Some people like cute titles for econ papers, others hate them. Some prefer detailed, explanatory titles. But we all know the real power move is a 1-word title. 🧵

1/ My book "A Brief History of Intelligence" is now available! I tell the 600 million year story of how human intelligence evolved and its relationship to progress in AI. More details in thread below👇 a.co/d/fBLWgZH

Thrilled to announce our new paper, The Natural Language of Finance, forthcoming in Foundations and Trends! We explore how #AI, #NLP, and large language models are transforming research in corporate finance and asset pricing. #econtwitter

I'm reading Holmstrom 1979, and I'm a lazy student who doesn't want to actually do the work, so I'm making ChatGPT do it for me. It is very simple, I just give o4-mini screenshots of parts and ask, wtf is going on. It tells me exactly what Holmstrom is saying, much more clearly

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Seminar tip: Never concede a single point

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#SocialFinance For a general discussion of the role of moral attitudes in finance, see also "Psychological Bias as a Driver of Financial Regulation," Hirshleifer 2008, European Financial Management share.google/eE3T5kEiUTVJaW…

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I want to read this!!!

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Very insightful take on intelligence, both natural and artificial. By building step by step with relentless focus on basic principles, the book achieves surprise after surprise with notable clarity.

Hey ⁦Alex Imas⁩ we seem to have written a book!

Tomorrow at 12:30 PM ET, Nobel laureate Richard H Thaler & The University of Chicago's Alex Imas join Markus Brunnermeier for a webinar on “Behavioral Economics Anomalies: Then and Now.” Register to watch live and learn about evolving insights in behavioral economics: bit.ly/47gO3Pa

Bad news: Owing to staffing cuts, you can no longer travel from Mars to a national park.

Key economic insight: AI will either be very good, very bad, or somewhere in between.