Super interesting opportunity from The Productivity Institute in the UK! Innovation Breakthrough Projects 2025 Funding Call: Exploring Technical vs. Economic Cost from AI in Sectoral Productivity Submission deadline: Monday 15 September 2025 productivity.ac.uk/news/innovatio…

It’s that time to repost “understanding market power” - a full guide to the tricky but essential economics behind antitrust law. If you teach or study antitrust this fall, feel free to use it. Feedback is very welcome to help me improve the next version papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Highly interesting! "Is This Really Kneaded? Identifying and Eliminating Potentially Harmful Forms of Workplace Control" byGuido Friebel, Matthias Heinz, Mitchell Hoffman, Tobias Kretschmer, and Nick Zubanov. nber.org/papers/w34122

Highly relevant! "Has the Rise of Work from Home Reduced the Motherhood Penalty in the Labor Market?" by Emma Harrington and Matthew E. Kahn. nber.org/papers/w34147

Forthcoming in the AER: "Managers and Public Hospital Performance" by Pablo Muñoz and Cristóbal Otero. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Highly relevant also for other countries and for purposes other than monetary policy, such as productivity analyses! "Assessing Maximum Employment" by Christopher Foote, Shigeru Fujita, Amanda Michaud, and Joshua Montes. federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/a…

Food for thought! "Publicly traded startups aren’t what they used to be" (The Economist) "Mr Ritter finds virtually no difference between the returns afforded to profitable and unprofitable tech businesses in the years after their IPOs." economist.com/business/2025/…

Come work with me @policyimpacts at MIT Economics! We're hiring pre-doctoral fellows to start next summer. Work closely with me and Ben Sprung-Keyser to study the welfare impacts of government policies. Apply by Oct 5. policyimpacts.org/announcements/… PREDOC.org Econ RA Listings

Highly recommended! "A Better Way to Think About AI: Artificial intelligence is ready to collaborate. Why fixate on automation?" by David Autor and James Manyika. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Super interesting! "Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence" by Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar, and Ruyu Chen. digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publications/c…

Food for thought! "The Meaning and Meaningfulness of Work - the View from Sociology" by Duncan Gallie and Ying Zhou. econstor.eu/bitstream/1041…

Highly relevant! "Geography versus income: the heterogeneous effects of carbon taxation" by Charles Labrousse and Yann Perdereau. ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps…

Food for thought! "Plugging Europe’s investment gap: understanding the potential of leveraging institutional investors" by Marie-Sophie Lappe and David Pinkus (Bruegel). bruegel.org/working-paper/…

Very valuable! "Integrating Climate Change into Macroeconomic Analysis: A Review of Impact Channels, Data, Models, and Scenarios" elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/…

Highly relevant! "Towards a London Economic Consensus: an introduction" by Tim Besley and Andrés Velasco. lse.ac.uk/school-of-publ…

"Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital" Final Version now out in Vol. 17 of the Annual Review of Economics Annual Reviews (Open Access): annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Adverse shocks in older households lead to reductions in transfers to children and increases in informal care. In the July issue, by Jessamyn Schaller (Jessamyn Schaller) and Chase Eck (@chase__eck) zurl.co/GXk3q

Food for thought! "Generative AI as Seniority-Biased Technological Change: Evidence from U.S. Résumé and Job Posting Data" by Guy Lichtinger and Seyed Mahdi Hosseini Maasoum. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Very excited to release this paper. It extends all my previous work on productivity to heterogeneous agents: a measure of aggregate efficiency with interpretable units—resources left after compensating everyone— that is tractable, identified from observables (no interpersonal

Food for thought! "The Effects of Parental Income and Family Structure on Intergenerational Mobility: A Trajectories-Based Approach" by Yoosoon Chang, Steven N. Durlauf, Bo Hu, and Joon Park. nber.org/papers/w34179