Avinash Collis

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA

United States

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Scholarly Papers (16)

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Rationing Social Contact During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Transmission Risk and Social Benefits of US Locations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2020. (doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2008025117)
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 20 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2022
Seth Benzell, Avinash Collis and Christos Nicolaides
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Carnegie Mellon University and School of Economics and Management, University of Cyprus
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Regulating Digital Platform Monopolies: The Case of Facebook

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 29 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2023
Seth Benzell and Avinash Collis
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics and Carnegie Mellon University
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Multi-Sided Platforms, Network Effects, Taxation, Regulation, Social Media, Facebook

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GDP-B: Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 25 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2021
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Carnegie Mellon University, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School - Department of Marketing and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
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Welfare measurement, GDP, Productivity, mismeasurement, productivity slowdown, new goods, free goods, online choice experiments, GDP-B

Gdp-B: Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods in the Digital Economy

NBER Working Paper No. w25695
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 01 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2023
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Carnegie Mellon University, University of British Columbia (UBC), Copenhagen Business School - Department of Marketing and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
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Information Frictions and Heterogeneity in Valuations of Personal Data

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 02 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2024
Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
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value of data, data dividends, privacy, experiment, information treatments

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Providing normative information increases intentions to accept a COVID-19 vaccine

Nature Communications volume 14, Article number: 126 (2023)
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 09 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2023
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Pitttsburgh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and MIT Sloan School of Management
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COVID-19, descriptive norms, social influence, vaccine hesitancy

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Consumer Welfare in the Digital Economy

The Global Antitrust Institute Report on the Digital Economy 14
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 19 Nov 2020
Avinash Collis
Carnegie Mellon University
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Effects of Restricting Social Media Usage

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 14 Jan 2020
Avinash Collis and Felix Eggers
Carnegie Mellon University and Copenhagen Business School - Department of Marketing
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Social media, education, subjective well-being, performance, field experiment

The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 28 Jun 2024
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Carnegie Mellon University, Meta, Meta, Meta, Meta Platforms Inc and Northwestern University
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The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment

NBER Working Paper No. w32846
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 19 Aug 2024
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Carnegie Mellon University, Meta, Meta, Stanford University, Meta Platforms Inc and Northwestern University
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Using Massive Online Choice Experiments to Measure Changes in Well-Being

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (15) 7250-7255, April 2019.
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 01 May 2018 Last Revised: 16 Sep 2019
Erik Brynjolfsson, Avinash Collis and Felix Eggers
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Carnegie Mellon University and Copenhagen Business School - Department of Marketing
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Consumer Surplus, Digital Goods, Free Goods, GDP, Choice Experiments

Using Massive Online Choice Experiments to Measure Changes in Well-Being

NBER Working Paper No. w24514
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 24 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2022
Erik Brynjolfsson, Felix Eggers and Avinash Collis
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Copenhagen Business School - Department of Marketing and Carnegie Mellon University
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The Impact of Openness on the Market Potential of Multi-Sided Platforms: A Case Study of Mobile Payment Platforms

Journal of Information Technology, Vol. 30, Issue 3, pp. 260-275, 2015
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 28 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2017
Jan Ondrus, Avinash Collis and Kalle J. Lyytinen
ESSEC Business School, Carnegie Mellon University and Case Western Reserve University - Weatherhead School of Management
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mobile platforms; multi-sided; openness; market potential; critical mass; ignition; mobile payments

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The Efficiency of US Public Space Utilization During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Risk Analysis 42 (4) 692-706, April 2022.
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 01 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2022
Seth Benzell, Avinash Collis and Christos Nicolaides
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Carnegie Mellon University and School of Economics and Management, University of Cyprus
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COVID-19; social contact; transmission risk; social welfare; non-pharmaceutical interventions

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Measuring the Impact of Free Goods on Real Household Consumption

AEA Papers and Proceedings, Vol.110, May 2020
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 13 Jan 2020
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Carnegie Mellon University, University of British Columbia (UBC), Copenhagen Business School - Department of Marketing and UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics
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Welfare measurement, GDP, Productivity, mismeasurement, productivity slowdown, new goods, free goods, online choice experiments, GDP-B

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Learning from COVID-19: Clinical Trials, Health Information Technology, and Patient Mortality

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 02 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2023
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Economics and Management, University of Cyprus and University of Texas at Dallas
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Health IT, COVID-19, learning, digital experimentation, clinical trials, mortality

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Measuring Welfare with Massive Online Choice Experiments: A Brief Introduction

AEA Papers and Proceedings, Vol.108: 473-76, 2018.
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 01 May 2018 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2019
Erik Brynjolfsson, Felix Eggers and Avinash Collis
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Copenhagen Business School - Department of Marketing and Carnegie Mellon University
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LLM Time Machines: Valuing Digital Goods Over Time

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 18 Mar 2025
Avinash Collis, Felix Eggers and Erik Brynjolfsson
Carnegie Mellon University, Copenhagen Business School - Department of Marketing and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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The Digital Welfare of Nations: New Measures of Welfare Gains and Inequality

NBER Working Paper No. w31670
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 11 Sep 2023
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Carnegie Mellon University, Meta, Meta, Stanford University, Meta Platforms Inc, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Stanford University
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