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Frank Verboven @frankverboven.bsky.social · Apr 19

‪I am excited to collaborate with the AER coeditor team, and look forward to handle new submissions!

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Erzo F.P. Luttmer @erzoluttmer.bsky.social · Apr 19

Congratulations to Frank Verboven (@frankverboven.bsky.social) for being appointed as AER coeditor, handling papers in empirical IO and related fields. His term starts on July 1. I’m delighted to have him on our team. @aeajournals.bsky.social #EconSky

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Frank Verboven @frankverboven.bsky.social · Apr 19

Slimme kilometerheffing levert volgens nieuwe studie veel meer op dan ze kost
www.tijd.be/politiek-eco...

Slimme kilometerheffing levert volgens nieuwe studie veel meer op dan ze kost

Met een gemiddeld tarief van 10 cent per kilometer kan rekeningrijden de overheidsinkomsten met 3,4 miljard euro per jaar verhogen én het fileprobleem verlichten. Dat staat te lezen in een lijvig rapp...

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Frank Verboven @frankverboven.bsky.social · Apr 19

Slimme kilometerheffing levert volgens nieuwe studie veel meer op dan ze kost

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Ashley Langer @alanger.bsky.social · Apr 16

Recently the President ordered that coal generators don’t need to comply with the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard (MATS). My forthcoming JPE paper with Gautam Gowrisankaran and Wendan Zhang on uncertainty surrounding MATS, so it seems like it’s time for a thread! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources to Promote American Energy

1. Coal-fired electricity generation is essential to ensuring that our Nation's grid is reliable and that electricity is affordable for the

www.whitehouse.gov

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Frank Verboven @frankverboven.bsky.social · Feb 25

Happy to share our piece in Microeconomics Insights on geographic entry restrictions and monopoly, based on our analysis of notary lawyers.

Microeconomic Insights @micreconinsights.bsky.social · Feb 25

New from @frankverboven.bsky.social & Biliana Yontcheva:

Comparatively little is known about the impact of geographic entry restrictions and price regulation, which go beyond general occupational licensing requirements.

Read our new article here: microeconomicinsights.org/private-mono...

Private monopoly and restricted entry | Microeconomic Insights

Occupational licensing regulations are common across many service sectors, including health, education, transportation, and legal services. These regulations affect up to 20-30% of workers in both the...

microeconomicinsights.org

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Martin Peitz @martin-peitz.bsky.social · Jan 21

The promised second book on the economics of platforms is still in the making, but the first one continues to be available:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

The Economics of Platforms

Cambridge Core - Industrial Economics - The Economics of Platforms

www.cambridge.org

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Department of Economics KU Leuven @leuveneconomics.bsky.social · Jan 14

🎓 Ready to pursue a #PhD in #Economics?

KU_Leuven’s Department of Economics is now accepting applications for its doctoral program! We welcome candidates in all major fields of Economics.

🗓️ Deadline: January 31, 2025
🔗 Apply here: feb.kuleuven.be/phd-economics

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Frank Verboven @frankverboven.bsky.social · Dec 20

📢 📢
Call for papers Leuven Summer Event 2025!
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- IO, Applied Micro and Macro on different days.
- The IO workshop takes place on May 26-27
- For more information, see:

feb.kuleuven.be/research/eco...

Leuven Summer Event 2025 - Call for Papersfacebooktwitterinstagramlinkedinyoutubefacebooktwitterinstagramlinkedinyoutube

Leuven Summer Event: workshops in various fields in Economics

feb.kuleuven.be

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Frank Verboven @frankverboven.bsky.social · Dec 18

Exceptionally high concentration of IO economists spotted at Sogang University, Seoul, Korea. #APIOC

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Olivier De Groote @odegroote.bsky.social · Dec 16

New working paper out! We empirically study improved matching mechanisms for day care, focusing on disadvantaged families (who benefit most). Affirmative action boosts their participation but also increases segregation. #EconSky

daycare.pdf

drive.google.com

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Frank Verboven @frankverboven.bsky.social · Dec 12

Such a beautiful city, just a bit too many cars on the road. But what else could I expect from the country of Hyundai and Kia?

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Frank Verboven @frankverboven.bsky.social · Dec 12

A day off in Seoul before tomorrow’s start of the Asian-Pacific IO conference (APIOC).

sites.google.com/view/apioc-2...

