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David Byrne

@dprbyrne.bsky.social

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Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne

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David Byrne @dprbyrne.bsky.social · May 15

#EconSky #IOSky - 2025 Asia-Pacific IO Conference: Dec 12-14 in Brisbane, Australia apios.org.au. Call for papers in mid-July. Keynotes by #PaulHeidhues & #GingerZheJin and a great group of invited speakers. It's 10 years of APIOC, and we couldn't pick a better place. Please share!

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David Byrne @dprbyrne.bsky.social · Dec 4

Don’t worry it’s in motion!

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Jeff Gortmaker @jeffgortmaker.com · Nov 29

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

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David Byrne @dprbyrne.bsky.social · Nov 28

Ok there’s enough of you #EconBlueSky legends on here that I’m starting to feel the peer effects.

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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · Oct 26

Melbourne is hiring more teaching-focused faculty! The positions are new and offer lots of opportunities, please email/DM me or @dprbyrne.bsky.social for more info!

Official job ad below

jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91433...

Details : Tutor/Assist Lecturer (Level A) Lecturer (Level B) : The University of Melbourne

Careers at The University of Melbourne

jobs.unimelb.edu.au

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David Byrne @dprbyrne.bsky.social · Oct 17

Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues (Toronto)

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Ivan Werning @ivanwerning.bsky.social · Oct 5

Just back from giving a talk to 2nd year students on how to approach research, how to write a paper. Abhijit was coming after me (good thing he didn't go first, tough act to follow!)

Here are my slides...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0pm2m...

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