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Economist @ Georgetown University. Also NBER and CESifo. Trade, Spatial, and Industrial Organization.
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I wonder what happened next.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

!!!!!

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

IT IS OFFICIAL! MY JOB MARKET PAPER IS IN PRINT!!!! TL/DR: Superstar firms have used globalization to grow bigger, leveraging economies of scale. Their marginal costs have fallen, but little has passed through to customers as markups have risen. www.sganapati.com/files/Ganapa...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I have discovered the best use for chatGPT. Converting excel tables into latex tables. Latex table creation is a pox on society.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

One benefit of not being a high-enough profile professor. I barely get any of these requests. Like serious, are people getting spammed with these requests?

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

One underrated point. Most of us social scientists SUCK at coding. Myself included. My code is crap. My co-authors' code is crap. Every replication I've come across has crap code. Most of us are not qualified to check our code. Confession. Even my mom makes fun of my coding (she writes compilers)

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Wait does every economist use overleaf for everything? Without backup?

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

I finally received the final proofs for my job market paper! It took 8 years from the first draft. Got a post-doc, a job, a kid, bought a house, remote taught for a year, and went up for tenure. Also the publication process is a tad broken. The results are almost identical as the first draft.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

MY FIRST (primary) PHD STUDENT JUST GOT HIS FIRST TENURE TRACK INTERVIEW REQUEST AND I'M SO PUMPED! IT IS ALSO AT A FANTASTIC INSTITUTION! He can do it! I'm also as excited as I was 7 years ago when this happened to me!

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Some exciting announcements re #IIOC2025, May 2-4 @ Drexel in Philly. The Distinguished Fellow Award will go to Chad Syverson; he will deliver the keynote. Shane Greenstein will receive the Distinguished Service Award. There will be two plenaries.

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

Folks, I think I'm a bit underpaid

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

Hi #econsky!

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

I'm in The Economist this week talking the complex interplay between big business, productivity, and economic performance. Essentially, monopoly is not good, but the monopolists are also the most productive firms in the economy. A world of natural monopolies. www.economist.com/special-repo...

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments