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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

i forgot you moved over here 🥺

Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

It does not take a week. In claiming it would take a week, you show either your total inexperience, or an unsatisfactory intellect. It should take you no more than four minutes per article — you having already read them — to rebut.

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

It should be trivial, then, to demonstrate how Mr. Masley is wrong.

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Ok good! I write about economics: here, for example, is a guide to auction theory and using arbitrary bid distributions to estimate supply and demand. nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/an-introdu...

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An Introduction to Auctions

How much can we trust the empirical auction literature?

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

this isn’t true at this time 🥺

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

That was 2024, and do you think they’re actually serious lol?

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

There is a definite divide on this question

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I have a history of meniscus tears and am gun-shy about flexing my legs that way.

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Where is this business of me being a bottom coming from?

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

What’s the matter with India? I argue it’s the courts. They leaves firms unable to conduct business, and make the country as much as 10% poorer. nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/whats-the-...

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Why do people just lie, and obviously lie? The writer is a grad student at MIT. His name is Daniel Luo. As an aside he’s the best theorist in some time, and is uncomfortably brilliant. Go check out his work.

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Rat limit, I’m so sorry. Please make a new account on Easter. For the bit.

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

lol wut???? this is flatly absurd, so many of the people to whom I am attracted are jewish that some of my friends tease me for it

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

That is, to be clear, correct. They made drugs which people wished to consume. They were scapegoated for people misusing them. More importantly, the rise in overdose deaths has been due to the *crackdown* making dose size irregular and unsafe. Decide whether you want drugs legal or not!

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I am a liberal? I’ve been extremely clear about this, over and over again. Please do not stereotype me for my school.

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I have never wanted people to be shot. You can look at what I’ve written — I am concerned mainly with identifying competition between firms and trade theory. I resent that this administration should deny me a quiet, happy life.

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Kevin A. Bryan @afinetheorem.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

What Matt means here is he used to uncritically write articles about "paper in top journal finds result consistent with progressive policy" & now he's worried those articles were refereed and accepted with a less critical and unbiased eye than he had thought. Like, clearly true! Everyone knows this!

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David Schindler @david-schindler.de · 14/12/2024

A group of researchers has attempted to replicate our work on self-control and asset market prices published in the Review of Financial Studies (doi.org/10.1093/rfs/...) and not been able confirm our findings. See doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

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Do experimental asset market results replicate? High-powered preregistered replications of 17 claims

Experimental asset markets provide a controlled approach to studying financial markets. We attempt to replicate 17 key results from four prominent studies, coll

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Stan Veuger @stanveuger.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

In fairness to Kruse, if I were an academic best-known for plagiarism I would also feel distinctly threatened by AI tools

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Them and the software engineers generally

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

The very best inventors are sensitive to top tax rates, especially the foreign born. An elasticity of 1 means that a 1% increase in tax rates leads to a 1% decrease in foreign born inventors! Paper below, blog post Tuesday (I’m back to writing >1 per day lol) t.co/gNXRknmt4y

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Between 1995 and 2001, 35 million workers were laid off from state-owned enterprises in China. They were pushed into creating their own companies, leading to an increase in the number, size, and quality of entrepreneurs. t.co/cPSoNwDTQc

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Is it worthwhile going to as a second year student? I just want to go to meet cool people and such. I would be able to couch surf for it, so low cost of traveling.

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

As an exercise, you should show what happens if we allow for monopolistic competition.

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Cannot be reasonably done. Where’s the incentive? This is cheap and easy. Think of it this way. I’m bi. Imagine I fall in love with a man and a woman, and would raise kids with either. Is it really so immoral if those you love have kids? Effect sizes are small, but any positive effect is enough.

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Earned me about five hundred dollars

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Today I make the case that you should, if at all possible, have someone better than you be the biological parent of your kids. Read it here: nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/why-your-c...

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

What are the most important questions in economics? What should someone who wants to change the world work on?

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The podium is fundamentally Freudian

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This is the best blog post I’ve ever written. It is not possible to infer where the gains from education are coming from, given our tests. Signalling vs human capital questions are, at the moment, empirically unresolvable. nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/the-return...

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Are ideas getting harder to find? Bloom, van Reenen, others

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hey econ folks, I’m working with an historical data set which lacks a great measure of tfp. (Specifically, I can’t tell capital intensity). Is gross value added per worker a reasonable proxy?

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The rollout of the internet substantially reduced unemployment. To learn all about equilibrium unemployment, read my latest blog post! nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/why-does-u...

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Nicholas Decker @captgouda24.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

That’s pretty easy, follow me. The rest is left as an exercise to the reader.

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