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Joel Waldfogel

@jwaldfog.bsky.social
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Joel Waldfogel @jwaldfog.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Can LLMs help humans to write books? TLDR: sort of. @imkereimers.bsky.social and I have a new paper with a longer answer. 1/n www.nber.org/papers/w34777
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AI and the Quantity and Quality of Creative Products: Have LLMs Boosted Creation of Valuable Books?
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Joel Waldfogel @jwaldfog.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I had a lot of fun discussing the growth of female authorship on the Today, Explained podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/2XGc...
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All the sad young literary men
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Joel Waldfogel @jwaldfog.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
With differentiated products and heterogeneous consumers, it may be hard for choices to deliver maximal welfare. We might regret choices we make, and we might miss out on products we would have enjoyed. @imkereimers.bsky.social, Christoph Riedl, and I explore this www.nber.org/papers/w33401
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Information and the Welfare Benefits from Differentiated Products
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Joel Waldfogel @jwaldfog.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
The EU's Digital Markets Act has outlawed self-preferencing by big platforms. Shortly after Amazon's designation as a "gatekeeper" in 9/23, the search rank advantage for Amazon-brand products fell a bunch. Working paper: www.nber.org/papers/w32299
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