Reposted by Brett HollenbeckNvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 05/07/2026*sharing a screenshot from an article that cites another article quoting one (1) “New York financier” who says his firm prefers humanities grads to STEM* this is because the humanities teaches you critical thinking 211322
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckShunto J. Kobayashi @sjkobayashi.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I joined @ericseufert.bsky.social on the Mobile Dev Memo podcast — one of my favorite shows — with coauthor @garjoh.bsky.social to discuss our PNAS paper (with Zhengrong Gu) on removing cookies and privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) in digital advertising. mobiledevmemo.com/podcast-quan...mobiledevmemo.comPodcast: Quantifying the advertising value of cookies (with Garrett Johnson and Shunto Kobayashi) | Mobile Dev Memo by Eric SeufertPodcast: Quantifying the advertising value of cookies (with Garrett Johnson and Shunto Kobayashi) 164
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckJoe Cohen @cohenhouse.bsky.social · 21/06/2026At this point, I’m not sure there are any human drivers on the road in LA after midnight 1132
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckKlaus Miller @klausmiller.bsky.social · 22/05/2026New working paper with Shunyao Yan Polarizing news content is great at capturing attention. But does it help publishers where it matters most: subscriptions? #mediaecon #polarization #subscriptions #digitalmarketing 2105
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckJessica Riedl @jessicabriedl.bsky.social · 13/05/2026NEW from me. My cover story in today's @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social steps back and provides a basic primer on why soaring federal debt matters for the economy and the federal budget. 🧵 thedispatch.com/article/debt...thedispatch.comWhy Surging Federal Debt MattersIt’s an existential threat to the long-term American economy. 13513
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckGarrett Johnson @garjoh.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Our research on the value of cookies & Privacy Sandbox for online publishers with Zhengrong Gu, & @sjkobayashi.bsky.social is now published in PNAS 🎉🎉. Check out this thread for an overview 👇 274
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckJohn Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 28/04/2026"The legalization of mobile sports gambling in America was a policy mistake and that the evidence is now clear enough to say so." 6412131
Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.bsky.social · 23/04/2026"52 tenured professors — about a fifth of the school’s active, full-time faculty — raised questions about Garrett’s management of the school." lamaterial.com/p/usc-s-fame...lamaterial.comUSC’s Famed Business School Is In Jeopardy, Faculty SayFifty-two professors at the Marshall School of Business penned a blistering letter demanding changes. 000
Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I wouldn't have guessed, but this is a must read. 010
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckNPR @npr.org · 04/04/2026As online betting has grown in popularity, a new report from the New York Federal Reserve builds on the troubling link between legal sports wagering and financial health. n.pr/4tqWJuLn.prWhen legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problemsAs online betting has grown in popularity, a new report from the New York Federal Reserve builds on the troubling link between legal sports wagering and financial health. 2221761
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckSoumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 19/03/2026And one final chart shows that so far AI tools haven’t led to an explosion of submissions to several of the top 5 economics journals. 184
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckSoumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 19/03/2026found something rather baffling when researching my column this week… I wanted to see if there was any evidence that AI tools were helping economists to make their research more readable. So I analysed the text of NBER working paper abstracts… 12711
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckNBER @nber.org · 13/03/2026How adopting an automated review monitoring system allows restaurants to translate consumer feedback into operational quality improvements, from Guangyu Cao, Shenghao He, and Ginger Zhe Jin www.nber.org/papers/w34934 041
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckSeverin Borenstein @severinborenstein.bsky.social · 08/03/2026The prediction markets have a very different view of nearterm gasoline prices than the futures market. I haven't done the full calculation with options prices, but it looks like there is probably an arbitrage opportunity. www.natesilver.net/p/gas-prices... www.wsj.com/market-data/...natesilver.netGas prices are set to go verticalIt's not exactly a bold prediction to suggest this will be bad for Trump's political standing. 182
Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Excellent article on branding and design, told through the history of the Swiss/luxury watch industry: paulgraham.com/brandage.htmlpaulgraham.comThe Brand Age 000
