… activities allow Amazon, Google, Facebook and other digital behemoths to amass unprecedented amounts of people’s … purchase, post, or search on their platforms, the tech giants have amassed valuable information about entire groups … companies is not that valuable, therefore they don’t need to compensate for the additional data. This creates an …

… For regulators and researchers, a new handbook on digital market regulation … June 5, 2025 | Perspectives For … network effects, economies of scale—particularly in data markets—and businesses leveraging market power in … executed in the U.S. We concluded the report with the need for a regulatory approach to generate competitive …

… Today’s digital economy is blurring the boundaries between computer … and how it bridges these critical fields. What is your research focus? Phillipp Strack:  I’m quite unfocused — … Economics and computer science converge … March 31, 2021 | News Machine learning: Economics and computer science …

… because many people are investing in it. Everybody from your local bartender to Goldman Sachs executives is talking … not like stocks. We also found no similarities between the behavior of cryptocurrency and five major traditional … like these traditional assets, then is it possible to predict its performance? While we discovered that …

… artificial intelligence trends, or their adoption of new digital marketing techniques. They found that firms with more … behavior in the economy.” How does this study fit into your broader research portfolio? My broader research across … a Negative Mood Can Tank the Economy … January 28, 2025 | News Meet Joel Flynn: The Macroeconomist Asking Whether a …

…   Yale News Kodak, once a giant of global industry, is a shell of its former self — largely undone by the rise of digital photography. Borders, which operated hundreds of … provides the first serious empirical evidence. How does your approach differ from Christensen’s approach? There are …

… career, in which you made long-lived contributions both to your discipline and to your department.   You began your career as a mathematical … as stationary and nonstationary time series and panel data, unit roots and cointegration, spurious regression, and …

… colleagues at Yale’s Center for Economic Growth to collect data on COVID-19’s effects on low-income populations. … condensed. How are you responding to the pandemic through your research? COVID-19 is the greatest global challenge … countries. What kind of information is being collected? We need to collect real-time data to see how the crisis affects …

… and Area Studies , are gathering and analyzing data concerning the effects of lockdowns on India and Nepal’s … issues and design policies that will help those most in need. Pande, the Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics in … triangulation across sources required to be confident in your data? We have lots of snapshots of conditions in India …

… about challenging restrictive social norms, harnessing digital technology to increase women’s access to health care … social justice. Interview condensed and edited. What are your research interests? One of my primary focuses has been … in the policy and development economic communities, but we need to make sure we’re asking the right research questions — …

… and her experience at Yale.    What is the focus of your research?   I work on theoretical models of how people … implications of my work with Ryota and Yuhta is that this need not be the case: If people are even slightly wrong about … a 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship … February 15, 2022 | News Yale economist Mira Frick awarded a 2022 Sloan Research …

… Can Google search data predict the economy? In a talk this week hosted by the … including GDP, unemployment, and where you’ll buy your next coffee. Varian visited the Department to deliver … Chief Economist Delivers Okun Lecture … April 20, 2023 | News Can Google Search Data Predict Economic Activity? Google …

… for “susceptible, infected, and recovered.” It is used to predict the spread of infectious diseases absent any policy … would like to develop an understanding of how many people need to be regularly tested in order to lift restrictions on … week. We’re trying to find the right number. What sort of data are you analyzing? We’re examining how the epidemic has …

… edited and condensed version of the conversation follows: Your work tests the scalability of early-childhood … which a government would implement the program. You need a layer of more highly qualified people to mentor and … is significant if you can sustain it: According to U.S. data, a difference in cognition of this amount at an early …