Today, I am excited to release a paper that has been five years in the making, titled “Endogenous Firm Ownership in General Equilibrium.” I think it is the best thing I have done. www.nber.org/papers/w34187

Very proud of this honour and to be in some great company.

I was thrilled to join Emanuele Tarantino, Susan Athey, Cristina Caffarra & others for CEPR’s webinar on “Updating Merger Control as an Economic Policy Tool for Europe?” How can merger policy adapt to support innovation, growth & strategic autonomy? 📺: youtu.be/CO_IJhFczCk

📢 #CallForPapers To honour the memory of Ghazala Azmat, the Economics Department of SciencesPo is creating an award in her name. Junior researchers can submit a paper in economics of discrimination, gender, education & organizational #economics. Submit by 31 August. cepr.org/events/ghaza... #EconSky

Many thanks for including me. Great program, interesting people, and lots of food for thought.

This put it well for those not lucky enough to have known Ghazala www.eeassoc.org/news/memoria... She made us all better. Truly devastating.

Mike Scherer, a leader in industrial organization economics, in the study of innovation, and in many other topics since the 1960s, has died at 92. Strikingly eclectic, he wrote (inter alia) about weapons procurement and the commercialization of classical music. More than anything /1

Join the CMA Microeconomics Unit as a UKRI Policy Fellow for 18 months! Awards buy out teaching/admin time to allow you to focus on a CMA-relevant research project, while embedded part-time in the Unit. The call for fellowships is here: www.ukri.org/opportunity/... 1/

I love the Economic Journal referees ❤️ Revised version of a paper received on April 15. Sent out to original reviewers on the same day. All four referees have come back to me in less than 10 days. Paper is now conditionally accepted, subject to checks by the EJ Data Editor 🚀 @resmedia.bsky.social

TSE is putting together an IO and Finance conference in October, submissions now open and details at www.tse-fr.eu/conferences/...

Time to first decisions at The Economic Journal academic.oup.com/ej?login=true. Thanks to all the hard work and efforts of the referees, AEs and other editors. Please submit your excellent papers and expect an efficient and thoughtful response.

What is the market failure? why do we think the solution is centralized committee and coordinated behaviour? What do we think the friction is that gets in the way of competition?

Hey #EconSky 📉📈 and #EvoSky, check it out: @omermoav.bsky.social is here! Omer should be a day-one follow for Econ and Evolution theorists, macro folks, and anyone who cares about integrity in the profession or in Science generally.

The promised second book on the economics of platforms is still in the making, but the first one continues to be available: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

Call for papers for this excellent IO/competition workshop 2-3 June in Cambridge, organised by my colleagues Flavio Toxvaerd & @cgenakos.bsky.social oligoworkshop2025.econ.cam.ac.uk

My colleague Martin Peitz @martin-peitz.bsky.social of IO textbook, platforms, everything-digital-markets fame is on the sky now. Give him a warm welcome! #EconSky

I strongly believe in reading ALL of Adam Smith's work. Please start from this recent paper on identifying/measuring dynamic complementarity: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Tfw a former student from 15 years ago recognizes you when you’re on holiday and tells your kids you were an awesome prof.

It's February at The Economic Journal ❤️ Lots of great papers, long (9) and short (2). Enjoy! academic.oup.com/ej/issue/135...

Episode 86: Dan Gross on Labour Market Responses to Automation. #EconSky. Listen here at: www.thevisiblehand.uk/episodes/epi...

Our call for papers has been posted! Get ready for #IIOC2025 May 2-4 in Philadelpha. Submission deadline 1/31. www.indorgsociety.org/conference

The vast majority of people I reach out to repsond quickly and helpfully; but the few that don't are frustrating and enough to make me really appreciate that large majority and that the community functions surprisingly well.

If you receive a ref request and can't finish in the allotted time, you have options: - Decline the review. - Ask editor for more time. Then turn in report close to your new proposed deadline. Don't do: - Ghost the request - Agree to request then go months past the due date w/no communication

Been on sabbatical but looking forward to trying this out in the spring.

