5th yr assistant professor, MBA student, 1st yr assistant professor

He took over EJMR in 2010 under the alias Kirk and registered the domain econjobrumors.com with his friend Fleur' phone number under the alias Peter Hillworth. ejmr.exposed/who-is-kirk/#d…

📢Private equity researchers: submit work ([email protected]) to the Columbia Private Equity Conference held Feb 29th-Mar. 1st at @columbia_biz PhD students: submit work to the PhD workshop (held on the 29th) Info: columbiapeconference.com 📅Deadline: Dec. 1st

Great opportunity to join us up at Toronto - we're hiring a joint tenured position w/ the Economics department in Entrepreneurship. The job is at either Associate or Full, and the hire would also run the academic side of a new Center for Entrepreneurship. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-As…

I am excited to highlight 5 entrepreneurial finance+innovation job candidates from the WEFI Fellows (workshop-efi.com/wefi-fellows/). The students (+7 others) have met bi-weekly over the last year+ to discuss research, practice talks, and provide each other feedback. 🧵Check them out:

1/8 It's official. The US gvt in analysis of the costs and benefits of any new regulation will now use long-run discount rates as low as 1.1%. All proposed regulation the Administration says has high costs today but high benefits in the future just got a BIG, unjusified boost.

Janet Yellen ordering In-n-out before heading to the airport to greet Xi Jinping

Super frustrating how much AI policy, regs, corp behavior driven by sci-fi scenarios. There are benefits *today*. There are safety & fraud worries *today*. Work on out how best to use LLMs happening *today*. Live in the now! (& more on that class AI soon!) theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

new ▶️relianceonscience.org◀️ is up two new datasets coming soon including age-of-assignee also, Patent Paper Pairs are ported to OpenAlex & updated through 2022. you can catch the presentations Friday at 4pm & Saturday at 11am (livestreamed at youtube.com/nbervideos)

▶️foundingpatents.com◀️ is now live! joint work w/Michael Ewens, we retrieve founding year for privately-held + publicly-traded firms in the U.S. that patented 1976-2021. What's new here? 🧵1/

I have long felt that universities allocate rather than defend free speech. The allocation is inversely correlated with power a group is perceived to have. Jews are viewed as powerful and thus are allocated less speech. Rungs down are Chinese. This is a terrible system!

Happy 2024! The New Year is a great time to remember how fortunate many of us are & to help those who are in need. Kiev School of Econ is building something special, in a very hard spot. If you can, send a donation their way. Look forward to meeting the students in Kyiv someday!

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…

Looking forward!!

Here's a tale of two Olympian swimmers setting new world records. Pan Zhanle, a Chinese male swimmer capturing the gold and new world record, beating his next competitor by 1.08 seconds. The reaction, especially Westerner, is in shock. Not because of / x.com/WorldAquatics/…

Strong cross-border property rights drive the globalization of innovation. We show this by creating novel measures of innovation diffusion with 67 million patents from over 100 patent offices and exploiting bilateral investment treaties for identification. jfqa.org/wp-content/upl…

Arm's-length fundraising allows traditionally underrepresented venture capital fund managers to escape the need for relying on personal networks, but introduces the need for a track record, from Sabrina T. Howell, Dean Parker, and Ting Xu nber.org/papers/w33080