Introducing the Stripe Economics of AI Fellowship: The economics of AI remains surprisingly understudied. The fellowship aims to help fill that gap, by supporting grad students and early-career researchers with $, data, a conference, and community –

To those in the US who want to donate $ to #Ukraine, consider these options National Bank of UKR: bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/... Humanitarian aid (tax deductible): Kyiv-Mohyla Foundation of America: www.kmfoundation.org Kyiv School of Economics: kse.ua/support/dona... Nova Ukraine: novaukraine.org

Economists for Ukraine (econ4ua.org) drafted an open letter to the future German chancellor. We call for 🇩🇪 & 🇪🇺 to step up & to ⬆️ support for #Ukraine. Please read & sign (if you agree), the form is at the end of ✉️): tinyurl.com/m9ta2b5d Please share this letter with your colleagues. #UkrainianView

Furman’s FA piece against Bidenomics makes some claims about industrial policy that seemed unsupported. Crowding out investment? The gravity of evidence so far points toward these policies having *crowded in* investment. This was the big question for many of us thinking about industrial policy.

@jburnmurdoch.ft.com invited me to talk about a post I wrote on his own viral article about changing attitudes towards progress. We ended up chatting about lots more! If this stuff interested you, here's a thread of links to learn much more. www.ft.com/content/3412...

Guys talk about getting the sign wrong on policy!!! Government R&R accounted for 1/5 of total TFP growth since wwii!!!

Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc. In a word: Harvard. Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard. 🧵

New here and happy to share my job market paper! "Bad Bank, Bad Luck? Evidence from 1 Million Firm-Bank Relationships" We build a large novel dataset on US firm-bank relationships to ask the question “How do bank failures affect small business survival and employment?” A🧵summarizing our findings:

The ONS today published its latest productivity and business dynamism bulletin. Headline figures: no change year-on-year to average markups, job reallocation or the overall labour productivity distribution. www.ons.gov.uk/economy/econ... 1/

Normal people buying cereal: "I want to try this new stuff" Normal people buying cereal as modeled by IO economists:

Alright, I've got zero followers right now—let's see if this thread on my JMP can escape the depths of the internet. TL;DR: Labour market power leads to large productivity losses. Keep reading if you’re interested in misallocation, tech diffusion, and regional disparities (you should be!).

If you are interested in learning more about minimum wages, Attila Lindner and I have a new, up-to-date review of the topic, coming out in the Handbook of Labor Economics. Here's the @nberpubs working paper. Link: nber.org/papers/w32878

Hi folks. I just got here. Anyone have advice on getting set up?

🚀 I'm on the job market! Curious how digital tech boosts productivity but still faces adoption barriers? Digital payments are powerful tools, yet data observability can be a double-edged sword—enhancing efficiency but deterring workers fearing tracking. My takeaways on @WorldBank blog! 🙂👇 #EconJMP