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Eduard Talamàs

@eduardtalamas.bsky.social
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Economics: AI, organizations, networks, bargaining Associate Professor @ IESE Business School | Fellow CEPR & HKU CAMO & BSE Previously: Harvard | UPenn | BSE Barcelona

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Eduard Talamàs @eduardtalamas.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Terence Tao puts it brilliantly: We're going through a cognitive version of the Copernican revolution. It was a huge conceptual leap to consider the possibility that the Earth may not be the center of the universe. Human intelligence may not be the center of intelligence.
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Eduard Talamàs @eduardtalamas.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🚨🚨 Call for Papers 🚨🚨 Economics of Transformative AI Workshop at the BSE Summer Forum 2026 👉 June 17, 2026 | Barcelona 👉 Keynote: @lugaricano.bsky.social 👉 Confirmed speakers: Kevin Bryan ( @afinetheorem.bsky.social ) and @lindseyraymond.bsky.social 👉 Deadline: February 28, 2026
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Economics of Transformative AI | Barcelona School of Economics
Find paper topics, past speakers, and the call for the next edition of the BSE Summer Forum Workshop on Economics of Transformative AI
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Societat Catalana d'Economia @sce.iec.cat · 26/01/2026
Proper debat “#Economia i #política de la #IA” entre @isaacbaley.bsky.social, @ainagallego.bsky.social, Juan González i @eduardtalamas.bsky.social, moderat per Ferran Elias. 📅18/2, 18h 🚩@IEC 👉https://sce.iec.cat/18-de-febrer-propera-conferencia-economia-i-politica-de-la-ia/
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Eduard Talamàs @eduardtalamas.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Exciting event today @stanforddel.bsky.social on the economic challenges and opportunities of the AI age. I’ll share key highlights in the thread below.
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SIEPR @siepr.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Lots of ideas in this proposed research agenda for economists thinking about the effects of #AI on the #economy, including implications for #innovation and #geoeconomics. Courtesy of @erikbryn.bsky.social, @akorinek.bsky.social and Ajay Agrawal. tinyurl.com/ycxjx4ah
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Eduard Talamàs @eduardtalamas.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Should be fun !
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Eduard Talamàs @eduardtalamas.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
walking to give a general audience talk on the Economics of AI, this anecdote came to mind. What a legend...
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Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I'm so glad you came to visit. The work you're doing on AI is insightful and important.
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Eduard Talamàs @eduardtalamas.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
@stanforddel.bsky.social rocks! Very inspiring visit, thank you again for this opportunity @erikbryn.bsky.social !
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Eduard Talamàs @eduardtalamas.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
How is AI different from past automation—and what does this mean for the knowledge economy? @enriqueide.bsky.social & I have spent two years tackling this question. Join the discussion @stanforddel.bsky.social. Organized by @erikbryn.bsky.social digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/event/eduard...
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Eduard Talamàs: Artificial Intelligence in the Knowledge Economy
On March 3, 2025, Eduard Talamàs, Assistant Professor of Economics at IESE Business School, will stop by the lab for his talk on "Artificial Intelligence in the Knowledge Economy."
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Eduard Talamàs @eduardtalamas.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Thrilled to kick off @stanforddel.bsky.social’s spring seminar series next Monday (3/3)! I’ll be presenting joint work with @enriqueide.bsky.social on 'Artificial Intelligence in the Knowledge Economy.' Looking forward to a great discussion.
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Eduard Talamàs @eduardtalamas.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Excited for this seminar! Huge thanks to @erikbryn.bsky.social and @stanforddel.bsky.social for the opportunity. Really looking forward to the discussion.
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AEA Information @aeainformation.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Congratulations to Philipp Strack of @yaleuniversity.bsky.social who was presented with the 2024 Clark Medal by Lawrence F. Katz at the #ASSA2025 Annual Meeting. #econsky aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho...
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Shengwu Li @shengwuli.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I did a NYT video interview—along with voices from Hungary, Nicaragua, and Russia— about how repression works in authoritarian states. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Video: Opinion | How Tyranny Begins
Tyranny doesn’t happen overnight. Take it from the people who missed the first signs.
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Rohit Lamba @rohitlamba.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Week 3: This week's theory paper in focus is Political Correctness (2001) by Stephen Morris. It is a masterpiece in what economists called applied theory--crafty story telling about interesting facts around us that uses elegant mathematical modeling. www.jstor.org/stable/10.10...
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Eduard Talamàs @eduardtalamas.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Markus’ Academy has been a game-changer in making high-level economic discussions accessible to all. Yesterday, I had the honor of presenting my research with @enriqueide.bsky.social there—a dream come true! Watch the webinar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2VX... #MarkusAcademy #AI #Economics #Research
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Eduard Talamas on Introducing AI Agents
YouTube video by Markus' Academy
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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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Michael Ostrovsky @mostrovsky.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
This rings true to me. One of the reasons why the Soviet Union was so strong in math and physics is that super-talented people in those areas didn't have nearly as many outside options to apply their talents as did comparably talented people in the United States.
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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
i'm excited to be judging a Quora knowledge contest questions are below. if you like thinking about economics, write good answers to these questions!! first prize is $1000 second prize is $200 (which can buy a set of steak knives) contests.quora.com/Now-Open-Jan...
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Ioana Marinescu @imarinescu.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Public debate in economics is important! Following a suggestion by Handbook of Labor Economics editors Dustmann & Lemieux, Jose Azar & I added a nuanced discussion of the significance of labor market concentration in our understanding of market power and welfare. #EconSky
