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Business and Management

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60
Citations
25237
World Ranking
527
National Ranking
26

Economics and Finance

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59
Citations
24870
World Ranking
852
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - INFORMS Society for Marketing Science Long Term Impact Award (LTI Award)

Overview

Avi Goldfarb is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, with significant contributions in Sociology and Political Science, Marketing, Economics and Econometrics, Infectious Diseases, and Strategy and Management.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
  • Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • Digital Platforms and Economics
  • Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
  • Innovation Policy and R&D
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing

Recent publications by Avi Goldfarb include:

  • "Could machine learning be a general purpose technology? A comparison of emerging technologies using data from online job postings," 2022, Research Policy
  • "Conducting Research in Marketing with Quasi-Experiments," 2022, Journal of Marketing
  • "Consumer privacy and the future of data-based innovation and marketing," 2020, International Journal of Research in Marketing

The researcher has frequently collaborated with the following co-authors:

  • Joshua S. Gans
  • Ajay Agrawal
  • Catherine E. Tucker
  • Florenta Teodoridis

Publication venues that frequently feature their work include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Marketing Science
  • JAMA
  • AEA Papers and Proceedings
  • EPJ Quantum Technology

Avi Goldfarb received the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science Long Term Impact Award (LTI Award) in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Some Simple Economics of Crowdfunding

    Ajay K Agrawal;Christian Catalini;Avi Goldfarb

  • The Geography of Crowdfunding

    Ajay K. Agrawal;Christian Catalini;Avi Goldfarb

  • Digital Economics

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  • Some Simple Economics of Crowdfunding

    Ajay Agrawal;Christian Catalini;Avi Goldfarb

  • The Geography of Crowdfunding

    Ajay K Agrawal;Ajay K Agrawal;Christian Catalini;Christian Catalini;Avi Goldfarb

  • Crowdfunding: Geography, Social Networks, and the Timing of Investment Decisions

    Ajay Agrawal;Christian Catalini;Avi Goldfarb

  • Online Display Advertising: Targeting and Obtrusiveness

    Avi Goldfarb;Catherine Tucker

  • The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda

    Ajay Agrawal;Joshua Gans;Avi Goldfarb

  • Privacy Regulation and Online Advertising

    Avi Goldfarb;Catherine E. Tucker

  • Competition Between Local and Electronic Markets: How the Benefit of Buying Online Depends on Where You Live

    Chris Forman;Anindya Ghose;Avi Goldfarb

  • Digital Economics

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  • How Is the Mobile Internet Different? Search Costs and Local Activities

    Anindya Ghose;Avi Goldfarb;Sang Pil Han

  • Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

    Avi Goldfarb;Ajay Agrawal;Joshua Gans

  • Internet adoption and usage patterns are different: Implications for the digital divide

    Avi Goldfarb;Avi Goldfarb;Jeff Prince;Jeff Prince

  • Artificial Intelligence: The Ambiguous Labor Market Impact of Automating Prediction

    Ajay Agrawal;Joshua S. Gans;Avi Goldfarb

  • The Internet and Local Wages: A Puzzle †

    Chris Forman;Avi Goldfarb;Shane Greenstein

  • Economic Policy for Artificial Intelligence

    Ajay K Agrawal;Joshua S Gans;Avi Goldfarb

  • Restructuring Research: Communication Costs and the Democratization of University Innovation

    Ajay K Agrawal;Avi Goldfarb

  • Artificial Intelligence and the Implementation Challenge.

    James Shaw;James Shaw;Frank Rudzicz;Trevor Jamieson;Trevor Jamieson;Avi Goldfarb

  • Exploring the impact of artificial Intelligence: Prediction versus judgment

    Ajay K Agrawal;Joshua S Gans;Avi Goldfarb

  • Does the internet defy the law of gravity

    Bernardo S. Blum;Avi Goldfarb

  • How did location affect adoption of the commercial Internet? Global village vs. urban leadership

    Chris Forman;Avi Goldfarb;Shane Greenstein

  • Shifts in Privacy Concerns

    Avi Goldfarb;Catherine Elizabeth Tucker

  • The Economics of Artificial Intelligence

    Ajay Agrawal;Joshua Gans;Avi Goldfarb

  • Who thinks about the competition? Managerial ability and strategic entry in US local telephone markets *

    Avi Goldfarb;Mo Xiao

  • The Internet and Local Wages

    Chris Forman;Avi Goldfarb;Shane Greenstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Ajay Agrawal
Ajay Agrawal University of Toronto
Shane Greenstein
Shane Greenstein Harvard University
Chris Forman
Chris Forman Cornell University
Joshua S. Gans
Joshua S. Gans University of Toronto
Anindya Ghose
Anindya Ghose New York University
Daniel Trefler
Daniel Trefler University of Toronto
Daniel G. Goldstein
Daniel G. Goldstein Microsoft (United States)
David Dranove
David Dranove Northwestern University
Frank Rudzicz
Frank Rudzicz University of Toronto

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