Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Friday, August 9, 2024

Designing Complex Experiments, by Susan Athey and Guido Imbens

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 Here's a tantalizing set of slides about online experiments Designing Complex Experiments: Some Recent Developments SUSAN ATHEY AND GU...
Sunday, March 17, 2024

Privacy while driving

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 Internet connected cars collect lots of data on driving behavior, which can be sold to insurance companies and used to change drivers' ...
Saturday, February 10, 2024

Gambling in video games--entry level gambling for minors?

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  In-game gambling for video game tools has become an unregulated form of online gambling that may provide minors with their first gambling ...
Saturday, January 13, 2024

The Everything Token. By Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers

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 Here's a look into a possible future of the web (but it's still available in hardcover): The Everything Token.   HOW NFTS AND WEB3 ...
Saturday, May 20, 2023

More governments seek to limit TikTok over data concerns

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The NYT has the story: Why Countries Are Trying to Ban TikTok Governments have expressed concerns that TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese...
Saturday, October 22, 2022

Privacy and data gathered by home devices

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  Does your robot vacuum cleaner make a map of your house as it moves around, and store it on the web?  Could the fact that your kitchen cha...
Sunday, August 21, 2022

Matching versus menus

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When preferences are simple, marketplaces can match you quickly, e.g. Uber knows travelers want a nearby car that will come quickly, so it g...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

In defense of online anonymity, by Mike Luca in the WSJ

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Mike Luca writes about anonymity as a feature of market design, in the WSJ: In Defense of Online Anonymity . Lack of transparency on the int...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Virtual interviewing increased the number of interviews by (and of) candidates for medical residencies

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  Here's an article on virtual interviewing of candidates for medical residencies (about which, see also this post about Erling Skancke&...
Sunday, November 21, 2021

Online and Matching-Based Market Design (forthcoming in 2022), edited by Echenique, Immorlica, and Vazirani

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 What to read in 2022? Here's a teaser... Online and Matching-Based Market Design , forthcoming in 2022 from Cambridge University Press ...
Sunday, October 3, 2021

Technology and Equality in the Digital Era--Luohan Academy

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 Last week I participated in a Luhohan Academy discussion called  Boosting Shared Prosperity: Technology and Equality in the Digital Era Spe...
Friday, August 27, 2021

OnlyFans announces then reverses a ban on explicit sexual content

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  Here's a story from the Guardian, following the reported decision of the website OnlyFans to ban certain sexually explicit content, a...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021

The internet hybrid of pornography and sex work on OnlyFans

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 Sex work is mostly  about in-person, one-on-one, personal encounters.  Pornography is mostly about publishing, whether in print or other me...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

Limiting job applications in an online labor market: by John Horton and Shoshana Vasserman

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  Here's an experiment that involved limiting the number of applications to particular jobs in an online labor market, in which many app...
Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Cloud Pricing: The Spot Market Strikes Back, by Dierks and Seuken in Management Science

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  Sven Seuken writes: " I just read your blog post about the new paper on economics of cloud computing , which is very interesting. Gi...
Monday, April 5, 2021

Some economics of providing cloud computing, by Microsoft economists Hummel and Schwarz

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  Here's a paper on an aspect of cloud computing by two Microsoft economists. (Microsoft's cloud service is called Microsoft Azure.)...
Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Anger at vaccine line jumping

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 There is some tension between getting populations vaccinated quickly and ensuring that priorities for who gets vaccinated first are careful...
Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Understanding Big Data:Data Calculus In The Digital Era : report from the Luohan Academy

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  Here's a new report from the Luohan Academy Understanding Big Data:Data Calculus In The Digital Era    Feb 05, 2021  Authors Luohan Co...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

Pandemic inspired changes in the economy that may last--real estate and medicine

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  In academia, Zoom seminars may coexist with in-person seminars long after the pandemic has ended. They aren't as nice as in-person sem...
Monday, November 16, 2020

OK Cupid on trends in dating

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  The datng site OK Cupid regularly surveys its users, and have just published a summary of recent results: The Future of Dating-- OkCupid D...