Digital Economics

Digital technologies have dramatically reduced the costs of storing, processing and communicating information. The BSE Summer Forum Workshop on Digital Economics brings together researchers from several fields who can help to understand how these changes affect social and economic outcomes and to uncover both positive potentials and need for regulation.

Most participants use tools from Industrial Organization, Mechanism Design, Media Economics, Social Networks, Computer Science, Finance, and Sociology.

The 2025 edition of this workshop will emphasize the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the digital economy but the call is broader (see below). We particularly encourage submissions that address welfare, fairness and policy concerns.

We invite theoretical and empirical contributions on topics such as:

• Artificial Intelligence, Human Interaction, Trust, Decision Making
• Algorithms, Mechanism Design, Finance, Entrepreneurship
• Crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing, Sharing Economy, and Gig Work
• Digital Media, Journalism, Search Engines, Online Social Networks
• Privacy, Advertising, Targeting, Discrimination