Catherine Tucker
@ce_tucker
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MIT Sloan Marketing Professor: Economics, Algorithmic Bias, Privacy, Trademarks, Patent Trolls, Blockchain
Cambridge, MA
Joined January 2009
Can you guess which programming language’s usage grew the fastest in 2022? Check out the State of Developer Ecosystem 2022 to get the latest trends in technologies, programming languages and tools, and more: https://t.co/c9aDLbTtT3 P.S. It’s TypeScript #DevEcosystem2022
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I am chairing Tokenomics 2022 - an interdisciplinary conference exploring the conjunction of economics and distributed computation, networks and system security. Paper submission deadline September 15th, 2022 - Conference in Paris, December 12-13. https://t.co/RQP94QsoEP
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Please share this application for the October NBER privacy and econ tutorial with your PhD students. They don't need to submit a paper - just a short application. https://t.co/NBS5eAqP5y
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Learn about the gov’t’s efforts to surveil cryptocurrencies from Alex Marthews/@rebelcinder, national chair w/ Digital Fourth, an advocacy group focused on Fourth Amendment and surveillance issues, at @hopeconf
https://t.co/x7mHsVUo5Y at St. John’s U. in NYC (July 22-24, 2022).
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New estimates of TV advertising effectiveness across 288 CPG brands show that advertising generally has little effect on sales and most brands earn a negative ROI. The results cast doubt on the sustainability of financing TV content markets with ad revenue https://t.co/jl9651Njs9
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This🧵is about a tricky problem in education The problem: despite growing global wealth and technological progress, there are extremely poor parts of the world where most children grow up illiterate and innumerate We have two new papers showing that this can be changed 1/n
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Want to excel in #omnichannel #marketing? Here are three ways #blockchain and #machinelearning can help: https://t.co/errc5S2Mu3 By Tony Haitao Cui, @Aghose, Hanna Halaburda, @iyengar_raghu, @profpauwels, @SSriram05536634, @ce_tucker, and @SriKfbs
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New piece with Catherine Tucker @ce_tucker Social distancing has led to school closures. Some schools are switching to remote instruction. We document how the digital divide might exacerbate existing educational inequalities. Please take a look!
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New Research: The digital divide is more important than ever. It isn't just income inequality driving the rich/poor divide in social distancing. It's internet access too. https://t.co/wEgnMHeOb3
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Some people are just “really good at picking out failures,” @ce_tucker told Alex Stone
nytimes.com
Some people have a knack for buying products that flop, supporting political candidates who lose and moving to neighborhoods that fail to thrive.
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A new report by @rebelcinder & @ce_tucker argues that there can be tradeoffs between promoting competition and protecting consumer privacy. Read it now:
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🚨New working paper alert!🚨 THREAD: Post-#GDPR, website use of web tech vendors falls 15% but relative concentration increases 17%. "Privacy & market concentration: Intended & unintended consequences of the GDPR” w/ Scott Shriver https://t.co/3hIdmVOyEc (Image: Digiday) 1/
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Share with your PhD students: Call for Applications: Graduate Students Interested in Economics of AI — Economics of AI
economicsofai.com
The NBER project on the Economics of Artificial Intelligence will hold a full day workshop in Toronto Canada on September 25, 2019 for graduate students and recent PhDs interested in learning about...
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Collusion by Algorithm is harder than is seems. @ce_tucker and Jeanine Miklos-Thal show that better prediction increases temptations to deviate for colluding firms.
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Excited about this!
Now onto a presentation by MIT Prof. Catherine Tucker (@ce_tucker) - #BigData Fails: Recent Research Into the Surprising Ineffectiveness of Black-box Artificial Intelligence #FTCHearings
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Excited to take part in panel today on #digitalcompetition @hmtreasury in London w/ @rupertgatti, @toxvaerd1 & others, moderated by @jasonfurman. My research w/ @avicgoldfarb & @jamesdcamp suggests `informed consent’ regs disadvantage small and new firms
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A warm welcome to the Advisory Board of the Blockstack Token Fund. We're honored to have Arvind (Princeton), Catherine (MIT), Arianna (Autonomous), Zavain (Lux), and others on the advisory board. https://t.co/jqXbGgU9Wx
@random_walker @ce_tucker @AriannaSimpson @zavaindar
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