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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦

@kytola.bsky.social
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Former Economics PhD @ UTAustin Current Assistant Professor @ Cornell Industrial organization, Housing, Public Policy, and occasionally other personal interests like cycling and film www.laurikytomaa.com

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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Our Real Estate area at Cornell's College of Business is hiring two open rank tenure-track positions this cycle, I will share application details as soon as they are available.
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Claude Code is absolutely elite at cleaning up replication files.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Trump campaigned on bringing down the cost of living "starting on day one," and then: started a trade war; deported much of the farm workforce, bombed Iran, allowed healthcare subsidies to expire, cut food assistance, ran an interest-rate boosting deficit, and attacked fed independence.
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
If you're a researcher looking for some rich housing transaction data: www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/icpsr/...
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Zillow Transaction and Assessment Database (ZTRAX) Finds New Home at ICPSR | ICPSR
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
"94 percent of the tariff incidence was borne by the U.S. in the first eight months of 2025" libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/02/who-...
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Who Is Paying for the 2025 U.S. Tariffs? - Liberty Street Economics
Over the course of 2025, the average tariff rate on U.S. imports increased from 2.6 to 13 percent. In this blog post, we ask how much of the tariffs were paid by the U.S., using import data through No...
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Cornell students! I'm looking for a part-time research assistant to help me explore the relationship between tenant protections and housing affordability. Some details attached.
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Updated foreclosure paper now up on my site! Main additions: 1. Sample expanded from 52K to 162K 2. Explicit modeling of loan-level foreclosure loss heterogeneity 3. Richer reduced-form evidence on servicer selection 4. New battery of robustness checks 5. Updated welfare results shorturl.at/dbpJt
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I’ll be presenting my paper, “The Roles of Borrower Private Information and Mortgage Relief Design in Foreclosure Prevention,” at 12:45 PM ET / 9:45 AM PT this Friday (12/12) as part of the NBER session on Industrial Organization of Housing. NBER Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com/nbervideos
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The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that facilitates cutting-edge investigation and analysis of major economic issues. It disseminates res...
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
@taccutexas.bsky.social All I want for Christmas is the stampede3 spr queue to be up and running.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 09/11/2025
Pre-doc & post-doc positions at Microsoft Research #econ_ra www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
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Economics and Computation - Microsoft Research
Economics and computation is an interdisciplinary field consisting of economists and computer scientists who study pricing, matching, information, learning, and networks.
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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
🚨New predoc positions!🚨 Join @alexbartik.bsky.social and me to work on developing LLM tools to analyze zoning regulations and their impacts on housing affordability. One position starting at the "normal" cycle next year, and another ASAP. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/176538
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Zoning enters the debate on immigration enforcement www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...
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To Fight ICE, Portland’s Leaders Turn to What They Know Best: Zoning
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Worth constantly emphasizing the regressive nature of tariffs. Link1: www.axios.com/2025/04/02/t... Link 2: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/fis...
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Trump tariffs would hit lower-income Americans hardest
Tariffs are another blow to people struggling with higher prices.
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I appreciate The Cornell Daily Sun highlighting local market power, and its potential influences on affordability! There's an industrial organization project in here somewhere. www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
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POGGI | Ithaca Is Monopolized
In her column, Julia Poggi urges readers to confront tough questions: Who benefits from Ithaca’s monopolies? Who’s left out? To protect the Ithaca we love — gorges, granola, grassroots — we must deman...
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Higher education has also historically been a major export for the U.S. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
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Trump’s Trade Math Ignores a Major Export: American Services
Trade wars are heightening overseas risk for U.S. companies. “When you generate bad will, it’s harder to sell stuff.”
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Urban Economics Association @urbaneconomics.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
PhD students interested in urban: Apply to join us at Tufts University for summer school July 21–23. Learn from leading scholars, including @alvinmurphy.bsky.social, @econhist-allday.bsky.social. Get feedback on your research and meet other urban economists. urbaneconomics.org/workshops/su...
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Vinicios Sant' Anna @vpsantanna.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The MIT Urban Economics Lab is hiring!! #EconSky My postdoc supervisor at MIT, Albert Saiz, is looking for a Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate! Apply here: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl... Please help us share this opportunity and encourage job market candidates to apply!!
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Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate
MIT - Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A write-up of how I have leveraged the National Science Foundation's Access program for academic computing resources! access-ci.org/using-hpc-to...
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Using HPC to Improve the Mortgage Industry - Access
NSF ACCESS resources at the Texas Advanced Computing Center are central to a study into mortgage relief failures during the U.S. foreclosure crisis.
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
This release isn't too new, but let's keep archiving those public datasets! Nice repository of information. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...
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Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Yikes
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Cornell students - I'm hiring someone to help me archive and organize Federal data and to do some preliminary data exploration. This data will relate most to urban policy, household finance, and natural disasters. Check out my job posting on Workday: www.myworkday.com/cornell/d/in...
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Get your signature on this open letter to Senate and House leadership to express opposition to removal of public federal data. Research relies on access to information! copafs.org/copafs-sign-...
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COPAFS Sign-on Letter to Protect Public Data – Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics
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AEA Data Editor @aeadata.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We are seeing some impact on reproducibility efforts with the transition to the new US administration. For now, I suggest that you make backups of any data that required you to actively interact with the Federal government, as there may be a delay in response times.... #openscience
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Presenting my revised work on the effects of short-term housing regulation on housing affordability in the City of San Francisco — in the city of focus! #ASSA2025
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Crack downs on short-term rents don't always succeed in their stated policy objectives, and the design of well intended regulation continues to be a challenge. The New York story looks no different. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
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New York Made Airbnbs Harder to Find. Now It’s Reconsidering.
A bill introduced to the City Council could ease the strict regulations on short-term rentals.
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Day 2 visiting @newyorkfed.bsky.social! Working with @leeseltzer.bsky.social on a new project relating to evictions and foreclosure and looking forward to meeting with a talented group of RAs.
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This Thanksgiving I'm thankful for the NSF's Access program for advanced computing resources! Check it out whether you need CPUs or GPUs. access-ci.org.
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Home - Access
Following its highly successful Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) project, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is excited to introduce new advances in innovative cyberinf...
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I don't have a call for papers, but lets keep the #Bluesky #EconSky momentum going!
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
Last week, I had the pleasure of hosting the 2024 Cornell Real Estate Symposium with my colleagues, Dragana Cvijanović and Sean Flynn. Thanks to Caitlin Gorback, Jacob Sagi, @arpitrage.bsky.social, Lu Han, Erica Jiang, and Kris Gerardi for sharing their fantastic work in #realestate #urbaneconomics
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
First two weeks of lectures down as instructor! My consulting PowerPoint experience is coming in super handy, never had such a sustained need to produce slides before. 🥵
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Buying a house was hard before the pandemic. Somehow, it keeps getting harder. Could the U.S.'s strange mortgage market be to blame? My story on how the dominance of the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is creating a housing market of haves and have-nots: #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/b...
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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
I think economists are moving here? Sadly it doesn't seem like my non-academic interests have migrated as well.
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