The history of economic engineering, and other sessions at the ASSA today that I'll attend or wish I could

At the ASSA meetings this morning, I'll be discussing a session called

Economics and Engineering: Institutions, Practices and Cultures

Paper Session

 Friday, Jan. 4, 2019   8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

 Hilton Atlanta, 405

Hosted By: HISTORY OF ECONOMICS SOCIETY

·       Chair: Pedro Garcia Duarte, University of São Paulo

 

Engineering, Management Science, and American Economics, 1900 – 1940

Thomas Stapleford

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University of Notre Dame

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Engineering and Economics at Stanford, 1950-1990

Beatrice Cherrier

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University of Cergy-Pontoise and CNRS

Aurélien Saïdi

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Paris Nanterre University and ESCP Europe

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German Fears in Economic Engineering: An Affective Criticism

Till Duppe

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University of Québec-Montréal

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Discussant(s)

Alvin Roth

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I can't yet be sure what I'll say, but in my discussion of engineering and economics at Stanford I'll surely show a photo or two of Bob Wilson, maybe this old one:

Bob Wilson and Al Roth, Stanford IMSSS, 197x

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Later in the day (after some job-market interviewing) I plan to attend the

AEA/AFA Joint Luncheon

 Friday, Jan. 4, 2019   12:30 PM - 2:15 PM

 Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Imperial Ballroom

Hosted By: American Economic Association & American Finance Association

• Chair: Ben Bernanke, Brookings Institution

• Speaker: Susan Athey, Stanford University: The Impact of Machine Learning on Econometrics and Economics
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Since I haven't figured out how to be in two places at once, I'll miss

Putting the "Ec" in Tech: Economics at Tech Firms

Paper Session

 Friday, Jan. 4, 2019   12:30 PM - 2:15 PM

 Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Marquis Ballroom A

Hosted By: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BUSINESS ECONOMICS

• Chair: Carolyn Evans, Intel Corp.

How Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Can Impact Market Design

Paul Milgrom

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Stanford University

Steven Tadelis

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University of California-Berkeley

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•  Download Preview (PDF, 865.75 KB)

Economics at Uber

Jonathan Hall

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Uber

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Digital Disintermediation and Efficiency in the Market for Ideas

Christian Peukert

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Catholic University of Portugal

Imke Reimers

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Northeastern University

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•  Download Preview (PDF, 895.77 KB)

A Machine Learned, Real Time Measure of the Rate of Inflation

Patrick Bajari

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University of Washington

Victor Chernozhukov

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ramon Huerta

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University of California-San Diego

Ashish Mishra

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Amazon

Bernhard Schoelkopf

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Max Planck Institute

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• Later, if the creeks don't rise, I hope to attend

• Market Design for Online Platforms

  
  

   Friday, Jan. 4, 2019   2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

   Hilton Atlanta, 223
  Hosted By: ECONOMIC SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
  ·       Chair: Yan Chen, University of Michigan

  Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Apologies: Evidence from a Large-scale Natural Field Experiment

  Basil Halperin
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  Uber Technologies Inc
  Benjamin Ho
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  Vassar College
  John A. List
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  University of Chicago, NBER, Uber Technologies Inc.
  Ian Muir
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  Uber Technologies Inc
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  The Design of Feedback Revision Rules - An Experimental Study

  Gary Bolton
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  University of Texas-Dallas
  Kevin Breuer
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  University of Cologne
  Ben Greiner
  , 
  Vienna University of Economics and Business
  Axel Ockenfels
  , 
  University of Cologne
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  Team Competition and Driver Productivity in Ride-sharing: A Natural Field Experiment at Didi

  Wei Ai
  , 
  University of Michigan
  Yan Chen
  , 
  University of Michigan
  Qiaozhu Mei
  , 
  University of Michigan
  Jieping Ye
  , 
  University of Michigan and Didi Chuxing Inc.
  Lingyo Zhang
  , 
  Didi Chuxing Inc.
  ·        View Abstract

  Discussant(s)

  Laura Gee, 
  Tufts University
  Chiara Farronato, 
  Harvard University
  Stephanie Wang, 
  University of Pittsburgh
  Chenyu Yang, 
  University of Rochester
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• and at 4:45
• Richard T. Ely Lecture Presiding: Ben Bernanke Speaker: David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Topic: Work of the Past, Work of the Future
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