NBER grants to fund research into economic measurement - I find this agenda very compelling and important #linkoftheday www.nber.org/news/nber-la...

There is no pathway to upward wage mobility as an Amazon driver, as opposed to drivers at a unionized workplace like UPS Stark figure from @dschneider.bsky.social @profsheenalives.bsky.social @juliesulabor.bsky.social Kevin Bruey

Incredibly timely and policy-relevant evidence by @nikdatta.bsky.social and @amritakulka.bsky.social on housing demand and supply in the UK.

For this week's @theobserveruk.bsky.social I've written about one of my favourite topics: the productivity of the public sector, how it's measured, why it tends to grow less quickly than productivity in the private sector, and what it means for policy. observer.co.uk/news/busines...

Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!

🚨🚨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...

It's that time of year again... #EconSky

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...

Please see @joshua-goodman.com's great initiative below. Happy to do the same for PhD students working on productivity, in org econ or IO.

NEW: New data show that official statistics have overcounted the number of self-employed workers in the UK for decades. @helenmiller.bsky.social, Isaac Delestre, Kate Smith and @bojs.bsky.social’s new report uses newly available data to fill the gap in the statistical record:

ESCoE will hold its next annual conference, organised in partnership with the UK Office for National Statistics, on 19-21 May 2026 @kingsbschool.bsky.social, @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. The call for papers is now open. Find out more & submit by 12 Jan 2026: tinyurl.com/5hxvc7v9

Vertical integration in Chinese films raises welfare on average, but reduces welfare when films are close substitutes and there is limited downstream competition, from Charles Hodgson and Shilong Sun www.nber.org/papers/w34390

Excited about Friday’s upcoming NBER Conference on the economics of transportation in the 21st century: www.nber.org/conferences/.... Many important issues surrounding automation in transport sector. Tune in on NBER YouTube open to all: youtube.com/@nbervideos?... @nber.org @treballen.bsky.social

📢 #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

It was a pleasure to work on this report with Amanda Ereyi, Fizza Jabbar, Rajssa Mechelli, Luke McWatters, Max Read, @jschneebacher.bsky.social and Nicole Scholz. If you found the report useful or you want to see more evidence-based economic policy, please vote here: www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/what...

Our State of Competition report has been shortlisted at the ONS Research Excellence Awards! Nice to see this work recognised as a contribution to evidence-based policy. Read my colleague @joelkariel.bsky.social’s thread for more.

The CMA has just published its provisional decision in the Vets market investigation, which includes a great piece of econometric analysis. We use a diff-in-diff design to show that corporate acquisitions cause average prices to increase by 9% within 4 years.

Very much second this!

Transparency helps innovation ... until it doesn't. My new paper with Cunningham, Hodgson, and Wang (on the JM!) studies the 2017 FDA Final Rule, which required drug firms to publicly disclose all clinical trial results. Disclosure increased, but innovation slowed. cowles.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

Attention IO job market candidates: Sometimes speakers in the CMA's external economics seminar series have to cancel at relatively short notice. We would love for these slots to go to JMCs to present their job market paper. Drop me a message if you are interested or share with those who might be.

The downward trend of the US declining global production centrality captures its specialization in hydrocarbons, while CN has, through smart long term industrial policy become ever more central by specializing on the “future” industries (think: clean tech, electrification)

Great opportunity for IO job market candidates!

Congratulations to Philippe Aghion, Peter Howitt and Joel Mokyr for a well deserved Nobel Prize. It was nice to see the US Census Bureau's Business Dynamic Statistics featured in the motivating evidence in the scientific writeup: www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2025...

You are working on competition-related topics (or want to, or are just curious)? You have a paper you'd like to present? You just want to see what's happening in the literature? Come to #Mannheim for the #MaCCI Annual Conference (March 19-20, 2026). #economics #law #policy #competition #EconSky

Interested in productivity, business dynamism and market power? Come to this year's CMA-Durham workshop on 20-21 November! We open with a keynote by Jonathan Haskel (Imperial), followed by two days worth of sessions on technology diffusion, market frictions,market power and more. 1/2

The programme is now out and includes ESCoE's @joshmartinecon.bsky.social and @yannisgalanakis.bsky.social, with a keynote from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social's Jonathan Haskel: tinyurl.com/7st5fv73 @jschneebacher.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk

Interested in productivity, business dynamism and market power? Come to this year's CMA-Durham workshop on 20-21 November! We open with a keynote by Jonathan Haskel (Imperial), followed by two days worth of sessions on technology diffusion, market frictions,market power and more. 1/2

We're looking for outstanding applicants to join the IFS for our 2026 intake of Research Economists. ➡️ Find out more and apply here by 11pm, Sunday 26 October: app.beapplied.com/apply/tgjfew... ➡️ Those on the PhD job market can apply here: econjobmarket.org/organization...

