Ben Golub What wonderful news!

Amazing!!

Neale Mahoney Tim Bresnahan Jon is the Ken Griffey of economists.

Exciting news for Stanford. Jon is an impressive scholar, an accomplished dean, and an incredibly kind person. Great choice!

Congratulations Ema!

?? See Shapiro-Varian-Farrell revision. As to the Bresnahan-Shapiro textbook, at a key juncture Carl said (accurately) "Tim, you want to have written this book."

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Lots more moving to where the sky is blue. Aaron maintains a useful "economics institutions starter kit," which is quite the chore as more arrive daily. Thanks! Someone posted this morning "my feed is like EconTwitter back when it worked." True, that.

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I'm now in the possibly-unique position of having (a) publicly opposed Lisa Cook's appointment to the Fed board and (b) publicly opposed Lisa Cook's removal from the Feb board, absent an actual finding of guilt.

Trump fires Lisa Cook in an unprecedented move, and immediately the US dollar sinks against the Yen (in red), the Euro (teal), and the British Pound (purple). Stocks are also sorting it out, but down around a quarter point. Point is: Markets don't think this is move helps

Just received this statement from Lisa Cook, via her attorney: "President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so.  I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have