Forthcoming article "Tax Professionals and Tax Evasion” by @battaglini.bsky.social Luigi Guiso @chiaralac.bsky.social and Eleonora Patacchini @eeanews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeea... Teaching materials available: www.eeassoc.org/teaching-mat...

1/ My paper with @EleonoraPatacc2, @guiso_luigi, and @chiaralac, “Tax Professionals and Tax Evasion,” is finally out. academic.oup.com/jeea/article... If you are interested in social networks and fiscal policy, this one is for you. 🧵

In the Volunteer Dilemma, more players can reduce the chance of success—yet paradoxically, per capita utility still always rises. But inefficiency per person vanishes slower than 1/n, so aggregate inefficiency grows without bound!

I definitely agree: do not insult the referees before you submit, wait after the reports! 😈

🧵 New paper drop! 1/ Free access to our new article: "Welfare in the Volunteer's Dilemma" Joint with T. Palfrey. 📖 Free access: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ktgWAlw9~...

Hours after the White House froze dozens of grants to Princeton, I sat down with its president. I hope you’ll listen to our conversation about free speech, academic freedom, and cuts to research funding. We also discussed Columbia’s concessions and the detention of Tufts student Rumeysa Öztürk.

Conflict of interest? You don’t say... 😬

Honestly, you should probably just read this fascinating interview while you wait for somebody to return your keys to you.

Post muto, post festivo.

Then, my friend, you should read the paper instead of writing an ignorant opinion.

Looking for a great political economy model? George Saunders offers you five, complete with reading comprehension questions and problem sets. Check it out:

RT @m_battaglini: So Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency has… *wait for it* Two co-chairs. Yup, the satires write themselves.

FT book award winner Edmondson referring to the Gino debacle: "...lays out some possible paths for improvement, such as reducing pressure for academics to publish more studies." A masterclass on how to draw the wrong conclusions from the case. ft.com/content/0107...

Today, snow. Yes, it is Ithaca.

“I followed what I understood to be standard practice” says Alito, and you can see the lawyer in the “I understood “. https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/06/21/alito-wsj-propublica-fishing-trip/