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckJustin Tyndall @justintyndall.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Some good coverage of my working paper on housing filtering in The Atlantic today. The paper itself, The Downmarket Impact of New Multifamily Housing: Evidence from a Honolulu Condo Tower, is available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 071
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckBrett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.bsky.social · 04/03/2025This is your annual reminder that if you aren't listening to the world's greatest radio station WWOZ on this Mardi Gras day, you are doing it wrong. www.wwoz.org/listen/player/wwoz.orgI'm listening to WWOZ New Orleans' live streaming radio. Tune in to WWOZ now:http://www.wwoz.org/listen/player/Listen live online to WWOZ: volunteer-powered, listener-supported community radio in New Orleans. 063
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckLos Angeles Times @latimes.com · 14/02/2026Trump administration drops its appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlementlatimes.comTrump administration drops its appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlementThe Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. But it will continue to fight the ruling on the matter in a lower court. 0299
Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Very cool how productive everyone is getting with new AI tools, I think, as I listen to Brownsville Girl for the fourth time in a row. 000
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckCarly Urban @carlyurban.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Has financial literacy been declining or are smartphones changing the way we answer surveys? I was on Marketplace yesterday to talk about how smartphones are making it more challenging to gauge knowledge on surveys. Longer thread coming soon! Check out our full study here: lnkd.in/guiqHmKWlnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 051
Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.bsky.social · 05/02/2026As States Permitted Online Sports Gambling, Citizens’ Personal Financial Health Suffered anderson-review.ucla.edu/as-states-pe...anderson-review.ucla.eduAs States Permitted Online Sports Gambling, Citizens’ Personal Financial Health Suffered - UCLA Anderson ReviewHalf a trillion dollars wagered — and counting 000
Reposted by Brett Hollenbeckgwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Tour de force on just exactly what has gone on at Texas A&M for so many years from Chris Hooks in @texasmonthly.bsky.social: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...texasmonthly.comWhat’s the Matter With Texas A&M?Five presidents in five years. Firings of “woke” professors. Crackdowns on Plato. Inside state leaders’ efforts to remake a great university. 714144
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckArin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Honestly, tons of academics who I greatly respect don't realy understand AI including - what it does, how it's evolving, how it's affecting research. That's bad. 2333
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckDaniela Scur @danielascur.bsky.social · 14/01/2026This year's Empirical Management Conference is at Stanford, May 27-29! Send us your best papers! Details and submission form here: worldmanagementsurvey.org/emc2026/ JOIN US!! It's fun, I promise! @raffasadun.bsky.social @johnvanreenen.bsky.social @renatalemos.bsky.social @nickbloom.bsky.socialworldmanagementsurvey.orgEmpirical Management Conference 2026 – World Management Survey 068
Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Despite the negative framing in this article, this sounds like a very promising set of moves by the EU Commission on reforming some harmful and failed digital regulations. 000
Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Our train conductor just broke in over the PA system to announce this news live, in four languages. www.latimes.com/california/s...latimes.comAn amateur codebreaker may have just solved the Black Dahlia and Zodiac killingsTwo retired LAPD homicide detectives say that both notorious cases are solved -- with a single culprit -- thanks to the work of a novice sleuth. 1127
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckThe Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 19/12/2025Star ratings are hard to ignore. Even when we’re looking for quality, our brains steer us toward cheaper stuff online. Christopher Mims explains why.on.wsj.comBuyer Beware: Star Ratings Actually Steer Us Away From the Best Shopping DealsWhen reviewers consider prices while rating products, there’s a tendency to downgrade the highest-quality yet pricier items. 242
Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Interesting reporting from @bencasselman.bsky.social, suggests Instacart is performing (or allowing) quite extensive personalized price discrimination. 010
