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Jan Eeckhout @janeeckhout.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Thinking about a PhD in Economics? I have an opening for a pre-doc / research position at UPF in Barcelona. You’ll gain research experience and I help you apply for PhD programs Highly relevant for Master’s students. Please share euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/420232

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Research collaboration position at UPF-Jan Eeckhout

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Jan Eeckhout @janeeckhout.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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Jan Eeckhout @janeeckhout.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The Digital Markets Act seems to working. WhatsApp is allowing messages to and from other platforms. Messaging (like phone calls and emails) becomes interoperable

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Menzie Chinn @mchinn.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

All core instantaneous inflation measures rose in July; CPI nowcasted to rise in August #econsky @clevelandfed.bsky.social @janeeckhout.bsky.social econbrowser.com/archives/202...

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Jan Eeckhout @janeeckhout.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Measuring how interdisciplinary research is, based on citations. Main insight: philanthropic and Chinese funders are most interdisciplinary open.substack.com/pub/johnsonb...

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What Actually Counts as Interdisciplinary Research?

A data-driven look at which funders support knowledge integration

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Jan Eeckhout @janeeckhout.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Onion headline: Undocumented aliens bussed to Army Parade celebrating President’s birthday to pad crowds

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 22/05/2025

📢 Now open for applications! The 2025 ERC Advanced Grant call for proposals. 📢 Are you an established Principal Investigator who needs long-term funding to pursue ground-breaking research? The ERC Advanced Grant could be for you! Apply by 28 August 2025 👉 buff.ly/f6FEXHk 🧵Thread 1/5 👇

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

For those not on the other platform on Google and DOJ's proposed remedies for Google's 3rd antitrust defeat (adtech). I threaded Friday's hearing but this full doc is nothing short of beautiful. Best stuff may be missed so hear me out. This is a huge deal - 10yrs, "lifeblood of the Internet." /1

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Jan Eeckhout @janeeckhout.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Another killer acquisition… No more car sharing. Isn’t it poetic how they spin it?

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Jan Eeckhout @janeeckhout.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Important competition news in the EU today. Interoperability to get more competitive digital markets: “Apple should allow third party app stores on iOS and apps to be downloaded to the iPhone directly from the web. […] Apple failed to comply with this obligation” ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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Commission closes investigation into Apple's user choice obligations and issues preliminary findings on rules for alternative apps under the Digital Markets Act

Following a constructive dialogue with Apple, the Commission has decided to close its investigation into Apple's user choice obligations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

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Menzie Chinn @mchinn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Instantaneous inflation down, but not as low as mid-2024 #econsky @janeeckhout.bsky.social econbrowser.com/archives/202...

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Jan Eeckhout @janeeckhout.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Observing the handling of paper slips on Amtrak (reissuing new slips if you go past NY!) tells me there is still a lot of room for technological progress

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Jan Eeckhout @janeeckhout.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

If Europe doubles defense spending now, it will get substantially less than double in defense goods and services. Prices have gone up. What matters for security is quantities, not expenditure

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Happy 81st birthday to Brazilian mathematician Marilda Sotomayor! She has been a trailblazer in the area of game theory concerned with matching markets, which she started studying under David Gale in the 1980s, and subsequently brought back to Brazil. #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistoryMonth 🧮

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Menzie Chinn @mchinn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Instantaneous inflation measures (per @janeeckhout.bsky.social ) down #econsky econbrowser.com/archives/202...

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Crypto is for crime. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Iñigo Macías Aymar @imaciasaymar.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Pumpkin vs. lettuce, the beginning?... from the Economist!

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 07/02/2025

Time to sell all my ETFs? 📉

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Competition policy that sets market power to 1980s levels would lower the stock market by 45%. The remainder, due to accumulated retained earnings (35%) and a lower risk-free rate (20%), is unaffected.

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Jan Eeckhout @janeeckhout.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Let’s hope for the Liz Truss lettuce solution: The tariffs are so bad for the economy that the markets take care of it. The only issue is that an orange pumpkin 🎃 takes longer to decay than a lettuce 🥬

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Tools from macroeconomics and finance to incorporate the central role that data plays in the economy. @isaacbaley.bsky.social and @laura-veldkamp.bsky.social's The Data Economy is out now. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #EconSky

The Data Economy: Tools and Applications by Isaac Baley and Laura Veldkamp

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

New randomized, controlled trial by the World Bank of students using GPT-4 as a tutor in Nigeria. Six weeks of after-school AI tutoring = 2 years of typical learning gains, outperforming 80% of other educational interventions. And it helped all students, especially girls who were initially behind.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

wow. This AI lawsuit against Facebook keeps getting worse as they reluctantly unseal documents on Court orders. Check out this allegation. Not only two hrs before discovery cut-off but the Friday before we now know Mark Zuckerberg was deposed... more on that in a minute. /1

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Luis Garicano @lugaricano.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

My Christmas post in Silicon Continent is about economics lessons from The Wire- with implications for green washing and AI benchmarks- as well as a bit of career advice for young readers. I hope you enjoy it! www.siliconcontinent.com/p/you-get-wh...

