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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📢📢SBEJ 5th online conference for Early Career Researchers! Fri 11th December 2026, 2-4pm (Berlin (DE) time) Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 1st November Submit or register here: bit.ly/SBEJ-ECR @sbe-journal.bsky.social Details also here: lnkd.in/p/eF5ezeq4 #EconSky

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fascinated by this local gym's flyer. She has the bar running under her shoulder strap! (Also, her thumbs are in the wrong position for a squat) #AIslop

Girl in a gym with a barbell on her back. The bar goes underneath her clothing's shoulder strap and seemingly into her neck. (Also her thumbs are technically in the wrong position for the squat.)

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Stephanie Wang @sweiwang.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

🚨Elsevier forces out Games and Economic Behavior (GEB) Editor, entire editorial board has resigned, current board only handling new submissions until Nov. 14 #econsky

Dear Advisory Editor of GEB
We are very sorry to be the bearers of bad news for GEB.
I learned from Elsevier on Wednesday July 28 that, contrary to my expressed willingness to continue, my 3-year contract will not be renewed.
"Moving towards a closer alignment with Elsevier strategic priorities and publishing policies" was offered as the motive for this decision. Requests for explanations, first by me, then in a collective letter by the other six Editors, were dismissed by Elsevier which simply reaffirmed its legal power to make such decisions.
Elsevier then started precipitously its own search for new Editors without input of the Editorial Board.
By Friday August 14 all seven Editors have sent their resignation, requiring a 3-month advance notice.
Therefore, we will continue to manage as before the papers currently under review and the new submissions until Saturday November 14. After this date we will only complete the evaluation of papers still waiting an editorial decision.

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

👇Reminder: submit your 3-page abstract by Sun 23rd August!

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 06/08/2026

but basically, Tesla had more Clean Air Act violations in May than any other auto assembly plant in the country has had in five years I've been reporting on this since 2019 www.thedrive.com/tech/28338/d... www.thedrive.com/tech/28339/t...

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Documents Show Persistent Air Quality Non-Compliance At Tesla Factory

Tesla ignored air quality regulations when it repeatedly installed and operated equipment without permits and failed to test properly or maintain and report records.

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 07/08/2026

Recently released footage shows the moment an earthquake struck Kumamoto General Hospital in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, during surgery on July 28, as doctors immediately protect the patient and nurses scramble to secure an evacuation route.

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

📢📢"Positioning firms along the capabilities ladder" New paper in ICC [Open Access] with Nanditha Mathew and Emanuele Pugliese Paper: doi.org/10.1093/icc/... Youtube video [16m07]: youtu.be/Ls0uZb9fVN0 #EconSky

"Positioning firms along the capabilities ladder"

New paper in ICC [Open Access] with Nanditha Mathew and Emanuele Pugliese

Paper: https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtag021

Youtube video [16m07]: https://youtu.be/Ls0uZb9fVN0

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Instead of showing a picture of kids having fun in a swimming pool, it would be better to show a picture of a crowded hospital, or a funeral

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Motorhead @bradmunchen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Anyone who still believes that Tesla is on the "cusp", or even a year away, from scaling a driverless ride-hailing service, take a look at this from Tampa, FL yesterday. $TSLA $TSLAQ

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It’ll be ok this time right? www.ft.com/content/de29...

US stocks have reached historically extreme valuations

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

and Argentina's "miraculous" comeback against England, despite some incredible fouling www.youtube.com/shorts/mYvYX... The game is no fun when the corruption is blatant

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The Nasty Fouls Argentina Got Away With VS England 🤯 #shorts #england #worldcup #viral #argentina

YouTube video by OSCAR7

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

as well as Argentina's narrow victory against Cape Verde... www.youtube.com/shorts/TTENE...

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Did the Referee Protect Messi? 🤔Argentina vs cape verde

YouTube video by FutVento

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

What are the chances that Milei (Argentina's Trump) negotiated a deal for Argentina? Put differently, given FIFA's open corruption, it'd be surprising if he did NOT try this. This is how I see Argentina's many "miraculous" comebacks, e.g. against Egypt... www.republicworld.com/sports/footb...

