Heard about this paper a week ago, really looking forward to reading

Bravo! We're so proud that the job market paper of 2024 PhD alumn, Dario Laudati , "Inequality and the Rise of Finance", has been awarded a special commendation by the jury of the 2025 Research Prize in Historical Finance Honoring the Memory of Professor Georges Gallais-Hamonno!

Forthcoming in the AER: "Cursed Sequential Equilibrium" by Meng-Jhang Fong, Po-Hsuan Lin, and Thomas R. Palfrey. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Lots of heavy hitters in this issue

Forthcoming in the AER: "Robustness Measures for Welfare Analysis" by Zi Yang Kang and Shoshana Vasserman. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "How to Allocate Money?" by Piotr Dworczak. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

I know there are probably many good reasons I should not hold this position, but I am ideologically opposed to caring about local New York politics.

Our inaugural DC Economics Alumni networking event was well attended last night - this chapter is officially launched! We also networked with some Economics Alumni-to-be as our DC campus Economic Policy class students celebrated the end of their Maymester in the same restaurant!

Dear friends in academia, If you have Iranian or Israeli students in your graduate program please reach out to them. The past few days have been very tough. They may need support or guidance on resources that can help them navigate the stress of these days. 🙏 #econtwitter

I know I promised not to care about the NY Mayoral election. But..... Why hasn't Brad Lander gotten more traction? 15 years in city government, seems very left-leaning but not with some of the crazy policies... Maybe this arrest gives him a bump to put him on top?

Happy USC economists! (Not an oxymoron!!) Some great members of USC Economics are participating in International Growth Centre events in Uganda.

Will he come by Kap?

The modern economic case for public provision is not about public goods or market failures or externalities. It is about what can and can't be achieved by contracting.

Our paper on modeling and measuring systemic discrimination is out in the QJE this month! Check it out (ungated): academic.oup.com/qje/article/14…

Do you prepare yourself to a Phd\Master Microeconomics course? The 2025 version of my book "Lecture Notes in Microeconomic Theory: The Economic Agent" is available for FREE downloading. See first comment to the URL.

Forthcoming in the AER: "Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development" by Francesco Amodio, Pamela Medina, and Monica Morlacco. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

If I could change one thing about myself, it would be to be able to wake up as quickly and aggressively as my dog faintly hearing another dog barking three blocks away.

✨Did markets make Americans more cooperative❓🔍 ✅YES‼️ Between 1850 and 1920, the US became the largest and most integrated economy in the world 📶🌎 We show that this shift didn’t just move goods and affect prices—it fundamentally changed culture and behavior 🧵 👇 1/17

A revision of my paper with Kfir Eliaz :Wasonian Persuasion" is downloadable from my homepage (see the first comment)

What has been going on in Ukraine with the anti-corruption institutions, the new law, the protests, and Zelensky's backtracking? Watch my interview with DW News explaining all of this here: youtu.be/_SKocwFeLCg?si…