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Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Aziendali "Marco Fanno" @dsea-unipd.bsky.social · 27d

📢The XIX GRASS Workshop opened today at @dsea-unipd.bsky.social, University of Padua. This year’s edition is dedicated to Stefano Vannucci, one of the GRASS founders.
📍Palazzo della Salute, Padua
📅11–12 September 2025
🔗Full programme: unipd.link/GRASS_Padua_...
#EconBlueSky

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Leonardo Madio @leonardomadio.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thanks a lot Carlo for presenting our work!

Latest version available on SSRN

Carlo Reggiani @mikybartoli.bsky.social · Aug 31

It was a great pleasure to present our paper with @leonardomadio.bsky.social, Matt Mitchell and Martin Quinn on Asymmetric content moderation in search markets: the case of adult websites (new version available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....). @earie-news.bsky.social #econsky

Presenting our paper on content moderation

Cocktail reception at the Botanical gardens

Opening address in the beautiful Ateneo Mercantil

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Fabio Giglietto @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social · Aug 27

Critical resource for researchers requesting platform data under DSA Article 40.4. Without understanding how VLOPs store data, you can't formulate processable requests—leading to easy dismissals. Anyone preparing a data access request should read this report first -> edmo.eu/publications...

Platform Datasets: Challenges, Insights, and Examples for Researchers under Article 40 of the Digital Services Act – EDMO

edmo.eu

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Bernhard Ganglmair @ganglmair.bsky.social · Aug 27

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS

👩‍🎓 Workshop Disclosure, Information Sharing, and Secrecy
DISS 2026
📅 February 23-24, 2026
🔬 Online (Zoom)

Deadline: November 15

Submit papers on information disclosure (or non-disclosure) in econ, mgmt science, accounting, law, et al.

#EconSky
#EconConf
@tmartens.bsky.social

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · Jul 21

Sugar in spaghetti sauce, @theguardian.com??? 😱 This calls for a classic Italian response: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fgN...

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Jul 14

The discussions about big platforms are intense. The systemic risks are real.

Now the #DSA Delegated Act is finally here to ensure data access for researchers. Time to put this system to work.

W @lkseiling.bsky.social, we show how @techpolicypress.bsky.social

www.techpolicy.press/time-to-deli...

Time To Deliver: Stakeholder Roles In The EU’s Delegated Act On Data Access | TechPolicy.Press

The Delegated Act on data access under the DSA provides much-needed clarity about both the access process and expectations towards the actors involved in it.

www.techpolicy.press

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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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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · Jul 9

123456? How TF did they get my cell phone pin?!

Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · Jul 9

McDonald's uses an AI bot called "Olivia" for hiring. A pair of hackers found they could access every conversation job applicants had with it—including all the personal info they shared—by exploiting security vulnerabilities as basic as using the password "123456". www.wired.com/story/mcdona...

McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’

Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai.

www.wired.com

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Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Aziendali "Marco Fanno" @dsea-unipd.bsky.social · Jul 4

Last minute addition to our Econ Seminar series! Lorenzo Magnolfi, Assistant Prof. of Econ @uwmadison.bsky.social, will present his paper: "Conduct and Scale Economies: Evaluating Tariffs in the US Auto Market".
📅10 July at 11.30 AM CEST
📍Seminar room & online
ℹ️https://unipd.link/Economics_Seminars

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Leonardo Madio @leonardomadio.bsky.social · Jun 16

Then, we should also put a negative weight to these pubs when we evaluate CVs and allocate funding!

Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · Jun 15

What can we do?

First, think twice before sending your work to a for-profit publisher.

Second, IGNORE ALL REQUESTS from these publishers. Do not subsidise their business model.

Third, tell your boss to tell her boss. Change happens when the funders take action.

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Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Aziendali "Marco Fanno" @dsea-unipd.bsky.social · Jun 12

Next week we wrap up our Economics Seminars with:
June 17, Sarah Cattan @theifs.bsky.social
“Workforce Quality and Early Childhood Development at Scale”
June 18, P-L Vézina @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
“Refugees and entrepreneurship: Evidence from Ukrainians in Poland”
unipd.link/Economics_Se...

