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Kenneth C Wilbur

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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
just posted: "Advertising is an Emergent Property of Successful Platforms" Short and sweet. With @dade_us platformpapers.substack.com/p/advertisin...
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Advertising is an Emergent Property of Successful Platforms
Plus a public wager
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Day 2 videos posted: 2025 Workshop on Platform Analytics www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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2025 Workshop on Platform Analytics - YouTube
The papers are available at https://platformanalytics.org/
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
We just posted Workshop on Platform Analytics Day 1 talk videos! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlBp...
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Gender Bias, Feedback, and Productivity: Marita Freimane (Zurich)
YouTube video by Workshop on Platform Analytics
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
natural experiment alert couponsinthenews.com/2025/03/24/c...
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San Diego passes first-in-the-nation policy to ban digital-only coupons at grocery stores
The San Diego City Council has passed the Grocery Pricing Transparency Ordinance, requiring grocers to offer both digital and paper coupons to all customers, promoting equal access to grocery savings ...
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We're looking forward to another great Workshop on Platform Analytics in San Diego! Registrations close March 23. platformanalytics.org
platformanalytics.org
Workshop on Platform Analytics
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Hannes Ullrich @hannesullrich.com · 01/03/2025
This is an *amazing* IO conference coming up end of May, organized by @guenter-hitsch.bsky.social, Ali Hortaçsu, @sanjog.bsky.social, and Chad Syverson: econincubator.uchicago.edu/events/indus...
econincubator.uchicago.edu
The University of Chicago
Event single page
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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Replacing "I hope this email finds you well" with "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation." in all emails from now on.
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Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"The bottom 80% of earners spent 25% more than they did four years earlier, barely outpacing price increases of 21% over that period. The top 10% spent 58% more." www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
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Jeremy Merrill @jeremybmerrill.com · 04/02/2025
... ... did you know the US government has a dad joke website? www.fatherhood.gov/for-dads/dad...
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Dad Jokes | Fatherhood.gov
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 04/02/2025
More people building alternatives on ATprotocol is important! It helps protect against enshittification and an evil takeover. Exciting to see more people embrace an "I can build it" approach. Also this is why open protocols are so important.
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Program posted: 2025 Workshop on Platform Analytics platformanalytics.org
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Workshop on Platform Analytics
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Jimbo Brand @jamesbrandecon.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
New paper with @adam-n-smith.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Our paper develops a new approach for estimating demand nonparametrically while imposing economic constraints and comes with a new package, NPDemand.jl! Some things we do in the paper 1/
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Jūra Liaukonytė @jurawho.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
🚨Closing out 2024 with a new paper with @hristakeva.bsky.social and @leofeler.com: How GLP-1 medications like Ozempic are reshaping food demand and changing the rules of the game for the food industry.
Screenshot of paper title and abstract
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Natural confounded experiment alert. www.cbsnews.com/news/tiktok-...
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TikTok starts restoring service in the U.S. after shutting down over divest-or-ban law
President-elect Donald Trump vowed to issue an executive order on Monday to postpone the ban on TikTok from going into effect.
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Andrey Fradkin @andreyfradkin.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
It's a good time to mention that Seth Benzell and I have a podcast called Justified Posteriors discussing the economics of AI and other technologies. Our latest episode considers @timobres.bsky.social's paper on AI and Aggregate Growth. empiricrafting.substack.com/p/beyond-tas...
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Beyond Task Replacement
Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Aggregate Growth Prospects by Tim Bresnahan
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Remarkable context here.
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
natural experiment alert www.mass.gov/news/ag-camp...
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This is a remarkable paper www.steven-hamilton.com/s/241208_100... Especially if you're interested in consumption, financial management and heterogeneity.
steven-hamilton.com
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MarketectureTV @marketecture.tv · 12/12/2024
There are so many types of identity signals it can be hard to keep track (see what I did there, LOL). Our latest in depth explainer: "Identity Signals Explained" www.adtechexplained.com/p/identity-s...
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Identity Signals Explained
A field guide for the evolving advertising identity landscape
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Giovanni Compiani @giocompiani.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
🚨📜CALL FOR PAPERS 📜🚨 *New Data for Consumer Insights Conference* When: May 30-31, 2025 Where: Chicago Booth Submission Deadline: Jan 6, 2025 Keynotes: @susanathey.bsky.social and Greg Lewis Both methodological and empirical submissions are welcome. Submit here: ndconference2025.hotcrp.com
ndconference2025.hotcrp.com
New Data Conference 2025
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Natural experiment alert www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers
The UK government is banning daytime TV adverts for sugary foods like granola and muffins in its battle against child obesity, branding such popular items as junk food.
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John A. List @johnlist.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Field Experiments have matured from academic curiosity to bona fide contributor to knowledge in the past few decades. Yet, the political economy of their deployment in government remains ill-understood. We provide insights in a new working paper, available here: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura...
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Toward an Understanding of the Political Economy of Using Fi
Field experiments provide the clearest window into the true impact of many policies, allowing us to understand what works, what does not, and why. Yet, their widespread use has not been accompanied by
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Advertising is an emergent property of successful platforms. techcrunch.com/2024/12/05/b...
