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Advertising Spillovers in Mobile Apps: Evidence from Ad Shutoffs and Store Rankings
Harang Ju, Michael Zhao, Sinan Aral
Using advertising campaign data from a large US-based mobile game developer, the authors study a global advertising shutoff in the context of mobile app install ads. Contrary to pr…
The Augmentation Trap: AI Productivity and the Cost of Cognitive Offloading
Michael Caosun, Sinan Aral
Experimental evidence suggests that AI tools raise worker productivity, but also that sustained offloading can erode expertise. This creates a tradeoff when expertise is a compleme…
Personality Pairing Improves Human-AI Collaboration
Harang Ju, Sinan Aral
Here we examine how AI agent "personalities" interact with human personalities to shape human-AI collaboration and performance. In a large-scale, preregistered randomized experimen…
Explaining Sustained Blockchain Decentralization with Quasi-Experiments: The Resource Flexibility of Consensus Mechanisms
Harang Ju, Madhav Kumar, Ehsan Valavi +1
Decentralization is a fundamental design element of the Web3 economy. Blockchains and distributed consensus mechanisms are touted as fault-tolerant, attack-resistant, and collusion…
Measuring Social Media Network Effects
Sinan Aral, Seth G Benzell, Avinash Collis +1
Network effects -- the utility gains from additional consumers of a good -- are widely regarded as critical to the digital economy. Yet recent theory and evidence suggest that loca…
Teaching AI to Handle Exceptions: Supervised Fine-Tuning with Human-Aligned Judgment
Matthew DosSantos DiSorbo, Harang Ju, Sinan Aral
Large language models (LLMs), initially developed for generative AI, are now evolving into agentic AI systems, which make decisions in complex, real-world contexts. Unfortunately,…