Engaging afternoon plenary session at #ChinaIndia conference at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Debi Mohapatra spoke about cross-market spillovers in tech adoption, Dante Donati about Facebook ads for malaria prevention and Shreya Kankanhalli on why small retailers don’t adopt Fintech.

Articles in Advance 04/25 (3 of 5) "The End of Tourist Traps: The Impact of Review Platforms on Quality Upgrading" by Dante Donati Dante Donati pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.12…

This paper analyzes the short-term effects of platform market concentration on advertising prices, using the 2025 #TikTok outage in the US as a shock to advertising demand & supply on other #socialmedia platforms. Read: spkl.io/6012f0jB4 Subscribe: spkl.io/6016f0jBC

Uno studio mostra che l’accesso a internet veloce ha peggiorato la salute mentale degli adolescenti, ma non quella degli adulti. E i rischi non dipendono solo dai social. L'articolo di Dante Donati, Ruben Durante, F. Sobbrio e D. Zejcirovic lavoce.info/archives/10886…

One of the first randomized controlled trials testing whether GenAI boosts revenue, not just productivity. It does. A large, mature ecommerce platform, using older GenAI tools found most of them, from customer service to marketing tools, led to large significant revenue boosts

Evidence for GenAI tools improving profits for online retail. Largest effects seem to come from the pre-sale service chatbot. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12049