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Hey, Jon Stewart, uncalled-for!

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So it seems that my colleague Jean-Michel Benkert is too modest to mention it himself, but I think it is a great thing that he has accepted to be an arXiv moderator for economics. Thanks for providing the public good, @jmbenkert.bsky.social!

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Letzten Monat hielt Edward Glaeser an der Universität Bern einen Vortrag zum Thema «Cities and Infrastructure». Dieses Interview mit ihm erörtert die wichtigsten Themen seines Vortrags. www.derbund.ch/uni-bern-us-...

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Planning your 2025 economics conference schedule? I've updated my list of general interest, IO, and theory conferences: www.igorletina.com/conferences.... New this year: you can generate a calendar file 📅 to easily track dates and submission deadlines of selected conferences. #econsky

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The deadline for applications is January 31, 2025.

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So, I'm pretty sure this means that Sauron is back.

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My first year as a Vice President of the Swiss Competition Commission is ending, and I thought this was a good opportunity to look back on the decisions that I've spent the most time thinking about. Four stand out:

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

1/7 In our new WP Strategic Attribute Learning, Ludmila Matysková, Egor Starkov, and I study how preference misalignment between a researcher and a decision-maker shapes learning and decision-making. [Link below]

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The recent blind hostility towards the use of AI in learning reminds me SO MUCH of the discussions around the use of Wikipedia from the time when I was a student. www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/01...

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How big is the cold-start problem on Airbnb? Pretty big! Lowering the price of new listings relative to incumbent ones would lead to a welfare increase of more than 8% of total host revenue, mostly benefitting consumers. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Innovation job market papers round up! Over the last week, I found 50+ papers from PhDs going on the job market and I’ll post a few abstracts to this thread every day until they’re all up.

submitted 89 days ago • 3 comments

Calling all PhD students interested in innovation -- Submit your work to the 8th Annual Wharton Innovation Doctoral Symposium; highly recommended! mackinstitute.wharton.upenn.edu/students/wha...

submitted 90 days ago • 3 comments

1/ New (short!) paper with @jmbenkert.bsky.social. The question that we are interested in is this: when should you stop searching for an innovation? Surprisingly (to us) the answer in our model is: never. Link to the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.03227

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arXiv is, imo, the best place for publishing working papers and we should recognize the work that volunteers do to provide this public good to us. Here is the list of current arXiv moderators for economics:

submitted 91 days ago • 3 comments

New paper and online presentation #EconSky “Content Moderation for Sale: Pricing Attention through Steering and Certification” with the fantastic Rahul Deb and Matt Mitchell TLDR haiku: Certify poorly, so you can sell more to bots? Attention matters 1/8

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I just spent 20 minutes on Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo trying to find out what is the newsstand price of The Economist. Without success. Can it be this difficult to find such trivial information online?

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#bankrun prevention in #Greece

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#econsky, here is an interesting-looking conference for PhD students: wzb.eu/en/events/1s...

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Love this paper!

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I am teaching a class tomorrow on competition and algorithms. This is the slide I am opening with.

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Key reminder: even if high rents are partly driven by supply & demand, it doesn’t make it fine for landlords & software companies like RealPage to use anticompetitive algorithms to further increase rent. #antitrust

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Giving a talk in a place where you were a student is such a strange experience. Some 13 years later, the exam anxiety still hits hard! (The seminar experience was wonderful though -- so many great and kind people at Bocconi!)

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Here's Bryan Caplan writing about math in economics. Seems very wrong to me. I wonder what the quickest refutation is that would make sense to most practicing economists. www.betonit.ai/p/economath_...

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I have missed threads like this one SO MUCH!

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Suppose you didn't know who won the election. Two options: (i) I tell you whether it was Trump, or it was Harris, (ii) I don't tell you the winner, but I tell you who won Michigan. According to the rational inattention literature, (ii) has better chances of catching your attention than (i).

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That concludes our two-day Market Power workshop on Camille Jordan, Columbian hydropower and many equilibrium Constellations.

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Algorithms can collude without threats and while playing best response. This makes it challenging to clearly define algorithmic collusion. #EconSky #antitrust

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It’s amazing how editorial processes have changed. #econsky At the EJ I now get nervous enquiries after 2 1/2 months and our average response time for full reviews is well below 100 days. I was used to six months +.

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