Today we at UNC had the great privilege to learn from @economoser.bsky.social about super cool work on the macroeconomics of wage rigidity and job separations for our first joint applied+macro seminar of the semester. Below is Chris with our PhD students.
Very exciting day at UNC yesterday, where the amazing Monica Morlacco @dornsife.usc.edu kicked of our macro seminar series presenting new insights on Concentration and Markups in International Trade!
Below us Monica with our PhD students after the talk.
Ending this semester’s macro seminar series at UNC with an absolute highlight: Jonathan Payne @princetonecon.bsky.social
taught us his brilliant joint work with @yuchengyang1993.bsky.social and Adam Rebei on *Deep Learning for Search and Matching Models*
Very exciting day at UNC Chapel Hill yesterday, where the amazing Sean McCrary kicked off our macro seminar series presenting joint work with @evajanster.bsky.social on Unemployment and State Dependent Effects of Monetary Policy! Here is Sean with our grad students 😀
#econsky #macrosky
Well deserved promotion!Congrats, Dina 🤗 Since @dinapomeranz.bsky.social promotes causes rather than herself, I thought I’d jump in to spread the good news 🎉🎈
Welcome to Bluesky @rafael-dix.bsky.social !!!
The one and only @compsimon.bsky.social joined bluesky!!! #EconSky
Happy Lunar New Year!
Free Weekly Econometrics Office Hours Email: rachelleahchilders@gmail.com or Sign up form: https://forms.gle/XS55FASiGGHqAZKa6 Time: Wednesdays 10:00-12:00AM Eastern US (or by appointment) Location: Zoom Link https://bowdoin.zoom.us/j/96039587180 Who: Anyone. Grad students, researchers, government workers. Private sector is okay but in that case if your question requires work that exceeds the allotted time I may request to negotiate a consulting fee. What I can probably help with: Theory questions. Research design. Modeling. Particular expertise: Time series. Causal inference. Bayes. Structural approaches. Machine learning. Theory: Asymptotics. Statistical learning. Bayes/MCMC. Identification. Decision theory. Semiparametrics. Fields: I know most about macro (DSGE, heterogeneous agents, VARs, etc), but can follow along in applied micro (labor, development, health, etc) & some finance. Code: I think in R, can write Julia, and can get by in Python. I am likely to suggest you build a model in Stan. I know Stata but if it’s relevant to your question I suspect you can get better help elsewhere.
For the Spring semester, I am restarting my free weekly open office-hours for anyone in the world with Econometrics questions. Wednesdays 10-12AM Eastern or by appointment; sign up and drop by!
Details and sign up at donskerclass.github.io/OfficeHours....
I just didn’t buy them. They, in my opinion, not necessary. Go with pickled cucumbers and baby corn, I promise nothing will be missed.
Thanks to @donskerclass.bsky.social I found that recordings of our ACM EC-24 talks are online. In case you are interested, my overview-ish talk on deep learning based solution methods (focus on aggregate risk and OLG) is available here:
youtu.be/CPQpXc5PCJU?...
#econsky
I remember your great talk, really liked it! Thanks for pointing to the recordings I also didn't know we were recorded (which is probably on me).
very happy to have made it to Zurich for the brilliant and fun Inaugural lecture by @yuchengyang1993.bsky.social on AI for Economics: Heterogeneous Agent Macro-Finance
1/ 🚨 Want to do a Phd in Economics?
besides our normal intake @gvagrad.bsky.social
we have 3 generously funded PhD positions with a 4-year
Swiss National Science Foundation packages!
Read on for details and please repost and share with potentially interested
How big is the cold-start problem on Airbnb? Pretty big!
Lowering the price of new listings relative to incumbent ones would lead to a welfare increase of more than 8% of total host revenue, mostly benefitting consumers.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The great @yuchengyang1993.bsky.social is here! Highly recommend if you are interested in Macro, Finance, Deep Learning or all three =)
Submit your papers to the next @cepr.org Public Economics Annual Symposium, taking place in Cologne on June 5-6, 2025. Co-organized with @sigginho.bsky.social and Johannes Spinnewijn, keynotes by Cecile Gaubert and @omzidar.bsky.social!
cepr.org/events/cepr-...
Very interesting new paper by @benmoll.bsky.social on rational expectations as a main problem in het agent macro. Including ideas on how to move forward:
benjaminmoll.com/challenge/
#econsky #macro
How much do departments care about software package authorship? Follow-up question: why don’t they care more?
Just back from giving a talk to 2nd year students on how to approach research, how to write a paper. Abhijit was coming after me (good thing he didn't go first, tough act to follow!)
Here are my slides...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0pm2m...
great, thank you !
would love to see the recipe! looks delicious!