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
This bit of Sam Altman’s newest post is similar in tone to a post by the CEO of Anthropic & what many (not all) researchers from every lab have been saying publicly and privately. You do not have to believe them, but I think they believe what they are saying, for what it worth. blog.samaltman.com
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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Pretty depressing that it’s come to this
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Alex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Read this last year. Highly recommended. The part on behavioral Econ was particularly interesting as someone in the field.
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Theoretical Economics @econtheory.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Please mark down our session if you are attending the upcoming ASSA meeting! Data, Privacy and AI, Friday, Jan. 3, 2025, 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM (PST) www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...,
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American Economic Association
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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Trump at it again talking about the virtues of tariffs. Two key papers: Diamond-Mirrlees Atkinson-Stiglitz, establish conditions under which tariffs should not be employed and show the income tax is a great tax. Or read @pkrugman.bsky.social Pop internationalism!
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Alex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Good write up of Toner-Rogers result on introduction of AI to material science labs leading to increase in productivity, w/ almost all gains going to those who were already most productive But perhaps most interesting result was buried: the scientists hated the tool 1/2 www.wsj.com/economy/will...
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Shengwu Li @shengwuli.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
The best education about liberalism is experiencing the alternatives.
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Might rhinos be better protected by a legal horn market? #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2024/12/rhin...
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"Rhino horns are a renewable resource." Would a legal market help save endangered rhinoceroses?
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Kevin A. Bryan @afinetheorem.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
A fun thing about building a company while also doing AI research is seeing the econ in practice. Joshua describes a pattern we see w/ AlldayTA: big spikes in use (eg around exams). Humans handle unevenness poorly; AI doesn't need to! buff.ly/3BCyLHP
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The Value of AI for Uneven Work
AI will be valuable for work that has lots of downtime with brief but large surges
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Alex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I think it should go without saying, but if you can’t have a respectful conversation about the use of one of the most widely adopted technologies in higher Ed w/o calling people termites (???), you should probably not be in the classroom.
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Luis Garicano @lugaricano.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Fields of "inquiry" where asking simple factual, yes/no, questions is considered worth an expulsion from campus. In case these mobsters care about facts, the factual answer to the question is yes: LLMs are now able to ace the exams in most fields of knowledge. @arpitrage.blusky.social
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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
It should go without saying that in debating pedagogy, professors should not refer to other professors with dehumanizing language such as calling them “termites” Also what authority does Kruse have to push others off campus? Kruse has really been awful lately. @arpitrage.bsky.social
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Jason Hartline @jasonhartline.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Where the [T]CS publication/review strategy really shines is in equity. You write a great TCS paper, it'll be accepted to STOC/FOCS within six months. And you can present it in front of the top TCS audience. In econ, you need to be known and invited to seminars to get early feedback.
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Eduard Talamàs @eduardtalamas.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Wonderful Christmas reading. Super original and wise!
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Ugo Panizza @upanizza.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Must read by @lugaricano.bsky.social
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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
In economics, editors, referees, and authors often behave as if a published paper should reflect some kind of authoritative consensus. As a result, valuable debate happens in secret, and the resulting paper is an opaque compromise with anonymous co-authors called referees. 1/
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Alex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
This is the best explainer of the recent o3 performance and it’s implications that I’ve read yet. Cc @bengolub.bsky.social
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Fascinating new paper by @simonjaeger.bsky.social, Suresh Naidu, and @schoefer.bsky.social! www.nber.org/papers/w33267
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Collective Bargaining, Unions, and the Wage Structure: An International Perspective
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Nicole Immorlica talks about her prizewinning work in #econcs and its origins (including a course and a poem) www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear... marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2024/12/nico...
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Nicole Immorlica celebrated (and interviewed) in a Microsoft Resarch podcast
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Some of my thoughts on OpenAI's o3 and the ARC-AGI benchmark aiguide.substack.com/p/did-openai...
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Did OpenAI Just Solve Abstract Reasoning?
OpenAI’s o3 model aces the "Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus" — but what does it mean?
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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Leveraging AI to navigate ‘deglobalisation’ cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… @trfetzer.com @econopete.bsky.social ,Bennet Feld.
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Elliot Lipnowski @elliotlip.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I have so many things I desperately need to do, but instead I'm trying to convince myself of whether this theorem goes through for finite actions and infinite states.
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Raffaella Sadun @raffasadun.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
This
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Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
New AI Snake Oil essay: Last month the AI industry's narrative suddenly flipped — model scaling is dead, but "inference scaling" is taking over. This has left people outside AI confused. What changed? Is AI capability progress slowing? We look at the evidence. 🧵 www.aisnakeoil.com/p/is-ai-prog...
Declaring the death of model scaling is premature.

