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Arnab Bhattacharjee

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Prof Econ @ebs-hwu.bsky.social, Res Lead NIESR @niesrorg.bsky.social, Committee MMF Money Macro Fin Soc 4-gen migrant, 1-gen grad Ex CB, cricket. Now: Films, ancient music "Patterns without Structure aid neither Change nor Policy." Usual disclaimer. .. more

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National Institute of Economic and Social Research @niesrorg.bsky.social · Mar 26

"With no substantial initiatives targeting low-income households, the living standards and living conditions of the working poor will continue to stagnate."

Our @econarnab.bsky.social on the #SpringStatement and UK living standards 🏘👇

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Mar 19

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.

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National Institute of Economic and Social Research @niesrorg.bsky.social · Mar 6

Our Living Standards event is in one week! ⏰

We'll hear from expert panelists @helenbarnard.bsky.social, Elizabeth Campbell, Tim Leunig and our @maxmosley.bsky.social, chaired by ITV's Joel Hills 👏💬

Sign up here ⬇ @trusselluk.bsky.social @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social
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National Institute of Economic and Social Research @niesrorg.bsky.social · Feb 20

OUT NOW! Our Latest NIER Issue: Climate Sustainability 🌱📃

Volume 266 is introduced by our @econarnab.bsky.social & Adrian Pabst and @uniofstandrews.bsky.social's J. Roderick McCrorie ✍

Read their article "#Climate Sustainability - Evidence and Policy" here ⬇🔓
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National Institute of Economic and Social Research @niesrorg.bsky.social · Feb 14

And finally, over to @econarnab.bsky.social to present our outlook for the #DevolvedNations, English Regions and UK #households 💬

Arnab starts with key messages on living standards ⬇

For the bottom 20% of households, living standards will not return to 2021-22 levels before 2027 🏘

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National Institute of Economic and Social Research @niesrorg.bsky.social · Feb 14

The Forum has begun! 🎬Keep following this thread for updates 🧵

Don't forget that our UK Economic Outlook is now available to read in full ⬇⚡

niesr.ac.uk/publications...

#UKEconomy #GlobalEconomy #EconTwitter
@RoyalEconSoc

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National Institute of Economic and Social Research @niesrorg.bsky.social · Feb 11

Our UK Economic Outlook will be published tomorrow! ⚡ A comprehensive forecast on the #UKeconomy in 2025 and beyond 📊

In the meantime, don't miss this blog, where @econstevem.bsky.social asks Benjamin Caswell for an overview as to what we might expect to see in it 📈👇
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Outlook for the UK Economy: Growth, Inflation and Fiscal Challenges - NIESR

Our Quarterly UK Economic Outlook will be published later this week, providing a comprehensive forecast on the UK economy in 2025 and beyond. In this Monday Interview, our Interim Director, Stephen Mi...

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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · Feb 7

This comment reanalyzes data from Oprea (2014) and draws different conclusions. What should AER do? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/PhcYuC/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Retract original
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/PhcYuC/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Publish whole comment (37 pp)
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/PhcYuC/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Publish shorter comment
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/PhcYuC/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Do nothing

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Eoin McLaughlin @eoinaldo.bsky.social · Feb 4

Great piece on model collapse - the output passed the LGTM test (looks good to me) but has errors. This output then trains further LLMs and then weakens LLMs and ultimately the model collapses (garbage in, garbage out)
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Deep Research, Deep Bullshit, and the potential (model) collapse of science

Sam Altman’s hype might just bite us all in the behind

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ArXiv Paperboy (Stat.ME+Econ.EM) @paperposterbot.bsky.social · Jan 31

link 📈🤖
Univariate-Guided Sparse Regression (Chatterjee, Hastie, Tibshirani) In this paper, we introduce ``UniLasso'' -- a novel statistical method for regression. This two-stage approach preserves the signs of the univariate coefficients and leverages their magnitude. Both of these properties ar

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NBER @nber.org · Jan 28

Firms struggle to forecast, often making over-optimistic inaccurate forecasts. Running a 5-year 6,000 firm experiment finds that simple data interventions can yield large improvements, from Nicholas Bloom, Mihai A. Codreanu, and Robert A. Fletcher https://www.nber.org/papers/w33384

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Chris Colvin @cliochris.bsky.social · Jan 28

New working paper alert: "Financing Innovation: The Role of Patent Examination". @steve-bill-econ.bsky.social, Christopher Coyle and I have been working on this for quite a while now. We are excited to have a full draft for your enjoyment! www.quceh.org.uk/uploads/1/0/...

Financing Innovation: The Role of Patent Examination.

Stephen D. Billington, Christopher L. Colvin and Christopher Coyle.

How does patent examination influence access to finance for innovative firms? We exploit a reform to the UK’s patent system that introduced substantive examination to the patent application process, improving the information available to potential investors on the value of firms’ patents. Using a newly compiled firm-level dataset of exchange-listed corporations, we find that firms holding examined patents were able to borrow more, reflecting improved access to capital markets, and leading to firm growth. Our results highlight the role of patent examination in reducing information asymmetries, enhancing the signalling value of patents, and mitigating financial barriers to innovation.

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · Jan 23

Forthcoming article by @clement-s-bellet.bsky.social and Eve Colson-Sihra "Does Inequality Affect the Needs of the Poor? @eeanews.bsky.social

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Does Inequality Affect the Needs of the Poor?*

Abstract. We investigate how inequality affects what is considered most necessary to purchase. Combining detailed consumption surveys in India with an inst

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · Jan 22

This paper by the late, great Nick Crafts, on competition and productivity in the UK, well worth a read: cepr.org/voxeu/column...

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