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📣 Exciting postdoc position! Please share! Interested in Organisation Design and running RCTs with organisations? 2 years postdoc in the Market Design department @ZEW, no teaching! jobs.zew.de/jobposting/1...

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Thrips. Is there anything worse than thrips? Invading my precious alocasia like they own the place. But they’ve messed with the wrong household.

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Another update to my Prisoner's Dilemma meta-analysis paper. This time I've added a new study! Thanks @tfwerner.com for helping me with getting the new data 😀😀 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #MetaAnalysis #ExperimentalEcon #EconSky

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In game theory, we often assume that people only interact in one game at a time. In a new paper, we explore theoretically and experimentally how people cooperate when they engage in two games concurrently, either with the same partner or with different partners, www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Summer Institute in Bounded Rationality, Berlin, 2025 www.decisionsciencenews.com?p=7210

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🚨 Applications for the 22nd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality are now open! 🌐 Join us in Berlin @mpib-berlin.bsky.social from June 17–25, 2025 to explore "Decision Making in a Digital World". ✏️ Application deadline is March 9 - more info at 👇!! www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res...

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The Spoils of Algorithmic Collusion: Profit Allocation Among Asymmetric Firms: Simon Martin; Hans-Theo Normann; Paul P\"uplichhuisen; Tobias Werner

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🚨Less than two weeks to go: Apply to the workshop “Text as Data in Behavioral Economics”, aimed at exploring the intersection of text mining techniques and behavioral economics. 📍Potsdam, Germany on 10-11.06.25. 📍Submit here until 15.02.25: sites.google.com/view/text-as... #EconSky

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chain of thought is hilarious (distilled deepseek 14b running via ollama)

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Happy to have received a Fellowship from the Joachim Herz Stiftung! I'l be using these funds mostly to continue my research into how companies use large language models like ChatGPT to influence consumer decisions. www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/awards/tobia...

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Lots of people responded by saying, "We have to go back to the physical lab." I agree this is one possible solution. But let's not forget the massive advantages online experiments have brought us. Going back to the lab can only be part of the solution. 🧵👇🏻

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People often claim they know when ChatGPT wrote something, but are they as accurate as they think? Turns out that while general population is unreliable, those who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks can spot even "humanized" AI-generated text with near-perfect accuracy 🎯

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Agreed! When discussing LLM alignment, it’s crucial to ask the follow-up question: "Alignment with whom?" Whether it’s with a countrys political narrative or the financial interests of a Silicon Valley company

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Bots were a concern since then beginning of online subject pools. The concern is growing, but we still have plenty of tools. If this becomes an issue then pictures of instructions instead of text, with nightshade to prevent “reading” of pictures, plus lots of attention checks.

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Just used Gemini Live to participate in a beh. experiment without even reading the instructions or speaking the language. LLMs acting as participants on platforms like Prolific could pollute data meant to study humans. With OpenAI’s operator model, this issue is growing. 🎥👇 youtu.be/NujyGZSA7Hg

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I've decided to stop cross-posting on my X account, so I hope to reunite with many of you here! #EconSky

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The MPIfG is seeking a research group leader (tenure track) with a focus on the socioeconomic and political impacts of technological change to set up a new research group at the intersection of #economy, #society, and #technology. 📢Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/SULoAf

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Our new pre-print exploring the question: Will AI-generated art kill the art profession?

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🚨 Don’t miss your chance to submit for the Thurgau Experimental Economics Meeting 2025 (March 19–21) at beautiful Lake Constance. A fantastic opportunity to share your work, reconnect with old friends, and make new ones! www.twi-kreuzlingen.ch/events/theem/ #EconSky #EconConf

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Amazon, Meta, Musk & Co. dominieren Märkte und beeinflussen Politik. Ihre Marktmacht wird durch KI verstärkt, Desinformation gefördert, Vielfalt zerstört. Wir brauchen #Wettbewerb keine Monopole: Macht dezentralisieren, Demokratie verteidigen. Mein Kommentar in @zeit.de: www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

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Young Economists' Meeting 2025 will take place in Brno! #EconSky #EconConf

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Happy to present our joint work on the steering capabilities of LLMs in consumer markets today at DIW in the Firms and Markets department. Thank you for inviting me and for having me, @tomasoduso.bsky.social and @hannesullrich.com. You can find a short thread about the paper I presented here 👇🏻

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🚨 We are hosting the 1st IZA PhD Workshop in Labor and Behavioral Economics in Bonn (June 12-13, 2025)🚨 🗣️ Keynotes by @sydneecaldwell.bsky.social (UC Berkeley) and Chris Roth (U Cologne) 👉 Submissions (Jan 31) conference.iza.org/PhD_LaborBeh... Please share and apply!

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Fellow economists and pricing managers, it seems we still have value - even on the brink of AGI!

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#Merz: „Aberkennung der deutschen Staatsbürgerschaft müsste möglich sein“ Diese Forderung ist ein Dammbruch, der unsere offene Gesellschaft weiter aushöhlt und die #Polarisierung weiter verschärft. www.merkur.de/politik/merz...

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🚨🚨New Paper Alert🚨🚨 We embed a within-subject experiment with two lying paradigms in the 2020 German Socio-Economic Panel. The difference between paradigms? Observability 🔍 In one, we know if you lied to win more money; in the other, we do not. papers.boschrosa.com/Observabilit...

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Is there any academic work examining the economic consequences of AGI within a general equilibrium framework?

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"The two companies reportedly signed an agreement last year stating OpenAI has only achieved AGI when it develops AI systems that can generate at least $100 billion in profits." AGI is only AGI if it leads to market dominance. 🫨 techcrunch.com/2024/12/26/m...

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That ##LLM paper is quite worrying, not least for the fact that people were influenced even when they knew they were being led by the chatbot. But, anyway, I do love the fact that they used two Murakami books for the experiment. #村上春樹

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#eeac Day 13: @tfwerner.com JMP on algorithmic vs. human collusion is of course terrific; his paper on LLMs steering consumers is also worth a look arxiv.org/pdf/2409.12143 "Using a behavioral experiment, we show that [LLMs] can indeed significantly shift consumer preferences." #econsky #econjmp

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I’m delighted that our paper “Foreclosure and Profit Shifting With Partial Vertical Ownership” (w/ M. Hunold) has found its home in the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy. You can read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #EconSky

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