Work in Progress
Digital Networks
Other Digital Network
Work-in-Progress
Blitzscaling and Unravelling - 2023
Examining the role of the time endurance of network effects in dynamic platform pricing decisions.
Do Startups Invert? API Networks and Startup Exits - 2022
Examining the productivity effect of API use and network strategy on startup success.
Joint with Jonathan Hersh and Marshall Van Alstyne
Technology as Strategy - 2022
Practitioner piece on the implications of our API research.
Joint with Jonathan Hersh and Marshall Van Alstyne
Power Law Distributions in Social Media - 2023
What determines the distribution of followers and attention in the upper tail of social media platform accounts?
Joint with Ruyu Chen and Yikai Li
Automation, Skill Biased Technological Change, and the Macroeconomics and Business of AI
Additional Automation and AI Work in Progress
I am working with Victor Ye and a team of other researchers to further develop the global simulation model in "Simulating Endogenous Global Automation." We will apply the model to understand the implications of UBI and other fiscal policy responses in different technological scenarios. We also plan to bring back-testing to this class of models for the first time to measure the reliability of our finds.
Joint with Victor Ye
I am collaborating on an NSF grant proposal with a team of researchers to study the productivity and distributive implications of collaborative robots. Our proposal was rated "competitive" in 2023, and we will be resubmitting in 2024.
Draft proposal available upon request
Superstars at Work: Increasing Returns to Scale Across Occupations - 2023
Joint with Erik Brynjolfsson and Ruyu Chen
The Innovation/Complexity Tradeoff: How Bottlenecks Create Superstars and Constrain Growth - 2022
Investigating the tradeoff between increased maximum productivity and increased production fragility in implementing more complex production processes, and the implications for firms and the economy.
Working paper available
Identifying the Multiple Skills in Skill Biased Technological Change - 2019
Joint with Erik Brynjofsson, Frank MacCrory, and George Westerman
Working paper available
Robots: Curse or Blessing? A Basic Framework - 2015
Joint with Jeff Sachs and Guillermo Lagarda
Working paper available
General Information Systems Research
Additional General Information Systems Research
Speedruns and the Science of Science - 2023
Joint with Kai Zhu and Kyle Myers
Essay on how digital technologies are increasing the importance of power-law distributions in the economy
Joint with Erik Brynjolfsson
IT and the Age of Leaders - 2023
Joint with Frank Li