On the heels of California’s new $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers, my co-author Max Risch of Carnegie Mellon University and I are posting our new working paper on the impact of minimum wage increases on independent businesses. [1/14]
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The Full IIOC 2024 schedule is posted!
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Please submit your working papers to the NBER Environmental and Energy economics Summer Institute! Deadline is Thursday, March 21st!

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🚨 The deadline to submit your paper to NYC Health Econ Day is tomorrow! Submission page: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
The conference will be held May 3 NYU Stern. More info: stern.nyu.edu/experience-ste…
Organizers: Amy Bond Sunita Desai Michael Dickstein Laura Wherry + me

Something IO folks should keep in mind!

Alon Eizenberg and I are editing a special issue of IJIO on 'Market Power and the Macroeconomy'

See the details below

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.

I'll be organizing the Industrial Organization Society sessions again at the SEA conference this November. Typically ~10 IO sessions and a great time. If you're interested, please DM or email me, and I'll share link to sign up.
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Positions for PhD student & postdoc in behav. econ/IO at the University of Münster to be filled! Selected candidates can join the research group 'Consumer Preferences, Consumer Mistakes, and Firms’ Response.' Little teaching load and generous funding for research and conferences!

My only note is to capitalize SELLING.

Designing a market worth tens of billions from scratch isn't easy, and I'm not sure that that 'market designers' could solve this with DFA, but it would be hard to do worse than what the state of NY actually did.

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Jeff Gortmaker and Ariel Pakes workshop on demand estimation is turning out to be one of the most popular workshops we've had on Mixtape Sessions. We are now officially one week out. It starts February 26th. Highly recommend you sign up.

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IO crowd, even the macro development people are shaming us! Not that it’s a competition or anything, but if we manage to catch up with them, pietro tebaldi and I will buy drinks to everyone in Barcelona! One week more to submit your papers! #SED

Submission deadline is Jan 31!! This is going to be a great conference.....

We have a pre-doc position with Juan Camilo Castillo from Penn Economics Department and The Wharton School.

Field(s) of Research: Industrial organization and digital economy.

Apply by Feb 15th: drive.google.com/file/d/1EBdv_P…