Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Our 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. 000
Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Claude Code is absolutely elite at cleaning up replication files. 000
Reposted by Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Trump 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. 1121606690
Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 18/03/2026If you're a researcher looking for some rich housing transaction data: www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/icpsr/...icpsr.umich.eduZillow Transaction and Assessment Database (ZTRAX) Finds New Home at ICPSR | ICPSR 000
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-...libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.orgWho Is Paying for the 2025 U.S. Tariffs? - Liberty Street EconomicsOver 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... 000
Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Cornell 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. 120
Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Updated 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/dbpJtshorturl.at 000
Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 08/12/2025I’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/nbervideosyoutube.comNBERThe 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... 000
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. 010
Reposted by Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 09/11/2025Pre-doc & post-doc positions at Microsoft Research #econ_ra www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...microsoft.comEconomics and Computation - Microsoft ResearchEconomics and computation is an interdisciplinary field consisting of economists and computer scientists who study pricing, matching, information, learning, and networks. 0135
Reposted by Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦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/176538apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 096
Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Zoning enters the debate on immigration enforcement www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...nytimes.comTo Fight ICE, Portland’s Leaders Turn to What They Know Best: Zoning 010
Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Worth constantly emphasizing the regressive nature of tariffs. Link1: www.axios.com/2025/04/02/t... Link 2: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/fis...axios.comTrump tariffs would hit lower-income Americans hardestTariffs are another blow to people struggling with higher prices. 010
Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 25/04/2025I 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...cornellsun.comPOGGI | Ithaca Is MonopolizedIn 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... 010
Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Higher education has also historically been a major export for the U.S. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...wsj.comTrump’s Trade Math Ignores a Major Export: American ServicesTrade wars are heightening overseas risk for U.S. companies. “When you generate bad will, it’s harder to sell stuff.” 020
Reposted by Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦Urban Economics Association @urbaneconomics.bsky.social · 27/03/2025PhD 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... 166
Reposted by Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦Vinicios Sant' Anna @vpsantanna.bsky.social · 25/03/2025The 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!!careers.peopleclick.comReal Estate Postdoctoral AssociateMIT - Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139 1138
Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 12/03/2025A write-up of how I have leveraged the National Science Foundation's Access program for academic computing resources! access-ci.org/using-hpc-to...access-ci.orgUsing HPC to Improve the Mortgage Industry - AccessNSF ACCESS resources at the Texas Advanced Computing Center are central to a study into mortgage relief failures during the U.S. foreclosure crisis. 021
Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 03/03/2025This release isn't too new, but let's keep archiving those public datasets! Nice repository of information. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...lil.law.harvard.eduAnnouncing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab 000
Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Cornell 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...myworkday.com 010
Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Get 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-...copafs.orgCOPAFS Sign-on Letter to Protect Public Data – Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics 000
Reposted by Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦AEA Data Editor @aeadata.bsky.social · 03/02/2025We 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 29856
Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Presenting 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 000
Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Crack 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...wsj.comNew 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. 121
Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Day 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. 071
Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 28/11/2024This 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.access-ci.orgHome - AccessFollowing 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... 000
Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 13/11/2024I don't have a call for papers, but lets keep the #Bluesky #EconSky momentum going! 001
Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 09/09/2024Last 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 121
Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 01/02/2024First 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. 🥵 000
Reposted by Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 19/11/2023Buying 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... 497
Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · 19/11/2023I think economists are moving here? Sadly it doesn't seem like my non-academic interests have migrated as well. 040