aloneizenberg.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

IO economists, the Call for Papers for the IIOC is out. It is May 3-5 in Boston. There are special sessions to showcase the work of grad students. Submit by Jan 31. www.indorgsociety.org/conference

submitted 466 days ago • 0 comments

Almost all major US metros have now seen output recover from COVID! Here's how real GDP has changed since 2019 among the largest metros: 🗽NY +3.7% 📽️LA +3.5% 💨Chicago +1.2% 🌉SF +10.8% 🤠Dallas +12.7% 🌸DC +5.2% 🚀Houston +6% 🍀Boston +7.8% 🦦Seattle +10.6% 🍑Atlanta +5.9%

submitted 467 days ago • 6 comments

Join us tomorrow for the CEPR VIOS workshop 6 December 2023: Michael Dickstein (NYU Stern), Title: “Patient Costs and Physicians’ Information”, Discussant: Alon Eizenberg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and CEPR) More info here: cepr.org/events/event...

submitted 473 days ago • 0 comments

President Biden's statement that firms should lower prices because inflation is down caught much fire, and rightfully so. many problems there. But there is an underlying core to this statement that we should take seriously. ->

submitted 477 days ago • 1 comment

Just published by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), a short descriptive chapter I co-authored with Andrew Abir and Eyal Argov: "Labour Market Tightness and Inflation in the Aftermath of Covid-19: The Case of Israel." www.bis.org/publ/bppdf/b...

submitted 481 days ago • 0 comments

And Ilona is on the market this year! Hire her before your neighbour does! 👍

submitted 479 days ago • 0 comments

Quick Stata tip: I've written a book that compiles 97 of my Stata tips. You can download "Quick Stata Tips" and the companion .do file for free at toddrjones.com/quickstatati...

submitted 478 days ago • 3 comments

Today more than ever: shabbat shalom!

submitted 526 days ago • 1 comment

This was an amazing workshop. Thanks to the organizing team for putting it together!

submitted 532 days ago • 1 comment

📉📈 Great first day at the UZH Market Power Workshop!📈📉 The program continues tomorrow with Bhattacharya, Eizenberg (@aloneizenberg.bsky.social), Pape and Remmy And an exciting keynote by Nate Miller (@natehmiller.bsky.social) on "Industrial Organisation and the Rise of Market Power"

submitted 533 days ago • 0 comments

@luisaguiarw and I (aka the Empirical IO group @UZH_ch) have had the great please of having @luiseeis.bsky.social and @aloneizenberg.bsky.social around for a pre-workshop lunch today. We also got to chance to cheer for Alon as he turned 40 again this day today 🥳.

submitted 533 days ago • 2 comments

Headed to Zurich tonight for the UZH Market Power Workshop. Looking forward to see new and exciting work and to present our own work on Multimarket contact.

submitted 534 days ago • 2 comments

What many people don't know: recent decades have seen incredible reductions in poverty. The poverty rate has never before been this low in human history. What new data is now revealing: after the setback from Covid, poverty reduction now continues! #econsky t.co/RJEfQE7PRm

submitted 535 days ago • 5 comments

Hey #econsky! Excited to share my first post here :) I've prepared a guide demonstrating the R implementation of "significance bands for the local projections", as proposed in a recent paper by Inoue, Jordà, and Kuersteiner (2023). Comments are welcome! raw.githack.com/itamarcaspi/...

submitted 535 days ago • 5 comments

Market power and climate policies are two market failures that interact in interesting ways. F.ex., see this new REStud paper by Preonas: www.restud.com/market-power...

submitted 535 days ago • 0 comments

Increased academic leniency can harm attendance and "ultimately widen long-term achievement gaps." Fascinating new paper (by Brooks Bowden, Viviana Rodriguez, @zachweingarten.bsky.social): "The Unintended Consequences of Academic Leniency" edworkingpapers.com/sites/defaul...

submitted 536 days ago • 2 comments

💡Quantile IV💡 Imagine that you are interested in estimating the effect of incarceration on labor earnings. You can use the random allocation of judges and the fact that they have different leniency rates to identify a weighted integral of Marginal Treatment Effects. +

submitted 536 days ago • 1 comment

Looking forward to Nate's talk at the workshop!

submitted 536 days ago • 0 comments

Job openings rose in August to 9.6 million, up from 8.9 million in July. Quits, layoffs both basically flat. #JOLTS www.bls.gov/news.release...

submitted 536 days ago • 3 comments

Nobel? IO is long overdue. Bresnahan, Pakes, and I'll add John Sutton, whose work on market structure replaced decades of SCP.

submitted 536 days ago • 0 comments

Making figures for academic articles? This guide (just updated) covers the basics of getting the fonts, legends, axes, dimensions, + many other aspects right: medium.com/the-stata-gu... No fancy #Stata packages, just basic fine tuning can get you very far!

submitted 536 days ago • 0 comments

Won't be a Twitter replacement without an Econ Nobel prize prediction thread. Who do you think will win the Econ Nobel prize this year? My bet is on Claudia Goldin.

submitted 536 days ago • 19 comments

Lots of tenure-track #envhist jobs open now in US: Rice (Env Studies w/Justice focus) www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis... Clemson www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis... Berkeley www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis... Idaho www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis... Notre Dame (Climate Change, Env & Peace) www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

submitted 541 days ago • 2 comments

I keep confirming this famous quote... "The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify [...] into every corner of our minds."

submitted 536 days ago • 1 comment

Another strong month for US manufacturing construction—and computer/electronics manufacturing hit a new record high!

submitted 537 days ago • 1 comment

Quick @Stata tip: "real()" converts from string to numeric, and "string()" converts from numeric to string: sysuse pop2000, clear keep if _n>2 gen age = real(substr(agest, 1, 2)), after(agestr) gen age_string = string(age), after(age)

submitted 537 days ago • 1 comment

New VoxDev column on our paper on trade and inequality in Ecuador, and more broadly on a new approach to measuring the impacts on trade using micro-level data at the individual and firm level: t.co/0evC5hISN8

submitted 537 days ago • 0 comments

Pro tip. Don't try to "lawyer" your professors by trying to find loopholes in their syllabi. There is no winning that battle.

submitted 540 days ago • 3 comments

Hi there! My name is Wolf, and I'm new on this platform. I'm an energy economist interested in renewables, electric vehicles, hydrogen, storage, prosumers, energy modeling, open source and open data - and I'm lucky to lead a fantastic little group at DIW Berlin that works on just these things. 🔌🔋☀️

submitted 540 days ago • 3 comments

Hello out there #econsky 📉📈! My first post here. I work on firms in developing countries, especially drivers of innovative behavior, broadly defined (tech adoption, quality upgrading, product innovation, as well as productivity growth and new-to-the-world stuff). Look forward to interacting.

submitted 540 days ago • 0 comments

What is the most interesting question in your subfield that PhD candidates could consider pursuing? I’ll start:

submitted 541 days ago • 15 comments

A problem in economics research: Null results are considered less relevant and less publishable than statistically significant results, especially when they go against expectations. 📉📈 doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...

submitted 541 days ago • 2 comments

Excited to announce our paper is in the October issue of the AER! We hope it contributes to current debates around industrial policy.

submitted 542 days ago • 1 comment