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Laura Grigolon

@lauragrig.bsky.social
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Empirical Industrial Organization. University of Mannheim.

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NBER @nber.org · 09/08/2026
Rival firms linked by common ownership are more likely to form cartels and to sustain them longer. After a cartel dissolves, those ownership ties are reduced, from Vincent Abraham, @florianederer.bsky.social, and Catarina Marvao www.nber.org/papers/w35565
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The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) @reveconstudies.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🚨🚨 NEW ECONOMICS JOURNAL 🚨🚨 We are excited to announce the launch of The Review of Economic Studies: Insights, a new open-access journal in the REStud family. Mission: publish concise, high-quality research on important questions across economics and economic policy.🧵1/13
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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When the same shareholders own multiple banks, do borrowers pay more? In syndicated loans, we find the opposite: common ownership lets the lead bank credibly share private information, cutting loan spreads. A new upside of common ownership.
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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Forthcoming article "Credit Conditions when Lenders are Commonly Owned" by Mattia Colombo @lauragrig.bsky.social and Emanuele Tarantino @eeanews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeea...
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Credit Conditions when Lenders are Commonly Owned
Abstract. We investigate how common ownership between lenders affects the terms of syndicated loans. We provide a novel view on the role of common ownershi
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AERE @aereorg.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
📢 Out now in the 🌸May 2026 issue🌸 of #JAERE! 📢 "Fueling Electrification: The Impact of Gas Prices on Hybrid Car Usage" by Laura Grigolon ( @lauragrig.bsky.social ), Eunseong Park, and Kevin Remmy ( @kevinremmy.bsky.social ). 📎 Read it here: buff.ly/Gt2YC0T 📈📉 #Econsky
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Years from now when your loved ones are dying or bankrupted by the results of this…remember who did it and who enabled it
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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 19/03/2026
And one final chart shows that so far AI tools haven’t led to an explosion of submissions to several of the top 5 economics journals.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Unrelenting, compassionate, and powerful Gift article www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
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Claire Contraire @clairecontraire.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Important thread. Is the econ profession about to get flooded with a bunch of good-looking papers of dubious or hard-to-ascertain quality? In macro, this already happened ~20 years ago with DYNARE. Over night it became very hard to publish macro-theory papers, and the field split apart. 1/N
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Canada has agreed to allow 49k Chinese EVs into the Canadian market, with the most-favored-nation tariff rate of 6.1%. As Canada intends to double its energy grid capacity and move towards clean power, the prime minister also welcomed China to invest in his country in these areas.
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping hails 'turnaround' in China-Canada ties as Mark Carney visits Beijing
Trade tops the agenda in what is a Canadian leader's first visit to China after years of strained ties.
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John Paul Helveston @jhelvy.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
It begins. Canadians will soon experience the vast superiority of Chinese EVs, and the US will lose its largest vehicle export market. The transition will happen much faster than people think.
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Laura Grigolon @lauragrig.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
📢 New paper (joint work with @msovinsky.bsky.social): Incapacitating the Competition. We show Intel’s exclusionary contracts don’t just affect targeted buyers; they create contracting externalities that reduce AMD adoption market-wide. Check it out 👉 tinyurl.com/5c84ap2c #EconSky
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Laura Grigolon @lauragrig.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
📢 Thrilled to see our paper Fueling Electrification: The Impact of Gas Prices on Hybrid Car Usage accepted in #JAERE! Thanks @aereorg.bsky.social Working paper version: tinyurl.com/bp6j34eh tinyurl.com/bp6j34eh
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
I wrote about the endless temptation successful people feel to justify and feel justified in a clearly toxic system. Happy new year. open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...
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Caveat Vendor
Universities, audience capture, and bullshit; Beowulf, Kendrick Lamar
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AERE @aereorg.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢 "Fueling Electrification: The Impact of Gas Prices on Hybrid Car Usage" by Laura Grigolon ( @lauragrig.bsky.social ), Eunseong Park, and Kevin Remmy ( @kevinremmy.bsky.social ). Read it here: buff.ly/VsMHexQ 🎉🌍 Happy New Year! 🌍🎉 📈📉 #Econsky
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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The brilliant Kate Ho has passed away. She was an amazing economist and a genuinely kind human being. Her work shaped how we think about healthcare markets and her generosity touched everyone lucky enough to know her. The profession and the world are poorer without her.
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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 07/10/2025
The CEPR Virtual Industrial Organisation Seminar #VIOS Series continues on 15 October featuring Alejandro Sabal (Yale University) presenting: 'Product Entry in the Global Automobile Industry' Discussant: @fmontag.bsky.social cepr.org/events/event... #EconSky
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Nirupama Rao @nirupama.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Thrilled that my paper "The Cost of Curbing Externalities with Market Power: Alcohol Regulations and Tax Alternatives" with @cconlon.bsky.social was accepted by the Journal of Political Economy @jpolecon.bsky.social !
