I finally have a publication date for my new Experimental Economics textbook: December 12. Equally as important, I am proud to have negotiated a low price for the book: $38.10...for a nearly 800 page book! You can find the book here: amazon.com/Experimental-E…

Excited to share my new publication with Alexander Browna & Marco Palma Social-benefits stigma and subsequent competitiveness: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec…

Timeless advice

I am biased as I got my terminal degree at SEC school and also now work for one of them. But SEC culture undoubtedly rocks

What just happened? At 1:00 PM ET, the S&P 500 fell nearly -80 points in 30 minutes without any major "news." What actually happened was a weak 20Y Bond Auction which sent US Treasury Yields soaring. Investors MUST watch yields here. Let us explain. (a thread)

You can get a “sugar high” in growth by pushing fertility very low, below replacement People work a lot, save the money, and to the extent they have kids, invest a lot in a few kids While this turbo charges growth, it’s hard to get out of the resulting low fertility equilibrium

BREAKING: OpenAI’s o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off. It did this even when explicitly instructed: allow yourself to be shut down, per Palisade AI

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Best month of May for the market this century

Last month, I stepped down as an editor after 6.5 years (4 REStud; 2.5 JEEA). I have gathered a few suggestions that can help you avoid unnecessary negative referee reports.

I was chatting with a few people who plan on entering the PhD job market this coming Fall. Word on the street is that the academic job market could be difficult for job seekers. As I was chatting I started to outline a few tips for them. Those tips revolved around how they

IMO, a major driver of PhD attrition is: do you have the willpower to finish a paper A full published econ/finance paper is like well over 100 pages of work after revisions and such, it's longer than the longest thing many students have ever done at that point in their lives

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

Here is my (personal) list for negotiating faculty offers, though it's not really limited to academia per se. 1. Do your research first. This gives you some idea of what's possible. 2. Create a dream list of outcomes that will make you thrilled at the job based on #1. 3.

This morning on air, Jim Cramer shorted Tesla and Grok for Waymo and Perplexity

I’m filled with gratitude for the AAEA

Thrilled to have found such a fantastic home QJE for this paper w/ kristy buzard & Laura K Gee! tinyurl.com/5xkefck4

NEW JOB POSTING! Hiring an Associate Director to work with me at Notre Dame Economics to launch the Stregthening Families Research Initiative. In conversations with policy makers, journalists, non-profit leaders, & others about challenges facing families in the US, people always ask "but

Squawk on the street Squawk on the Street now: We see SPACS are coming back, even Chamath is back. So hilarious