Jakob Schneebacher
@j_schneebacher
Economist @CMAgovUK interested in firms, productivity, markets, management and growth. Previously @ONS, @OxfordEconDept and @NuffieldCollege. All views my own.
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New acronyms GAMMA(N), old problems.
Market concentration in Foundation Models.
New Competition & Markets Authority report: gov.uk/government/pub…
Happy to circulate this working paper with Frank Verboven. Let me explain our paper in a short thread.
1/2 Chris Conlon and I are jointly editing a Special Issue of IJIO titled 'Market power and the macroeconomy'
Recent trends such as inflation or rising interest rates create a nice laboratory to study how the macro environment shapes firms' strategy and competitive conduct.
Remember when Office for National Statistics (ONS) made a big change to their business R&D figures a while back?
They recently published the results of their new, improved survey, which suggest that they were right to make that change.
ons.gov.uk/economy/govern…
Quick thread 1/6
🚨NEW🚨
'Does Pricing of Internet Usage Steer Consumers or Meter Usage? Evidence from a Pricing Experiment' w/ Brian McManus, Aviv Nevo, and Zach Nolan.
Finding: UBP is primarily for metering usage, not steering consumers to away from OTT.
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I'll be organizing the Industrial Organization Society sessions again at the SEA conference this November. Typically ~10 IO sessions and a great time. If you're interested, please DM or email me, and I'll share link to sign up.
Industrial Organization Society Southern Economic Journal
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.Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has published its Areas of Research Interest (ARIs). Find out about the areas they are interested in more research and new evidence in here: gov.uk/government/pub…
``This paper studies the survival of millions of microenterprises amid competition from larger and more productive firms.''
From Miguel Angel Talamas Marcos (Miguel Talamas):
restud.com/surviving-comp…
What planning and market frictions are holding back housebuilding in the UK?
Excellent new market study by my Competition & Markets Authority casework colleagues.
Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published a detail-rich update on work to improve the measurement of public sector productivity. IMO this is critical to improving UK public services & the operation of gov't. The management and time use strands will be especially interesting! ons.gov.uk/economy/econom…
Submissions to the 7th BoI/CEPR Labour Markets and Institutions Conference are open! Conference will take place in Rome on Sep 19-20. Keynotes by David Autor and Claudia Olivetti
Apply here by May 10: cepr.org/events/7th-cep…
Raffaele Saggio #EconTwitter Banca d'Italia CEPR
Any MSc/UGrads interested in a career in economics research? Want to hit the frontier sooner with a fully-funded bootcamp? Apply now to the warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econom…
Arthur Turrell Eric Melander Marie Segger and I are excited to teach coding, LLMs, dataviz, and way way more!
How does labour market power affect outcomes for workers? Jakob Schneebacher's chart explores the relationship between labour market concentration and wages.
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