Governor Macklem presents Professor @rjuhasz.bsky.social of the University of British Columbia with the 2025 Governor’s Award at the Fellowship Learning Exchange conference 🏆 Congratulations Professor! Learn more: bit.ly/3YA2wRP #cdnecon #economy #awards #BankOfCanada

IMO, one of the most time-saving use cases of LLMs is handling the syntax of a new library, which can be time-consuming to learn if it's only needed, say, once. They can also help save time when finding bugs in code, especially when the bugs are common.

A few comments on the @mark-carney.bsky.social platform released today. You can find it here: liberal.ca/cstrong/. I provided some 'sounding board' advice here and there to those working on the platform. As always: I disclose, but you can decide what weight to put on that. Thread below...

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

Nice research brief on our work - with @annamueller.bsky.social @alex-brewer.bsky.social et al. Which one of us hasn't had to do at least one Assessment©️ pretty much every day of our work lives? "Addressing hidden inequalities in workplace assessments can help create a more equitable workplace."

It is an honor to receive a Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship. Thank you to everyone involved!

Understanding causality vs. correlation is genuinely hard especially on complex topics like inflation. Our research finds that 60% of Americans think high interest rates cause high inflation & support rate cuts to fight it. But high rates usually respond to inflation,not cause it

Congratulations to Jane Platt on receiving the Wesbrook Scholarship, one of UBC's most prestigious awards! Wishing her success as she continues her research in public policy! Read the announcement: economics.ubc.ca/news/vse-stu...

🎉Congrats to Professor @rjuhasz.bsky.social of the University of British Columbia for winning the 2025 Governor’s Award. Her research focuses on industrial policy and industrialization, emphasizing their importance in economic studies. bit.ly/3DLWm9U #cdnpse #cdnecon @industrialpolicy.bsky.social

Congratulations to our @ubcvse.bsky.social colleague @rjuhasz.bsky.social who has won the 2025 @bankofcanada.bsky.social Governor's Award! We are proud of and happy for Reka! bsky.app/profile/bank...

There is a postdoctoral position for research on adversarial robustness at UBC, supervised by Mathias Lecuyer (@mathias-lecuyer.bsky.social), Geoff Pleiss, and Nidhi Hegde. Please spread the word! 🇨🇦 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hey #EconSky 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.

We woke up to find our nihilistic juvenile kittens had pulled this book off the shelf and were trying to trash it. A little on the nose...

Glad we got through the tariff emergency (at least the first wave of it....). Also glad that people are bringing creativity, energy, and determination to figuring out a medium and long-run response. But I want to throw cold water on three ideas I've seen floated. I'll explain...

Prof. Kim Ruhl (UMN PhD 2004) of University of Wisconsin-Madison has been named as one of 3 members of President Trump's Council of Economic Advisors. I admire Kim for his service to our country, and I hope he is able to have a favorable influence on US economic policy. news.wisc.edu/uw-madison-e...

chain of thought is hilarious (distilled deepseek 14b running via ollama)

Hi Everyone! We're hosting our Wharton AI and the Future of Work Conference on 5/21-22. Last year was a great event with some of the top papers on AI and work. Paper submission deadline is 3/3. Come join us! Submit papers here: forms.gle/ozJ5xEaktXDE...

I asked DeepSeek to do a proof, and it felt like getting a portal into Erdős's amphetamine accelerated inner monologue. Watching chain of thought output is mesmerizing.

I have an AI generated proof of a statistics lemma beyond my measure theory paygrade. Question: how many samples from LLMs do I need in practice to be 95% confident the proof is correct? Do different LLMs help ensure that there is no correlation between these draws?

PLEASE RT :) Submit to the annual Network Science and Economics Conference, the largest US event for network theory and empirical research in and adjacent to economics Deadline Jan 30 (soon!) Conference Apr 11-13 at Stanford

For the Spring semester, I am restarting my free weekly open office-hours for anyone in the world with Econometrics questions. Wednesdays 10-12AM Eastern or by appointment; sign up and drop by! Details and sign up at donskerclass.github.io/OfficeHours....

PSA to job market candidates: if you didn't get a particular flyout, it may have had nothing to do with the quality of your interview. Departments have a myriad of internal constraints and goals that are unobservable to you, and the process is a lot more complex than you think.

