Should LLMs be used to review papers? AAAI is piloting LLM-generated reviews this year. I wrote a blog post arguing that using LLMs as reviewers can have bad downstream consequences for science by centralizing judgments about what constitutes good research.

bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...

Giulia Brancaccio and I are looking for a pre-doc to work with us on topics related to Industrial Organization and Trade
@nyu.edu

Ideally for two years starting in September

apply.interfolio.com/165860

#EconSky #EconRA

Showing that alternative data from digital transactions through a delivery app are effective at predicting creditworthiness for borrowers with no credit history, from Laura Chioda, Paul Gertler, Sean Higgins, and Paolina C. Medina https://www.nber.org/papers/w33208

Next Tuesday, 14h CET, Yaron Yehezkel (Tel-Aviv Un.) will present "Competing for Cookies: Platforms’ Business Models in Data Markets with Network Effects" (with S. Markovich)
Discussant: Tat-How Teh (Nanyang Technological Un.)
at the TSE Economics of Platforms seminar.
www.tse-fr.eu/online-semin...

These two papers, taken together, really cause a rethinking of behavioral economies.

Rather than having anomalous risk preferences; it looks like people have complexity aversion to "hard" decisions, especially on valuation, which drives behavioral anomalies. Herbert Simon ftw.

Econ RA Guide A community guide for research assistants in economics

#econ_ra #econsky
A couple of years ago a couple of friends and I made a "partial equilibrium" public good guide for new econ students who might want to become a Research Assistant. We no longer have the ability to maintain and update it to account for new information, so ... [1/n]
raguide.github.io

Occasionally, it still blows my mind how good the ChatGPT + R combination is for pulling data and producing graphs.

I used the package scholar to get citations data from Google Scholar to compare citation patterns for researchers across different cohorts.

Less than 30 minutes!

The appreciation in for-profit prison stocks post-election is breathtaking: GEO up 80%; Corecivic up 60%. It's worth noting the same thing happened in 2016, but by 2020 they were back down to where they started...

Incredibly useful resource for all job market candidates! The timeline and the post-offer stage are quite different for econ/finance market, but nearly all the rest of the advice applies, including some advice you didn't know you needed (e.g., sample emails).

Picture of Tim's RePEc contacts page with his BlueSky handle added.

I just added my BlueSky contact to my RePEc profile. Easy to do, login, go to contacts page (see pic) and fill it in. #EconSky Thanks to @czimm-economist.bsky.social

For civilians, RePEc is a valuable sharing site for research papers in economics.

I'm excited to release the 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 for #RStats ! Convert R dataframes to beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, PDF, Quarto, Markdown, etc. Easy to learn; minimalist interface; concise syntax; ultra-customizable tables; and zero dependency. vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

I think we need to follow more accounts, feeds, & lists here than we did elsewhere. The default algos don't push stuff on us. Search "Starter Pack Topic" for whatever Topics interest you & like 2-3X your follows. Pin Lists/Feeds and check em out.
bsky.app/profile/aaro...

I'm hiring a pre-doc to work with me on empirical IO/applied micro projects starting in Fall '25!

Details below and instructions here: shoshanavasserman.com/call_for_pre...

International students (who need J1) are welcome & non-econ bgs are fine given interest + curiosity. Please apply :)

A helpful mnemonic that I learned in school, but is apparently not commonly appreciated. How do you remember which functions are convex vs. which are concave (and in doing so, which direction Jensen's inequality goes)? Concave functions look like caves.

This is incorrect and shows how little the average person knows about garment manufacturing. 🧵

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Excited to be visiting UChicago till 11/13! DM or email me if you are in the area and want to have coffee.
(me emerging from my social media diet)

If you're on the market as an IO or IO-adjacent economist, I really encourage you to sign up.

I've heard of people using this list for many things, both during the market (e.g. recruiting) and after (e.g. inviting for seminars). It's an easy way to get some exposure.

International Industrial Organization Conference | Industrial Organization Society

IO economists, the Call for Papers for the IIOC is out. It is May 3-5 in Boston. There are special sessions to showcase the work of grad students. Submit by Jan 31.

www.indorgsociety.org/conference

📢 Junior #migration economics seminar call for papers: Spring 2024 series

👉 Who? juniors (max. 2 years post-PhD)
🗓️ When? submit by January 26th, 2024
📜 What? Full drafts related to migration
✉️ Where? to junioreconmig@gmail.com

More info: sites.google.com/view/the-eco... 📈📉 #EconSky

Encore. Some #fintwit and #econtwit people who are already on Bluesky:

@matt-levine.bsky.social
@pkrugman.bsky.social
@rbreich.bsky.social
@jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
@smithnoah.bsky.social
@robinwigglesworth.bsky.social
@weisenthal.bsky.social
@morganhousel.bsky.social

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I am thinking about teaching a master course on IO and Finance in the spring. Is anyone teaching a course like this? Would love suggestions on what to include! #EconSky