🚨Free data alert!! 🚨 Please share. Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*. I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind. github.com/bretthollenb...

Als Teil seines "Entlastungspakets 27" will der Bund das Budget des SNF @snf-fns-ch.bsky.social um 10% kürzen. Wäre das wirklich klug, ausgerchnet in dem Moment, wo uns die US-Regierung das Feld freimacht im internationalen Wettbewerb um Top-Talente (👇)? 1/2 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Europe is about to commit its greatest strategic mistake. on.ft.com/4bVGZZ9

On the way back from a great @macci-mannheim.bsky.social conference! Excellent keynote by Nancy Rose between many other inspiring talks 👏👏👏

What is the role of data, risk-taking, scaling up new ideas, & policy for supporting innovation in Europe? @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social @jcremer.bsky.social & Paul Seabright debate, disagree & discuss in this month's #CrossingChannels #podcast Tune in: pod.fo/e/2b3dba

Happy to see this paper out @jpube.bsky.social @lukasmergele.bsky.social @aaoritz.bsky.social and I compile new data to study the “Treuhandanstalt” and it’s management of the privatisation process after German reunification

Couldn't agree more - I highly recommend this. Entire strands of research could probably be spun from this talk alone, by employing these methods to different questions... and perhaps one of the best talks I've ever seen that break down a complex topic to a wide audience, while being crystal clear.

Hi #EconSky! I am a job market candidate from Caltech in the field of IO and Finance. My research focuses on innovation, entrepreneurship, and antitrust regulations. My #EconJMP introduces a novel empirical framework to evaluate the effects of mergers on labor markets. Website: keshiecon.com

Do we do threads🧵on #EconSky? I recently gave a talk on competition policy and startup acquisitions. Here are the main points: 1/ Since ~2001, acquisitions have overtaken IPOs as the primary "exit" for VC-backed startups. This shift impacts how competition plays out.

In what is clearly an example of insufficient collusion, there are three (!) separate workshops on market power this Thursday/Friday. 1/5

The running list of IO job market candidates for 2024-2025 is live! Fill this out to add your info: forms.gle/upCQ4Ez7sBTP... Running list here: shoshanavasserman.com/io-jmc/

Highly highly highly recommend applying to this if you're a PhD student interested in digital economics (broadly defined). #econsky

"Our main finding is that UPK is one of the most cost-effective active labor market policies ever evaluated in the US." - hopefully, also governments beyond the US take note.

On Tuesday, 36 US ports will be shut down by the largest shipping strike in living memory. This could recreate the chaotic supply chain crisis of 2021-2022. Are we ready? a 🧵 on the new economics of supply chains 1/

My latest blog post, "What I’ve learned from being a journal editor" is now up. Short list below, read more here: deryugina.com/what-ive-lea...

Useful podcast with tons of links to sources. Merger analysis wonk must-have.

No one mechanism dominates across all industries. Caveats, caveats. But if there is a theme, it is that the first order changes we observe, measured in decades, have predominately been due to technological change. And this is for industries that one might not associate with innovation.  7/N

I've recently given a talk titled "Industrial Organization and The Rise of Market Power" twice, at the UZH Market Power Workshop and at the Association of Competition Economists (ACE) conference yesterday. Here is a thread that covers the main themes. (Link to the deck below) 1/N #EconSky 📉📈

Hörenswert: Laura Bassi, die erste Universitätsprofessorin Europas www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au...

❄ Winter is coming and natural gas consumption will increase! After Russia reduced drastically its supplies to Europe, savings are central to avoid a gas-shortage in Germany. So, how much did we save last year and where are we now? All figures from openenergytracker.org/en/docs/germ... A 🧵 1/n

This workshop has given me lots of impetus for more exciting work on issues of market power and beyond. Thank you all for putting this together, & for the insightful presentations and discussions.