Measuring Economic Impact in the Digital Economy request for proposals

Facebook invites research proposals for measuring the value of economic impact in the digital economy.

Topics of interest for this RFP 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: $50,000 to $100,000

Duration: 1 year

Research Authority due date: 2.3.20