Stop presenter on their first slide.

For those attending #ASSA2025, come to our session on ML/AI + unstructured data (e.g., text and images). We'll have a couple of papers on the econometrics of it, and I'll talk about incorporating this type of data in demand estimation. It's Sunday Jan 5 at 10:15 AM. www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...

The main argument for a Strategic BItcoin Reserve seems to be that Bitcoin holders worry about an impending shortage of greater fools and need the US government to act as the greatest fool of last resort.

Tenured position in the teaching of economics at University of British Columbia economics.ubc.ca/professor-of...

Quarto + Revealjs is an outstanding product and toolchain. @quarto.org (and in particular @cscheid.net ) are providing an enormous public good. Check out github.com/grantmcdermo... as well for a great theme.

We’re hiring predocs at VSE with a start date of summer 2025. Come work with me on industrial policy and industrialization past and present. Not your thing? A number of my wonderful colleagues are also hiring! Listing is here: economics.ubc.ca/news/pre-doc...

Post-Doc opportunity at VSE/Stone Centre on Wealth and Income Inequality! Starts Sept 1, 2025. Application information at the link below: stonecentre.economics.ubc.ca/applications...

I’ve been doing some work related to conformal inference so I found this monograph useful: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.11824

Paper title - say what you found

An updated intro to reinforcement learning by Kevin Murphy: arxiv.org/abs/2412.05265! Like their books, it covers a lot and is quite up to date with modern approaches. It also is pretty unique in coverage, I don't think a lot of this is synthesized anywhere else yet

very happy to have made it to Zurich for the brilliant and fun Inaugural lecture by @yuchengyang1993.bsky.social on AI for Economics: Heterogeneous Agent Macro-Finance

Considering The Data Economy as a textbook for a class in econ, finance, accounting, CS, etc? Instructors can request a FREE inspection copy: press.princeton.edu/exam-desk-co... #econsky #dataeconomy #AI

Real footage of a synthetic control model

Tune in tomorrow morning to see Vitaly present our paper at the I3 meetings. www.nber.org/conferences/...

I wanted to make my first post about a project close to my heart. Linear algebra is an underappreciated foundation for machine learning. Our new framework CoLA (Compositional Linear Algebra) exploits algebraic structure arising from modelling assumptions for significant computational savings! 1/4

The 2024 Junior Theorists Workshop is Thursday (at Northwestern) and Friday (at TTIC), Dec 5-6. There is a stellar lineup of outstanding junior computer science theorists who are making the future happen. Come!! theory.cs.northwestern.edu/junior-theor...

Come study with us at VSE/UBC! Applications for our MA and PhD in Economics program are open until December 15th, 2024. Learn more at economics.ubc.ca/graduate/adm...

David Attenborough is a sadistically purveyor of snuff films

Since I am suddenly inundated with statistics-oriented followers, I should post again that I am still conducting free weekly open office-hours for anyone in the world with Econometrics questions, Wed 10-12AM Eastern or by appointment. Details and sign up at donskerclass.github.io/OfficeHours....

🚨Major new version🚨 Algorithmic Collusion by Large Language Models Joint w/ @sarafish.bsky.social & @ranshorrer.bsky.social LLMs are automating many business decisions. Pricing might be next (or is already). What if multiple firms, in good faith, to use off-the-shelf-LLMs for pricing? 1/3 #EconSky

I made a Starter Pack for current faculty and PhD students at the Vancouver School of Economics at UBC. (Let me know if you meet the criteria and want to be added. Happy to add more!) go.bsky.app/BBaT26c

For anyone looking to follow AI folks I just RT’d a few great starter packs

Phenomenal paper, one of my absolute favs! 2 points: 1) prospect theory is a *descriptive* model of choice. Choice still there, new work is getting us closer to understanding mechanism. 2) not clear whether choices are response to risk, and people apply same heuristic to similar non-risk contexts

Excited that "Commitment and investment distortions under limited liability" joint with Carolin Pflueger and Michael Szkup is published in this month's JET: www.jesseperla.com/publication/... Proud of the paper, and have nothing but amazing things to say about the JET editors/referees

Meet the Vancouver School of Economics 2024/25 PhD job market candidates! View their profiles here: t.co/m9qT8g13jS

Interested in an Economics MA? Learn more about our new Economics and Computation Stream!