Group photo of end of Day 1 of the UCL Economics PhD Alumni Conference - what a great day! UCL Economics

Forthcoming IJIO article by Marleen Marra & Florian Oswald 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 "Ownership Frictions in a Procurement Market: Evidence from London Buses" doi.org/10.1016/j.ijin… ScienceDirect

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Amazing story from Italy. The 🇮🇹 Supreme Court has sentenced that because the 🇮🇹 government is systematically late in paying its suppliers, such late payment is not an unforeseeable event. Accordingly, companies that supply the government, that are waiting to be paid 1/n

The codedthinking.github.io/Kezdi.jl/ #julialang package is out in beta. Apparently there is a hard core of #econtwitter which cannot say goodbye to STATA syntax. 🤷‍♂️ Miklos Koren & team are rewriting it as julia macros. This is quite the table! 👇

JD Vance, Republican nominee for vice-president, in an interview from 2022 😮

Just remember this: When the Chief of Staff walked into the Oval Office and said "Mr. President, you have to call these people off, they're erecting gallows and calling for your VP to be hung." The President of the U.S.A. replied, "He deserves it."

J.D. Vance: People fight for their homeland, not for abstract ideas Ukrainians: Yeah we're fighting for our homeland actually J.D. Vance: No not you, you guys need to give the invader whatever he wants

X is a $44 billion propaganda machine. Yet it attempts to disguise itself as a defender of unfettered free speech, a source of factual information, and a substitute for professional journalism.

BREAKING: According to preliminary data from the ERA5 dataset, this past Sunday, July 21, 2024, was the hottest day in Earth's recorded history, with an average global surface air temperature of 17.09°C (62.76°F).

I've posted a review article on deep learning for economists arxiv.org/pdf/2407.15339. The DL literature is vast, and I initially found it pretty daunting to find the parts of it that are most relevant to economic applications. I hope people will find this useful! #econtwitter

The Joneses are back! Here is some real-world evidence of Veblen's conspicuous consumption effect. Basically: If nature drops a mega villa (much nicer than your own house) in your neighborhood, you suddenly enjoy your own house less.

Was a real pleasure to read Claudio's thesis! Impressive string of superb macro-spatial-urban students out of CEMFI recently: Claudio, Tomás Budí-Ors , Giorgio Pietrabissa. Congrats to all!

"learn (teach) MS excel because it has the highest effort/result ratio" means that your "results" never will include anything as sophisticated as a summing over column z by groups of column x and y. you need to program that in VBA.

It's ironic that Germany's vital support for Ukraine, key to its own security, is being sacrificed for the so-called "debt brake"—a cultural fixation that prioritizes fiscal virtue signaling over real economic sense.

I’m moving to Bluesky, as so many #econtwitter have done in recent days. There’s a nice replacement for #econtwitter : bsky.app/profile/did:pl… See you there! 👋

Owner of this site is obviously against the rule of law. No surprise. Bluesky works great! #econtwitter theguardian.com/world/article/…

I’ve stopped posting here because #econsky on the other place is getting better and better. Come on over 👇