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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber isn't ruling out advertising | TechCrunch
Bluesky has blown up this year thanks to a vibrant community of posters, user customization choices, and a decentralized protocol that doesn't lock users
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Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Very cool to see my research with Poet Larsen and Davide Proserpio cited in this week's Economist. www.economist.com/briefing/202...
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Gambling is growing like gangbusters in America
Technology and legal changes are spurring a betting bonanza
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
there's a lot of bots on here.
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Advertising is an emergent property of successful platforms. www.ft.com/content/9350... archive.is/Zoc3n
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OpenAI explores advertising as it steps up revenue drive
ChatGPT maker hires advertising talent from big tech rivals
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I wonder if rejecting amazon prime on every transaction hardens consumer refusals. Do expected returns go negative after say 100+ offer rejections? Curious if amzn tested with long-term metrics, or if reanalysis of initial experiments would reveal. Ofc, cart abandonment is the obvious downside.
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
“If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more than I value the specific contents” lithub.com/in-praise-of...
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In Praise of Print: Why Reading Remains Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse
When the witty and wry English fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett interviewed Bill Gates for GQ in 1995, only 39% of Americans had access to a home computer. According to the Pew Research Center, the…
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Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Most misinformation is funded by advertising. Most advertisers who fund misinformation don't realize where their ad dollars go. When they learn the truth, they stop funding misinformation. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Link in next post
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Anirban Mukhopadhyay @nomologic.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A hundred years after Hotelling, researchers in Northern India hatched the Restauranting Model.
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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 26/11/2024
An empirical econ paper needs two things: 738 robustness checks concluding we can’t really ever fully be sure of internal validity in the appendix, and one (1) wild back of the envelope calculation indicating that the result is world-changing in the discussion section
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
About WoPA submissions. We ask authors not to submit papers that are accepted or invited for revision. PC will screen for this. We hope the workshop enables productive feedback. Authors of invited revisions focus primarily on review team feedback, not workshop feedback. platformanalytics.org
platformanalytics.org
Workshop on Platform Analytics
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Travis Lusk @travis.adlingo.org · 26/11/2024
At its core, it is the ultimate conflict of interest. Someone with a personal financial incentive is searching for a measurement tool to tell them that their media is working. According to [insert vendor] we delivered [insert KPI]. Now pay me my bonus. Measurement companies line up to serve.
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AdTechGod ®️ 🍪 @adtechgod.com · 26/11/2024
Is attribution really as messy as people make it out to be? Or is everyone being dramatic?
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 25/11/2024
I'm writing up a brief history of the tidyverse? What do you want to know about it? #rstats
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Cat pic >>> earnest self introduction
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Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
🛠️ What we did: We built a browser extension that intercepts users’ social media feeds, uses GPT to identify polarizing content in real time, and re-ranks posts to change their visibility. We do this without impacting the user experience. Read more about the tool: arxiv.org/abs/2406.19571
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I'm starting a fantasy social science department League. One point for each Google scholar citation, 100 points for each major publication. You can start two full professors, two associate professors, two assistant professors and four doctoral students. Each matchup lasts 20 years
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Here are some nice mushrooms
An overturned stick is held upright in an autumn forest and covered in mature Splitgill mushrooms, one stacked above the next, each of their gills radiating above the next
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I can retire now
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
This is my favorite account on all socials and I'm not entirely sure what that says about me
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
go.bsky.app/NHpEu1g Is there one already? Please message me to be added
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
We wrote a draft handbook chapter on using algorithmic pricing to learn optimal platform fees. A challenging and interesting problem! Comments welcome. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... With the great Kanishka Misra (BC)
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<div> Platform Pricing Algorithms: <span>Examples, Fundamental Challenges, Potential Solutions</span> </div>
We consider platform pricing algorithms, i.e., pricing algorithms to learn optimal platform prices to customers. We review four papers that carefully describe p
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Validated Facebook's calm, non-interruptive ad format. The presenter I saw said he did not expect similar effects for more interruptive ads like YouTube. So "online ads" in the title is broader than the evidence. Picking nits in case any bsky scrollers neglect to read the entire paper..
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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 19/11/2024
I would even add: please shamelessly promote your work One terrific thing I enjoyed on old Twitter was discovering new papers Trust me, you will have an audience if you share your work on Bluesky
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The bar has risen so much. My jmp was half finished and the only paper I had.
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Kenneth C Wilbur @kennethcwilbur.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Good overview of current bluesky ecosystem for technically minded people. Imo the best bet for long term usage, but there arel important platform design choices yet to be made. anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/m...
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Maybe Bluesky has “won”
November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky. I’ve seen a bunch of takes about this recently, but I keep seeing things I...
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
It is so incredibly nice to have a social platform that values links again - a breath of fresh air in the poisoned ecosystem of the creator economy
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AdTechGod ®️ 🍪 @adtechgod.com · 19/11/2024
Calling CMO’s, VPs of Marketing and comms teams! If you want to be added please comment below go.bsky.app/KCx3iN2
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