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Avi Goldfarb

@avigoldfarb.bsky.social
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Professor at Rotman, University of Toronto. Economics of digital technology and AI.

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Avi Goldfarb @avigoldfarb.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Tell your PhD students: NBER Digital Economics and AI PhD workshop submission deadline is December 1. Apply here: www.nber.org/calls-papers...
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Digital Economics and AI Tutorial
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Avi Goldfarb @avigoldfarb.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The NBER Digital Economics and AI conference submission deadline is coming up on December 1. Submit here: www.nber.org/conferences/...
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Digital Economics and AI Meeting, Spring 2026
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NBER @nber.org · 08/10/2025
Abundant AI geniuses will be great, but only if we can work out what to use them for, from Ajay K. Agrawal, @joshgans.bsky.social, and Avi Goldfarb www.nber.org/papers/w34316
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NBER @nber.org · 19/08/2025
Details on how to access anonymized data from the Creative Destruction Lab, including a description of dataset construction and included variables, from Amir Sariri, Evgenia Gatov, Geneva Neal, Kyle Robinson, Sonia Sennik, Wei Yang Tham, Michael Vertolli, and Av... www.nber.org/papers/w34127
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Avi Goldfarb @avigoldfarb.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The Economics of Bicycles for the Mind. Working paper with @joshgans.bsky.social and Ajay Agrawal. A bicycle amplifies human locomotion. Computers & AI amplify human intelligence. We model cognitive tools, showing when they affect productivity, inequality, & teams. www.nber.org/papers/w34034
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Avi Goldfarb @avigoldfarb.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
What happens when good products fail? Dinara Akchurina and I have a new paper looking at false positives in COVID rapid tests. Details here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... (1/2)
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Rotman School of Management @rotmanschool.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
AI Can Strengthen Canada’s Economy — If We Let It - @avigoldfarb.bsky.social joined the Canada’s Economy, Explained podcast from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce chamber.ca/ai-can-stren...
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AI Can Strengthen Canada's Economy — If We Let It - Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Avi Goldfarb joins host Marwa Abdou to explain why Canada’s early leadership in research hasn’t led to widespread adoption.
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Tim Bresnahan @timobres.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Mike Scherer, a leader in industrial organization economics, in the study of innovation, and in many other topics since the 1960s, has died at 92. Strikingly eclectic, he wrote (inter alia) about weapons procurement and the commercialization of classical music. More than anything /1
Cover of "Industrial Market Structure and Economic Performance"
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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Our work now published showing how better AI can improve both accuracy and diversity in hiring relative to supervised learning tools and status-quo human hiring.
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Avi Goldfarb @avigoldfarb.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Forthcoming NBER Economics of AI & Political Economy volume. Draft chapters here: www.nber.org/books-and-ch...
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The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Political Economy
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Pedro H. Albuquerque @pedrohalbuquerque.net · 31/01/2025
'Ajay Agrawal (University of Toronto), Erik Brynjolfsson (Stanford University) and Anton Korinek (University of Virginia and CEPR) jointly present "The Economics of Transformative AI: A Research Agenda".' @cepr.org @akorinek.bsky.social #ai #EconSky
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CEPR Webinar Series on the Economics of Artificial Intelligence - 1
YouTube video by CEPR & VideoVox Economics
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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.
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The Collapse of Ego Depletion
Science's Biggest Self-Control Failure
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Kevin A. Bryan @afinetheorem.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
NBER Innovation Boot Camp is back this summer for a 4th run (thanks open_phil!)! Lectures by Heidi Williams, Pierre Azoulay, Ina Ganguli, Ben Jones, Chad Jones, Kyle Myers, and me, a great policy panel and keynotes, plus attendance at Summer Institute innovation session. www.nber.org/calls-papers...
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
⏰ Deadline approaching ⏰ -- send us your best work on Behavioral IO and Marketing by 12/15 #econsky
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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
#econsky Economists: If you ever wondered what is “quantitative marketing” about, @avigoldfarb.bsky.social’s syllabus is a great place to fill in the gap. If you never wondered about it - you can learn about it nonetheless.
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Avi Goldfarb @avigoldfarb.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
My PhD syllabus for Introduction to Quantitative Marketing @rotmanschool. Updated for 2025. Comments welcome. Feel free to suggest additional papers. Self promotion encouraged! All University of Toronto PhD students welcome to audit. Please get in touch.
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Kevin A. Bryan @afinetheorem.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Super excited to publicly launch "All Day TA" (www.alldayta.com), a product @joshgans.bsky.social and I have been working on with our team over the last year. Short version: if you teach in spring, you will want to use this! It's the future of higher education. A short thread: 1/x
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Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society @torontosri.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🌟 12 Days of SRI! 🌟 Data-driven, AI-aligned. In May, leading experts from diverse fields gathered at SRI’s annual conference to discuss the future of AI research. 🔥Catch up on the key takeaways: uoft.me/sri-absint24
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Absolutely Interdisciplinary 2024 fosters innovation and collaboration — Schwartz Reisman Institute
At SRI’s annual academic conference, leading researchers from diverse fields came together to tackle the complexities of AI alignment and how to better understand the social impacts of data-driven tec...
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pittecon.bsky.social @pittecon.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The Economics Department at the University of Pittsburgh is hiring! We have an Open Rank position. You can find details and application instructions here: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
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American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2024 - January 31, 2025
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Avi Goldfarb @avigoldfarb.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
NBER Digital Economics and AI meeting at Stanford. Deadline December 16. www.nber.org/conferences/...
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Digital Economics and AI Meeting, Spring 2025
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Will there be an AI Era? Reflections on going to see Taylor Swift. open.substack.com/pub/joshuaga...
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Will there be an AI Era?
Reflections on Taylor Swift
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Brad Shapiro @btshapir.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
If you submit your papers to me at QME, I will tell you to ignore the part of the referee report that complains about results not being surprising.
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Oleg Urminsky @olegurminsky.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Academic intergrity is an important and difficult topic to cover well. But I think the gossipy speculative one-dimensional tone of this article is not constructive, does a poor job of conveying what is actually going on & undermines the important topic being covered. A long thread w/ some examples:
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Latest in HBR on generative AI. hbr.org/2024/11/gene...
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Generative AI Is Still Just a Prediction Machine
To understand the strategic implications of AI’s new capabilities, managers need a framework for when AI will be helpful and when it might fail. Under the hood, generative AI tools are still predictio...
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Todd Jones @toddrjones.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
In general, people who are not members of NBER can submit papers to be considered at NBER conferences. Here's the link to the current calls for papers: www.nber.org/calls-papers...
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Open Calls for Papers, Proposals, and Applications
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