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Jūra Liaukonytė @jurawho.bsky.social · Feb 3

My colleagues at Cornell simulated various tariff and retaliation scenarios proposed by Trump on China, Canada, Mexico, and the rest of the world, analyzing impacts on trade flows, sectoral output, real GDP, etc.

paper link➡️ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Jūra Liaukonytė @jurawho.bsky.social · Jan 24

I haven’t carefully read what their estimation strategy is, but they do multiple hypothesis correction, there seems to be a plausible biological mechanism and there is also a list of conditions with increased risks (mainly GI related), so I am less skeptical, but haven’t done careful due dilligence

Jūra Liaukonytė @jurawho.bsky.social · Jan 24

Somewhat relatedly, GLP-1s are having positive “side effects” as a function of treating obesity on some mental health disorders. Also VA sample in Nature Medicine

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Jūra Liaukonytė @jurawho.bsky.social · Jan 24

Botception

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Tracy Alloway @tracyalloway.bsky.social · Jan 22

Lots of people think Pretty Woman is an unrealistic depiction of the American dream and I'm afraid I must agree.

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Jūra Liaukonytė @jurawho.bsky.social · Jan 19

Pepsi facing an FTC lawsuit shows the impact of big-box retailers like Walmart shaping supplier contracts. My colleague’s @hristakeva.bsky.social research shows that smaller retailers, without this leverage use product selection and supplier replacement threats as tools to negotiate terms.

Sylvia Hristakeva @hristakeva.bsky.social · Jan 19

The FTC's case against PepsiCo highlights how promotional payments can give big-box retailers an unfair advantage. My research shows that side payments are just as important as wholesale price discounts in supplier negotiations. #FTC #EconSky

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Jimbo Brand @jamesbrandecon.bsky.social · Jan 17

New paper with @adam-n-smith.bsky.social
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Our paper develops a new approach for estimating demand nonparametrically while imposing economic constraints and comes with a new package, NPDemand.jl! Some things we do in the paper 1/

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C. Kirabo Jackson @kirabojackson.bsky.social · Jan 11

Once we acknowledge it, we can make progress toward understanding the role of context, endogenous responses, etc.

One of my favorite papers to provide clarity of though in this way is this one....

www.jstor.org/stable/35901...

On the Specification and Estimation of the Production Function for Cognitive Achievement on JSTOR

Petra E. Todd, Kenneth I. Wolpin, On the Specification and Estimation of the Production Function for Cognitive Achievement, The Economic Journal, Vol. 113, No. 485, Features (Feb., 2003), pp. F3-F33

www.jstor.org

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Jūra Liaukonytė @jurawho.bsky.social · Jan 10

Can we request them as a reviewer? 😆

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Jūra Liaukonytė @jurawho.bsky.social · Jan 9

Feeling a bit surreal—just heard that JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley issued equity research notes on our paper with
@hristakeva.bsky.social and @leofeler.com

This is probably the closest my research will ever come to influencing markets! 📉📈

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Jakub Hlávka @jakubhlavka.bsky.social · Jan 6

Do I know any researchers who have done research on biomarker data in the HRS survey, ideally blood-based biomarkers, e.g. of ageing?

If so, very curious about sample size issues, particularly in case of running similar analyses in smaller countries.

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · Jan 4

Was thrilled to learn that @larsvil.bsky.social has a tutorial on reproducibility! Check it out, #EconSky.

larsvilhuber.github.io/tutorial-rep...

Tutorial reproducibility

larsvilhuber.github.io

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Jūra Liaukonytė @jurawho.bsky.social · Dec 31

Our paper is covered today in @washingtonpost.com by @crampell.bsky.social: ➡️ wapo.st/3BSKbXY

Here is the link to the working paper:⬇️
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

As always, comments are welcome!

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Jūra Liaukonytė @jurawho.bsky.social · Dec 31

🚨Closing out 2024 with a new paper with @hristakeva.bsky.social and @leofeler.com: How GLP-1 medications like Ozempic are reshaping food demand and changing the rules of the game for the food industry.

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Pedro Sant’Anna @pedrosantanna.bsky.social · Dec 30

Here are the first five sets of slides:

01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro...

02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b...

03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust...

04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct...

05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...

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Jūra Liaukonytė @jurawho.bsky.social · Dec 30

While this has happened many times before with automation and productivity gains, it makes me think about the shape of the marginal rate of substitution between labor and leisure—as getting more leisure gets cheaper, we might not actually want all of it, even at the price of zero.

Alex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social · Dec 29

82% became less happy w job, including those who became more productive

This highlights inconvenient possibility: productivity gains may be welfare reducing even w/o mass displacement

I'm not first to say this, but meaning needs to be more central to research on labor market implications of AI

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Jūra Liaukonytė @jurawho.bsky.social · Dec 26

Su šventėmis!! ❤️🇱🇹

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Jūra Liaukonytė @jurawho.bsky.social · Dec 22

Ah, that must be the Clausian Limit Theorem

Jūra Liaukonytė @jurawho.bsky.social · Dec 22

that addresses only the 1:1 problem and isn’t easily scalable to 1:M—the true source of stress and deadweight loss. :)

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Jūra Liaukonytė @jurawho.bsky.social · Dec 19

That's meta. Or should I say... you really stitched that together!

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Jūra Liaukonytė @jurawho.bsky.social · Dec 10

Here is another one by @robertevansanders.bsky.social

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Observational Price Variation in Scanner Data Cannot Reproduce Experimental Price Elasticities

We present experimental evidence that the observational price variation in typical supermarket scanner data is insufficient to recover true price elasticities.

papers.ssrn.com

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Jūra Liaukonytė @jurawho.bsky.social · Dec 8

When it comes to Russia, always listen to the Baltics (and Poles)…

Gabrielius Landsbergis @glandsbergis.bsky.social · Dec 8

The Syrian example shows that Russia can be kicked out and will go home. The Baltics were right – the West is strong enough to win. We don't need to fear "the Bear" in Ukraine or anywhere else he is causing chaos.

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Jūra Liaukonytė @jurawho.bsky.social · Dec 6

Whoa, missed this paper when it originally came out last year.

This paper studied 117 salespeople, linking DNA with key performance metrics like revenue, opportunity recognition, and effort.

The result? Evidence of a "Sales Gene"!

OA paper here: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/epdf/10....