Want to do a funded, joint Oxford-CMA PhD on market power? Howard Smith (Oxford) and the CMA Microeconomics Unit are looking for promising candidates interested in doing research on the topic of "Beyond markups: understanding changes to competition, concentration, and market power". #EconSky 1/2

Very much enjoying the @bennettinstitute.bsky.social Public Policy Lecture by @lawrennd.bsky.social - how to use AI without devaluing humans

Like many other European social democratic parties, Labour is moving right on immigration, certainly driven by the recent success of Reform. We have researched this question for years now. There is an abundance of evidence of why this isn't a good strategy. A thread summarizing some of our research

“Dozens of Italian police officers and social workers deployed by Italy’s far-right government in migrant centres in Albania have returned home, after it emerged that the facilities, praised as a model to reduce refugee arrivals, have been empty for weeks.” ⤵️ www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Does AI boost firm productivity? See our evidence from Europe on the article out on Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization with Larissa Marioni & Ana Rincon @niesrorg.bsky.social #uniurbit #JEBO #EconTwitter #AI #Productivity Open acceess www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨NEW DATA🚨 An input-output network between 5000 products. Check our production network interactive tool and open-access data at aipnet.io See this🧵for findings 👇

Housework to green energy: the new markers of growth in rival metric to GDP