
Aaron Kaye
Assistant Professor, Marketing
I am an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and an Affiliated Faculty member in the Economics Department.
My interests include empirical industrial organization, digital economics, AI, and health. My research examines questions related to consumer search, platform design, the value of information, and market power in online markets.
Selected Research Presentations
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, Yale IO Seminar, Yale SOM, 2026
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, American Economic Association ASSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 2026
Kaye, A. Value of Data and Model Complexity in Counterfactual Retail Pricing, Boston Conference on Markets and Competition (HBS), Harvard Business School, 2025
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, MIT Industrial Organization Workshop, MIT Economics, 2025
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, Economics of Platforms Seminar, Hosted by Toulouse School of Economics, 2025
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, EARIE 2025, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain, 2025
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, Platform Strategy Research Symposium, Boston University, 2025
Emil, P. , Athey, S. , Kaye, A. The Value of Non-traditional Credentials in the Labor Market (Discussant), Platform Strategy 2025, Boston University, 2025
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, 2025 ISMS Marketing Science Conference, Washington, D.C., 2025
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital, Workshop on digital platforms and product recommendation systems, NHHH and SNF, Bergen, Norway, 2025
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, 23rd Annual International Industrial Organization Conference, Drexel University, 2025
Blevins, J. , Kaye, A. Leveraging Uniformization and Sparsity for Computation of Continuous Time Dynamic Discrete Choice Games (Discussant), 23rd Annual International Industrial Organization Conference, Drexel University, 2025
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, Digital Competition and Tech Regulation, Harvard Business School, 2025
Kaye, A. Differential Impacts of Online Ratings in the Market for Medical Services, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 19, place Marguerite Perey, 91120, Palaiseau, France, Paris, France, 2025
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, Workshop on Platform Analytics (WoPA), UCSD, 2025
Kaye, A. Academic Perspective on AI (Panelist), 2025 Digital Marketing Symposium: Digital Marketing Symposium: Transforming Customer Engagement: The Power of AI in Personalization, Boston University Digital Business Institute, 2025
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, Artificial Intelligence in Management (AIM), USC Marshall School of Business, 2025
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, Boston College Markets and Firms Seminar, Boston College, 2025
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, MIT Marketing Seminar, MIT Sloan, 2025
Kaye, A. Differential Impacts of Online Ratings in the Market for Medical Services, Toulouse Business School FEE Lab Seminar, Toulouse Business School. Toulouse, France, 2025
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, 17th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse School of Economics, 2025
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, Cornell Industrial Organization Workshop, Cornell, 2024
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE 2024), Market Failures and Public Policy & Empirical Market Design, Stanford, 2024
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, Platform Strategy Research Doctoral Consortium, Boston University, 2024
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, CFPB Research Seminar, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Office of Research, Washington D.C., 2024
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, The Economics of Platforms and Recommender Systems, Télécom Paris, 2024
Kaye, A. , Greminger, R. Heterogeneous Position Effects and the Power of Rankings (Discussant), The Economics of Platforms and Recommender Systems, Télécom Paris, 2024
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, Doctoral Workshop the Economics of Digitization, University of Warsaw, Poland, 2024
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, Munich Summer Institute, Max Planck Institute for Innovation, Munich, Germany, 2024
Kaye, A. Long-Term Echoes of Short-Term Policy: Tracing the Persistent Impact of Medicare Advantage Subsidies, 2024 Annual Health Economics Conference, Stanford, 2024
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, 15th Paris Conference on Digital Economics, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 19, place Marguerite Perey, 91120, Palaiseau, France., 2024
Kaye, A. Risk of Bias and Discrimination in Algorithmic Decision Making (Panelist), NAVE Economic Policy Conference, Washington, DC, 2024
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, Seminar, Stanford Digital Economy Lab, 2024
Kaye, A. The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets, DOJ Antitrust Division EAG Seminar, DOJ Antitrust Division EAG, 2024
Kaye, A. Differential Impacts of Online Ratings in the Market for Medical Services, 9th IRDES Workshop on Applied Health Economics and Policy Evaluation, Paris, France, 2023
Kaye, A. Differential Impacts of Online Ratings in the Market for Medical Services, ASHEcon 2023, St. Louis, 2023
Kaye, A. Long-Term Echoes of Short-Term Policy: Tracing the Persistent Impact of Medicare Advantage Subsidies, ASHEcon 2023, St. Louis, 2023
Publications
Kaye, A., Buchmueller, T., Levy, H. (2021). “The Healthy Michigan Plan 2020 Report on Uncompensated Care”, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services