Return of the King.

Labor's moves on non-competes make a lot of sense. Good economics and good public policy. afr.com/policy/economy…

🚨 Check out the latest research by Deakin Economist Andrea La Nauze 👇🏼

Big day for #antitrust in 🇺🇸. Will undoubtedly influence decisions on #noncompetes in 🇦🇺. It's a complex and important problem intersecting #IO #Labor and #Innnovation with aggregate implications (which we'll learn more about in the coming years if these bans stick).

🧠 Just accepted 🧠 in JAERE:

'Air Pollution and Adult Cognition: Evidence from Brain Training' by Andrea La Nauze (@andrealanauze) and Edson Severnini (@ersevernini)

Read it here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

Do you know who else can manipulate data and statistics? Big-rigging companies looking to undermine empirical tests of collusion.

Wow, congrats, Andrea Matranga 🇺🇦🌻, on this incredible piece of scholarship and the QJE publication. Thanks also for the thread!

So this is the popular conception of hunter gatherers. Running around in loincloths hunting wooly Mammooths. Fine, though a lot of hunting was actually small game trapping, and actually gathering of plants was a bigger source of calories (though proteins came mostly from hunts).

Helps correct a common misperception about nudging. It is *not* about telling people what to do, it is about improving household decision making *in markets*. Defaults are common in the private sector, for good and bad. Same order as last time? Good. Hard to unsubscribe: Bad.

If you're interested in reading about why the EV market may continue to face challenges, I wrote a paper on the topic with Jim Bushnell. #EconTwitter #OOTT journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

First part of the academic tour at Melbourne done. Not only I got great feedback and discussions at Monash and U of Melbourne, but also met this guy.

Thank you for the hospitality Ricardo Dahis sachabecker Sascha O. Becker David Byrne!

Go Marina Gertsberg! University of Melbourne #Econ #Gender #Lab is off to a hot start.

Attention: health economists. Great IO community in our city for those in the IO-Health area.

Great piece by Jed Kolko on what economic research was—and was not—relevant to him when he was in government. Not most academic work but… slowboring.com/p/the-economic…

We look forward to welcoming you to the 2024 Monash Environmental Economics Workshop ( #MEEW24 ).

When: 21-22 November
Deadline: 16 August
Where: Monash Business School, Melbourne

Theoretical, experimental, and empirical papers equally valued.

Call for papers: monash.edu/business/event…

Having visited the ACCC while on sabbatical last year, I couldn’t agree more with this.

See y’all there!

Incredibly proud of Sebastian Tebbe for winning the distinguished affiliate award CESifo! Check out his amazing work on the economics of EV adoption and utilization. He moves to U Melbourne this summer as an AP.

Please submit your working papers to the NBER Environmental and Energy economics Summer Institute! Deadline is Thursday, March 21st!

conference.nber.org/confsubmit/bac…

📢Submitting your paper to programme chair Myrto Kalouptsidi for EARIE 2024 UvA Amsterdam? Submission platform will remain open all weekend 👇
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