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WIP: Write R scripts like you normally do and have them automagically turn into a git-friendly log book that you can share with your coauthors using Quarto kylebutts.github.io/repro_project/… github.com/kylebutts/repr…

A lesson from my PhD that continues to shape my research decisions today is the "6 Projects Rule" (credited to Matt Notowidigdo): “At any point, you should aim to have 2 projects at the submission stage, 2 at the “active research” stage, and 2 at the project development stage”.

I’m excited to share News Déjà Vu (newsdejavu.github.io), which uses a custom large language model to retrieve historical news articles that are the most similar to modern news articles. (1/4)

Just shared a few tips about flyouts with one of my students. I thought these could be useful for everyone who's about to give some talks. 🧵Thread👇below. (Also feel free to add anything you found useful during your experience!)

📢NEW DATA! Jesse LaBelle, InmaMartinez, Yoto V. Yotov, and I are very happy to share the new “International Patent and Citations across Sectors” (INPACT-S) database. For details, please check research.stlouisfed.org/wp/more/2023-0… Free to download at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Deadline is in a week!

Please repost! Kelly Shue and I are organizing an NBER training workshop for PhD students & junior scholars on the Economics of Executive Compensation on June 17-18, 2024, in Cambridge, MA. Applications close on March 6. #CorpGov #EconTwitter nber.org/calls-papers-a… (1/2)

I can recommend everyone to start early with using a proper replication tool like Snakemake: snakemake.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ It will save you lots of time, especially as your project scales to multiple machines/HPC.

What motivates a CEO to perform strongly? Directors and investors rank financial incentives rank significantly below intrinsic motivation and personal reputation. But they still matter - not to induce effort ex ante, but to fairly reward it ex post. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

If you regularly need historical balance sheet data from the Flow of Funds (Financial Accounts), you may find my little Python module handy. It will download from the Fed Board's website and parse the data into CSV. Enjoy! github.com/elenev/fof

I’m happy to share that I will join NHH Norwegian School of Economics this August as an assistant professor in finance! I am extremely grateful for all the people that have supported me through my PhD and the job market ☺️looking forward to my new journey in Bergen! 🥳

This AER will upgrade your data visualizations focusing on binscatter including novel visualization tools, principled covariate adjustment, estimation of conditional mean functions, and more for your Python, R and Stata needs. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… mdcattaneo.github.io/papers/Cattane…

We're proud to announce our speaker for the 2024 Henry Thornton Lecture at Bayes Business School Centre for Banking Research . This year's lecture, titled "Does open banking expand credit access?" will be delivered by Manju Puri Duke Fuqua 3 June. Registration details here: city.ac.uk/news-and-event…

In the spirit of the olden days of #EconTwitter, I thought I’d write down some notes on finishing up my first year on the tenure track (in a liberal arts setting) in economics. These will be in no particular order and kind of stream of conscious. Let’s have a convo about it! 1/N

Releasing an updated mapping of SDC (i.e., M&As) and Compustat. We filled in the pre-1996 and post-2018 data that was the focus of Ewens, Peters, and Wang (2024). 🔗 github.com/michaelewens/S… Paper: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mn…

🚨 BREAKING: The NEW Product Liability Directive has just been PUBLISHED in the Official Journal of the European Union, and it will enter into force in 20 days. 👉HINT: IT APPLIES TO AI. Here's what EVERYONE in AI should know: 1️⃣ The new directive expressly acknowledges that AI

The POLFIN conference is back Bayes Business School ! Send your best papers! Anna LSE City Uni Economics

Call for Papers 4 PhD students📢 ESCP Turin campus will host the 3rd European Sustainable Finance PhD Workshop in June 16-18. Submission deadline: March 10. + info: esfpw.eu

We streamlined six new DID-like estimators and created this tutorial for implementation in R. yiqingxu.org/packages/fect/… Hope you no longer need to spend months figuring out what these estimators are and how to use them. w/ Ziyi Liu

📢NEW DATA! Happy to share the new release of the International Trade and Production Database for Estimation - ITPD-E-R03. Thanks to my co-authors Mario Larch & Serge Shikher and to the USITC! For details: ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper/2… Enjoy the data and have a great summer!