Made it to sunny Valencia and excited to attend @earie-news.bsky.social 2025 today and to present my research on credit card lenders tomorrow!

Prof Mark Schankerman and I are hiring two full-time research assistants to work with us at LSE on research projects relating to productivity, innovation, and intellectual property rights. Apply here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/... Deadline 30th September 11:59 UK

Almost two years at @royalholloway.bsky.social now, and still nowhere near over how gorgeous this campus is.

Before I submit any writing, I find and remove all instances of "It is worth mentioning that" (if it's not worth mentioning, why am I writing it??) and "It is important to note that" (convince the reader it's important through the substance, not empty words..). Pure academic throat clearing, gone.

I have just posted a noteworthy revision of my paper “Risk-Based Borrowing Limits in Credit Card Markets.” The main novelty of the paper and its findings are the same. Why is the revision of interest, then? Read on to find out: (1/10)

Cute detail in @jeffgortmaker.com's JMP: in a paper about open source software, pyBLP is used for the demand estimation, which is Jeff's own open source software! It's a great paper - you should take a look at it.

Ok let's give this a go then!