On the 19th of September, Tuomas Markkula (@tuomasmarkkula.bsky.social), will defend his doctoral dissertation “Industrial organization studies on mixed health care markets and waiting times”. To find out more, visit our website: www.helsinkigse.fi/articles/ind...

*Call for papers* for the Second Nordic Meeting in Urban Economics, to be hosted in Helsinki, Finland, Sept 8-9! sites.google.com/view/second-...

#EconJMP alert! Can increasing public healthcare production reduce waiting times, address equity concerns, and curb private sector market power in a setting with congested public services and costly private alternatives? I find that it only partially addresses these issues. #EconSky #EconJobMarket

Just a reminder that @gmcd.bsky.social and @kylefbutts.bsky.social have made an incredible public good describing how to use data.table and fixest to encourage moving from Stata to R! stata2r.github.io

We are hiring! You will work on a series of exciting papers with me, @emilynix100.bsky.social, Kristiina H, Ning Zhang & Martti Kaila while developing your own research agenda. Please reach out with any questions! Job ad: econjobmarket.org/positions/11218 #EconSky #EconJM

#EconSky newly updated paper! [Link at end of thread] The premise of this one is simple: what if IO tried to take inequality more seriously? Let's thread the needle by having different price coefficients reflect "shadow value of a dollar" to rich & poor but stopping short of true income effects.