Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Thanks to AI, I’m going back to the 1970s college experience. Pencil and paper! 010
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Got nominated for a teaching award from my students! Woot woot 020
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Grad school: prove the existence of firm i’s epsilon ball. Tenure track: the authors should consider moving table 3. 000
Reposted by Spencer Barnes⑆Luke Stein⑈ @lukestein.com · 27/03/2025Today’s shitpost is tomorrow’s Beamer theme @spencerbarnes.bsky.social 2111
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 23/02/2025🚨 NEW WORKING PAPER ALERT 🚨 What if we told you that NFL officiating might not be as neutral as we all assume? That penalties in the postseason aren’t just random whistles, but instead, they tend to favor one team? Read the paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.....papers.ssrn.comUnder (financial) pressureThis study examines how financial pressure influences rule enforcement by leveraging a novel setting---NFL officiating. Unlike traditional regulatory environmen 171
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 25/01/2025What a time to be a professor! www.newsweek.com/employers-wo...newsweek.comEmployers would rather hire AI than Gen Z graduates: ReportRoughly 37 percent of employers said they'd rather hire AI than a recent graduate, according to a new survey. 020
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 12/01/2025LLMs are not great for the environment… Wonder when this paper will pop up at an AFA ESG session. www.npr.org/2024/07/12/g...npr.orgAI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate changeThe tech giants both report surges in greenhouse gas emissions as they double-down on adding artificial intelligence to all of their products. 010
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 18/12/2024I had the distinct honor of being recognized (along with a select group of about ten outstanding faculty members across the university) at @UTEP's annual faculty endowment dinner! And to cap it off @UTEP 's President @HeatherAnWilson shared inspiring words about us! 042
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Mid-tenure review packet is complete at a whopping 600 pages 🎊 010
Reposted by Spencer BarnesAndrew Jennings @andrewkjennings.com · 12/11/2024I created a Business Scholars Starter Pack (law profs, business-school profs, sociologists, economists, etc.). Let me know who I've missed and I'll add. go.bsky.app/TPJf9ts 4112037
Reposted by Spencer BarnesLisa Kramer @lisakramer.com · 26/11/2024Financial economics starter pack - Part 2! go.bsky.app/PPiR5qP 362
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Looking forward to this thing going vertical again in a few months! 140
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 19/11/2024🙆♀️ Women end up getting higher payouts from discrimination filings than men. 🙋♂️ Why do you think that might be the case? Still working on changes to this paper but I’m really happy with it! Check it out here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 130
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Excited to have the opportunity to present at the Labor and Finance Group Conference today! 041
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Had a conversation with industry friend yesterday. A ton of IT workers are poised to leave the country because of immigration status. According to his company, there’s going to be a LOT of ~very high paying ($300 an hour baseline) jobs available soon (with easy to get certs in Cloud etc.). 📈📉 185
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Interesting to think about partial equilibrium effects. This is essentially what MDs have done (only accepting US citizens). Increasing wages, increasing at-home talent, and increasing costs? Good or bad thing? Idk! Probably depends on who you ask. “In this paper, we…” 010
Reposted by Spencer BarnesBrad "Pencil Necked Geek" Humphreys @bradhumphreys.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Covering a recently published paper in a reputable journal in my PhD Urban Econ class today. The paper has an AI hallucinated citation to a non-existent paper. 😲 172
Reposted by Spencer Barnes⑆Luke Stein⑈ @lukestein.com · 10/11/2024This year’s @econ5k.bsky.social should be a blast and the shirts are FIRE! 🏃🏻 1172
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 10/11/2024Every time I come back to this app I’ve somehow gained 20+ followers none of which I knowmedia.tenor.coma man with a beard is sitting in a crowd of people and making a face .ALT: a man with a beard is sitting in a crowd of people and making a face . 000
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Bucky the beaver showed up to class for Halloween! Yes, a little late, but hope to brighten up your vibes 📈📉 020
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 21/10/2024🚨Publication alert!🥳 A recent paper of mine has been published in the Journal of Financial Research! Key takeaway: The EEOC's 1992 policy incentivized firms to limit employee numbers, resulting in a subsequent decline in growth. Check out the full paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... 000
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 11/10/2024Great to have Sylvain Catherine from Wharton visiting us at UTEP today! 000
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 27/09/2024Excitement intensifies! Presenting right before lunch🤗 010
Reposted by Spencer Barnes⑆Luke Stein⑈ @lukestein.com · 26/09/2024📰Breaking News: Local Professor’s Professionally Important Number Crosses Arbitrary Threshold 3422
Reposted by Spencer BarnesLisa Kramer @lisakramer.com · 25/09/2024I made a starter pack of academics doing finance research, including finance professors, financial economists, and other economists interested in finance go.bsky.app/944zQWd 2510040
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 23/09/2024I never imagined that I would be sharing this story... That this would have happened to me in real life... But my coauthored art paper has been accepted at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization! You can check it out here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... 073
Reposted by Spencer Barnes⑆Luke Stein⑈ @lukestein.com · 20/09/2024🧑🏾🐎🧑🏽🐎🧑🏼🐎 WP: “Racial discrimination in asset prices: Evidence from horse betting” w/ @spencerbarnes.bsky.social If gamblers underestimate minority trainers (or just don’t 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 them), their horses may generate higher risk-adjusted returns! Download WP lukeste.in/horsebetting 1/7 42515
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 20/09/2024Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #246,169! 010
Reposted by Spencer BarnesScott Supak @supak.com · 20/09/2024I grew up around horse racing (my first job was hot-walking horses at Oaklawn Park) and I've heard this theory bounced around by various bettors over the years, but I've never seen it flushed out like this. Fascinating work with implications outside horse racing. 042
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 27/10/2023🚀 New Working Paper Alert: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... My new paper, "Severity of Employee Discrimination and Firm Profitability – Evidence from EEOC Payout Gaps," with andreanne tremblay and Shiu-Yik Au, uncovers a critical link between workplace discrimination and its firms' success.papers.ssrn.comSeverity of Employee Discrimination and Firm Profitability – Evidence from EEOC Payout GapsWe document that the consequences of workplace discrimination on firm performance are proportional to the severity of workplace discrimination firms are exposed 011
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 29/09/2023I just got my first opportunity to review an NSF grant proposal! 🎩 And it is all because of the following piece of work: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 000
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 26/09/2023So many econ professors, so few finance professors 010
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 04/07/2023What’s the beta on the first mover coefficient for this here platform? 010
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 04/07/2023I’ll freak out about research and then listen to a podcast about the philosophy of Alfred Whitehead and all is good. Philosophy is calming. 000
Spencer Barnes @spencerbarnes.bsky.social · 04/07/2023Paging @paulgp.bsky.social 📉📈. Thanks @lukestein.bsky.social! 051
