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Program

*all times US-Pacific

Last update: November 10, 2021
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NABE Industry Job Fair / Virtual Expo: Virtual booths open to all
Concurrent Sessions: Webinars, moderated Q&A conducted through the Chat
Interactive Breakouts: Meetings where active audience participation is encouraged

Monday | Tuesday

Monday, November 8


8:00-8:35am				Hit the Curveball: Lessons from Crisis, Competition and Consumer Change
				Spencer Rascoff, Co-Founder of Hotwire and Zillow, Co-founder & Chair of Pacaso, Recon Food, Supernova SPAC Moderator: Issi Romem, Economist & Founder, MetroSight

8:40-9:15am				Diversity in Tech and Econ
				Amanda Bayer, Franklin and Betty Barr Professor of Economics, Department Chair, Swarthmore College Moderator: Benjamin Leyden, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Business Economics, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University

9:20-10:00am				Economists in the Tech Sector: Past, Present and Future
				Susan Athey, Economics of Technology Professor, Stanford University Pat Bajari, VP Core AI and Chief Economist, Amazon Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google Moderator: Mike Luca, Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Optional reading: Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies (Athey / Luca)

10:00-10:45am				NABE Industry Job Fair / Recruiters Row / Virtual Expo
				Virtual recruiting booths open Product demo virtual booths open



11:00-11:45am				Concurrent Sessions

				A) Blending Data to Understand the Economic Impact of COVID19 Scott Brave, Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Rebecca Hutchinson, U.S. Census Bureau Christopher Kurz, Chief, Industrial Output Section, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Michael Stepner, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Moderator: Ron Jarmin, Acting Director, U.S. Census Bureau

				B) Econometrics / Machine Learning Gregory Duncan, Chief Economist and Chief Statistician, Amazon Moderator: Daniel Pollmann, QuantCo

				C) Behavioral Econ at Companies Devin Pope, Professor of Behavioral Science and Robert King Steel Faculty Fellow, The University of Chicago Moderator: Wilko Schulz-Mahlendorf, Director of Pricing & Economics, Wayfair

				D) Outlook for Economist Careers in Tech Peter Coles, Data Science Lead, Airbnb Carolyn Evans, Chief Economist, Intel Stan Humphries, Chief Analytics Officer & Chief Economist, Zillow Moderator: Duncan Gilchrist, VP Data, Gopuff

				Interactive Breakout
				E) Book Talks Ben Ho, Associate Professor of Behavioral Economics, Vassar College Mike Luca, Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Links to books: The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World (Luca / Bazerman) Why Trust Matters: An Economist's Guide to the Ties That Bind Us (Ho)

				Interactive Breakout
12:00-12:30pm				Birds of a Feather MeetUps
				Open to all. Pre-register for topics on the virtual event platform.




12:45-1:30pm				Concurrent Sessions

				A) Using Business Data for Public Research: Best Practices for Successful Partnerships Mike Bailey, Research Science Manager, Facebook Peter Blair, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education Moderator / Presenter: Mischa Fisher, Chief Economist, Angi

				B) GDPR and Privacy Michael Kummer, Lecturer, University of East Anglia Scott Shriver, Professor, UC Boulder Moderator: Benjamin Leyden, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Business Economics, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University

				C) What is the Value of Data to a Company? Jill Furzer, Economist, Keystone Ali Hortaçsu, Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Vitoria Rabello De Castro, Economist, Keystone Moderator: Christine Meyer, Managing Director, NERA

				D) Economists’ Role in Customer Acquisition at Media Firms Guy Calvert, Staff Tech Data Scientist, Twitter Dave Tomala, Director of Analytics, Roku Inc. Nils Wernefelt, Research Manager, Facebook Moderator: Chris Wignall, Senior Economist Manager, Amazon

				Interactive Breakout
				E) Straight from the Recruiters: Interview Tips for Industry Jobs Renee Dubuque, Technical Recruiter - Economics, Amazon John Harpole, Consultant, Spencer Stuart Liz Kutzman, Senior PhD Recruiter, Uber

1:45-2:45pm				NBER Session: Research Insights on the Digital Economy
				"The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from Over a Million Rideshare Drivers" (Link) Rebecca Diamond, Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business "Building Transparency and Trust in the Financial System with Voice Notifications" (Link) Simone Schaner, Professor, University of Southern California "Why Is Intermediating Houses so Difficult? Evidence from iBuyers" (Link) Amit Seru, Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business Moderator: James Poterba, President and CEO, NBER Hosted by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