Regardless of whether model scaling will continue, industry leaders’ flip flopping on this issue shows the folly of trusting their forecasts. They are not significantly better informed than the rest of us, and their narratives are heavily influenced by their vested interests.

Inference scaling is real, and there is a lot of low-hanging fruit, which could lead to rapid capability increases in the short term. But in general, capability improvements from inference scaling will likely be both unpredictable and unevenly distributed among domains.

The connection between capability improvements and AI’s social or economic impacts is extremely weak. The bottlenecks for impact are the pace of product development and the rate of adoption, not AI capabilities.
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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 08/11/2024
📢 I am on the economic job market 🚀 My JMP "Algorithmic and Human Collusion" shows pricing algorithms can be more collusive than humans and explores their interaction. Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Other research: tfwerner.com #EconSky #EconJM #JMP
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Luis Garicano @lugaricano.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The intermittency of solar and wind is increasing the fragility of electricity networks. Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Spain have just suffered huge (x190) price spikes or rationing. Neither batteries nor transmission can solve this yet. www.siliconcontinent.com/p/intermitte...
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Intermittency Trap
Unpleasant Energy Transition Arithmetic
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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
So excited to tell you about my new venture with @afinetheorem.bsky.social called All Day TA (@alldayta.bsky.social) open.substack.com/pub/joshuaga...
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Introducing All Day TA
My new venture designed to bring AI responsibly into college education
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