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Are macroeconomics and the rest of economics two separate disciplines? The image of the Twitter networks may suggest so: io.mongeau.net/repec-twitter-…

Last wk, workers filed 732K UI initial claims + 360K PUA claims = another 1.1 million claims NSA, lowest level since Mar 33 wks into the crisis, claims are finally close to falling below 1M wkly & approaching peak levels seen during the Great Recession #joblessclaims 1/

Poisson regression can get one so far with so little trouble, why do so many still resist? Especially with panel data. It’s too bad we can’t give it another name to reflect the fact that its a fully robust estimator of conditional mean parameters.

When I finished the first edition of my intro book and sent it for editing, I thought I was home free. Then the publisher returned the edited manuscript. The most memorable edit: every instance of “maximum likelihood estimator” had been changed to “most likely estimator.”

Me Me trying to finish starting new old project project

Three of the reasons I have published 75 books, journal articles, and book chapters since 2005: 1) I sleep 8 hours a night. 2) I write for 1-2 hours every weekday. 3) I don’t get in my own way. Which of these 3 strategies is the hardest for you?

Not The Onion: “EU proposing to regulate the use of Bayesian estimation”

[Recommending a Great Paper ] Information technology (IT) and digitization have profoundly changed the economy🧐This new paper below highlights eight important but under-researched questions for the next generation of economics of IT theories. 👇👇 Erik Brynjolfsson Michael Zhang

When Amazon is your Reviewer 2...

Not a single country in the world has vaccinated enough people to stop the Delta variant. Malta, the world’s most vaccinated country (~90% of adults), saw its COVID-19 cases increase from 1 a day in June to 200 yesterday. We must all adapt & learn to live in this new normal.

Want to improve your academic writing? Here are 5 tweets full of excellent writing tips. Because it’s about time I start sharing all the great tweets I bookmark. Academic Chatter™ #AcademicTwitter

So, I usually advise my friends in early years to be rejected from conferences and journals as soon/many as possible. Many students don't even fail because they don't try conferences and journals actively. I know how miserable rejection is, but we need it to grow.

Ziyi Cao presents on the effect of Grubhub’s Eat24 acquisition using financial data on restaurants and diners.

Grubhub restaurants benefit from the merger, seeing more orders and higher revenues, but existing diners reduce their spending.

The network value comes mostly from the diners - after the merger, restaurants receive orders from more customers. Pretty unique work because they can look at both sides of the market after an acquisition!

Tom was the first one who lost his job because of A.I. 😸

#ILookLikeAnEconomist