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Publications

Research on marketplace mechanisms, truth warrants, and the governance of agentic AI marketplaces: peer-reviewed papers, invited talks, and selected press.

Papers

Peer-reviewed and working papers on marketplace design, self-certification, and agentic AI.

2026

2026Working Paper

Market Design Interventions for Safer Agentic AI

Swapneel Mehta, Aaron Nichols, Abhishek Shah, Pratyay Banerjee, Nina Mazar, Marshall Van Alstyne

2024

2024Conference Paper

Improving the Governance of Digital Platforms with Interactive Marketplace Experiments

Swapneel Mehta, Sverre Wiedswang, Zoey Yang, Nina Mazar, Marshall Van Alstyne

International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2)

Slides
2024Working Paper

Truth is Warranted: The Impact of Self-Certification on Misinformation

Aaron D. Nichols, Nina Mazar, Tejovan Parker, Gordon Pennycook, David Rand, Marshall Van Alstyne

PDF
2024Conference Paper

Secure Account Recovery for a Privacy-Preserving Web Service

Ryan Little, Lucy Qin, Mayank Varia

USENIX Security 2024

PDF

2023

2023Op-Ed

Improving §230, Preserving Democracy & Protecting Free Speech

Marshall Van Alstyne, Michael D. Smith, Herbert Lin

Communications of the ACM

Article
2023Working Paper

Free Speech & the Fake News Problem

Marshall W. Van Alstyne

SSRN
2023Working Paper

Free Speech vs. Free Ride: Navigating the Supreme Court's Social Media Paradox

Marshall W. Van Alstyne

PDF

Talks

Selected invited talks and conference presentations.

2024Talk

Market Design Interventions for Safer Agentic AI

Presented by Aaron Nichols

  • Yale AI/ML Conference
  • Columbia MarkTech Conference
2024Talk

Improving the Governance of Online Marketplaces using Warrants

Presented by Swapneel Mehta

  • Stanford Trust and Safety Research Conference
2024Talk

Certifiably True: The Impact of Self-Certification on Misinformation

Presented by Aaron Nichols

  • Platform Strategy Research Symposium
  • International Conference on Computational Social Science
  • Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference
2024Talk

Truth is Warranted: Addressing Misinformation in Information Markets

Presented by Marshall Van Alstyne

  • Digital Platform Ecosystems Forum, University of Passau
Talk

Using Markets to Combat Misinformation

Presented by Marshall Van Alstyne

  • Harvard University

Press

Coverage of the lab's work in academic and general-audience outlets.