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You get what you pay for

Learning from The Wire

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Academics from poorer socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to - not publish - have outstanding publication records - introduce more novel scientific concepts - less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards. www.nber.org/papers/w33289

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

It still boggles my mind that only 66 years separate these photos.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

100 years ago Saturday the NYT ran a story that did not hold up well at all. www.nytimes.com/1924/12/21/a...

Headline: HITLER TAMED BY PRISON.
BERLIN, Dec. 20 — Adolph Hitler, once the demi-god of the reactionary extremists, was released on parole from imprisonment at Fortress Landsberg, Bavaria, today and immediately left in an auto for Munich. He looked a much sadder and wiser man today than last Spring when he, with Ludendorff and other radical extremists, appeared before a Munich court charged with conspiracy to overthrow the Government.

His behavior during imprisonment convinced the authorities that, like his political organization, known as the Volkischer, was no longer to be feared. It is believed he will retire to private life and return to Austria, the country of his birth.

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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Great data journalism: people report “best times” is when they were 10-15 yo www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Tim Wu @superwuster.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

If you sometimes wonder if things seem to be getting worse over the last few years .... (nb this graph counts any discharge of a weapon as a school shooting)

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Tommaso Valletti @tomvalletti.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Revised version of our paper with Bo Cowgill and Andrea Prat just out. We document how mergers in the US are followed by large and persistent increases in lobbying activity. Firms with market power also try to gain political power. www.nber.org/papers/w33255

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

What happens after anesthesia rollup acquisitions? Within six months, prices increase 18%. Within two years, they increase 25 to 30%. New working paper by my amazing student Aslihan Asil (on the law market this year!) and her co-authors: www.nber.org/papers/w33217

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The Economist covered our "Strain on scientific publishing" paper. What is this all about? We collectively churn out more & more papers *per scientist*, an increasing pace, in a rapidly changing publication landscape. Why? How? Want to make sense of this? 🧵 www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Scientific publishers are producing more papers than ever

Concerns about some of their business models are building

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

What happened when public universities in 🇨🇦 started publicizing faculty salaries? ... ... ... The salary gap between men and women declined by 20-40% as a direct result. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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EEA @eeanews.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

📢 Pol Antràs will give the 2024 @jeeanews.bsky.social - FBBVA lecture "The Uncharted Waters of International Trade" Hélène Rey will act as discussant. 🗓️Tues, Dec 10 @ 18:00 CET 📍Madrid ℹ️on attendance & travel grants for PhD students in Spain bit.ly/41eK3MT

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Romain Wacziarg @romainwacziarg.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The December issue of the JEEA is out, with 10 excellent papers in fields as diverse as finance, macro, political economy, environmental economics... academic.oup.com/jeea/issue @jeeanews.bsky.social @eeanews.bsky.social

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Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Here's a great starter pack for folks interested in the economics of innovation, competition and IO go.bsky.app/Rchu8QX

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Super interesting paper by @jbbecon.bsky.social on the policy impact of two of my antitrust idols (@timobres.bsky.social and @stevesalop.bsky.social) academic.oup.com/antitrust/ad...

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

"Business-school psychologists are scholars, but they aren’t shooting for a Nobel Prize. Their research doesn’t typically aim to solve a social problem; it won’t be curing anyone’s disease. It doesn’t even seem to have much influence on business practices." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger

The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Bam. There is it. US Department of Justice has filed - requesting divestiture of Chrome as a remedy for court's finding against Google. Android at risk, too. /1

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Austan Goolsbee @goolsbee.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hi folks. I just got here. Anyone have advice on getting set up?

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Jan Eeckhout @janeeckhout.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

After the Great Recession, Queen Elisabeth visited LSE and asked @lugaricano.bsky.social why economists hadn’t predicted the recession. Instead, if she had lived, Queen Victoria might have asked how economists managed to tame recessions 150 years of US recessions in a few graphs 1/7

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Jan Eeckhout @janeeckhout.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Conflict of interest (COI) leads to a strong downward valuation and credibility of research output The paper advocates for a clearer COI policy: the profession’s #me-consult-too moment

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Richard Blundell @richardblundell.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

Dimensions of Inequality: The IFS Deaton Review @TheIFS The whole evidence volume of the Review, including all the remarkable articles examining the many dimensions of inequality, published open access by OUP at academic.oup.com/ooec/issue/3...

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Henry G Overman @henryoverman.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Great to see that @econromesh.bsky.social is here. Economics writer and for many years a great help to many of us struggling to make our academic research more accessible.

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

My other latest piece for The Economist looks at European competition policy, and how it will have to serve new masters. Probably too many. #innovation #resilience #geopolitics www.economist.com/finance-and-...

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European regulators are about to become more political

That will worry many in Silicon Valley

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

Prof: "Welcome to antitrust class! This class is a discussion of concentration of economic power and the threats it poses." *Dean walks in and whispers to Prof* Prof: This class has been canceled thanks to a generous donation from the Koch Foundation! #Satire

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