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Jeff Gortmaker @jeffgortmaker.com · 15/10/2025

For a sense of what I'll be covering, check out the open source course materials. Problem sets quickly get you working with my and @cconlon.bsky.social’s PyBLP. GitHub: github.com/Mixtape-Sess...

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GitHub - Mixtape-Sessions/Demand-Estimation: Demand Estimation taught by Jeff Gortmaker and Ariel Pakes

Demand Estimation taught by Jeff Gortmaker and Ariel Pakes - Mixtape-Sessions/Demand-Estimation

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Nirupama Rao @nirupama.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Thrilled that my paper "The Cost of Curbing Externalities with Market Power: Alcohol Regulations and Tax Alternatives" with @cconlon.bsky.social was accepted by the Journal of Political Economy @jpolecon.bsky.social !

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Chris Conlon @cconlon.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Unfortunately this is misleading in two ways: 1. Section 12 of the 2010 HMG's also discussed monopsony power over input providers (including workers) 2. The judge ruled that the FTC did not prove their case re: effects on workers, but was it moot bc they won on product market.

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Ioana Marinescu @imarinescu.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Significant victory for labor #antitrust as Judge Adrienne Nelson issued a preliminary injunction blocking the $24 billion merger of grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons, in a win for the FTC. The judge mentions the inclusion of workers in the 2023 Merger Guidelines, an issue I worked on at DOJ

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Jeff Gortmaker @jeffgortmaker.com · 29/11/2024

Happy to share that my and @cconlon.bsky.social's micro BLP paper was just accepted at the Journal of Econometrics! jeffgortmaker.com/files/Incorp... It's our 2nd tied to our PyBLP software, so here's a thread on surprising (to me) benefits of combining methods research with open source work. 1/6

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Jakob Schneebacher @jschneebacher.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

@jeffgortmaker.com and @cconlon.bsky.social's PyBLP is such a great public good. Jeff (who is on the job market) with a thread on their new Journal of Econometrics paper.

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Chris Conlon @cconlon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I think my @nyulaw.bsky.social colleague Daniel Francis provides a clear and balanced summary of the Neo-Brandeis shift in antitrust. It is worth a read for all IO Economists (and perhaps more importantly macro economists who've recently discovered IO). www.promarket.org/2024/11/25/a...

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After Neo-Brandeis - ProMarket

Daniel Francis reviews the evolutionary and revolutionary dimensions of the Biden administration’s antitrust work, and argues that these two projects have been in deep tension. He concludes that the a...

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