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Marlon Azinovic-Yang @marlonazinovic.bsky.social · Sep 5

Today we at UNC had the great privilege to learn from @economoser.bsky.social about super cool work on the macroeconomics of wage rigidity and job separations for our first joint applied+macro seminar of the semester. Below is Chris with our PhD students.

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Marlon Azinovic-Yang @marlonazinovic.bsky.social · Aug 22

Very exciting day at UNC yesterday, where the amazing Monica Morlacco @dornsife.usc.edu kicked of our macro seminar series presenting new insights on Concentration and Markups in International Trade!
Below us Monica with our PhD students after the talk.

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Marlon Azinovic-Yang @marlonazinovic.bsky.social · May 2

Ending this semester’s macro seminar series at UNC with an absolute highlight: Jonathan Payne @princetonecon.bsky.social
taught us his brilliant joint work with @yuchengyang1993.bsky.social and Adam Rebei on *Deep Learning for Search and Matching Models*

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Marlon Azinovic-Yang @marlonazinovic.bsky.social · Mar 7

Very exciting day at UNC Chapel Hill yesterday, where the amazing Sean McCrary kicked off our macro seminar series presenting joint work with @evajanster.bsky.social on Unemployment and State Dependent Effects of Monetary Policy! Here is Sean with our grad students 😀
#econsky #macrosky

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Lorenz Goette @lorenzgoette.bsky.social · Mar 2

Well deserved promotion!Congrats, Dina 🤗 Since @dinapomeranz.bsky.social promotes causes rather than herself, I thought I’d jump in to spread the good news 🎉🎈

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Marlon Azinovic-Yang @marlonazinovic.bsky.social · Mar 2

Welcome to Bluesky @rafael-dix.bsky.social !!!

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Marlon Azinovic-Yang @marlonazinovic.bsky.social · Feb 9

The one and only @compsimon.bsky.social joined bluesky!!! #EconSky

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Marlon Azinovic-Yang @marlonazinovic.bsky.social · Jan 28

Happy Lunar New Year!

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Rachel Leah Childers @donskerclass.bsky.social · Jan 14

For the Spring semester, I am restarting my free weekly open office-hours for anyone in the world with Econometrics questions. Wednesdays 10-12AM Eastern or by appointment; sign up and drop by!

Details and sign up at donskerclass.github.io/OfficeHours....

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Marlon Azinovic-Yang @marlonazinovic.bsky.social · Dec 23

I just didn’t buy them. They, in my opinion, not necessary. Go with pickled cucumbers and baby corn, I promise nothing will be missed.

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Marlon Azinovic-Yang @marlonazinovic.bsky.social · Dec 16

Thanks to @donskerclass.bsky.social I found that recordings of our ACM EC-24 talks are online. In case you are interested, my overview-ish talk on deep learning based solution methods (focus on aggregate risk and OLG) is available here:
youtu.be/CPQpXc5PCJU?...
#econsky

EC'24 Workshop Talk: Solving Life-Cycle Models with a Rich Asset Structure using Deep Learning

YouTube video by ACM SIGecom

youtu.be

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Marlon Azinovic-Yang @marlonazinovic.bsky.social · Dec 16

I remember your great talk, really liked it! Thanks for pointing to the recordings I also didn't know we were recorded (which is probably on me).

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Marlon Azinovic-Yang @marlonazinovic.bsky.social · Dec 12

Yucheng’s work, including codes, is available here:
sites.google.com/site/yangyuc...

Yucheng Yang

I am an Assistant Professor at University of Zurich and Swiss Finance Institute (SFI). I received my PhD from Princeton in 2023. I work on macroeconomics, finance, and machine learning. I've been a vi...

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Marlon Azinovic-Yang @marlonazinovic.bsky.social · Dec 9

very happy to have made it to Zurich for the brilliant and fun Inaugural lecture by @yuchengyang1993.bsky.social on AI for Economics: Heterogeneous Agent Macro-Finance

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Ugo Panizza @upanizza.bsky.social · Dec 6

1/ 🚨 Want to do a Phd in Economics?

besides our normal intake @gvagrad.bsky.social
we have 3 generously funded PhD positions with a 4-year
Swiss National Science Foundation packages!

Read on for details and please repost and share with potentially interested

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · Dec 6

How big is the cold-start problem on Airbnb? Pretty big!

Lowering the price of new listings relative to incumbent ones would lead to a welfare increase of more than 8% of total host revenue, mostly benefitting consumers.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Marlon Azinovic-Yang @marlonazinovic.bsky.social · Dec 4

The great @yuchengyang1993.bsky.social is here! Highly recommend if you are interested in Macro, Finance, Deep Learning or all three =)

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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · Nov 29

Submit your papers to the next @cepr.org Public Economics Annual Symposium, taking place in Cologne on June 5-6, 2025. Co-organized with @sigginho.bsky.social and Johannes Spinnewijn, keynotes by Cecile Gaubert and @omzidar.bsky.social!

cepr.org/events/cepr-...

CEPR Public Economics Annual Symposium 2025

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Marlon Azinovic-Yang @marlonazinovic.bsky.social · Nov 29

Very interesting new paper by @benmoll.bsky.social on rational expectations as a main problem in het agent macro. Including ideas on how to move forward:
benjaminmoll.com/challenge/

#econsky #macro

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Josh Merfeld @merfeld.bsky.social · Nov 21

How much do departments care about software package authorship? Follow-up question: why don’t they care more?

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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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Marlon Azinovic-Yang @marlonazinovic.bsky.social · Oct 1

great, thank you !

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Marlon Azinovic-Yang @marlonazinovic.bsky.social · Oct 1

would love to see the recipe! looks delicious!

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