Super excited to publicly launch "All Day TA" (http://www.alldayta.com), a product @joshgans.bsky.social and I have been working on with our team over the last year. Short version: if you teach in spring, you will want to use this! It's the future of higher education. A short thread: 1/x

So excited to tell you about my new venture with @afinetheorem.bsky.social called All Day TA (@alldayta.bsky.social) open.substack.com/pub/joshuaga...

Interesting paper looking at how labor market tightness can affect labor market outcomes when informal, self-enforcing agreements exist to motivate workers. doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...

The Economics Department at the University of Pittsburgh is hiring! We have an Open Rank position. You can find details and application instructions here: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

The UK Longitudinal Business Database allows any accredited researcher in the ONS Secure Research Service to track the near-universe of UK firms at quarterly frequency and to link them to other administrative and survey data sources. I have written about it here. #EconSky

Though you may be more interested in the NBER Digital Platforms Workshop at www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJVG... that is kicking off now

The NBER Organizational Economics Working Group is in session! Follow us on the live stream below! www.nber.org/conferences/...

You're online. @bsky.app's algorithm believes that you are interested in my posts. You use social media... You respond to the #Econsky tag. Interested in hearing a mechanism design paper on social media price discrimination and content moderation? IN LESS THAN AN HOUR: Thu Dec 5 at 11am EST

What happened when public universities in 🇨🇦 started publicizing faculty salaries? ... ... ... The salary gap between men and women declined by 20-40% as a direct result. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

I've just joined so I hope my first post is interesting! My colleague Rick gave me Milton Friedman's "Price Theory: A Provisional Text" (revised 1976 edition, not original 1962 one). Appendix B contains a bunch of "problems". Let's try solve a few? This one is about you, @aeajournals.bsky.social!

The great @albertobisin.bsky.social is on 🔥: his second CfP for an EJ special issue just came out, with Eugen Dimant: res.org.uk/call-for-pap... @resmedia.bsky.social

@mohhy.bsky.social introduces an innovative structural model that captures the dynamic role of mentorship, offering both theoretical and practical insights into how accelerators drive startup success, said Prof Aguirregabiria. #EconJobMarket #EconSky newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/measuring-th...

The ONS today published its latest productivity and business dynamism bulletin. Headline figures: no change year-on-year to average markups, job reallocation or the overall labour productivity distribution. www.ons.gov.uk/economy/econ... 1/

What happens after anesthesia rollup acquisitions? Within six months, prices increase 18%. Within two years, they increase 25 to 30%. New working paper by my amazing student Aslihan Asil (on the law market this year!) and her co-authors: www.nber.org/papers/w33217

Pls re-skeet for reach: CALL FOR PAPERS for a special issue of EER in honor of Nora Szech editors: S. Huck, N. Schweizer, M. Serra-Garcia #econsky 📉📈 www.sciencedirect.com/journal/euro...

1/ My co-author @mitchwatt.bsky.social is on the #EconJobMarket this year. Mitch is an applied theorist interested in market design, IO, and public policy. I happen to know his #JMP and its companion paper very well. 😇 🧵👇 with an overview of both papers. #EconSky

For now we invite fellow researchers to consider what they might do with this chain-level panel with a plethora of chain characteristics gleaned from public filings. /18

New working paper: "The Balance of Power in Franchising," joint with @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, Pete Norlander, @stpinto.bsky.social, and newly-minted econ RA Blake Eliason. marshallsteinbaum.org/wp-content/u... #econsky /1

Marketing academic starter pack by @dggoldst.bsky.social go.bsky.app/6LJdWVq

For those interested in IO, @joribarash.bsky.social also made a PhD students starter pack: go.bsky.app/DVL6Biz

And this one is for organisational economics and the economics of entrepreneurship and management: go.bsky.app/4DSq8AZ Will add to both as more people transition over here. 2/2

With all the new joiners, my original IO/org econ starter pack hit its size limit. I have therefore split into into two (with some overlap). This starter pack is broadly for IO, competition and innovation: go.bsky.app/Rchu8QX 1/2 #EconSky

Lots of good stuff here in this TSE series