Grateful for the opportunity to share about the great work being done in the non-compete world with NPR Marketplace, including recent work by Matt Johnson Michael Lipsitz _Ryusaki gamer marketplace.org/2018/07/05/bus…

Manski: "Have you ever heard anyone say they failed a robustness check? No. In all the seminars, everyone passes their robustness tests. I think that is prima facie evidence that they are not pushing hard enough." cambridge.org/core/journals/…

One of my pet peeves is when reviewers say something like “I was not surprised by these results” or “these results were not surprising” as a criticism of the paper. You’re not at a magic show, it’s not my job to surprise you.

The new Reputation magazine sbs.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/… includes Kumi Naidoo on activist/business engagement; 'Does it pay to be good?' Hermes & Mike Barnett; Dr Felipe Thomaz on dark web marketplaces; Justin Frake & Brayden King on #authenticity; research on country reputation

Calling all strategy and management academics: we are in conference submission season. If you're like me, you need to reinvent this list every year, here's a thread of some conferences with deadlines. Please reply to this thread and add others that I've missed: 1/N

New dataset! Patent Citations to Science, 1926-2018. Available at ICPSR: linksplit.io/reliance_on_sc…. If you use the data, please cite my working paper “Reliance on Science in Patenting” w/Aaron Fuegi: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… (1/4)

Attention Empirical Economists: Cattaneo, Farrell, Crump and Yang have a new set of tools for doing binscatter the "right" way. Highly recommended (has Stata & R packages, papers, etc). Check it out and send them comments if you have. sites.google.com/site/nppackage…

For those of you who have not been admitted to Econ PhD programs... The first time I applied, I was rejected everywhere. I worked for a year, took a breath, and tried again. Not my first failure, certainly not my last. But it was worth it to take another shot.

Calling PhD students in sociology & management! The 2021 Medici Summer School is now accepting applications Check out bbs.unibo.eu/xiii-medici-su… cc Society & Organizations Institute, Rodolphe Durand, @BolognaBSchoo MIT Sloan PhD Program The Medici is always a highlight of my year, fostering a wonderful+

If you're looking to delve into the new twfe/DiD/event study literature and don't know where to start, let me suggest this playlist of recorded meetings from our DiD reading group: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

🎁New gift alert:🎁 The entire diff-in-diff robustness check in one R function: kylebutts.com/did2s/referenc… Beta mode, so please report any bugs if you try it!!

Learn about studying strategy Ross School of Business and working with faculty Justin Frake Derek Harmon Chris Rider (chrisrider.bsky.social) Strategy PhD Program Virtual Info Session 11/9/21 at 11am-1230pm! Register: tinyurl.com/RSB-StrategyPh…

Don't miss the last SIE workshop seminar for this term on Dec 2nd!! Justin Frake will focus on the intergeneration transmission of organizational misconduct. @LamarPierce1 will be the discussant. Register here: esade.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

1/ Our next SIE workshop is on Dec 2 @ 5.30PM (Paris time) Justin Frake Ross School of Business presents "Intergeneration Transmission of Organizational Misconduct: Evidence from the Chicago Police Department" Discussant: @LamarPierce1 @WUSTLbusiness Register: esade.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

If you are a data person with strong analytic skills, please consider applying to work with me and my colleagues to help us analyze data from one of the largest and most comprehensive guaranteed income RCTs in the US! jobs.lever.co/ycr/1b74dd3a-3…

In most econ applications, clustering std errors is a problem of design, not sampling. What does that mean? Clustering is needed if treatment assignment is correlated within clusters, not because some clusters were sampled and others were not. 1/8 Jeffrey Wooldridge

Are you considering a PhD? IDDEAS@MITSloan (Introduction to Diversity in Doctoral Education and Scholarship) is a 2 day (Oct 6-7), aimed at introducing a diverse group of outstanding undergraduates to business research and academia mitsloan.mit.edu/programs/phd/i… Apps due 9/1

Real footage of applied economists looking for the right level to cluster their standard errors x.com/justinehouyaux…

🚨New Stata package alert🚨 I have finished a complete overhaul of the 𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘁 suite of ultra-fast graphing commands for large datasets! Updated commands: ✅ use simplified syntax ✅ are downloadable from SSC ✅ come with detailed help files ✅ allow for finer customization

Finally, our paper on the pervasiveness of corporate fraud is in print. It has a simple, but important, result: On average 10% of large publicly traded firms commit a relevant fraud every year, costing equityholders $830 billion a year. rdcu.be/c2RhV