Jeff Bezos got divorced because he wanted some space?

Mind-blowing indeed…automation in a deliveries super store in UK/London

Happy to see this paper in the wild :). Comments welcome. Thanks Nicola Limodio !

Live footage of the Revise and Resubmit process at an economics journal

Arpit Gupta John Horton If anyone on this thread is looking for resources to brush up on their Python, here's a criminally shameless plug for 'Coding for Economists': aeturrell.github.io/coding-for-eco… Please tell me what's not clear, what's missing, and what could be improved—contributions welcome!

I was told last night that this paper with eduardo yeyati and Nathan Converse was accepted at the @RevOfFinStudies! So happy about this outcome. Will do a 🧵 on the process and results soon, but now it’s time to celebrate!!

An example of the complacency that Soumaya Keynes writes about: with a fundamental macroeconomic problem of economic growth, the UK Research and Innovation and Economic and Social Research Council have awarded £0 in funding to research in macroeconomics in the last many years.

Great workshop on household finances and housing yesterday at the Bank of England bankofengland.co.uk/events/2022/ju… I learned a lot from outstanding presentations & discussions. Thanks for the opportunity to present joint work w Alina Bartscher Moritz Schularick & Ulrike Steins

Great question. I have found a few types of mentorship useful. A lot is similar to what a grad advisor does, but just because we got a PhD doesn’t mean we’re fully-baked! It may sound like a lot but not all of these “services” have to be by the same person…1/N

Invertir en ciencia para ser patria y no un resort turístico.

This paper by L. Zingales on how to prevent economists' capture (projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/pegroup/…) and his associated column on US economists' research on Uber (promarket.org/2019/10/09/ube…) are balanced, solution-oriented & really worth reading

Join Professor of Financial Economics Tarun Ramadorai [@TRamadorai] for his inaugural lecture Imperial College London titled 'Household decisions in financial markets: the structure beneath the surface' Register for online or in-person tickets here ⬇️ imprl.biz/3RC9IX0

Last night, BSE Research Professor Jaume Ventura received the 2022 National Research Prize of Catalonia "for his contributions to Macroeconomics and International Economics." 🏆

I have the opportunity to bring some #datascience researchers into the public sector to do 1 week research visits w/ seminar. I would love you to get in touch if you or someone you know fits the bill. Helpful but not essential for work to be econ/social science related #ML #AI

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP19123 Behavioral Lock-In: Aggregate Implications of Reference Dependence in the #Housing Market Cristian Badarinza NUS, @TRamadorai & Juhana Siljander Imperial College London, Jagdish Tripathy Bank of England ow.ly/VENc50S8aX2 #CEPR_MG #CEPR_PE

🧵SWP by 1086 Gabriel Ahlfeldt (LSE), Nikodem Szumil (UCL) + Jagdish Tripathy (BoE) quantifies the impact of house-price growth on mortgage demand in the UK via the “housing-consumption channel”… bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/…

I got a comprehensive update on 'mech interp' from Neel Nanda at Google DeepMind. Neel helped make reading AI minds into a thriving field of ML. But he has had a change of heart: it's not the silver bullet he once hoped and many others still believe it to be. Still, they've

I am super excited to share a new AI tool, Refine. Refine thoroughly studies research papers like a referee and finds issues with correctness, clarity, and consistency. In my own papers, it regularly catches problems that my coauthors and I missed. 1/