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Igor Letina @igorletina.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
A new article in the WSJ on reverse acquihires. The main point it makes is that one group that loses out in a reverse acquihire are the employees who are left behind. This will make it more difficult for future startups to attract employees. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-r...
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Big Tech Is Eating Itself in Talent War
The scramble by tech companies for top AI talent is using unorthodox methods that imperil Silicon Valley’s startup culture.
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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on. Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts. 1/
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Just as dog whistles are high pitched so as to be only heard by dogs, some academic papers now have prompts for large language models invisibly inserted, in case the referee is a nLLM. marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/07/prom...
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Prompt injection to avoid prompt rejection: hidden prompts for LLM's used to review academic papers
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Fiona Scott Morton @proffionasm.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I have a new book! Digital Platform Regulation. Fun analysis of what society should do to get some competition out of of our favorite gatekeeper platform. Relevant to the DMA and US antitrust remedies. And free! Download here: som.yale.edu/centers/thur...
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Digital Platform Regulation
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Joel Stiebale @joelstiebale.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
How do cross-border mergers & acquisitions affect innovation in the EU? In a new working paper, I discuss this question and the implications for foreign direct investment screening, merger policy and industrial policy: single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/publications...
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Cross-border M&A and innovation in the EU
This paper analyzes the characteristics of cross-border merger and acquisition (M&A) in the EU and discusses their relationship with innovation performance.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Volkswagen to Add ‘Import Fee’ to Cars Sold in U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/b...
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Volkswagen to Add ‘Import Fee’ to Cars Sold in U.S.
The company’s move is one of the first and clearest examples of automakers using price increases to deal with the 25 percent tariffs President Trump imposed on car and auto parts imports.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 20/03/2025
Tariff take job. www.startribune.com/iron-range-l...
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 05/02/2025
Trump may have given Canada & Mexico a brief reprieve, but talk of tariffs is rattling the economy and forcing a rethink of key industries & supply chains. Chief among them: the North American auto industry. This week on SHIFT KEY, we talk to Ford's former chief economist about Trump's tariffs. 🔌💡
Shift Key podcast episode: the U.S. auto industry wasn't built for tariffs
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately. The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
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Phil Haile @philhaile.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I've gotten a flurry of requests to access my slides on "Models, Measurement, and Language in Economics" (presumably thanks to the great new year's reading list from @rohitlamba.bsky.social). The file is publicly available via my web page, but here is the link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ntgkb...
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
While most of the cost in a traditional car is the engine, most of the cost in an electric car is somewhere else: the battery. And this is disastrous for Europe. Because a) we don't make many batteries and b) making batteries is a v v different skill to making engines
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
How is China's EV boom affecting gasoline demand and electricity demand? It has been hard to find precise data on this so here's a thread working out some numbers.
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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
11 states sue three largest institutional investors for anticompetitive trade practices of common ownership www.thecentersquare.com/national/art...
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11 states sue three largest institutional investors for anticompetitive trade practices
(The Center Square) – Eleven states, led by Texas, have sued the three largest institutional investors in the world for allegedly conspiring to buy coal company stocks to control the
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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 30/11/2024
"Cars assembled in the US rely heavily on parts from Canada and Mexico. Just 68 of 141 models recorded as having been assembled in the US had engines and transmissions made in the country. For 42 models, parts from Mexico accounted for more than 15% of the total value." www.ft.com/content/3d21...
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How the car industry is exposed to Donald Trump’s tariffs
US president-elect’s pledge to impose tariffs on Mexico and Canada would disrupt sector’s complex supply chain
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Ken Opalo @kopalo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Incredible stuff: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How China Became the World’s Largest Car Exporter
Tariffs from the United States and other countries are unlikely to stop China’s auto export dominance.
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Jakob Schneebacher @jschneebacher.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Welcome, new #EconSky joiners! I have updated my starter pack - now with over 120 IO, org econ, innovation and firm dynamics researchers. If you think I have forgotten someone, please let me know. go.bsky.app/Rchu8QX
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/02/2024
Norway recently implemented a weight tax on all vehicles (including electric!!) NOK 12.5 per kilogram over 500 kilograms. EV lobby groups and big car companies that have been aggressively bloating EV models for years are *very* pissed off about it.
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Nå kommer det store bil-sjokket: Avgiftseksplosjon
Ekstra avgift innføres for elbiler. Og når elbilene skal bli dyrere, blir alt dyrere.
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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 16/07/2024
A few weeks ago, I spoke on a panel about publishing at the CSWEP’s CeMENT workshop. I wanted to briefly share some of that advice here.
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Jakob Schneebacher @jschneebacher.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
I am trying to be more active on here, and have not yet seen an IO or org econ starter pack, so here is an attempt at one: go.bsky.app/Rchu8QX Please shout out if I have forgotten someone, or when others join. #EconSky
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Laura Grigolon @lauragrig.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
New WP Governments use changes in tax rules to combat evasion. We exploit these changes to identify tax compliance. Example: Airbnb collection agreements. Full compliance is achieved by shifting the tax burden away from hosts to renters via the platform.1/2
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