Let me flag up this paper that serves as a good example of how or where the AIPNET can potentially be playing an important role going forward around climate action. Let me first summarize the paper, highlight consistency with EU approach before going into broader issues...

New research by Pierre Azoulay, Danielle Li, Bhaven Sampat and me. Earlier this year, the President’s budget proposed a 40% cut to the budget of the NIH. This motivated us to ask: what if the NIH had been 40% smaller?

It looks like he didn't share it on Bluesky, so I will. @afinetheorem.bsky.social has written an excellent review article covering 7 recent books on the economics of AI that serves as an excellent overview of this topic. Highly recommended! kevinbryanecon.com/BryanAIBookR...

📢 Conference announcement! Paolo Surico and I are excited to be organizing this @cepr.org conference on Public Policies for Innovation. If you work in the #Economics of #Innovation and #InnovationPolicy, please submit + spread the word. Non-presenting attendees also invited.

Deadline in two days!

Very happy to see two of my papers cited in the recent CMA report on "Investment and competition over the business lifecycle." The report provides an excellent overview of the literature. Thanks to @jschneebacher.bsky.social and coauthors for preparing it!

One week left to submit a paper!

Common Ownership & Employee Earnings updated & improved Consider a pair of companies that sell into the same product market. If pair shares common owners, the owners have incentive for pair to soften competition. Same with local labor market competition papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Call for papers for our economics workshop: cma-partnership.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/08/29/2... Please submit before 25th September if you work on: - UK productivity slowdown - Aggregate market power - Business dynamism - Industrial policy - Supply chains - Determinants of innovation and R&D

🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & Nober) - When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over - Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

How does competition influence investment? The CMA has just published our new Microeconomics Unit lit review (joint work with my fantastic colleagues Amanda Ereyi and @joelkariel.bsky.social). 1/2

How does competition influence investment? The CMA has just published our new Microeconomics Unit lit review (joint work with my fantastic colleagues Amanda Ereyi and @joelkariel.bsky.social). 1/2

📢 Call for papers! Join the 4th CMA- @durham-university.bsky.social workshop on productivity, business dynamism & market power. 📍 Durham University 📅 20–21 Nov 2025 🗓️ Submit by 25 Sept: tinyurl.com/ybsmsvdv

📢Nina Roussille and I are hiring a full-time predoctoral researcher to work with us at MIT on labor economics research projects. IMPORTANT: this vacancy is open right now, so we are particularly interested in people who could start soon. Link to apply: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

The call for papers for the annual CMA-Durham workshop on market power, dynamism and productivity is out! This year we are particularly interested in submissions on industrial policy, market power in supply chains, and the economics of start-ups and scale-ups. Submit by 25 September.

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

Some news: I will be spending this entire 2025-26 academic year located in Paris, visiting the local universities and participating in the research community here. If you work in Paris or are just passing though in the next year, please reach out, I'd be happy to meet up! PhD students especially!

I went to this fantastic conference last year and had a blast. I highly encourage everyone to submit their work!

The call for papers for the annual CMA-Durham workshop on market power, dynamism and productivity is out! This year we are particularly interested in submissions on industrial policy, market power in supply chains, and the economics of start-ups and scale-ups. Submit by 25 September.

Using 16 million resumes to measure public firms' corporate structures finds that more hierarchical firms are more profitable and stable, with higher costs and lower patent quality, from Michael Ewens and Xavier Giroud https://www.nber.org/papers/w34162

Incredibly excited for my brand new class at Rotman this fall: Progress! Econ history + theory + history of thought + philosophy on why rare orgs at rare times in rare places accomplish new things. Trying to put rigor onto an idea that is very much in the air. kevinbryanecon.com/Bryan-Progre... 1/3

“Let me make what appears to have become a radical argument: Simple economics is surprisingly good at making real-world predictions.” trying to break the mold with a defense of economics www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...