Session on productivity at @escoeorg.bsky.social conference #EconStats2025 - @emarvasi.bsky.social explores the nexus between intangible capital, market power, & productivity. Accounting for intangibles important for estimating mark-ups - they are lower and flatter, esp for US intan-intensive inds.

“Conservatives and progressives get some things right and some things wrong [about how to reduce crime]. As an economist and researcher, I urge both sides to put aside ideology and focus on the evidence to build a new, bipartisan public-safety agenda.” - me in the NYT