Seth Benzell

Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics

333 N. Glassell

Orange, CA 92866

United States

MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy

Digital Fellow

245 First Street

Cambridge, MA 02142

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Stanford University, Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Digital Economy Lab

Stanford, CA 94305

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  • Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics

  • MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy

  • Stanford University, Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Digital Economy Lab

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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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The Impact of APIs in Firm Performance

Boston University Questrom School of Business Research Paper No. 2843326
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 27 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 23 May 2017
Seth Benzell, Guillermo Lagarda and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Global Development Policy Center Boston University and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Firm performance, IT productivity, APIs, platforms, internal and external networks, event study

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How APIs Create Growth by Inverting the Firm

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 16 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 30 Dec 2022
Seth Benzell, Jonathan Samuel Hersh, Marshall W. Van Alstyne and Guillermo Lagarda
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems and Global Development Policy Center Boston University
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Platforms, APIs, Information Security, Technology Strategy, Market Capitalization

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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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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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Robots are Us: Some Economics of Human Replacement

NBER Working Paper No. w20941
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 16 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2023
Seth Benzell, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Guillermo Lagarda and Jeffrey D. Sachs
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Boston University - Department of Economics, Global Development Policy Center Boston University and Columbia University - Columbia Earth Institute
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Facebook, Welfare, and Natural Monopoly: A Quantitative Analysis of Antitrust Remedies

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 29 Mar 2022
Felix Chang and Seth Benzell
University of Cincinnati College of Law and Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics
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Facebook, policy interventions, regulation, social welfare, digital platforms, antitrust

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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
Seth Benzell, Avinash Collis, Christos Nicolaides and Indranil Bardhan
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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Robots: Curse or Blessing? A Basic Framework

NBER Working Paper No. w21091
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 13 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2023
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Seth Benzell and Guillermo Lagarda
Columbia University - Columbia Earth Institute, Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics and Global Development Policy Center Boston University
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Do Labor Demand Shifts Occur Within Firms or Across Them? Non-Routine-Biased Technological Change, 2000-2016

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 30 Jul 2019
Seth Benzell, Guillermo Lagarda and Daniel Rock
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Global Development Policy Center Boston University and University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department
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Skill-Biased Technological Change, Labor Demand, Automation, Business Dynamism

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Digital Abundance and Scarce Genius: Implications for Wages, Interest Rates, and Growth

NBER Working Paper No. w25585
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 26 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 29 May 2023
Seth Benzell and Erik Brynjolfsson
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Simulating Business Cash Flow Taxation

NBER Working Paper No. w23675
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 17 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2023
Seth Benzell, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Guillermo Lagarda and Victor Yifan Ye
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Boston University - Department of Economics, Global Development Policy Center Boston University and Boston University
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Simulating Russia's and Other Large Economies’ Challenging and Interconnected Transitions

NBER Working Paper No. w21269
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 15 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2023
Seth Benzell, Eugene Goryunov, Maria V Kazakova, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Guillermo Lagarda, Kristina Nesterova and Andrey Zubarev
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, Boston University - Department of Economics, Global Development Policy Center Boston University, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA) and Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA) - Institute of Applied Economic Research
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The Future of Global Economic Power

NBER Working Paper No. w30556
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 17 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2023
Seth Benzell, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Maria V Kazakova, Guillermo Lagarda, Kristina Nesterova, Victor Yifan Ye and Andrey Zubarev
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Boston University - Department of Economics, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, Global Development Policy Center Boston University, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA), Boston University and Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA) - Institute of Applied Economic Research
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Simulating Endogenous Global Automation

NBER Working Paper No. w29220
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 13 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
Seth Benzell, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Guillermo Lagarda and Victor Yifan Ye
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Boston University - Department of Economics, Global Development Policy Center Boston University and Boston University
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