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckJ Tarwood @jtarwood.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Acts done out of love, Nietzsche once said, stand beyond good and evil. If this is what art amounts to, we should be grateful to Alice Munro for reminding us to be properly frightened of it. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...muse.jhu.eduProject MUSE - The Mysteries of Love: On Alice Munro 011
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckGarrett Johnson @garjoh.bsky.social · 02/12/2025In honor of #GivingTuesday, my wife & I are matching donations (up to $20K) to the ASFOP Teega Wende Orphanage in 🇧🇫Burkina Faso🇧🇫, which supports over 200 orphans and we have supported for over a decade. 1/2 131
Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.bsky.social · 29/11/2025I don't know if Texas deserves to be in the playoffs, but I do know what all the other playoff teams are hoping for. 000
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckBrett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Some news: I will be spending this entire 2025-26 academic year located in Paris, visiting the local universities and participating in the research community here. If you work in Paris or are just passing though in the next year, please reach out, I'd be happy to meet up! PhD students especially! 0112
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 21/10/2025This is an interesting set of academic research papers about the increasingly key debate of when AI should be used to label data (an expensive task we use humans for) Yang et al show that AI answers are quite different than human, but Briggs finds it may be because AI is better than human RAs! 2636
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckRetro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 17/10/2025I think Southwest Airlines should revert its website to what they had in 1995 1161393
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckThe Athletic @theathletic.com · 18/10/2025An absolutely unreal performance from Shohei Ohtani to complete the Dodgers' NLCS sweep 🧹 28668108
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckJakob Schneebacher @jschneebacher.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Attention IO job market candidates: Sometimes speakers in the CMA's external economics seminar series have to cancel at relatively short notice. We would love for these slots to go to JMCs to present their job market paper. Drop me a message if you are interested or share with those who might be. 01013
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckDaniel Ershov @ershovd.bsky.social · 14/10/2025❗❗❗🚨🚨🚨 Next @cepr.org IO Virtual Gathering is taking place on NOVEMBER 7 at 2pm CET. 1st hr is dedicated to JM presentations by IO candidates graduating from Eur / UK schools. If interested, please submit a draft of your JMP & CV at: t.co/aUTPTWSten by OCTOBER 26! 🚨🚨🚨 ❗❗❗ #econjobmarket 0134
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 10/10/2025This paper shows that you can predict actual purchase intent (90% accuracy) by asking an off-the-shelf LLM to impersonate a customer with a demographic profile, giving it a product image & having it give its impressions, which another AI rates. No fine-tuning or training & beats classic ML methods. 4687
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 10/10/2025On one hand: don't anthropomorphize AI. On the other: LLMs exhibit signs of gambling addiction. The more autonomy they were given, the more risks the LLMs took. They exhibit gambler's fallacy, loss-chasing, illusion of control... A cautionary note for using LLMs for investing without guardrails. 1311529
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckMatthew Perpetua @fluxblog.bsky.social · 07/10/2025ENO UNIVERSE playlist! A retrospective of Brian Eno’s body of work from 1972-1995 including his solo rock and ambient records and his collaborations with Bowie,Talking Heads, U2, Devo, Fripp, etc! All links and annotated tracklisting in the newsletter issue fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-5...fluxblog.substack.comFluxblog 566: ENO UNIVERSEA retrospective of Brian Eno's music 1972-1995 812334
Reposted by Brett Hollenbeckprofserious @profserious.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...profserious.substack.com10 AI Prompts for Academicsmaking those hard jobs a little easier ... 712338
Reposted by Brett HollenbeckJoshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 30/09/2025The videos from the NBER Economics of Transformative AI conference are well worth your time. www.nber.org/conferences/...nber.orgEconomics of Transformative AI Workshop, Fall 2025 082
Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.bsky.social · 24/09/2025It looks like he didn't share it on Bluesky, so I will. @afinetheorem.bsky.social has written an excellent review article covering 7 recent books on the economics of AI that serves as an excellent overview of this topic. Highly recommended! kevinbryanecon.com/BryanAIBookR... 163
Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.bsky.social · 18/09/2025anderson-review.ucla.edu/barred-from-...anderson-review.ucla.eduBarred From Stalking Us Across the Internet, Returns for Some Advertisers Plummet - UCLA Anderson ReviewSmall businesses hit particularly hard when Apple made it easy to opt out of app tracking 020