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Check out @avicgoldfarb discussing his paper with @joshgans about how O-ring production functions interact with task-based automation.

Privacy regulations require consent to use tracking “cookies." This MSI working paper uses an online field experiment to determine how consumers respond to different cookie consent banner designs. Which design would work best for you?: ow.ly/qVZB50YfgzF #Tracking #Privacy

🍪🤖🧠⚖️⏳ Are you an acceptor, discerner, or rejector? by Chiara Farronato, @AndreyFradkin and @TesaryLin 📌The purpose of the study is to measure how different #cookie-consent designs affect user welfare and identify which consent model saves consumers the most time and money. * Acceptor (45%) — People who click “Accept all” everywhere. They like convenience and don’t mind sharing data. * Discerner (37%) — They decide case by case, choosing differently depending on the website. * Rejector (18%) — They almost always choose “Reject all” and dislike #data sharing. 📌Hidden buttons matter: When “Reject all” is buried under “Settings,” users are heavily nudged toward accepting. 📌Best policy for consumers: Browser-level privacy control saves the most time and money — far better than any banner redesign. Source: Farronato, Chiara, Audrey Fradkin, and Tesary Lin. "Designing Consent: Choice Architecture and Consumer Welfare in Data Sharing." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 34025, July 2025.

Tuchman, Anna Elizabeth; Tucker, Catherine E. @jdube6 @DirkBergemann3 @demirermert @avicgoldfarb @garjoh_canuck @Anja_Lambrecht @TesaryLin @tuchmanna @ce_tucker pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.12…

In our new working paper, we study how to design consent mechanisms for data collection. TLDR; instead of focusing on the specific consent interface, we should focus on the frequency of consent decisions and default sharing rules.

Newly Accepted Articles 05/25 (1 of 5) "The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Privacy Regulation for Consumer Marketing by Dubé, Jean-Pierre; Lynch, Jr., John G.; Bergemann, Dirk; Demirer, Mert; Goldfarb, Avi; Johnson, Garrett A.; Lambrecht, Anja; Lin, Tesary;

Newly Accepted Articles 10/24 (1 of 4) "Choice Architecture, Privacy Valuations, and Selection Bias in Consumer Data" by Lin, Tesary and Strulov-Shlain, Avner @TesaryLin

We wrapped up the 11th annual @CODEConference this past Saturday with our second half of plenary speakers and the fireside panel on "The Changing Data Environment." Thank you to everyone for another successful year of @CODEConference - we look forward to having you join us again in 2025! #CODECON24

Marketing job market candidates: BU is hiring! We've got a fantastic team doing cool research. Please apply!

New working paper!!! (joint with Chiara Farronato and @AndreyFradkin) How does the use of dark patterns during data collection affect website competition? Read on:

Come see @ravivmg @JWaldfogel @Farshad_Ravasan @samgarvingold @demirermert Guy Aridor @KelloggSchool @TesaryLin and myself at the #ASSA2024 #EconTwitter "Firms and Data: Privacy, Monitoring, and Cybersecurity" session Saturday, 2:30 pm aeaweb.org/conference/202…

🚨Working paper update!🚨 What is the impact of strict #privacy regulation on content supply and demand? In Sept 2019, YouTube paid a record $170M to settle charges it violated children’s privacy law (#COPPA). We use this to study the "privacy-for-content" tradeoff. 1/11

Research update: "The Editor and the Algorithm: Recommendation Technology in Online News" is now published in Management Science. I collaborated with @Ananya_Sen_ from @CarnegieMellon & @joerg_claussen from @LMU_Muenchen . pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.12…

Join us for a talk by Hariri Institute Distinguished Speaker @random_walker @Princeton on "The Reproducibility Crisis in Machine Learning-based Science" ➡️ FRI, 11/3, 11:00am – 12:00pm ET, ZOOM ➡️ Register: spr.ly/6019ud3k5 Host: @TesaryLin Prof. @BUQuestrom #ML #CompSc

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@ryanmcdevitt @btshapir Very nice! I've been thinking about buying one of these from Paul Ellickson's merchandise...probably a mug + a T-shirt :D

@TesaryLin @btshapir See if you can get a mug

Wait, I thought she was my amazing student @TesaryLin? Figures that everyone is trying to claim such a superstar! Truth is she earned this herself. Such a gift to have such talented students.

Thank you everyone! I'm honored to receive the John Little Award and above all, very heartened to hear this from my advisor! 😇Very grateful for everything I've learned from @sanjog_misra @btshapir, Pradeep and others at Booth.

Not as proud as I am of my amazing student @TesaryLin 🎉🥳🎊

How valuable can data sharing by large digital platforms be for smaller players? @XiaoxiaLei (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), @Yi_Xing_Chen (Notre Dame University), and I have a new working paper that delves into this question (1/n). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…