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Who will be the first to write the history of that short-lived period that began in 1989 and ended in 2025? So much hope and opportunity, so much short-sighted and incompetent leadership on all sides, and such an ugly, tragic ending.

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Lawyer at Musk’s X warned major ad company: get your clients to spend more on X, or else. Was a reminder that the ad company’s recently announced merger could be torpedoed, or at least slowed down, by the Trump administration, given Musk’s powerful role in the federal government

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Am not enjoying this season of Black Mirror.

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Kristi Noem told attendees at a CPAC dinner Friday that Trump directed her to launch a taxpayer-funded ad campaign and demanded she thank him in the ads. No other outlet bothered to write about this, despite the admin blowing up to $200M on these ads www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Two of the most significant authoritarian moves by Trump: the Jan 6 pardons and the removal of protection from Mike Pompeo and his aide. They led directly to this.

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Instant follow

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#Econsky We are excited to announce the call for papers for the IEB Workshop on Political Economy. 📌 Submission deadline: March 16, 2025 🗣️ Keynote speaker: Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown Unversity) 📅 June 2-3, 2025 📍 Barcelona More information: ieb.ub.edu/event/worksh...

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We have just advertised a one-year postdoc in Oxford for anyone interested in economic theory and especially market design: econjobmarket.org/positions/11.... Feel free to reach out for more info! Applications from folks on the current job market and those planning to go next year are welcome!

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Maryam's speech is NOT to be missed. Her story (and courage) is completely inspiring!!! (As my sister said at the ceremony, "Well, aren't you glad you didn't have to follow her!")

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Good to see "Robust Monopoly Regulation" by Yingni Guo and Eran Shmaya published. It has sentimental value to us because this was the first VSET presentation with a dedicated poster! Back in 2020, scroll through: sites.google.com/view/vset/pa...

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It's not often that a theory paper piques my interest these days*, but this by @snageebali.bsky.social and coauthors, on the logic behind zero-sum thinking by voters, is just brilliant -- and so relevant and urgent! www.econometricsociety.org/publications...

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

My op-ed: "Colleges and universities ... seem to be hoping that their muted responses — and affirmative acquiescence — will spare them. ...This sort of acquiescence will not only fail to protect institutions, but will expose all of us to further repression." stanforddaily.com/2025/01/28/f...

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Every few weeks, Johan Fourie and Jonathan Schoots host a stimulating discussion on his Our Long Walk podcast. I was fortunate to join recently, where we talked about culture — covering topics from pastoralism in Africa to zero-sum thinking around the world and its connection with U.S. politics.

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Can’t help but think that part of the US media’s unwillingness to straightforwardly describe Elon Musk’s behavior is fear of having someone with unlimited resources come after them. That in itself illustrates the problem with the concentration of money and power in the hands of connected oligarchs.

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I’m a US citizen because of birthright citizenship. Immigrants & their kids have a special love for this country—as the home worth sacrificing everything to build. Shame on these illegal efforts to undermine our country’s values. TY @massago.bsky.social for leading the charge to take this on!

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Why fund highly novel research? It can improve the evolution of knowledge by guiding future researchers. We propose a model in which researchers decide which questions to address and at what intensity to search for the answer based on existing knowledge. https://buff.ly/3Pxv5uk

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Markus’ Academy has been a game-changer in making high-level economic discussions accessible to all. Yesterday, I had the honor of presenting my research with @enriqueide.bsky.social there—a dream come true! Watch the webinar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2VX... #MarkusAcademy #AI #Economics #Research

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New working paper How does the under-representation of females in Economics affect the career trajectory of female Ph.D. students? Sahar Parsa and I look at this in a new working paper by exploring sabbatical leaves taken by female professors at top-50 US Econ departments.

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I was incredibly honored to be awarded the CSWEP Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. When I accepted the award, I talked about the importance of mentoring. The lessons I pass on are kind of obvious. But they are important, so I am going to share them yet again. (A🧵)

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Relevant to the debate on fact-checking amidst Meta's decision, Adam Szeidl and Ferenc Szucs tell a clear and terrifying story about the power of misinformation and propaganda, and its effects on democratic accountability. drive.google.com/file/d/1M2Nx...

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Bank customers rang up over £2 billion in checking account overdraft charges in the U.K. in 2017. What if banks had to alert customers when their accounts ran low? We ran an RCT with the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), 2 large banks, and over 1 million customers to find out. #EconSky

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Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "Social Learning and Strategic Pricing with Rating Systems" by Chia-Hui Chen, Kong-Pin Chen, and Junichiro Ishida. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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Very nice podcast indeed. I also gave my modest contribution discussing kidney exchange at the time of the French reform: open.spotify.com/episode/2vJg...

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For those interested in hearing more game theory, here is a terrific podcast series, featuring @jeffely.bsky.social, @arielrubinstein.bsky.social, @shengwuli.bsky.social , and many others. open.spotify.com/show/4XlSrTG...

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The home of @arielrubinstein.bsky.social knows how to play the email game

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It was a lot of fun editing this Special Issue in honour of Vince. The topics covered in these papers barely scratch the surface of Vince's wide-ranging interests and contributions. But I think they nicely reflect Vince's early research interests going back all the way to his PhD...

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Do coordination failures constrain financial technology adoption? In my paper last month's @aeajournals.bsky.social American Economic Review, I explore this using the Mexican gov's rollout of debit cards to low-income households and look at effects on retailers and other consumers 🧵 1/N

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Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "Optimal Trade Mechanisms with Adverse Selection and Inferential Naivety" by Takeshi Murooka and Takuro Yamashita. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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I don’t have too many hard lines but building more housing ASAP is both a political and moral imperative and any state or local Democrat who gets in the way of it is in the wrong. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/o...

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What is known about the distributional + welfare effects of tariffs when production is mobile? The rhetoric of tariffs emphasizes how it encourages multinational corporations to locate and manufacture in the US, and I was curious what we know from trade models + empirics.

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Looks like a very cool paper; also poignant to see John Morgan’s name.

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I'm on the Econ Job Market this year 🤓 I am an applied economic theorist, with a focus on political economy and information economics. My JMP, "Environmental Policymaking with Political Learning", is available here: doi.org/10.31235/osf... #econsky #polisky #econjmp

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Research wrecks work-life balance but it’s not obvious which one is being wrecked.

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I am on the job market, which seems like a great opportunity for my first post on here! My job market paper is about failures of contingent thinking -- the act of reasoning about hypothetical events. 1/

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