Garry Kasparov writing on X that FIFA looks like a corrupt joke

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

We know for a fact that FIFA is corrupt and bends the rules for friendly politicians (Trump got USA's red card ban cancelled after the match). So what about Argentina's many "miraculous" comebacks? 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/w...

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A Presidential Phone Call, a Lifted Red Card and an Embattled World Cup

There was nothing unusual about a call from President Trump or the reversal of Folarin Balogun’s suspension, said the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino.

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

📢📢 Research Policy 12th online conference for Early Career Researchers! Fri 25th September 2026, 2-4pm (UK time) Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 23rd August Link for submitting: forms.gle/Xu7oXsSV2zYX... Link to RP page: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese... #EconSky

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Whatever next?... Tesla will sue FSD users when FSD crashes?

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

U.S. airlines are starting to onboard more Starlink wifi capability. Here's a peek at their privacy Terms of Service. They apparently collect data from files and also use it for AI. starlink.com/legal/docume...

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

What if Andy Burnham could raise £15bn – without a tax rise? There's one catch. He'd need to solve the UK’s biggest and least-discussed tax problem. Almost half of all small business corporation tax isn't being paid - and nobody knows why. Thread:

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Dan O'Dowd @realdanodowd.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Watch as a shadow causes Tesla self-driving v14.3.4 to swerve onto the wrong side of the road, forcing the driver to disengage! Elon Musk’s defective software should be banned from public roads.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I call Elon Musk a Nazi because he's an avowed white supremacist who undermines democracies, incites pogroms, targets minorities, intentionally caused the death of >750,000 people (so far) while laughing about it ("feeding USAID into the wood chipper"), and did a Sieg Heil at Trump's inauguration.

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Surprising to see Prof. Susan Athey in the list...

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/05/2026

We're just about through with legal review for Elon Take The Wheel, which means the book that explains how Elon Musk's wealth is built on a stack of corpses (probably) won't get me sued into homelessness! Please pre-order your copy today, and help build momentum! benbellabooks.com/shop/elon-ta...

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Elon Take the Wheel - BenBella Books

Timely, thought-provoking, and rigorously sourced, Elon Take the Wheel invites readers to reconsider what automated driving promises, what it obscures, and what it means for the future of mobility.

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Weird: as a journal editor, I received a submission that cites a fake (but plausible-sounding) paper that I supposedly wrote in 2018! #AIslop #AIhallucination #EconSky

Fake reference, presumably from an AI hallucination

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 20/05/2026

SpaceX S1 is out. I have to get my kid to soccer, will post stuff about this later or tomorrow. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

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Montana Skeptic @montanaskeptic.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This is truly great work by @fredlambert.bsky.social and I highly recommend it. I hope Chancellor McCormick is reading along because it completely vindicates her take on Musk's machinations. Indeed, her take was far too tepid. electrek.co/2026/05/06/m...

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Musk's AI empire is unraveling — the trial is just the beginning

From OpenAI's founding to the xAI implosion, a timeline of Elon Musk's decade-long obsession with controlling AI.

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

When I started my PhD on firm growth rates in 2004, I did not think the measurement of growth rates would become so politically charged. @stjepan-srhoj.bsky.social : let's hope the White House does not impose a new definition of High-Growth Firms (HGFs)!

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Also, the inefficiency of the US banking sector seems to be driving interest in crypto, to avoid banking/transaction fees www.security.org/digital-secu... This seems less relevant for non-US countries

Avoiding banking/transaction fees is considered to be the greatest benefit of cryptocurrency, according to about 10% of survey respondents

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/04/2026

Tesla Q1 earnings call is now live, Elon has begun his comments, follow along here www.youtube.com/live/qO7T5zg...

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Tesla Q1 2026 Financial Results and Q&A Webcast

YouTube video by Tesla

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The Fulham fan would be verbose but less irritating. The Arsenal fan would still be fuming about Stata's exorbitant license fees...

