“For those who are just learning about Tumbler Ridge for the first time, know that it is so much more than the events of this week. The town is a portrait of resiliency. It has survived against the odds and emerged stronger.” @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

📣 Come join a top-5 strategy department in Europe and work with me on an exciting topic at the intersection of causal AI and strategy 🤖📈 I'm recruiting a PhD student as part of my Sapere Aude Research Leader Grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. (1/3)

SON: Can I have a cookie? ME: Ask nicer. SON: May I please have a cookie? ME: Like a Canadian. SON: So sorry, could I please trouble you for one of your delicious cookies, good sir, eh? It’s okay if you say no. There’s probably a more deserving child. ME: *hands over cookie*

We are really excited to have one or more slots this year. I'm personally very aware of how much incredible talent is coming up on the market -- the fact that we can make one or more hires this round is great news for us. Juniors are what make a department exciting, relevant and good. Apply!

New WP (by me and others) on how disclosure mandates: (1) increase disclosure (primarily of negative outcomes), and (2) how expectations of increased disclosure by others slows down innovation. Link and more details in @florianederer.bsky.social's thread...

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Canada may have come second in womens rugby today but first in cycling! Canada's Magdeleine Vallieres gets the rainbow jersey in the elite road race at the UCI Road Cycling World Championships! www.sportsnet.ca/cycling/arti...

📢 Conference announcement! Paolo Surico and I are excited to be organizing this @cepr.org conference on Public Policies for Innovation. If you work in the #Economics of #Innovation and #InnovationPolicy, please submit + spread the word. Non-presenting attendees also invited.

🚨 Reminder!! Don’t miss this opportunity to shape the conversation on how entrepreneurs theorize, test, and adapt under uncertainty. 🗓️ SEJ Special Issue Deadline Approaching (October 1, 2025)! Learn more about the Special Issue: www.strategicmanagement.net/publications...

🚨 We’re hiring at @NYUStern 🚨 Our Management & Organizations group is recruiting a TT Asst. Prof. (start: Fall 2026) who spans #OT + #OB. I'm a newbie myself, but I can already tell this is a special place. Feel free to DM with Qs! tinyurl.com/23mm4hdy

➡️ Deadline approaching—only one month left to send in your papers and presentation proposals for #CDSM2025! 🚨 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 🚨 📅 𝗡𝗼𝘃 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 (𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹) 📥 Submission Deadline: 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

The call for papers for the annual CMA-Durham workshop on market power, dynamism and productivity is out! This year we are particularly interested in submissions on industrial policy, market power in supply chains, and the economics of start-ups and scale-ups. Submit by 25 September.

📢📢Research Policy 10th online conference for Early Career Researchers! Fri 3rd October 2025, 2-4pm (UK time) Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 31st August Link for submitting: forms.gle/GdvPaEq4seZt... #EconSky

🤫Trade secrets are a widely used but understudied form of intellectual property. Our forthcoming Management Science paper investigates trade secret use at the project level & provides evidence that firms respond to trade secret legal protection by increasing use of secrets. lnkd.in/dJVScxJxhttp...

🤐 While often impossible to study, we know firms protect their (often, most important) IP using trade secrets. @aldona.bsky.social and I found a way to observe and study them. We find trade secret use & novelty increases following increased legal protection. doi.org/10.1287/mnsc... (open access)

Missing my home, family, and friends this Canada Day!

I had the opportunity to speak with Brian Owens (@scibri.com) at Nature Index about why firms invest in scientific research and what drives their decisions to publish. Grateful for the thoughtful reporting: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A comic about a rat

for those new to my reporting, yes I’ve categorized every single street name in Vancouver, a perfectly normal thing to do, and you can read that feature here newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/str...

🚀 Exciting news from the STR Division! 🚀 Join us in welcoming the newly elected STR Leadership Team for 2025–2026 — including our new STR Assistant Program Chair, Executive Committee members, and more. 👇 Announcement here: str.aom.org/discussion/a... #STRDivision #STRongerTogether

Vancouver council is debating a giant permanent sign that says "VANCOUVER", and staff say an issue is putting the sign in a place that won't interfere with film shoots. In other words, a giant "VANCOUVER" sign could interfere with vancouver's lucrative business of pretending to be any other city

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "The Returns to Physical Capital in Knowledge Production: Evidence from Lab Disasters" by Stefano Baruffaldi and Fabian Gaessler. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The Technology & Innovation Management (#TIM) Division elections are open! We strongly encourage you to participate in this important governance process. 🚨 DIG elections will close on Tuesday, 10 June 2025. You can vote in the election through the unique link sent to your email.

