Great conference !

Publishing in economics without RAs, network, and private datasets.

This working paper looks really cool. "The Education-Innovation Gap" 🧵🧵🧵

tracks with experience in practice - still a valuable robustness check and easy to do these days

Europeans will do anything before just getting some basic AC

Story time! Let’s celebrate winning the Review of Finance (ReviewofFinance) 2025 Best Investment Paper Award with a story about insider trading, a classic puzzle, financial regulation, news, and the differences between U.S./Europe and Japan/Australia. Back in 1988, Richard Roll

Not an oped I wanted to write but one I had to write. Woke progressive student unions, forcing poor grad students to pay dues/fees, are on the rise in the US, not just at Stanford, but also at MIT, Cornell, UChicago & elsewhere. Ideology, not wage bargaining is central. Thread🧵

Forcing students to subsidies speech that attacks their core values, identities or religion under threat of termination at institutions devoted to “free speech” is insane.

A creative solution to the aging problem that just implements itself: send retirees to Florida

Academic research data about to get a whole lot more expensive.... news.uchicago.edu/story/mornings…

Indications are that the economics PhD job market will be a difficult one this year. Below is one indication, which shows number of job openings by week. The exact same thing happened when I went on the job market years ago: I sent out 150 applications...and got 1 interview!

Giving antibiotics longer market exclusivity made innovation surge. - Patent filings up 47% - More preclinical studies - More phase 3 trials Targeted exclusivity for high-value, low-profit drugs could be the key to reviving pharma innovation.