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NBER @nber.org · 01/12/2025

Examining how a firm's use of consumer data for price discrimination affect welfare by showing that the structure of consumer demand curves determines whether the data is good or bad, from Maryam Farboodi, Nima Haghpanah, and Ali Shourideh www.nber.org/papers/w34514

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Elated at Joel Mokyr's Nobel Prize! You can find numerous accounts -now multiplying by the minute- of his scholarly contributions. Today I want to celebrate the man and the mentor.

Joel Mokyr at the 2011 conference in his honour at Northwestern.

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I don’t know if anyone actually sees this given that I never post but here it goes. If you see Iranians these days be a bit gentler with them. We are going through something horrific. Our nation is in the hand of a few individuals who don’t seem to care about anything other than having a useless

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Question for political scientists/economists: obviously trump has in numerous times tried and or successfully violated the role of law. But this is not limited to him. Obama infamously killed a U.S. citizen without due process. So my question is whether these violations are ever quantified.

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Hard to argue with Matthias here. Big loss for us and good for Europe.

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Alex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Just so it’s clear, the government wanted to oversee hiring and employment at a *private* institution in order to implement a purity test. When the institution refused, they took away money for life saving research (cancer etc). That’s some fascist shit.

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Happy Norwooz! Tomorrow is the winter solstice and official start of spring ! Beyond its symbolic significance, it’s a time of cleaning. Let’s hope for this particular cleaning sometime soon (and those in the west who wish to act accordingly)!

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Spare a thought for your green-card holding and naturalized colleagues, many of whom are now doing risk-benefit calculations before speaking on anything that could be considered remotely political

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

To call myself angry these days whenever I open my browser and I am not reading a math theorem is an understatement! I find it extremely difficult to see anything positive. And I was able to in '17 despite being on the receiving end of the muslim ban!

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I have to admit that while people are quite shocked by the WH events today, to me this is simply just a sign of what this administration is doing. In fact, perhaps it is quite good that Zelensky decided fight back against the bogus claims. To me, we crossed a line when we voted for Russia in the UN!

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Is what we are saying a failure of the equity discourse of the 2010's? Perhaps. As @adamprz.bsky.social put it elegantly, the equity discourse of the 2010's seem to only have been around symbols as opposed to meaningful changes in policies or cultural changes. ESG investing became synonym with ...

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

What is happening is quite painful to watch with the latest bowing of King Trump to Putin being the worst part of it all. For me this is the first time that I am feeling like we are collectively failing ourselves into oblivion. ...

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

How can a world where writing is done by machines allow us to keep track of our human experience? It’s a world with “Homo sapiens with full-sized aortic pumps”!

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

My wonderful friend and coauthor. Congrats!

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Rohit Lamba @rohitlamba.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

0/ A holiday economic theory reading list. Some of my favorite pieces on theory that can be read with minimal sweat, but with the maximal intellectual reward. In no particular order:

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Not having a formal education of microeconomic theory means that I didn’t know Ramsey did this before Savage!!!!

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

If you are interested in engagement and attention specially on places like this (!!) or you just like theory come to our session at the ASSA on Attention and Engagement on Platforms #EconSky www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...,

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American Economic Association

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Since I’ve heard about it, I’ve only used generative AI a handful of time. Do I count as a Luddite?

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

It’s a pretty low bar ! They just have to not use chemical weapons on Syrians !!

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Another forgotten aspect of living in dictatorship is the constant heart break. As another one of my family members is collecting things and moving out of Iran since they don’t want their daughters to grow up in that country, more and more heart ache follows. ..

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

There is so much uncertainty about Syria right now. But, what’s important is to remember that dictators don’t last; especially such brutal ones like the Assad family. That’s worth celebrating whatever Jolani does! I hope people in the west understand that!

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Am I the only economist not being affected by overleaf??!

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I think I agree with @shengwuli.bsky.social here. I also found Indira Puri’s job market paper and her work with @drewfudenberg.bsky.social also very interesting and useful steps in figuring out the distinctions.

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

My favorite kind of behavioral economics. Take a simple deviation from the standard properties of learning and explore all of its strategic implications.

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A few - which in not sure which one I like the most: 1. They are not Bayesian: base rate neglect, … 2. Mis-specified prior 3. Cheap talk: they hide info from others or themselves

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Nageeb Ali @snageebali.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Paper worth reading: "The Optimality of Majority Rule" by Nina Bobkova. It offers a new perspective on why simple majority-rule may be best: it not only aggregates information but it also motivates voters to learn about what really matters. Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1pVVE... #polecon

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

We are hiring and we love theory (in everything!!).

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Not necessarily controversial but rather not the main point. Perhaps it’s a useful argument to calm the nerves. The key distressing point is not the policies. My hope is incompetence and that he is in a position (popular) that he’s never been before.

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

From today in Pittsburgh! Seems appropriate for this platform!!

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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

This paper provides a simple formula that automates going from... Empirical estimates of wage distribution impacts ---> Desired tax on new technology Sorry, but now that that has been automated, we no longer need economists for this anymore! :) economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul...

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Life is too short not to work on problems that you love to work on!

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Ali Shourideh @shourideh.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

So #econblusky, what are we discussing here that everyone is so excited about?

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