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Michael Raith

@mraith.bsky.social
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Simon Business School, U of Rochester. Organizational economics and related. Theory.

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Michael Raith @mraith.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
By "paradox" the author means Sutton (1991): greater competition => greater concentration. Okay. But you don't often hear people argue that the airline industry would be a better place if we brought the Civil Aeronautics Board back... www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Michael Raith @mraith.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
God I hate these scales. In what world are only top-20% students (esp. in my pool of people) "good" students?
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Michael Raith @mraith.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
📉📈 Now this is what I call a focused corporate strategy
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Clemens Esser @clemens-esser-md.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
Wer für heute noch kein St-Martins-Lied hat, das hier haben wir früher in Mülheim an der Ruhr gesungen (ohne klare Vorstellung von der Bedeutung): Ssinter Mätes Vögelsche, heet soan roat Kapögelsche, cheflooge, chestoowe; wiit, wiit öwer dä Rhin, wo de fette Färkee sinn. (1/x)
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Michael Raith @mraith.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Devastating news today. We've lost a wonderful human and a brilliant mind. www.rochesterfirst.com/rochester/rp...
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Michael Raith @mraith.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Our dear friend and colleague Heikki Rantakari is still missing. Hoping that someone in #Rochester has info that can help find him soon. 13wham.com/news/local/m...
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Michael Raith @mraith.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Love this intro from Samuelson (1946), in which he translates a very applied question from Stigler (1945)---How did the cost of a nutritionally adequate diet change over the war years?, published in the J of Farm Economics---into a "wicked" linear-programming problem.
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Michael Raith @mraith.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
More IO models (today, Salop 1979) for the real world: "Europe’s first circular city". Alas, it looks like you can use the interior too. www.fastcompany.com/90964025/spa...
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Michael Raith @mraith.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
📉📈 Congrats to Claudia Goldin!! She was a student of Bob Fogel at Chicago. What other advisor-student Nobel pairs are there in econ?
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Michael Raith @mraith.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Nobel? IO is long overdue. Bresnahan, Pakes, and I'll add John Sutton, whose work on market structure replaced decades of SCP.
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Michael Raith @mraith.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
Ariely et al. is not my area but I teach about it: What motivates people at work? This is not a bullshit but an important question, but which/whose answers can I trust any more?? The whole literature features large effects of minor/cheap interventions. Am I to call BS on papers based on that alone?
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Michael Raith @mraith.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Great article. A long time ago I read about colleges as a prime example of first-degree price discrimination. Clearer to me now: 1. costs have NOT increased much over the past 20 yrs, and 2. most forms of aid (need or merit) are simply discounts, not funded. www.nationalaffairs.com/publications...
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Michael Raith @mraith.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
#Econsky 📈📉 Introduction? Sure. I'm an applied theorist at the U of Rochester's Simon B School. My field is organizational econ, with interests in related areas such as IO (in which I did my PhD), labor, strategy, OB, org sci. Born into German family, married to an Australian, two grown teenagers.
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
"Twitter users arriving at Bluesky", Théodore Géricault, 1819
Théodore Géricault's epic 1819 painting "The Raft of the Medusa", depicting the wretched survivors of a shipwreck signalling to rescuers
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