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I once sat through a deposition where the opposing counsel offered us fancy avocado toasts, but we weren’t allowed to touch them for ethical reasons. Things have changed.

Join the CMA Microeconomics Unit as a UKRI Policy Fellow for 18 months! Awards buy out teaching/admin time to allow you to focus on a CMA-relevant research project, while embedded part-time in the Unit. The call for fellowships is here: www.ukri.org/opportunity/... 1/

Court finds that Google monopolizes online advertising - very big deal. Huge congratulations to the folks at the Antitrust Division that worked so hard on this. #antitrust #Google #tech #bigtech www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/t...

Big news day in adtech! #Google #Antitrust Now, the big question is: what comes next? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/t...

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We are sad to announce that former faculty member and Minnesota Econ Ph.D. alum Patrick Bajari passed away on Monday. cla.umn.edu/economics/ne...

Attn: #FundSocSci

Wait until they found out how many economist plagiarized "We leverage a novel instrumental variable that is plausibly exogenous."

@budgetlab.bsky.social: Trump’s auto tariffs will cause vehicle prices to rise by 13.5% on average, the equivalent of an additional $6,400 to the price of an average new 2024 car. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/fis...

Carl Shapiro has an excellent review of Louis Kaplow's intriguing antitrust book "Rethinking Merger Analysis" in the latest JEL issue.

If econ memes had a Nobel Prize, @khoavuumn.bsky.social would have won it by popular acclaim. He's beloved in our community of online economists for his kindness and wit. Definite follow.

Trump fires both Democratic commissioners at the #FTC. Clearly contrary to the intent of the FTC being an independent agency. We’re well on our way to being ruled by an autocratic, authoritarian regime. This has to be stopped. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

President Trump has taken an extraordinary and dangerous step of firing two FTC Commissioners. This is a dramatic ratcheting up of the politicization of the agency--the opposite of the direction it should be going in.

These anti-science actions have made me really sad and depressed not just because my salary won't increase, but because I think of my late wife, who was a deep believer of science and who was hoping that science would save those who experience the same cancer in the near future.

🚀 Funding opportunity (now with correct link)! 🚀 What does #AI mean for the labor market? 🤔 I'm excited to partner with Schmidt Sciences to offer up to $200,000 in funding for early-career researchers! 🗓️ Deadline March 31 2025 🗓️ 🙏 Share! #EconSky 🔗 Learn more & apply: schmidtsciences.org/ai-at-work/

👋 Hello BlueSky! 👋 Yale Economic Growth Center & @yaleeconomics.bsky.social launch our accounts today. We join #EconSky #GlobalDev community @cgdev.org @theigc.bsky.social @j-pal.bsky.social @princetondevo.bsky.social @voxdev.bsky.social @worldresources.bsky.social & others to come. egc.yale.edu

Receiving breaking news about cuts to the federal workforce every day makes me extremely disturbed and disheartened. My former colleagues are dedicated public servants who sacrifice themselves to serve the nation. Without them, this country could never be great.

We are recruiting an Econometrics Adviser. The role would suit someone with a recent PhD (or a masters and some experience), and an interest in empirical IO. This is a unique opportunity to work on high-profile cases and with great data! www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

New blockbuster issue of the JEP out now: @zliscow.bsky.social on the economics of permitting, @instrumenthull.bsky.social and coauthors on shift-shares, and a symposium on the 2023 US merger guidelines: www.aeaweb.org/issues/793 #EconSky

Funding is crucial for research. Cuts like this wouldn’t just reduce research output in the short run—they’d have long-term consequences, too. Research productivity relies on learning by doing, meaning these cuts could slow innovation for years to come. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

IT IS OFFICIAL! MY JOB MARKET PAPER IS IN PRINT!!!! TL/DR: Superstar firms have used globalization to grow bigger, leveraging economies of scale. Their marginal costs have fallen, but little has passed through to customers as markups have risen. www.sganapati.com/files/Ganapa...

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

There is a common notion in antitrust that greater output benefits workers. But this paper shows that if firms have market power, this is not always the case. At high levels of markups, firms may REDUCE their (labor) input demand when they become more productive. www.dropbox.com/s/33hq4dlpfz...

Happy to share that my and @cconlon.bsky.social's micro BLP paper was just accepted at the Journal of Econometrics! jeffgortmaker.com/files/Incorp... It's our 2nd tied to our PyBLP software, so here's a thread on surprising (to me) benefits of combining methods research with open source work. 1/6

I literally showed that child mortality video this in class today. Everyone seems only vaguely impressed until I describe how my first born almost died shortly after birth (www.ryancbriggs.net/blog/2015/10...). It’s wild to me how much we need stories to even start to grasp something numerical.

I think my @nyulaw.bsky.social colleague Daniel Francis provides a clear and balanced summary of the Neo-Brandeis shift in antitrust. It is worth a read for all IO Economists (and perhaps more importantly macro economists who've recently discovered IO). www.promarket.org/2024/11/25/a...

Reminder to JMCs getting in their apps before (American) Thanksgiving that we're hiring postdocs at U of T! This is with Avi Goldfarb will be a great fit for anyone working in innovation and digital www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... #econsky #EconJobMarket

#EconSky you can use the Bluesky data for free to do your research!!! Go find some cool stuff!

Think you know about guaranteed income? Prove it: forecast the results of two pilot programs in Chicago and Cook County before they are known: socialscienceprediction.org/predict/r/bf... Accurate forecasts get a prize.

Some exciting announcements re #IIOC2025, May 2-4 @ Drexel in Philly. The Distinguished Fellow Award will go to Chad Syverson; he will deliver the keynote. Shane Greenstein will receive the Distinguished Service Award. There will be two plenaries.

There are 64 IO (and IOPLUS) job market candidates on the list so far, all with exciting research portfolios. Check them out!

Hey #EconSky, I'm on the job market with an #EconJMP about open source software. OSS is a global public good, widely used and provided by the private sector, but the target of recent industrial policy. Paper: jeffgortmaker.com/files/Open_S... 1/

Algorithms can collude without threats and while playing best response. This makes it challenging to clearly define algorithmic collusion. #EconSky #antitrust

Bluesky just seems too civilized. How would I get used to reading civilized posts and having respectful discussions, where people generally rely on facts? I'm so used to slipping into the toxic water that X has become that I'm not sure I can adjust to this more serene environment. 🤔

The NBER Innovation Information Initiative will award five or more fellowships of $1500 each to graduate students in economics, innovation, entrepreneurship, or related fields. Applications open at link below. Full deets in picture. "Outsiders" encouraged to apply.

I started an economics of science and innovation starter pack, let me know who to add! go.bsky.app/HETnNr5

This election is really a reckoning for me about my social media bubble. I can't wait to move to this new social place with the rest of my academic network and no one else.

Welcome, new #EconSky joiners! I have updated my starter pack - now with over 120 IO, org econ, innovation and firm dynamics researchers. If you think I have forgotten someone, please let me know. go.bsky.app/Rchu8QX

a breath of fresh air switching from x...

The running list of IO job market candidates for 2024-2025 is live! Fill this out to add your info: forms.gle/upCQ4Ez7sBTP... Running list here: shoshanavasserman.com/io-jmc/

If you're on the market as an IO or IO-adjacent economist, I really encourage you to sign up. I've heard of people using this list for many things, both during the market (e.g. recruiting) and after (e.g. inviting for seminars). It's an easy way to get some exposure.

Has anyone made a starter pack of econ theorists to follow here? #EconSky