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I wonder how much the Arsenal fan would swear if he was reshaping a large panel dataset in Stata

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Conjecture: Whatever your definition of “good”, a good bottle of whisky is cheaper than two good bottles of wine

Let G be a set of items considered "good" according to a percentile-based criterion p(where ├ p∈(0,100]), such that G contains the top p% most expensive items in a given category.
For whisky and wine, let Wand V denote the sets of "good" whiskies and "good" wines, respectively, under the same percentile criterion p.
Then, for any w∈Wand any v∈V,
"price"(w)<2×"price"(v).

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Yes, it's fascinating! The USA might be an outlier. In a follow-up paper for 1950-2010, the unit cost of finance seems to fall over time for other countries (FR, DE, IT, JP) but not for US. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The USA might be an outlier. In a follow-up paper for 1950-2010, the unit cost of finance seems to fall over time for other countries (FR, DE, IT, JP) but not for US.
USA: a relatively flat unit cost, for the other countries it falls.
Finance Value Added divided by bank loans is a crude indicator of cost per unit; less sophisticated than the “Unit cost of finance” indicator from Philippon (2015). Bank loans (the denominator) do not include all financial outputs.

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Relatedly, Philippon shows how the unit cost of intermediation in the USA stays at 1.5-2% of intermediated assets, and hasn't decreased over the period 1886-2012 dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer....

Philippon (2015, AER) shows how the unit cost of intermediation in the USA stays at 1.5-2% of intermediated assets, and hasn't decreased over the period 1886-2012

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

New: A Houston woman is suing Tesla in Harris County, alleging that her Cybertruck, while using Tesla's "Full Self-Driving mode" tried to drive the car off of a bridge. Here is the dashcam footage provided by her lawyers: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

📢 Reminder!! RP ECR11 online conference Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 22nd March #EconSky

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Learning Japanese hurts my eyes: in my ~A4 textbook, you need to distinguish markings with a size of about a hundredth of a centimeter...

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

... and the SI is now published in Issue 1, Feb 2026: link.springer.com/journal/1096...

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

"Harvard Business Review" is a prestigious FT50 scientific journal, important for hiring, promotions, research funding, etc. So why are they publishing this crap? #EconSky #SpaceX Rigby, D.K., Sutherland, J., Noble, A. (2018). Agile at scale. Harvard Business Review, 96(3), 88-96.

SpaceX, for example, aims to use agile innovation to begin transporting people to Mars by 2024, with the goal of establishing a self-sustaining
colony on the planet.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Id like to run a special issue of a social science journal on "Calling Bullshit" where people can just go on a full on rant (anonymously if they like) and rip well established ideas to shreds. Zero requirements to be balanced or polite or have any respect for pompous senior professors.

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DRUID @druidsociety.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS #druid26 Copenhagen, Denmark June 8-10, 2026 Submission deadline: March 1 Web site: www.druid.dk

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

📢📢Research Policy 11th online conference for Early Career Researchers! Mon 27th April 2026, 2-4pm (UK time) Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 22nd March Link for submitting: forms.gle/bkMBQLia6Fhe... Link to RP page: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese... #EconSky

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Could be a useful way to publish on topics that you suspect might get unflattering results!

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

New submission format at SBE: “Replications as Registered Reports” link.springer.com/journal/1118... You can get "in-principle acceptance" before data collection even begins; final paper gets published regardless the results, if the study is conducted rigorously. #EconSky

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 28/01/2026

I'm a few minutes behind the live call, but here's my Q4 Tesla earnings call "live thread"! We start out with Elon announcing that Tesla's mission has changed to "Amazing Abundance," which represents a pivot from the "Sustainable Abundance" tagline he announced last year.

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 26/01/2026

📣 Come join a top-5 strategy department in Europe and work with me on an exciting topic at the intersection of causal AI and strategy 🤖📈 I'm recruiting a PhD student as part of my Sapere Aude Research Leader Grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. (1/3)

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