitization working group at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Led by economists Shane Greenstein of Harvard Business School and Catherine Tucker of MIT, the group convenes researchers from a wide variety of economic subdisciplines to develop and nurture a research community focused on the economics of digitization. Research topics explored by the group include the economics of AI, labor market consequences of the rise of the digital economy, the effects of regulatory policies on economic outcomes in the digital marketplace, and the economic effects of digital misinformation. Future research topics under consideration include platform economics, competition and regulation, the economics of privacy, and the potential and consequences of algorithmic bias.
Grant funds will support two annual meetings, an annual Digital Economics Tutorial, a conference on the economics of privacy in the digital age, a series of “boot camps” for junior researchers, and a small grants program to stimulate promising research in the area by young scholars.