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Jakob Schneebacher @jschneebacher.bsky.social · 14h

Great opportunity for IO job market candidates!

Daniel Ershov @ershovd.bsky.social · 23h

❗❗❗🚨🚨🚨 Next @cepr.org IO Virtual Gathering is taking place on NOVEMBER 7 at 2pm CET. 1st hr is dedicated to JM presentations by IO candidates graduating from Eur / UK schools. If interested, please submit a draft of your JMP & CV at: t.co/aUTPTWSten by OCTOBER 26! 🚨🚨🚨 ❗❗❗ #econjobmarket

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Daniel Ershov @ershovd.bsky.social · 23h

❗❗❗🚨🚨🚨 Next @cepr.org IO Virtual Gathering is taking place on NOVEMBER 7 at 2pm CET. 1st hr is dedicated to JM presentations by IO candidates graduating from Eur / UK schools. If interested, please submit a draft of your JMP & CV at: t.co/aUTPTWSten by OCTOBER 26! 🚨🚨🚨 ❗❗❗ #econjobmarket

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Daniel Ershov @ershovd.bsky.social · 23h

#econjobmarket

Daniel Ershov @ershovd.bsky.social · 23d

wrote a little thing for general consumption about llms and the likely overblown risk of cognitive offloading: www.mgmt.ucl.ac.uk/news/long-re...

Long Reads: Is AI the end of critical thinking? | UCL School of Management

Embracing AI platforms such as ChatGPT does not signal the death of critical thinking, argues Dr. Daniel Ershov

www.mgmt.ucl.ac.uk

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Daniel Ershov @ershovd.bsky.social · Aug 8

incredible stuff down this wiki rabbithole. If I were an independent scholar, would 1000% join this institute. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronin_I...

Ronin Institute - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Daniel Ershov @ershovd.bsky.social · Aug 8

Gentleman scholar

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · Jul 25

Call for papers, 4th UK Workshop on Digital Economics, London 28 November 2025: competitionpolicy.ac.uk/events/4th-w... This is always a great event

Centre for Competition Policy

High quality independent research into competition policy and regulation

competitionpolicy.ac.uk

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NBER @nber.org · Jul 21

Modeling computers and AI as cognitive tools provides a lens to interpret evidence on inequality, workflows, and teams, from Ajay K. Agrawal, @joshgans.bsky.social, and Avi Goldfarb https://www.nber.org/papers/w34034

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Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.com · Jul 11

🚨Free data alert!! 🚨 Please share.

Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*.

I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind.

github.com/bretthollenb...

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Daniel Ershov @ershovd.bsky.social · Jun 18

Not that I always love AI everywhere, but the moral of Green Eggs and Ham is that they’re actually good once you try them…

Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · Jun 18

I do not want AI on a train
I do not want it in the rain
I do not want AI on a boat
I do not want an AI goat

I do not like the AI spam
I do not like it, Sam [Altman] I am

Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · Jun 17

I do not want AI in Slack. I do not want AI in Google. I do not want AI on Facebook. I do not want AI in documents or spreadsheets. I do not want AI in Adobe Acrobat. I do not want AI in Zoom. I do not want AI on news sites. I do not want AI in the patient portal for my doctor's office. I do not wan

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Rob Seamans @robseamans.bsky.social · Jun 17

A.I. Might Take Your Job. Here Are 22 New Ones It Could Give You.

@robcapps.bsky.social wrote an excellent article
@nytimes.com with views from yours truly, @emollick.bsky.social, @erikbryn.bsky.social and others.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/m...

A.I. Might Take Your Job. Here Are 22 New Ones It Could Give You.

www.nytimes.com

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Daniel Ershov @ershovd.bsky.social · May 19

2/2 Perhaps the bigger issue is “econ culture” as a whole - which rewards/incentivizes “complete” papers that give iron-clad answers with perfect methodology and data, over more incremental/imperfect research.

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Daniel Ershov @ershovd.bsky.social · May 19

1/2 System as a whole (ie, academia) worked, but more narrow Econ ref process didn’t. Unfortunately, seems very hard to pick up, aside from the unrealistic (in retrospect) amount of work for a 2nd yr PhD.

Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · May 18

How did the system work? It was an R&R at the QJE (allegedly) so the economist reviewers clearly had no idea.

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · May 15

@ershovd.bsky.social, Yanting He, & Stephan Seiler analyse over 100 million tweets from 2014 to 2021 and find that the vast majority of commercial content on social media is not appropriately disclosed by the influencers who post it.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky

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Leonardo Madio @leonardomadio.bsky.social · Apr 7

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A DOMINANT PLATFORM SUDDENLY MODERATES A LARGE SHARE OF ITS CONTENT?

🚨 With Matt Mitchell, Martin Quinn & @mikybartoli.bsky.social, we study one of the largest moderation shocks ever: Pornhub’s 2020 purge of 10M+ non-verified videos (80% of content).

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · Apr 24

Pornhub's removal of all non-verified content led to a 41% drop in traffic within 1 month.

Much of the displaced traffic was absorbed by competing platforms, including less regulated fringe websites (+55% visits) and mainstream competitors (+10%).
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Noah Williams @bellmanequation.bsky.social · Apr 15

Pat Bajari was one of the most influential economists of the past 30 years, and an amazing person

cla.umn.edu/economics/ne...

Remembering Patrick L. Bajari (1969-2025)

Patrick L. Bajari was a pioneer spanning the academic and business worlds.

cla.umn.edu

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John Voorheis @johnvoorheis.bsky.social · Apr 3

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · Apr 3

Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?

A tweet by "rohit" discusses the application of AI in geopolitics, specifically focusing on tariffs, and includes a table comparing tariff rates between China and the US.

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Daniel Ershov @ershovd.bsky.social · Apr 2

Or almost finish asking a question at a seminar... "this is more of a comment than a question..."

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Noah Williams @bellmanequation.bsky.social · Mar 29

Possibly the dumbest of the many dumb plagiarism claims
nationalpost.com/news/mark-ca...

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taylor annabell @taylorannabell.bsky.social · Feb 3

Our edited volume, The Hashtag Hustle: Law and Policy Perspectives on Working in the Influencer Economy (with @cgoanta.bsky.social @dasfiesch.bsky.social & Isabelle Wildhaber) is available, open access www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook-o...

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Daniel Ershov @ershovd.bsky.social · Jan 25

Self preferencing by LLMs…

Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · Jan 24

Next big thing for brands: knowing what sites agents prefer.

If you ask for stock prices, Claude with Computer Use goes to Yahoo Finance while Operator does a Bing search

Operator loves buying from the top search result on Bing. Claude has direct preferences like 1-800-Flowers

We don't know why

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Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social · Jan 18

To be slightly blunter than The Atlantic allowed me to be: the tiktok ban is a protectionist subsidy to Meta and Google worth hundreds of billions of dollars: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

How the United States Learned to Love Internet Censorship

America was once seen as the home of the free internet. That era is now over.

www.theatlantic.com

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Daniel Ershov @ershovd.bsky.social · Jan 16

How low has Pitchfork fallen? C. 2004 P4K would have given this a -20 with a picture of a monkey in a wig giving the finger.

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Daniel Ershov @ershovd.bsky.social · Jan 7

Read all Adam Smiths’ work

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