Agreed, but unfortunately for someone our students’ age the 1990s are as far as the 1960s/1970s were for us, making it easier for them to pool the entire time period… and I also blame Spotify for mixing eras in a lot of rock playlists.
Immediately feeling 20 years closer to death after seeing listicles like “20 Greatest Classic Rock Albums… of the 1990s”.
NEW: How did the introduction of the Ultra-Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) change London’s geography of work?
In a new @theifs.bsky.social paper, @joelkariel.bsky.social, Fizza Jabbar and I have taken a look – and it turns out people adapt in surprising ways. A thread.
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I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
I was JUST about to post this… 😂😂
This 👆. Has anyone figured this out? potentially big matching efficiency effects if people believe mkt is down… ie, lower ranked schools being too aggressive, candidates being insufficiently selective, etc.
🚨🚨Update: for the next @cepr.org -IO gathering on NOV 7, 2025 at 2PM CET, we've got a great set of IO job candidates lined up to give 10min versions of their JMP talks and then discuss them with audience members.
Please like, repost/reshare, and register here: forms.gle/QTKETdgQq9j1...
📢 #CallForPapers - CEPR-IO Virtual Gathering
#PhD candidates are invited to submit their #jobmarket paper for an opportunity to present at the next CEPR-IO virtual gathering. Don't miss out - the deadline is 26 October!
#EconConf #EconSky @ershovd.bsky.social
Great opportunity for IO job market candidates!
❗❗❗🚨🚨🚨 Next @cepr.org IO Virtual Gathering is taking place on NOVEMBER 7 at 2pm CET. 1st hr is dedicated to JM presentations by IO candidates graduating from Eur / UK schools. If interested, please submit a draft of your JMP & CV at: t.co/aUTPTWSten by OCTOBER 26! 🚨🚨🚨 ❗❗❗ #econjobmarket
wrote a little thing for general consumption about llms and the likely overblown risk of cognitive offloading: www.mgmt.ucl.ac.uk/news/long-re...
incredible stuff down this wiki rabbithole. If I were an independent scholar, would 1000% join this institute. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronin_I...
Gentleman scholar
Call for papers, 4th UK Workshop on Digital Economics, London 28 November 2025: competitionpolicy.ac.uk/events/4th-w... This is always a great event
Modeling computers and AI as cognitive tools provides a lens to interpret evidence on inequality, workflows, and teams, from Ajay K. Agrawal, @joshgans.bsky.social, and Avi Goldfarb https://www.nber.org/papers/w34034
🚨Free data alert!! 🚨 Please share.
Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*.
I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind.
github.com/bretthollenb...
Not that I always love AI everywhere, but the moral of Green Eggs and Ham is that they’re actually good once you try them…
A.I. Might Take Your Job. Here Are 22 New Ones It Could Give You.
@robcapps.bsky.social wrote an excellent article
@nytimes.com with views from yours truly, @emollick.bsky.social, @erikbryn.bsky.social and others.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/m...
2/2 Perhaps the bigger issue is “econ culture” as a whole - which rewards/incentivizes “complete” papers that give iron-clad answers with perfect methodology and data, over more incremental/imperfect research.
1/2 System as a whole (ie, academia) worked, but more narrow Econ ref process didn’t. Unfortunately, seems very hard to pick up, aside from the unrealistic (in retrospect) amount of work for a 2nd yr PhD.
Graph of the distribution of annual brand-level non-disclosure rates. Social media influencers have become a powerful advertising channel, but social media advertising is still little regulated, with limited enforcement of disclosure regulations. This column analyses over 100 million tweets from 2014 to 2021 for disclosure rates. The findings suggest that the vast majority of commercial content on social media is not appropriately disclosed by the influencers who post it. Consumers are not able to distinguish commercial and non-commercial content absent disclosure labels. These results indicate the need for additional regulatory scrutiny of undisclosed advertising online.
@ershovd.bsky.social, Yanting He, & Stephan Seiler analyse over 100 million tweets from 2014 to 2021 and find that the vast majority of commercial content on social media is not appropriately disclosed by the influencers who post it.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A DOMINANT PLATFORM SUDDENLY MODERATES A LARGE SHARE OF ITS CONTENT?
🚨 With Matt Mitchell, Martin Quinn & @mikybartoli.bsky.social, we study one of the largest moderation shocks ever: Pornhub’s 2020 purge of 10M+ non-verified videos (80% of content).
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Pornhub's removal of all non-verified content led to a 41% drop in traffic within 1 month.
Much of the displaced traffic was absorbed by competing platforms, including less regulated fringe websites (+55% visits) and mainstream competitors (+10%).
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Pat Bajari was one of the most influential economists of the past 30 years, and an amazing person
cla.umn.edu/economics/ne...
bsky.app/profile/dans...
Or almost finish asking a question at a seminar... "this is more of a comment than a question..."
Possibly the dumbest of the many dumb plagiarism claims
nationalpost.com/news/mark-ca...
Our edited volume, The Hashtag Hustle: Law and Policy Perspectives on Working in the Influencer Economy (with @cgoanta.bsky.social @dasfiesch.bsky.social & Isabelle Wildhaber) is available, open access www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook-o...
Self preferencing by LLMs…