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Mike Powell

@convexify.bsky.social
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Organizational economist at Kellogg

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Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) @restatjournal.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
PBM formularies can boost drug-market efficiency, but may raise list prices and be distorted by MFNs. Just Accepted new paper by Rena M. Conti @renaconti.bsky.social Brigham Frandsen, Michael Powell @convexify.bsky.social and James B. Rebitzer zurl.co/vI0iq
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Common Agent or Double Agent? Pharmacy Benefit Managers in the Prescription Drug Market
Abstract. Pharmacy benefit managers dominate the U.S. pharmaceutical market but are controversial and poorly understood. We analyze PBMs as market
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Some of us really appreciate your posts.
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
What do you think the equilibrium effects would be of grading assignments relative to how well an LLM does with minimal guidance? (Effectively replacing curves where we compare students to each other with ones where we compare them relative to AI.)
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
How Tariffs Affect Trade Deficits... ... a new paper with amazing trade economist Arnaud Costinot. Many politicians and the general public expect tariffs to reduce imports lower imports and thus work to close a trade deficit. Economists typically say "not so fast"... 🧵1/n
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Danana?
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
It gets better. Just wait until Appendix E.
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
😱
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
At least it answered quckly.
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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
PLEASE RT :) Submit to the annual Network Science and Economics Conference, the largest US event for network theory and empirical research in and adjacent to economics Deadline Jan 30 (soon!) Conference Apr 11-13 at Stanford
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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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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Congrats. That’s an excellent paper.
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Ok, I finally managed to slog through this paragraph, and it turns out it’s just Smith being a crypto bro.
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
It definitely has pages of stuff like this in it. I’m sure he’s just describing an eigenvalue or something, but who can say?
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Did someone say non-random sampling?
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Not necessarily
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Just the kind of enrollment problem that can be solved by covering a couple weeks of general equilibrium theory at the beginning of the term.
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Is that a picture of applied theory?
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Raffaella Sadun @raffasadun.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The 10th edition of the Empirical Management Conference has just started! We have a great line up of presenters and papers: www.hbs.edu/faculty/rese... Just started a list of participants of current and past editions, ping me if you want to be added.
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Empirical Management Conference - Faculty & Research - Harvard Business School
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I like that when it stops working, it does so publicly, so coauthors know not to expect anything from me.
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
That explains why I didn’t get any emails this year!
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
In Fehr, Powell, and Wilkening (2021), we were worried about the complexity of subgame-perfect implementation mechanisms driving their poor performance, so we did something like this and found some improvements (but still inefficiencies consistent with preferences for retaliation).
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
You will then wish it was baby beluga.
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I’m also willing to bet real money that people who write this kind of feedback begin their talks with “so…”.
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I guess people in different fields use “not surprising” to mean entirely different things (I’m not even sure how to formulate what my prior is when reviewing a theory paper), but I would guess they use it because it’s easier to write than a specific and convincing criticism.
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I usually interpret “these results are not surprising” as “these results tell us little that was not already known,” but it’s much less useful as feedback (and convincing as an argument) than “here is why the marginal contribution of the paper is limited given the state of the literature.”
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "Monitoring Team Members: Information Waste and the Transparency Trap" by Matteo Camboni and Michael Porcellacchia. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Monitoring Team Members: Information Waste and the Transparency Trap
(Forthcoming Article) - In a model of moral hazard in teams, we demonstrate that firms’ concerns about low trust among teammates can justify two common but otherwise puzzling patterns: information was...
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I think Igor found the optimal dynamic contract, Itai.
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
But how will people know he will pay at the end of the seminar if no one has ever stayed until the end?
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Elliot Lipnowski @elliotlip.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Today's edition of "📈📉 papers you should know" is Dezsö Szalay's @reveconstudies.bsky.social paper, "The Economics of Clear Advice and Extreme Options". The paper concerns itself with information acquisition choices under delegated decision making. Let's go through an example...
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Elliot Lipnowski @elliotlip.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Today's edition of "📈📉 papers you should know" is Amanda Friedenberg's @econometric.bsky.social paper, "Bargaining Under Strategic Uncertainty: The Role of Second-Order Optimism". It's a wonderful example of a paper that delivers new insights from studying an old game.
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Nathan Lane @nathanlane.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
My guy Walker Hanlon has a cool new book:
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
My process for reading theory papers: 1. Title 2. Abstract 3. Proof of Lemma 2, the triangle existence result 4. References
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I opened this app because others did.
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Mike Powell @convexify.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Qian (RESTUD, 1994)
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I made a theory starter pack. It includes some CS/Econ, pol-econ, and behavioral types as well... Lmk if you'd like to be added (or removed!) and I'll do my best - the edit functionality is a bit wonky atm go.bsky.app/KAGmZH4
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The Visible Hand Podcast @visiblehandpod.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Episode 82: Wouter Dessein on how Organisations Allocate Decision-Making Power. #EconSky Listen now at: www.thevisiblehand.uk/episodes/epi...
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Episode 82: Wouter Dessein on how Organisations Allocate Decision-Making Power — The Visible Hand
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