Come work with me and David Ubilava on conflicts, market and food Uni of Sydney Economics! Checkout this PhD scholarship opportunity sydney.edu.au/scholarships/b… Reach out if you have any questions!

Oliver Hart shared the 2016 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He has been at the forefront contract theory for many decades. I was honored to be a graduate student of his at MIT and to write his biography for the Palgrave Companion to Harvard Economics:

See my latest paper with Sinan Deng, John Inekwe, Vladimir Smirnov and Chao Wang in Energy Economics on forecasting imbalance electricity prices in the UK Uni of Sydney Economics #fass #usyd

If you want to understand cutting edge, modern research in Causal Inference or Macroeconomic Expectations, UNSW Economics Summer School is for you.

Super excited to announce the 10th edition of the Empirical Management Conference, which will gake place at HBS on December 12/13 2024. Please submit your papers at the link below. worldmanagementsurvey.org/emc2024/ Cc @danielascur Renata Lemos Nick Bloom John Van Reenen

Tomorrow (Sep 2) is the submission deadline for the 9th APIOC in Seoul. See the conference thread below and submit using this link (R/T's very much appreciated!): editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/confer…

Being an organizational economist in a strategy department, I am often puzzled by the little interaction that exists between these two fields. A new blog post written with a great group of colleagues to argue for more strategy in org econ, and viceversa cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

Adelaide’s move to cease lectures is a very bad idea. Empirical evidence using data from Westpoint graduates in the USA has shown it leads to significantly worse learning outcomes. They should leave curriculum design to the academics at the coalface. adelaidenow.com.au/south-australi…

Please join us in Sydney for the 2024 edition of the Economic Theory Festival. The event is free but you need to register by October 21.

My latest on high Australian real estate advertising fees. Housing markets, search theory, hot takes. Get it while it’s fresh. theconversation.com/advertising-a-…

I am going to call it now. I think Daron Acemoglu could well be the first person to win a second Nobel prize in economics. There's at least 150,000 citations worth of stuff unaccounted for in this one.

My latest Financial Review column on the 2024 Economic Nobel Prize. Huge congratulations to Daron Acemoglu Simon Johnson and Jim Robinson. Lessons from history that are incredibly relevant today. afr.com/policy/economy…

📢 So much looking forard to this year's APEN Workshop. When: Nov 8 Where: Sydney Uni (org. by Ashani Amarasinghe Andrew Wait) Program: 👇👇👇👇👇👇

Congratulations to Dr. Ashani Amarasinghe Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 2024 Teaching Award Recipient! Ashani Amarasinghe has been recognised for her teaching excellence.

New WP! “Getting along or getting ahead? The domestic roots of status-seeking in international relations” By Ashani Amarasinghe Uni of Sydney Economics Kathryn Baragwanath University of Melbourne ideas.repec.org/p/syd/wpaper/2… Comments welcome!

Interesting Conversation piece from Professor Kieron Meagher (ANU) and coauthors on working from home theconversation.com/more-than-two-…

We are hiring! We are seeking expressions of interest for appointment as Full Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University. DM me if you have questions. econjobmarket.org/positions/11635

I’m honoured to receive the 2025 Young Economist Award from the Economic Society of Australia for my contribution to the discipline. This recognition is especially meaningful to me given the unconventional path I’ve taken in my research. Thank you!

We are hiring at Rotman Strategy in the Fall. Apply here. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-As…

The call for papers for the next Organizational Economics Working Group is up! We will meet in Cambridge, MA on November 13 and 14 2025. Please submit your paper by September 1st 2025 at: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/bac…