APIOC 2024

The Asia-Pacific Industrial Organisation Conference (APIOC) 2024 will be held in Seoul, Korea on December 13 – 15, 2024. The PDF version of the program book is downloadble here.

sites.google.com

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Matthew Leisten @leistenecon.bsky.social · Dec 1

#econsky What is, in your opinion, the biggest question IO has credibly settled?

Seems most of our contributions are either (a) fancy methods; (b) negative results (e.g. don't regress price on HHI); (c) narrow in scope (yogurts, etc); or (d) contested (have markups actually risen?)

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Frank Verboven @frankverboven.bsky.social · Dec 2

Paper by Ryan Kellogg on oil and the green paradox below 👇

Other interesting and complementary paper on the role of strategic incentives is by our job market candidate Charlotte Decanniere:

“Pump it? Market Power and the Energy Transition in the Global Oil Market”

sites.google.com/view/charlot...

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Frank Verboven @frankverboven.bsky.social · Nov 30

Waarom een Musk misschien nuttiger zou zijn in België dan de VS met onze loonnormwet & loonindexering, wet op sluitingsuren, wet op verkopen met verlies, koopjeswet, vestigingswet voor apothekers, enz…

m.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20241...

De overheid afslanken met Elon Musk: België kan zijn diensten wellicht beter gebruiken dan de VS

Is Elon Musk de juiste man op het verkeerde continent? De tsaar van de overheidsefficiëntie kan in België misschien meer nuttig werk verrichten dan in de VS.

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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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Frank Verboven @frankverboven.bsky.social · Nov 22

I presented the paper Uncovering the Sources of Market Segmentation: Evidence from the EU and the US, joint work with Joris Hoste (Cambridge)

Frank Verboven @frankverboven.bsky.social · Nov 22

I enjoyed participating in the workshop on Trade, Market Failures, and Development in honor of the 2024 Distinguished CES Fellow Penny Goldberg. www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...

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Martin Halla @mhalla.bsky.social · Nov 19

Hey IO-folks — WU Vienna calling!

We have a non-tenure track Assistant Professor position (Post-Doc) in Industrial Organization open at @wuvienna.bsky.social.

Apply via EJM (econjobmarket.org) or here wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com/Assistant-Pr...

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Jonathan B. Baker @jbbecon.bsky.social · Nov 18

Just published:
How economists influence antitrust: the contributions of Tim Bresnahan, Janusz Ordover, Steve Salop, and Bobby Willig. #EconSky

doi.org/10.1093/jaen...

How economists influence antitrust: the contributions of Tim Bresnahan, Janusz Ordover, Steve Salop, and Bobby Willig

Abstract. Economists influence antitrust policy through theoretical and empirical economic research, translation and synthesis of that research, direct par

doi.org

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Industrial Organization Society @indorgsociety.bsky.social · Nov 15

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.

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Christopher Knittel @knittelmit.bsky.social · Nov 10

My first BlueSky post.

New paper alert! With #JohnAsker, #AllanCollardWexler, the great #CharlotteDeCanniere, and #JandeLoecker. Note that Charlotte is on the market this year, so you should hire her. @energy.bsky.social @energy.bsky.social #climate

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https://www.nber.org/papers/w33115

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Frank Verboven @frankverboven.bsky.social · Oct 11

Together with Jo Van Biesebroeck we just finished the paper "Demand, Competition and Public Policy in the Automobile Industry - An Overview of Research since BLP"

Happy reading, while waiting to see whether Empirical IO will get a Nobel prize this year drive.google.com/file/d/1RPN8...

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Jonathan B. Baker @jbbecon.bsky.social · Oct 4

How do economists influence antitrust? My essay frames and draws on profiles of four IO economists influential in antitrust: Tim Bresnahan (@timobres.bsky.social), Janusz Ordover, Steve Salop (@stevesalop.bsky.social), and Bobby Willig. Available at ssrn.com/abstract=4630062

How Economists Influence Antitrust:<span> </span>The Contributions of Tim Bresnahan, Janusz Ordover, Steve Salop, and Bobby Willig

<div> Economists influence antitrust policy through theoretical and empirical economic research, translation and synthesis of that research, direct participati

ssrn.com

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