Are neighboring languages more similar when there are inter-ethnic trade gains to be made?

Economists @omerozakecon.bsky.social and Javier Gonzales find this is true by replicating and improving on prior research!

The paper and information on replication can be found here: tinyurl.com/yxuc3tu3

Exogenous Exits, Market Structure, and Equilibrium Contracts in Healthcare (Forthcoming Article) - This paper quantifies the causal effects of exogenous health insurer exits on contract structure and healthcare market outcomes, proposing market concentration as a likely mech...

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Exogenous Exits, Market Structure, and Equilibrium Contracts in Healthcare" by Natalia Serna. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Are you planning integrations with platforms like Canvas? It would be great to be able to have it train on our canvas courses material and be available there to help students directly in the material (also linking to it).

Private company buys a public good. A few years go by and the company decides the public good is no longer worthwhile; the public suffers as a result.

This story arc is way too common in modern society.
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🚨FACULTY JOB 👩‍🏫

SMU is hiring a senior faculty for the Scurlock Endowed Chair of of #Ethics and #AI.

Economists are encouraged to apply!

More info and application: apply.interfolio.com/159481 #econtwitter
#Philosophy

🚨Major new version🚨
Algorithmic Collusion by Large Language Models
Joint w/ @sarafish.bsky.social & @ranshorrer.bsky.social

LLMs are automating many business decisions. Pricing might be next (or is already).
What if multiple firms, in good faith, to use off-the-shelf-LLMs for pricing? 1/3
#EconSky