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Yuriy Gorodnichenko @ygorodnichenko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People are jumping out of windows... imagine your university or institute is hit like this... and then when you recover from this horror, work on helping 🇺🇦

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Yuriy Gorodnichenko @ygorodnichenko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

School Math Olympiad in #Kyiv these days, held in a bomb shelter. Russia keeps attacking Ukrainian cities, so these kids solve geometry problems between pipes and ventilation ducts. Every solved problem is a small act of defiance. 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine

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Graham Sinclair @esgarchitect.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Findings deserving consideration, w stakeholder capitalism review: “AI helps create: durable firm-specific knowledge acquired through learning-by-doing that enables more efficient production…AI investment generates productivity growth by creating organization capital.” - @taniababina.bsky.social

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Tania Babina @taniababina.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New data and new paper! The new AI investments data introduce 7 AI subtechnology categories: general AI, machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, generative AI, agentic AI, and other AI, and builds firm-level AI panels through 2024. Links in comments.

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NBER @nber.org · 11/09/2026

Providing the first large-scale economic evidence on the frequency and purpose of workplace meetings, using administrative data from Norway, from David J. Deming, Katrine V. Løken, Alexander Willén, and Yaling Xu www.nber.org/papers/w35706

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NBER @nber.org · 09/09/2026

Online job postings data reliably capture the distribution of vacancies, but not the distribution of employers that are hiring due to an underrepresentation of small firms, from Michael Dalton, Lisa B. Kahn, and Andreas I. Mueller www.nber.org/papers/w35697

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NBER @nber.org · 05/09/2026

AI investment is associated with higher firm productivity growth after 2018, with gains concentrated in AI jobs that build organization capital: systems, processes, and workflows, from Tania Babina, Alex X. He, and Renhao Jiang www.nber.org/papers/w35684

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NBER @nber.org · 04/09/2026

New NBER Book released: The Economics of Transformative AI www.nber.org/books-and-ch...

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Robin Brooks @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In recent years, @econharris.bsky.social and I've closely tracked Russia's shadow fleet of oil tankers in our database for @brookings.edu. There's now signs that the efficacy of US sanctions is fading. Activity on US sanctioned ships is rising. Our latest blog: www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

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Christian Volpe Martincus @christianvolpem.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Is AI translating into productivity gains for firms? On September 10, @taniababina.bsky.social will present new evidence on how AI investment can build organization capital and boost productivity at IBD's Trade Policy Research Seminar Series: bit.ly/4hYxM7C #AI #Productivity #Firms

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Martin Schmalz @martincschmalz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hello everyone, and welcome to my bluesky account. I'm starting to follow a lot of accounts here since I'm finally discovering folks that I follow on twitter

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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This change grants Commerce political appointees veto power over data and research releases by scientists and statisticians at NOAA, NIST, Census, and BEA.

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Econometrica @ecmaeditors.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We propose an algorithm for building efficient recentered IVs. While simulated IVs for Medicaid eligibility discard individual variation as non-random, our recentered IVs preserve it and deliver much more precise estimates. @instrumenthull.bsky.social, @borusyak.bsky.social buff.ly/H1JYjlX

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

An account from am economist who was not worried about AI but now is worried because of the Hugging Face Incident I think it is very hard to ignore the fact that cybersecurity will become a very big issue very quickly and we can only hope AI defense beats offense joshuagans.substack.com/p/its-worse

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It’s worse

The Hugging Face incident is bad, really bad

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