Facebook: Measuring Economic Impact in the Digital Economy

Aim: measuring the value of economic impact in the digital economy.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

* A taxonomy of the digital economy, including sub-sectors within the digital economy

-The demarcations between the analog and digital economies

- Shortcomings (if any) of national accounts and other official statistics of GDP

* Theoretical models of economic impact of the digital economy

- How to obtain causal impacts and/or identify biases found in non-causal estimates

- Incorporate the feedback effects due to the multi-sided nature of platforms

- What needs to be solved for in order to estimate the model

* Empirical application of theoretical models of causal economic impact

- The biases (if any) present in reduced-form empirical model

- Limitations of the model and results, including in scope (geographic, size of business) due to data availability or other issues

Funding: $50K- 100K for 1 year.

Please contact Research Authority if planning to submit. Non-profit, 5% overhead.

https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/measuring-economic-impact-rfp/