Philipp Strack has won the Clark! He's an absolute monster of a micro theoristfrom the great @unibonn tradition in theory & pure math. In line with that tradition, I see his work as mainly on two subjects: when is info valuable & how do we use it to make decisions over time. 1/x

Newly Accepted Articles 03/24 (2 of 3)

Frontiers: 'Digital Hermits' by

Miklós-Thal, Jeanine, Goldfarb, Avi, Haviv, Avery, and Tucker, Catherine E. Avi Goldfarb Avery Haviv Catherine Tucker

Jonathan Levin, a distinguished economist and Stanford alumnus who has led the Stanford Graduate School of Business as dean for the last eight years, has been appointed the next president of Stanford University, the Board of Trustees announced today. stanford.io/3TIqneN

#QJE May 2024, #2, “Machine Learning as a Tool for Scientific Discovery,” by Ludwig (Jens Ludwig) and Mullainathan (@m_sendhil): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

MIT's David Autor calls his optimistic case “not a forecast but an argument” for an alternative path ahead, very different from the jobs apocalypse foreseen by Elon Musk and others.
nytimes.com/2024/04/01/bus…

We're delighted to be hosting the Chief Behavioural Officer's summit at BEAR UofT Rotman School in May! cbo25.com Jez Groom Rory Sutherland Roger L. Martin Impact Canada Katy Milkman Cass Sunstein Richard H Thaler Avi Goldfarb Ajay Agrawal

Early View: “Pause artificial intelligence research? Understanding AI policy challenges,” by Avi Goldfarb (Avi Goldfarb). Open access, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ca…. Wiley Economics

This 10min video is well worth watching given everything that's happened in #AI over the past 18 months.

Nobel laureate Danny #Kahneman passed away yesterday. In 2017 he spoke at our NBER Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) Economics of #AI conference in #Toronto . He focuses less on the…

Call for papers, Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Political Economy Challenges. The conference will be held in Toronto, Canada on September 19–20, 2024. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on June 1, 2024. More information: nber.org/calls-papers-a…

The NBER September AI meetings will focus on political economy. Submit your papers here: nber.org/calls-papers-a…

This will help you with your digging Shivon Zilis - a panel conversation at the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) 2015 conf with Geoffrey Hinton Russ Salakhutdinov and Ilya Sutskever moderated by Jack Clark - in his intro, Jack explains to the audience that Ilya has just co-founded a non-profit that nobody has heard…

Ch 7, An Economic Framework for Understanding AI, explores when, how, and why AI may be adopted, and adapts standard economic models to explore AI’s potential labor market impacts.

whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…

NBER Summer Institute Deadline is in three days: Thursday March 21. Submit here: nber.org/conferences/si…

My students often ask about the difference between AI and statistics. The best answer to date comes from ‘Prediction Machines’, a 2022 book by Ajay Agrawal Joshua Gans Avi Goldfarb

1/2 Chris Conlon and I are jointly editing a Special Issue of IJIO titled 'Market power and the macroeconomy'

Recent trends such as inflation or rising interest rates create a nice laboratory to study how the macro environment shapes firms' strategy and competitive conduct.

In latest @CapAndFreedom ep, Steve Levitt talks his career & retiring as The University of Chicago prof while still leading RISC & Freakonomics. We talk applied economics, Chicago econ dept (price theory failure, macro success, personalities), Freakonomics origin & more podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ste…

Please circulate broadly and consider submitting!

This topic is incredibly important and -- in my view -- is currently under-researched relative to its importance. I expect this workshop to be very valuable in catalyzing new collaborations and research projects.

Just published: Behavioral IO paper in QME Public Editor with Mo Xiao. 'Transitory shocks, limited attention, and a firm's decision to exit'.

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

The organizing committee (myself, Avner Strulov-Shlain and Alina Ferecatu) is excited to announce the 2024 Program of Behavioral IO and Marketing Symposium. 
biomsymposium.org/2024-program/

Conference: May 16-17, Ann Arbor
Registration is open on the conference website.

And you can watch the whole series on Digital Economics and AI here, with Avi Goldfarb Catherine Tucker and Chiara Farronato.

aeaweb.org/conference/con…