The evil corporation in every movie

When the defending Boston Marathon champion forgets her watch so you give her yours. Winning formula: go “easy” for 21 miles then make your move.

Heckman on slide 34 of 137

Wealth, income, whatever

A welcome email

Obligatory for the day youtu.be/Phh3oVCtzBg?...

Is the name Peter Magyar the equivalent of "Joe American"?

All AI founders

Fireside chat with Ben Golub and Matt Jackson to cap the first day of the Network Science and Economics conference at the University of Miami sites.google.com/view/nse2026...

"Equilibria, Folds, and Escapes" Revised paper with new title, new analytic results, and 70% longer (mostly appendix, text is ~10% longer). I characterize both the mean path of stochastic models and the most likely large deviations via deterministic differential equations. (1/3)

No more boring title slides

This has been a fun one to write. Draft coming soon.

I listen to Egg Hunt every Easter, if not more regularly youtube.com/watch?v=MjIm...

Florida en pascua

The program is now available for the Miami Macro 2026 conference on April 24. We receieved a LOT of submissions, so had to exclude many interesting papers but were able to put together an excellent program. Contact me directly if you'd like to attend. www.noahwilliams.org/conferences/...

My calendar event raised some questions. (Should have included the accent on the u)

Not a combination typically seen in faculty listings

Bank runs, but for airport security

Watching St. John's last night I wondered about colleges with possessive names. I knew about Queens' but had forgotten about Rutgers's and Tufts's

As always, the answer to a question headline is no. Can Danielle Allen Save Academe From Itself? www.chronicle.com/article/can-...

Lovely article on the legacy of D. Boon www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/a...

Had some problems with the old NoahWilliams.xyz so I became an organization: NoahWilliams.org

AI writing is everywhere—and it’s not insightful, but polished. Here’s the tricky part people miss: it’s not sophisticated, but formulaic—smooth transitions, balanced tone, clean structure that says almost nothing. It’s not bad, but frictionless—no voice, no edge, just generic synthesis.

Saturday morning scenes

Written 1998, posted 2006, revised 2026. What’s the story here @johnmullahy.bsky.social ?

The University of South Florida is not in South Florida

Unstable eigenvalue

Jessie Buckley deserves all the awards for this performance youtu.be/8fbc9DV1Pws?...

Mathematicians | Defense Attorneys | \ / "It's not what you know, it's what you can prove."

R.I.P. Chris Sims essence of him right here (start at 8:36 if link doesn't work) www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVIO...

Christopher Sims, RIP. A giant of macroeconomics has left us. Here is his homepage: www.princeton.edu/~sims/

Many job candidates have work at the intesection of fields {X,Y,Z}, very few at the union of fields {X,Y,Z}

After hearing various examples of the misuse of student activity fees, I recalled that in my undergrad days some wags organized the University of Chicago Tobacco Appreciation Society, whose sole purpose was to use student government money to buy cigarettes.

GDPNow -> GDPFantasy

Gonna have to read “Blood Meridian” again now

Come on… “the judge” is the dead giveaway in this @nytimes.com AI vs Human writing comparison

March 9, 1992 was quite good

On behalf of the Department of Economics at Miami Herbert Business School, I'm happy to announce that Christina Qiu from Yale will be joining us in Fall 2026. Christina’s research examines the economic impacts of digital technologies. christinamqiu.github.io Welcome to Miami and the U!

On behalf of the Department of Economics at Miami Herbert Business School, I'm happy to announce that Christina Qiu from Yale will be joining us in Fall 2026. Christina’s research examines the economic impacts of digital technologies. christinamqiu.github.io Welcome to Miami and the U!

Oh wow “In the fall of 1992, in an attempt to shake things up, it was decided that Fugazi would take up Steve Albini’s standing invitation to do a free recording at his Electrical Audio Studio, which at the time was located in the basement of his house…” fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

Markwayne

The topic on everyone’s mind today: frequency domain methods. I use them in "Uncertain Network Dynamics". Since they’re less common in economics now, here’s a visualization. The transfer function G(jω) is the Laplace transform of the impulse response g(t). At ω=0, G(0) is the area under g(t). [1/3]

Keepin' your head above water, Making a wave when you can.

Hong Kong morning

After the seminar: “Hey want to climb a mountain?”

Miami Macro 2026: We are happy to announce that 𝗘𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗟𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗿 (University of Virginia) will provide a keynote "𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻’𝘀 𝗙𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘀: 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗖𝗮𝗻'𝘁 𝗚𝗼 𝗜𝘁 𝗔𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲" Submit your paper at the link below by March 15

Here we go Hong Kong: 3 talks at 3 universities in 3 days (CUHK, HKU, HKUST)

MIA➡️LAX ➡️HKG 37 hours “nominal” time: 24 hours travel time + 13 hours time change

Unlikely hero: Botley® the Coding Robot

Confronting existential questions at a swim meet: hydrology ontology