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Judy Chevalier @judychevalier.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

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

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

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%

A map of US GDP growth by metro describing the previous data

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Alon Eizenberg @aloneizenberg.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

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...

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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

There are real, practical use cases for modern large neural network-based machine-learning models for: 1. regression and classification, 2. language interface to databases, 3. autocomplete on steroids, & 4. Highly verbal electronic-software pets. But that does not mean that claims of grossly... 1/

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Alon Eizenberg @aloneizenberg.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

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. ->

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Itamar Caspi @itamarcaspi.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

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...

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Kathrine von Graevenitz @kgraevenitz.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

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

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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

We tend to focus on the short-term trends, but it's worth taking a step back: Inflation has come down a *lot* from its peak. Headline now down to 3% y/y. Core at 3.5%. Those are still above the Fed's target and prepandemic levels, but it's a radically different story than a year ago.

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Todd Jones @toddrjones.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

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...

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Tomaso Duso @tomasoduso.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Today more than ever: shabbat shalom!

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Bernhard Ganglmair @ganglmair.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

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

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Nelson Sunuwar @nelson-snwr.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

📉📈 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"

Tommaso Valletti presenting Political Power - Market Power

Luise Eisfeld presenting
Entry and Acquisitions in Software Markets

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Ulrich Kaiser @ulrichkaiser.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

@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 🥳.

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Alon Eizenberg @aloneizenberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

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.

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Dina Pomeranz @dinapomeranz.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

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

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Itamar Caspi @itamarcaspi.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

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/...

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Bård Harstad @bardharstad.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

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...

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 03/10/2023

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...

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Vitor Possebom @vitorpossebom.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

💡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. +

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Alon Eizenberg @aloneizenberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Looking forward to Nate's talk at the workshop!

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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

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...

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Michael Raith @mraith.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

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

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Asjad Naqvi @asjadnaqvi.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

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!

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Stata graph tips for academic articles

Learn tips and tricks for optimizing Stata graphs for journal articles.

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

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.

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

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...

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

It's a big improvement—replacing a kWh of Coal with a kWh of Gas reduces C02 emissions by more on average than replacing a kWh of Gas with Wind/Solar (though methane leaks offset some of this) Also thank you! I tried to pick the colors for colorblind accessibility and I'm glad they're working

A table showing C02 emissions by electricity generation source in the US. Coal power plants emit 2.26 pounds of C02 per kWh while Natural Gas power plants release 0.97 pounds of C02 per kWh

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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

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."

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

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

a graph of US construction spending that goes from $75b IN 2018 to $200B in 2023 thanks in part to computer/electronic/electrical manufacturing going from $10B to more than $100B

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Todd Jones @toddrjones.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

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)

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Dina Pomeranz @dinapomeranz.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

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

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How does trade affect income inequality? Evidence from Ecuador

New measures of export and import exposure at the individual level show that international trade increases earnings inequality in Ecuador

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Brad Shapiro @btshapir.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

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

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Wolf-Peter Schill @wpschill.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

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. 🔌🔋☀️

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Eric Verhoogen @ericverhoogen.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

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.

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 28/09/2023

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

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Davide Cerruti @dcerruti.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

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...

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Ahmad Lashkaripour @lashkaripour.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

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

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Jakob Schneebacher @jschneebacher.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

An ONS Data Science Campus blog with an overview of the new UK Longitudinal Business Database (LBD): datasciencecampus.ons.gov.uk/the-longitud... Full user guide can be found here: www.escoe.ac.uk/publications... I have previously highlighted the benefits here: www.escoe.ac.uk/the-uk-longi...

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The UK Longitudinal Business Database (ESCoE TR-23) - ESCoE

This paper introduces the UK Longitudinal Business Database (LBD), a new and experimental business reference […]

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Gina C. Pieters, PhD @ginapieters.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

#Econsky, specifically #JMCs in #Economics. In the recent #CSWEP newsletter we announced a new initiative: organized practice job market interviews (the "elevator pitch" portion) at the upcoming #SEA. Interested candidates: the details on page 18: www.aeaweb.org/content/file...

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Ulrich Kaiser @ulrichkaiser.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Happy tp brag about that my first mentee ever, @luisaguiarw, just got tenure @uzh_en. I don't deserve any credits here but I am super glad anyway 🙂. Very big congrats to Luis!

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Maria Persson @mariaperssonlu.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Hi #EconSky and JMCs! We’re recruiting two new assistant professors in Lund. Fields are (i) microeconomics (applied or theory) or financial economics, and (ii) financial econometrics. Lund is a great place to be – come join us! Ads: econjobmarket.org/positions/9830; econjobmarket.org/positions/9827

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Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

This workshop is TOMORROW, so don't miss your last chance to register! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #RStats #AcademicSky 📉📈📊 #stats

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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Update from Argentina (champions of macro disasters)... - monthly inflation was 12.5% (annualized 400%) - fueled by central bank printing to pay for deficits - fortunately, forerunner in presidential election is an Economist - wait, an Economist of the Austrian school and just voted to lower taxes

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Vitor Possebom @vitorpossebom.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Introduce your academic self with 3 graphs 1) Partial ID of the MTE for the Always-Observed (OO)(doi.org/10.1016/j.je...) 2) Decision Reversals as a function of the Trial Judge's Leniency (arxiv.org/abs/2106.00536) 3) Partial ID of the Probability of Causation for the OO (arxiv.org/abs/2210.01938)

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Alon Eizenberg @aloneizenberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Hebrew-U econ is hiring 📉📈 All fields of economics, tenure-track and tenured positions. Apply by Nov 15th. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

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Jeffrey Wooldridge @jmwooldridge.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

To those teaching/applying econometrics: Remember that almost any cross-sectional estimation method can be applied to panel data. I still see confusion on this point. For example, "fracreg does not allow for panel data." One needs to cluster of course. And the Mundlak device is usually warranted.

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Alon Eizenberg @aloneizenberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Hebrew-U econ is hiring 📉📈 All fields of economics, tenure-track and tenured positions. Apply by Nov 15th. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

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Mikkel Gandil @gandil.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Python freaks me out sometimes. Computing beta=(X'X)^{-1}X'y gives dramatically different answers, depending on whether the matrix is inverted using numpy.linalg.inv or scipy.linalg.inv. Sometimes it's better living in the darkness that is Stata. #econsky

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

The fantastic Applied Young Economist Webinar (AYEW) team is now on bsky. Please give them a follow: @ayew.bsky.social See their call for papers: great opportunity for PhD students and PostDocs to present their work. AYEW has been running >150 webinars since 2020 🚀

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deck.blue @deck.blue · 26/09/2023

1.9.11 is up! - Hashtags are now supported! You can add #hashtags in the post text, or by using the new # button in the post composer! - Clicking on any hashtag either in text or in the post list will search posts with that hashtag and you can add that search as a column

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Todd Jones @toddrjones.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Quick Stata tip: keep if inlist(state, "AL", "AK", "AZ") is the same as: keep if state=="AL" | state=="AK" | state=="AZ" And: keep if inrange(distance, 10, 91) is the same as: keep if distance>=10 & distance<=91

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