We are often told that AI will help solve the climate crisis and reduce our carbon footprint. For example, by The World Economic Forum recently: weforum.org/agenda/2024/02…

Pausing for a minute to also enjoy life. Lausanne is a really wonderful place to live. 🌸🍇☀️⛰️🐟⛵️

Here's a nice post on how AI is impacting labor market inequality from sam manning. I found the same things in my research on capital market inequality. What does it all mean? - Sophisticated households appear most likely to benefit from AI both in labor and capital markets. -

** Dataset on historical US inflation expectations The Michigan survey of consumers’ expected inflation series is heavily used but starts only in 1978. There are data from the same survey starting in 1948 but harder to access. This page makes it available. r2rsquaredlse.github.io/web-historical…

Finally, a relevant and interesting research article on when two-sided platforms shroud fees to naive buyers.

My coauthor Luca Gemmi will be presenting our paper and sailing the macro. Enjoy the great conference, Luca!

Last week, I had the privilege of attending an SFI Swiss Finance Institute invited discussion in Zürich with the heads of the largest Swiss banks. Thank you, SFI, for the opportunity! The excitement around Generative-AI  was palpable, but the real question was: How can AI

Gino's case against us has been dismissed. Scientists cannot effectively sue other scientists for exposing fraud/errors in their work. Those who work to correct the scientific record can sleep better tonight. Those who don’t want it corrected, well, I don’t care how they sleep.

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP19466 Household Belief Formation in Uncertain Times Luca Gemmi Università di Bologna, Roxana Mihet Roxana Mihet SFI HEC Lausanne Université de Lausanne ow.ly/gET550TjP9h #CEPR_MEF #CEPR_MG #economics

So true! 🤣🤣🤣 Annoyed a grant committee because I couldn’t figure out how to electronically sign a PDF document from my home laptop without Professional Adobe and kept sending them pen and paper signatures (apparently not good enough).

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP19479 Large Language Models in #Economics Elliott Ash Elliott Ash ETH Zürich ETH Zurich, Stephen Hansen Stephen Hansen UCL Economics UCL, Yabra Muvdi ETH Zürich ETH Zurich ow.ly/RG6B50To24I #CEPR_OE #CEPR_PoE #tech

I’ve been using Google‘s new AI assistant called notebookLM. I am blown away. I can upload research papers and then have a conversation, asking for key points, limitations, extensions, etc. This will significantly change the way I do research. notebooklm.google

Congrats, course mate! Happy to see your books are having such a great success.