🟢 Paolo Piacquadio (Universität St.Gallen (HSG)) storms #IMDdays2025. Delving into "The Ethical Mirror ".  Paolo, let’s hear it 👏

📸 Paolo Piacquadio (Universität St.Gallen (HSG)) storms #IMDdays2025 right now. Diving into "The Ethical Mirror" with bold insights👇

📢 #IMDdays2025 is a wrap! Heartfelt thanks to our incredible speakers for their groundbreaking insights on inequality & economics. Huge shoutout to all participants for sparking vibrant discussions. Until next time! 👏🤝

📢#CallForPapers - Ghazala Azmat Award To honour the memory of Ghazala Azmat, ScPoEcon is creating an award in her name. Junior researchers in the fields of the economics of #discrimination, #gender, #education and organizational #economics are invited to apply. Submit by 31

Job interviews shape careers and companies. What happens when AI voice agents conduct them instead of human recruiters?

1/ In my job market paper (with Luca Henkel) in partnership with PSG Global Solutions, TP subsidiary, we tested AI-led interviews with 70,000 applicants.

AI-generated text is everywhere: hard for orgs to assess human performance. Can we detect it while min false accusations? Yes! With Alex Imas we audit detectors, show incredible accuracy ~0 (!!) false pos & neg; and we offer a policy framework for evaluating trade-offs. 🧵

New paper with Brian Jabarian (who is on the market, hire him!) TL;DR: modern LLM-generated text detectors are *really* good and there is a principled way to use them in high-stakes settings. Thread below:

Very pleased to release this new research on measurement of inequality of opportunity with Giovanni Bernardo, Andros Kourtellos, and Chih Ming Tan.

Join us on Monday September 8th 11am EDT / 5pm CEST Paolo Piacquadio (Universität St.Gallen (HSG)) is presenting “Intergenerational Population Ethics" Email us and register for the webinar link at Normative Economics and Economic Policy

I very much look forward to presenting this paper on Monday. I started working on it during my PhD (about 15 years ago)... from the core idea to a working paper can take very long!

Join us on Monday, 11am EDT/ 5pm Paris for the very first talk of the semester! Presenting will be our very own Paolo Piacquadio on intergenerational population ethics

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New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20624 The Ethical Mirror Maya Eden Paolo Piacquadio ow.ly/br9L50WT3fE #CEPR_MG #CEPR_PE #EconTwitter

In this new working paper with Paolo Piacquadio, we show that, under some assumptions, the social welfare function must closely align with people’s ethical views. A troubling conclusion, but one that suggests a paradigm shift in how we do welfare economics

Of all the great papers coming out of our department, this is one of my favorites!!

On the 5-6 February 2026, Philipp Ager, Nina Boberg-Fazlic, Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer and I organize the 2nd CEPR conference in applied economic history. This time in St Gallen! Apply before the deadline (16 november): cepr.org/events/2nd-cep…

Join us in 15 minutes! Today September 22nd 11am EDT / 5pm CEST Ingela Alger (@TSEInfo) is presenting “Norms and norm change - driven by social Kantian preferences" Email us and register for the webinar link at Normative Economics and Economic Policy

I am organizing this year's CMSG meetings with Baxter Robinson The CMSG is Canada's flagship Macro conference and is not just for Canadians! Registration is now open (only 100 CAD/73 USD!!) Please retweet and reach out if you have any questions, we have an amazing program!