| 2024 Digital Economy Workshop | |
| June 11 - June 12, 2024 | |
| Organized by CUHK-Zhejiang U Joint Research Center on Digital Economy | |
| Venue: Crowne Plaza Wuzhen | |
| Workshop Agenda | |
| (40 minutes for each presentation, including Q&A) | |
| Tuesday, June 11 | |
| 8:00-8:30 | Registration |
| 8:30-8:55 | Welcome Remarks |
| Zheng (Michael) Song (CUHK) (online) | |
| Yanbing Wen (Dean, School of Economics, Jiaxing University) | |
| Introduction to the Workshop | |
| Ce (Matthew) Shi (CUHK) | |
| Group photo | |
| 8:55-10:15 | Session One Chair: Rongzhu Ke, Zhejiang University |
| Keynote: Product Safety in the Age of AI: Autonomy, R&D, and AI Liability | |
| Yongmin Chen (University of Colorado) | |
| Differential Pricing of Internet Traffic: Theory and Empirical Analysis | |
| Matthew Shi (CUHK) | |
| 10:15-10:30 | Break |
| 10:30-11:50 | Session Two Chair: Jianpei Li, University of International Business & Economics |
| Keynote: Market Congestion and Information Frictions on Global E- commerce Platforms | |
| Daniel Xu (Duke U) | |
| Demand Estimation with Complementarity and Variety Effect | |
| Heng Ju (Shanghai University of Finance & Economics) | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:50 | Session Three Chair: Tony Ke, CUHK |
| Keynote: Regulation on Self-Preferencing in Digital Platform Markets | |
| Jay Pil Choi (Michigan State University) | |
| Search Prominence with Costly Product Returns | |
| Sanxi Li (Renmin University of China) | |
| 14:50-15:10 | Break |
| 15:10-17:00 | Session Four Chair: Matthew Shi, CUHK |
| Selective Entry in Cross-Border E-Commerce | |
| Tiffany Tsai (NUS) | |
| Leveraging Digital Platforms to Improve Court Enforcement: Evidence from Judicial Auction Reform in China | |
| Guangyu Cao (Peking U) | |
| Data and policy research | |
| Ant Research | |
| 18:00-19:00 | Dinner |
| Wednesday, June 12 | |
| 8:30-9:50 | Session Five Chair: Fei Wang, Jiaxing University |
| Keynote: Antitrust Regulation of Platforms in China: Recent Developments and an Evaluation | |
| Ping Lin (Shandong University) | |
| Brand Spillover Effects and Product Liabilities in Correlated Experience Goods Markets | |
| Yizheng Chen (Jiaxing University) | |
| 9:50-10:10 | Break |
| 10:10-11:30 | Session Six Chair: Siying Cao, CUHK |
| Unveiling Dynamics in Climate Disaster Information Connectivity Across Regions: A Variance Decomposition Network Approach Yilan Xu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | |
| Platform Information Provision and Consumer Search: A Field Experiment | |
| Zhe Yuan (Zhejiang University) | |
| Closing Remarks | |
| Adjourn and Lunch | |