On top of its standard grants, the ERC now offers additional startup funding to help new grantees establish their laboratories or research team in Europe. This funding is now being doubled from up to €1 million to up to €2 million erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Just read this truly lovely history of the fixed effects estimator, a concept I've repeatedly taught and used but never knew the origins of. (Also helps me justify never using random effects!) Thanks to Marc Bellemare and @dlmillimet.bsky.social for writing it. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

happy 65th birthday to british columbia's second favourite roadside attraction but first favourite burly giant log man www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🚨 new heritage minute just dropped 🚨 and it's a good one with many classic heritage minutes tropes: - costumes! - over the top discrimination! - over the top speeches! - skipping over all the parts between Discrimination and Becoming Important! - semi-famous canadian (Victor Garber) is the star!

New (first! 🥳) Publication 🚨 High-street retail vacancies, capturing economic decline, are linked to increased support of UK's populist party, UKIP (now Reform).

Look forward to my visit !

🚨 CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS 🚨 The 2025 #STR Junior Faculty Consortium will take place in person at #AOM2025 on Friday, July 25 (8:00AM–5:30PM). 📌 For early-career faculty
 🚀 Great mentoring + peer feedback
 🗓️ Apply by May 30: bit.ly/AOMSTRJFC2025 Questions? Contact the co-chairs! #AOM2025STR

🚨 Rethinking Moral Hazard: Moral hazard in health insurance—the increased spending that comes when you get insured—is usually seen as wasteful due to insurance’s price distortion. This paper challenges that view.

only canadians will understand this

Gave a talk to our PhD students today, and feeling appreciative of all the recent methods work on improving common practices. Thanks to all the authors who work to make their work accessible, especially on social media. A few articles we discussed:

#Hiring! I'm looking for a pre-doc to work with me at NYU Stern School of Business on topics related to AI and tech. Please send to anyone you think might be interested. apply.interfolio.com/165718

More great news! 😒

"Some unfortunate news from the USPTO - it looks like the agency will be forced to terminate the PatentsView contract, so all the datasets and disambiguation currently available at patentsview.org will likely go offline on March 28."

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.” ― Bette Davis Happy International Women's Day

📣 Deadline to apply to our postdoc is March 5th (tmrw)! 👇

LCBO (Liquour Control Board of Ontario) is one of if not the largest single buyer of alcohol in the world. This is their website today. Ouch Kentucky/Tennessee and Napa/Sonoma!!!

Most drivers of inflation lead to higher prices and eventually wages catch up. But tariff-induced inflation is different: Prices rise, but there's no reason to expect wages to catch up. They hurt your purchasing power in an enduring sense.

Microsoft spent $8.5B and 14 years to torture and kill Skype. Astonishingly bad business

Important and correct from Aldrich, Kuran, and Munger. The other side of the coin from institutionally neutrality about questions far removed from the university is taking clear, informed positions on policies that jeopardize the university’s academic mission. www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

One week left to apply for our postdoc (deadline March 5). Details 👇🏻

Accidentally download the appendix of an econ working paper:

Our dept (Entrepreneurship & Strategy) at U of Utah is hiring a Post Doc for a July 2025 start. If you are graduating this Spring with a PhD in Strategy or Economics (or related fields) please see the posting and apply! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/178...

The news in Lithuania are that all political parties have agreed to spend 5-6% of the GDP on defense in 2026-2030, plan for 2025 is 4%. 2024 spending was ~2.85%. The view is that Russian military aggression is real, but not unavoidable.

If you're graduating with a PhD in Strategy, Econ, or similar, consider applying to be a post doc with me and my stupendous colleagues at U of Utah! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/178...

Our dept (Entrepreneurship & Strategy) at U of Utah is hiring a Post Doc for a July 2025 start. If you are graduating this Spring with a PhD in Strategy or Economics (or related fields) please see the posting and apply! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/178...

Hearing from FDA staff that layoffs are hitting the agency this evening. One manager told me they don’t even know which of their staff is affected, and supervisors and office directors don’t have that information, either. Not clear yet if user fee-funded staff are affected.