Prof. Matt Weinberg, OSU Dept. of Economics wvxu.org/show/cincinnat…

The Full IIOC 2024 schedule is posted! editorialexpress.com/conference/IIO…

Same products, different categories. Left: $0.03/count, right:$0.07/count, over twice as expensive. Probably competition effect?

A fun paper about my package for running Julia from Stata. arxiv.org/abs/2404.09309 The big idea is that Julia is a good home for back end development. You can write front ends in Stata, R, Python, etc. reghdfejl is maybe the killer app in Stata world ~10X faster than reghdfe

Preparing short (<20min) conference talk: 1. script everything; 2. rehearse on record (e.g. Zoom); 3. check automatic transcript; 4. reallocate time & correct pronunciation; 5. repeat

Recently accepted to REStud, ``Efficient and Convergent Sequential Pseudo-Likelihood Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Games,'' from Dearing and Blevins: restud.com/efficient-and-…

What an incredible moment at #IIOC. Heading back to Columbus with positive vibes!

The longer you write, the more weaknesses you reveal. Many IO job-market papers are 50+page long (and mine, too, was as long), but they don't have to be. Take time to rewrite & shorten before journal submission.

1/8 Teaching grad empirical IO leads to musings on current state of the art models of firm conduct. Still starting from a brief review of SCP and Conduct Parameter Estimation with homogeneous goods (Bresnahan 1989), leading to a discussion of the limitations of static models.

A survey of the recent literature on the rise of market power, focusing first on De Loecker, Eeckhout, and Unger (2020) and related research, and on industry studies that examine market power over long time horizons in specific settings, from Nathan Miller nber.org/papers/w32627

New markups paper alert! 👇👇👇👇 How do markups vary over time along the supply chain? To address this question, I'm very excited to share a new working paper from the HBS Pricing Lab, joint with Santiago Alvarez Blaser, Alex MacKay, and Paolo Mengano: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

A conceptual overview of both metrics and recent research of markups and markdowns, from Chad Syverson nber.org/papers/w32871

BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”