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Ginger Zhe Jin
dblp:215/5846
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0001-7912-3780ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Theory of computation · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Computational social science and digital humanities · 50% Computational finance and economics · 50% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Machine learning and data management · 100% |
Topics — the 1 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computational finance and economics › pricing
algorithmic pricing |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Does a Human-Algorithm Feedback Loop Lead to Error Propagation? Evidence from Zillow's Zestimate · EC 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
simulation · 1.7natural experiment · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Does a Human-Algorithm Feedback Loop Lead to Error Propagation? Evidence from Zillow's ZestimateabstractWe study how home sellers and buyers interact with Zillow's Zestimate algorithm throughout the sales cycle of residential properties, with an emphasis on the implications of such interactions. In particular, leveraging Zestimate's algorithm updates as exogenous shocks, we find evidence for a human-algorithm feedback loop: listing and selling outcomes respond significantly to Zestimate, and Zestimate is quickly updated for the focal and comparable homes after a property is listed or sold. This raises a concern that housing market disturbances may propagate and persist because of the feedback loop. However, simulations suggest that disturbances are short-lived and diminish eventually, mainly because all marginal effects in the selling process - though sizable and significant - are less than one. To further validate this insight in the real data, we leverage the COVID-19 pandemic as a natural experiment. We find consistent evidence that the initial disturbances created by the March 2020 declaration of national emergency faded away in a few months. Overall, our results identify the human-algorithm feedback loop in an important real-world setting but dismiss the concern that such a feedback loop generates persistent error propagation. Runshan Fu, Ginger Zhe Jin, Meng Liu 0011 |
EC | 2 |