Macro grad students, please do apply! Only students will present. The workshop is now run by Ápád Ábrahám, Sergio Feijoo Moreira, Jaime Alonso Carrera and myself, under the auspices of Tim Kehoe and Finn Kydland. 1/4

Mam przyjemność współorganizować z SGH w Warszawie i GRAPE Summer Workshop on Macroeconomics and Finance. To najprawdopodobniej najlepsza konferencja makro w PL, integrująca środowisko ekonomistów z kraju i zagranicy. Termin na składanie paperów 15.03 grape.org.pl/SW2023

A very interesting article in the Financial Times Magazine about the concerns with the current state of development of AI and AGI. I am not on the same page with most of the conclusions in the article, but it is a very well written and informative piece on how we got to where we are right

Today is a sad day for economics. Robert E. Lucas, Jr., a great researcher and teacher died this morning.

Hi #EconTwitter! Looking for a nice course on 𝐂𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 at the master/PhD level? 📚🔬 Check out this insightful one by @MC_Knaus (Universität Tübingen) where the focus is on program evaluation. R code/notebooks included! Don't miss out! 👀

Coming back to Hayek’s argument, there was another aspect of it that has always bothered me. What if computational power of central planners improved tremendously? Would Hayek then be happy with central planning?

Hi #EconTwitter! Searching for a collection of #Econometrics-related video courses? 🎥 My personal list is now live! It features paulgp, @angrist, Ivan Canay ⭐️⭐️⭐️, Melissa Dell, Christopher Walters, Rasmus S. Pedersen, Jim Stock, Krzysztof Pytka (he/him) and others! Comments/suggestions welcome! 💬

Dziś premiera płyty Taco Hemingwaya

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.” #NobelPrize

RIP. Bob Solow an absolute giant in Economics, has passed away at age 99. Tremendously influential in the profession and one of the key founders of the MIT Economics department as we live it today. Will be sorely missed.

Please avoid saying "in this situation such and such theorem fails or breaks down". (Unless of course you are proving it to be incorrect!) Instead, say it is not applicable in such and such situation because this or that assumptions are not met.