2:50-3:30pm				How Data is Driving a Tech Revolution in Trucking: A Conversation with Convoy CTO Dorothy Li
				Dorothy Li, CTO, Convoy Moderator: Aaron Terrazas, Director of Economic Research, Convoy

3:35-4:15pm				Environmental Sustainability and Urban Resilience: Adapting to Climate Change through Technology and Predictive Analytics
				Joseph Hun-wei Lee, President and Chair Professor, Macau University of Science and Technology Moderator: Juhi Dhawan, Senior Managing Director, Global Macroanalyst, Wellington Management

Tuesday, November 9

8:00-8:30am				Digital Addiction
				Hunt Allcott, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Moderator: Dan Knoepfle, Senior Data Science Manager, Uber

8:35-9:10am				A View from the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
				Mary Daly, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Moderator: Julia Coronado, NABE Vice President; President and Founder, MacroPolicy Perspectives, LLC

9:15-10:00am				Future of Work Post COVID-19
				Sonia Jaffe, Senior Research Economist, Microsoft Meghan Reibstein, VP, Organizational Operations, Zillow Daniela Scur, Assistant Professor of Strategy at the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University Moderator: Svenja Gudell, Chief Economist, ZIllow Group

10:00-10:45am				NABE Industry Job Fair / Recruiters Row / Virtual Expo
				Virtual recruiting booths open Product demo virtual booths open



				Interactive Breakout
				Networking Roulette
				Open to all

11:00-11:45am				Concurrent Sessions

				A) Ensuring the Fairness of Platforms Aaron Rieke, Managing Director, Upturn YinYin Yu, Tech Lead of Computational Social Sciences, LinkedIN Moderator / Presenter: Dan Svirsky, Data Scientist (Legal/Regulatory), Uber Optional reading: Detecting and Mitigating Discrimination in Online Platforms: Lessons from Airbnb, Uber, and Others

				B) Fundamentals Based Valuation of Cryptocurrency Michael Schwarz, Corporate Vice President & Chief Economist, Microsoft Moderator: Chris Jonas, Director of Communications, National Association for Business Economics

				C) Economics of Schmoozing Zoe Cullen, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

				D) Bringing Behavioral Science into Tech Jen Wang, Senior Director of Product, thredUP Charlene Wu, Director, Machine Assisted Cognition, Toyota Research Institute Moderator: Brian Colwell, Senior Director, Economic Research, Zillow

				Interactive Breakout
				E) Meet Recent Econ Hires in Tech
				Colin Gray, Senior Economist, Wayfair Rose Tan, Data Scientist, LinkedIn Yuyao Wang, Consultant, NERA

12:00-12:45pm				Concurrent Sessions
				A) Evolving Landscape of Competition Policy Martin Gaynor, E.J. Barone University Professor Of Economics And Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University Ginger Jin, Professor, University of Maryland Moderator: Florian Ederer, Associate Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management

				B) Innovative Applications of Digital Exhaust Robert Fisher, CEO, Cogo Labs Chris Hooton, Senior Research Scientist, Facebook Moderator: Kyle Carlson, Data Scientist, Stripe

				C) Fintech in Africa Tavneet Suri, Louis E. Seley Professor of Applied Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management Moderator: Elias Bruegmann, Head of Banking and Financial Products Data Science, Stripe

				D) Forecasting in a Pandemic George Monokroussos, Principal Economist, Wayfair Prakash Loungani, Assistant Director and Senior Personnel Manager, IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office Moderator: Yelena Shulyatyeva, Senior U.S. Economist, Bloomberg

				Interactive Breakout
				E) Mid-Career Discussion
				Duncan Gilchrist, VP Data, Gopuff Emily Glassberg Sands, Head of Data Science, Stripe Wilko Schulz-Mahlendorf, Director of Pricing & Economics, Wayfair

1:00-1:40pm				The Great Divide: Education, Despair, and Death
				Sir Angus Deaton, Senior Scholar, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University Moderator: David E. Altig, NABE President, 2021-22; Executive Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

1:45-2:25pm				Geographic Wage Differences: Evidence from Inter-city Migration
				David Card, Class of 1950 Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley Moderator: Pia Orrenius, Vice President and Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

2:30-3:00pm				Digital Innovation and Transformation: Lessons From the Classroom
				Shane Greenstein, Martin Marshall Professor of Business Administration and co-chair, HBS Digital Initiative, Harvard Business School Moderator: Mike Luca, Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

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