Experimentally removing Amazon products from consumer searches reduces (short-run) consumer surplus by 3.8% but ranging as high as 20% in some product categories. Andrey Fradkin Alex MacKay

This week, over 300 economists visited Cowles Foundation for the annual Summer Conferences at Yale School of Management. Check out the agendas and 60+ new papers here: cowles.yale.edu/events/confere…

The IO reading group returns this week with a discussion of "Discrete Prices and the Incidence and Efficiency of Excise Taxes" by Chris Conlon and Nirupama L. Rao, aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

12 June 1929 | A German Jewish girl, Anne Frank, was born in Frankfurt. In 1942 on her 13th birthday she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. 'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)

An excellent post. Evidence-based and clear.

When someone threatens to annihilate you - you better believe them. When they build weapons of mass death - stop them. 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

Back in safe room where we already spent about an hour earlier today. Small price to pay to keep the ultimate weapon out of the hands of bad players.

I was interviewed on Thursday by Veerle Schyns of the Dutch newspaper NRC regarding the impact of the war with Iran on the Israeli economy. It was five days and quite a few sirens ago... nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/06…

We have just finished a new paper on advertising

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Very sad to hear of the premature passing of Przemyslaw Jeziorski who made important contributions to the analysis of several markets including mobile money in Africa, sponsored search advertising, radio broadcasting, car insurance, and breast cancer prevention.

Aapo Aaltio, Riku Buri, Antto Jokelainen & Johan Lundberg focus on cartel detection tests designed for auctions that require only bid data from the auctions in the latest published EARIE Research Summary. Read more: earie.org/ijio-research-…

IJIO Vol 101: July 25 Now Available! Full details: mailchi.mp/earie/ijio-101…

At EARIE-News NOT TO MISS OUT: my great coauthor Hugo Molina will present our paper on Nash-in-Nash bargaining on 30/8 (session Parallel VI). Another great coauthor & student Ozan E. Akbas will present our paper on demand system asset pricing on 29/8 (session Parallel III).

Thrilled our paper has won Best Empirical Paper in IJIOat #EARIE2025! 🎉 Huge thanks to my brilliant co-authors, Weijie Yan (Owen) & Franco Mariuzzo, and to the editors & referees for their feedback. #IJIO #EARIE2025

EARIE 2025 was great. Time to say goodbye to beautiful Valencia. And to congratulate Michele Bisceglia, Chiara Gardenghi and Yuval Lidany for winning the YEEA Awards. #EARIE2025 earie.org/young-economis…

Another fantastic #EARIE in beautiful #Valencia, so great to see many colleagues and friends working on different #econ #industrialorganization topics, learnt a lot!💪🙏👍

#APIOC2025 submissions deadline today. Details for the conference, Dec 12-14 in Brisbane, are in the thread below. Submit your papers via Editorial Express: editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/confer…

I'm hiring a predoc to work w/ me on empirical IO/applied micro projects starting in Fall '26! Details below and instructions here: shoshanavasserman.com/call_for_predo… International students (who need J1) are welcome & non-econ bgs are fine given interest + curiosity. Please apply :)

We have just posted our job ad for a faculty position in econometrics. Application deadline is November 23, 2025. econjobmarket.org/positions?show…