Séminaire

Drivers of Digital Attention: Evidence from a Social Media Experiment

Guy Aridor (Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management)

7 février 2023, 14h00–15h00

Zoom Meeting

Economics of Platforms Seminar

Résumé

I study demand for social media services by conducting an experiment where I monitor how participants spend time on digital services and shut off access to Instagram or YouTube on their mobile phones. I characterize how participants substitute their time during and after the restrictions, which motivates estimating a model of time usage with inertia. I apply the substitution patterns observed during the restriction period and implied by the model with and without inertia to a relevant market definition exercise to conclude that relevant markets may be larger than those considered by regulatory authorities for social media applications.

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