Thinking of writing a privacy paper? NBER Economics of Privacy Conference. Abstracts due in December. nber.org/economics-priv…

You may have heard about this year's Economics Nobel Prize winners - David Card, Josh Angrist (Josh Angrist) & Guido Imbens. Their publicly available work has helped us solve tough problems @Twitter, and we're excited to celebrate by sharing how their findings have inspired us.

30 climbs for my 30th and now my arms are going to fall off

We just released a major update of our paper on the #GDPR & market concentration. We study an industry that is again in the news for the hard tradeoffs it poses between privacy protection and value creation. x.com/garjoh_canuck/… 1/8

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Saw on my way to work today through Northwestern library. For those who can’t read Cyrillic, it’s says “Putin is an *****”! I guess, Northwestern librarians also can’t read Cyrillic. ☺️

📢The 13th Paris Conference on Digital Economics starts tomorrow!📢 We are really looking forward to hosting great researchers for an in-person conference after two years! For more info: digitaleconomics-paris.fr/conference

1\ Today Washington Post The Washington Post published my analysis: more than 40% of top-50 foreign companies in Russia continue operating or have made only bluff commitments to disengage. tinyurl.com/3w388wt7 Quick summary thread and ungated link below #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦

This is the way.

It’s about time! Brett Gordon

We just released a revision of our paper examining how the #GDPR affected the site traffic💻 & ecommerce revenue💶 of EU users. We overhauled the paper, but its main message is the same. Read more in the thread 👇👇👇 Link: ssrn.com/abstract=34217…

Samuel Goldberg (Northwestern and Stanford University) gives the final presentation of #ccp2022conf with ‘privacy and market concentration: intended and unintended consequences of the GDPR’. #privacy #marketconcentration #GDPR #ccp2022conf

Incredibly excited to share that our paper "Unchecked vs. Uncheckable: How Opinion-Based Claims Can Impede Corrections of Misinformation" won the 2021 article of the year award in Mass Communication & Society! Thank you Mass Comm & Society for the honor 🤗 Twitter thread linked below.

Back to focusing on @apple and #AdTech. This new article emerged from hearing that small companies were hit hard by Apple's privacy policy only in recent months - a perplexing claim given it was introduced in April 2021. Why the lag?? *interesting thread to follow here*

My brilliant colleague Garrett Johnson is playing the devil to show the #Inferno in digital ad effect measurement at Conference on Digital Experimentation !

Department of Economics PhD Candidate Joao Guerreiro‘s research interest is Macroeconomics. Learn more about Joao Guerreiro & other Northwestern Economics Job Market Candidates at economics.northwestern.edu/people/phd-job…

Our latest policy brief explores data privacy regulation and highlights useful lessons for governments to consider. "Thoughtful policy design may help ease the pain of protecting consumers' privacy online," says SIEPR Postdoctoral Fellow Sam Goldberg: stanford.io/3HpucPQ