🚨Free data alert!! 🚨 Please share. Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*. I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind. github.com/bretthollenb...

YouTube at 20! Very interesting post from Boston University #econsky www.bu.edu/articles/202...

YouTube Turns 20—How Have Its 20 Billion Videos Changed Us?

BU faculty experts: the social media platform has impacted our mental health, helped small businesses, artists, and musicians, birthed a do-it-yourself generation, and exposed us to dangerous misinfor...

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📢 Su Lavoce.info con miei coautori @kdbtran.bsky.social @micherossi.bsky.social and Mark Tremblay approfondiamo un tema cruciale per il mercato digitale (partendo da un nostro recente studio empirico): come la trasparenza nelle piattaforme influisce sui prezzi e sull’efficienza del mercato.

EC 2025 will be held at Stanford from July 7-12. Itai Ashlagi and I are the chairs. The abstract deadline is February 3, and the paper deadline is February 10. The scope is inclusive of many topics across CS, economics, and operations research. Submit your best work!

My first post on Bluesky! Excited to share my paper with Yixing Chen and Xiaoxia Lei "Trade-offs in Leveraging External Data Capabilities: Evidence from a Field Experiment in an Online Search Market" has been accepted for publication in Management Science! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

If only someone had recently published a WP on the impacts of price transparency (at least on peer-to-peer platforms)! @leonardomadio.bsky.social @micherossi.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2y ago

The FTC issued long-awaited rules requiring companies to display the full price of a hotel room, concert ticket or sporting event up front to customers, rather than hiding any extra charges — often called “junk fees” — until the very end of the checkout process.

Holding the supply side fixed, transparency helps consumers and could also reduce overall prices, but if sellers change prices due to the policy, things can get tricky ...

Kevin Tran@kdbtran.bsky.social · 2y ago

If only someone had recently published a WP on the impacts of price transparency (at least on peer-to-peer platforms)! @leonardomadio.bsky.social @micherossi.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

⏳ Only 3 days left to submit your paper for the Paris Conference. 🗼✨ www.digitaleconomics-paris.fr/conference-2...

Digital Economics Paris - Conference 2025

Paris Conference on Digital Economics

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How does price transparency affect a market?🤔 In our new paper, Kevin Tran, @leonardomadio.bsky.social, Mark J. Tremblay, and I analyze Airbnb’s policy change in the EU, where cleaning fees became fully transparent. The surprising finding: transparency doesn’t lead to lower prices. Here’s why:

🧵 Excited to share that our paper, "The Good, The Bad, and The Picky: Consumer Heterogeneity and the Reversal of Product Ratings" (joint with Tommaso Bondi and Ryan Stevens), is forthcoming at Management Science!

Here's a great starter pack of economists working on AI. Who else should be on this list? bsky.app/starter-pack...

Welcome, new #EconSky joiners! I have updated my starter pack - now with over 120 IO, org econ, innovation and firm dynamics researchers. If you think I have forgotten someone, please let me know. go.bsky.app/Rchu8QX

Maybe I finally got what “the Internet of Things” means 😅👟📲 #IoT #Streetwear”

You can now wear Apple’s running shoe emoji

Off your screen and onto your feet.

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Hi everyone! I am Michelangelo Rossi, an assistant prof at Télécom Paris. I’m here mainly to share my research on digital economics, quantitative marketing, and how we can better regulate digital platforms. Feel free to reach out!