Tobias Salz
@TobiasSalz
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Associate Professor @MITEcon, @NYUFASEcon PhD. Field: IO. Working on: digital markets, platforms, transportation, productivity effects of AI, intermediation.
Cambridge, MA, USA
Joined September 2019
1/10 In the blockbuster trial U.S.A. v. Google LLC, the D.C. federal court ruled Google violated antitrust law. Our team (@HuntAllcott, J.C. Castillo, M. Gentzkow, L. Musolff & I) investigates why Google has such high market share.
Evaluating the economic forces that contribute to Google's large market share in web search, from @huntallcott, Juan Camilo Castillo, Matthew Gentzkow, Leon Musolff, and @TobiasSalz
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RT @mattyglesias: Imagine giving someone a grant to study gila monster venom. What a joke. Gotta cut this kind of nonsense out. What of val…
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10/10 Second, our analysis on the relationship between data and result quality is based on stronger identifying assumptions than the experiment and does not account for algorithmic improvements, which may be practically relevant.
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RT @TobiasSalz: 1/10 In the blockbuster trial U.S.A. v. Google LLC, the D.C. federal court ruled Google violated antitrust law. Our team (@…
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9/10 Two caveats. First, for technical reasons the study was conducted on desktop computers. While we believe that our experiment captures the key economics forces, certain quantitative results may be different on mobile.
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8/10 The results suggest that Google’s market share would be 15% lower absent any frictions but also that most people would still prefer Google in that case. Regulators can increase consumer welfare by prioritizing policies that both give users experience with alternatives and remove frictions from their subsequent choices.
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