Ellen Xiyue Li B-School Silvia Dalla Fontana USI University @SFI_CH Yingxiang Li UBC Sauder School Xiameng Hua UC San Diego Caroline Genc (Caroline Genc, Université Paris Dauphine - PSL) studies entrepreneurial and behavioral finance. Her JMP shows that past failure does not impact serial entrepreneurs' edge over 1st-timers. 🔗 carolinegenc.com x.com/caroline_genc/…

Implications of recent advances in machine learning for causal effects, including methods to adjust for differences between treated and control units in high-dimensional settings, and methods for identifying and estimating heterogenous treatment effects: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Announcing a short course! ifp.org/economics-of-i… Pierre Azoulay (Pierre Azoulay) Matt Clancy (Matt Clancy) Janet Freilich Ina Ganguli (Ina Ganguli 🇺🇦 🌻🪷) Ben Jones (Ben Jones) Chad Jones (Chad Jones) Kyle Myers (Kyle Myers) John Van Reenen (John Van Reenen) + me (Heidi L. Williams)

10 Great Economic History Books 1) The Economic Consequences of the US Mobilisation for the Second World War - Alexander J Field A fantastic recent work reassessing the long run growth effects of WW2 on the USA. Interesting implications for growth theory and TFP calculations.

Entrepreneurship PhD students: apply for the 2024 NBER Entrepreneurship Research Boot Camp (week of July 15th). My student experience 10+(!) years ago was instrumental to my career. Thanks to @NBER and David Robinson for keeping it going. conference.nber.org/confsubmit/bac…

Sam Bowles was a 28 year old Harvard assistant professor of economics at Harvard when he taught a course on his specialty, the economics of educational planning. The reading list for this 2nd semester course in 1967-68 has been transcribed. irwincollier.com/harvard-readin…

So I finished this beautifully written book by François Fleuret, highly recommend, like you wouldn't believe this, but if you know some statistics you can skim the whole thing and get a (obviously incomplete) very rough shape understanding of how all this works in like an hour

10 Great Papers to Expand Your Econ Frameworks 1) Rational Fools - Amartya Sen Sen at his best, engaging with Econ models whilst having a strong philosophical background. This paper presents insightful challenges to revealed preference theory. jstor.org/stable/2264946

As usual, 3Blue1Brown does a fantastic job stepping through the basics of (parts of) the GPT algorithm. One of the best introductions to the idea of embeddings that I’ve seen youtu.be/wjZofJX0v4M?si…

Congrats to Prof. Barbara Biasi for winning the American Economic Association (AEA Journals) 2024 Best Paper Award for her research on teacher salary structures! Read the full Yale School of Management story to learn more about the research: som.yale.edu/story/2024/pro…

距离 OpenAI 发布 GPT-4o 才过去 2 天。 用户正在发现令人难以置信的功能，这些功能彻底改变了我们使用人工智能以及与人工智能交互的方式。 迄今为止最令人印象深刻的 12 个用例：

just discovered this very cool set of resources of data/code management by Brendan Price brendanmichaelprice.com/workflow/

New market maps covering the latest AI startups: 1. AI for Accounting by a16z

📢Call for papers! WEFI 2024 Fall Series will start mid-September. We invite you to submit your Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Finance, and Innovation papers. Email to [email protected]. Deadline: Aug 15, 2024. Thank you for all your support to keep WEFI strong!

A programming guide for economists, regardless of language, to: • Simplify data & program management • Maintain accuracy & efficiency • Ensure reproducibility • Keep a workflow organized throughout the project's lifecycle static1.squarespace.com/static/5b67b79…

Econs using Overleaf: If you learn few basic Git commands you won’t need to manually upload figures &tables every time there are updates. Git can sync everything automatically. Use git push to update Overleaf & track changes with a commit message. #EconResearch #Overleaf #git

I cannot believe this is the 9th iteration of the seminar series for WEFI. Thanks to my co-organizers Camille Hebert, Song Ma, and @WallskogMelanie for keeping it going and growing. Join us for another season of papers on entrepreneurial finance and innovation:

Please join us for the 2024 Fall Series of the WEFI seminars. Thanks to everyone to keep this community going (by submitting presenting discussing and attending)!

Yesterday, Song Ma sat down with Dr. Bill Janeway to explore how venture capital has fueled key innovations, spanning industries such as biotechnology, clean energy, artificial intelligence, and more. #VentureCapital

Interested in learning more about data markets? "Data Sales and Data Dilution," with Song Ma and Ernest Liu. JFE has made our article free to download for the next 7 weeks: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kuRM,6wzyhU…