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Leonardo Madio @leonardomadio.bsky.social · May 22

Thanks a lot Carlo for presenting our work on the effects of the largest ever content moderation happened online on traffic diversion

Carlo Reggiani @mikybartoli.bsky.social · May 22

It was great to participate in the 2nd IO MadBar @cemfi.es, listen to great presentations, meet old and new friends, and present my work on asymmetric content moderation in the adult industry (joint with @leonardomadio.bsky.social, Matt Mitchell and Martin Quinn) #madbar #econsky #econconf

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zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social · May 17

Grok system prompts are now public. Transparency is helpful. ChatGPT and Gemini also have prompts.

So, Grok is instructed to be “extremely skeptical” and not to “blindly defer to mainstream authority or media.”

Grok now says “both sides of this debate have biases” about number of Holocaust deaths.

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Leonardo Madio @leonardomadio.bsky.social · May 14

Day 2 of the Padova IO Workshop!

See you next year for the 3rd edition!

Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Aziendali "Marco Fanno" @dsea-unipd.bsky.social · May 14

📌Day 2 of the 2nd Padova IO Workshop
Final day at #dSEA University of Padua with another great line-up of speakers.
Today’s sessions included a keynote by Prof. Massimo Motta @upf.edu.
Thanks to all participants & see you next year for the 3rd edition!
Info: www.economia.unipd.it/en/2nd-padov...

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Leonardo Madio @leonardomadio.bsky.social · May 14

A great day with many exciting talks today on patents, standards, digital markets, markets for information, and sequential bargaining

Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Aziendali "Marco Fanno" @dsea-unipd.bsky.social · May 13

📌Day 1 of the 𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗜𝗢 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽
Photos from today’s sessions at #dSEA University of Padua!
Topics covered:
🔹Patents & Standards
🔹Digital Economics
🔹Applied Theory
Thanks to all speakers for their contributions.
Looking forward to Day 2!ℹ️https://www.economia.unipd.it/en/2nd-padova-io-workshop

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · May 13

Data that are "available upon request".

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Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Aziendali "Marco Fanno" @dsea-unipd.bsky.social · May 8

Day 1 of the #REStud Tour 2025 in Padua is a wrap!
Outstanding presentations in our first day of the REStud Tour in Padua.
We look forward to tomorrow's talks!
📍Barco Teatro, Padua
🔗Full program & participants: www.economia.unipd.it/en/restud-to...

@dsea-unipd.bsky.social University of Padua

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Leonardo Madio @leonardomadio.bsky.social · May 8

The 1st day of the REStud Tour in Padua has officially started!

Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Aziendali "Marco Fanno" @dsea-unipd.bsky.social · May 8

The #REStud Tour 2025 is officially underway here in Padua! We’re thrilled to host the first stop of this prestigious tour, welcoming top scholars in Economics and Finance from leading US universities.
📍Barco Teatro, Padua
👉Full program & participants
www.economia.unipd.it/en/restud-to...

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · May 5

We have about 50 new reproduction reports! We will be sharing those over the next few weeks. See here if you cannot wait: ideas.repec.org/s/zbw/i4rdps....

Let's start with four reproductions of articles @nathumbehav.nature.com. A short thread with links to reports and authors' responses.

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DigitalEcon.org @digitalecon.org · May 5

🚨Coming up at #VIDEseminar this week: Garrett Johnson (Boston University)

“Privacy-Enhanced versus Traditional Retargeting: Ad Effectiveness in an Industry-Wide Field Experiment”

🔜 Wed, May 7, 11am New York, 5pm Berlin. Open to anyone!

Further information: www.digitalecon.org/seminar

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Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Aziendali "Marco Fanno" @dsea-unipd.bsky.social · Apr 29

📌Level Up Research: Replication in Action
Replication Games – Part II
Final stretch this morning at the Replication Games!
Teams are completing projects with Derek Mikola & @i4replication.bsky.social. Focused work and great collaboration today at #dSEA University of Padua.
unipd.link/replication-...

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Leonardo Madio @leonardomadio.bsky.social · Apr 28

Replications (and Learning) Ongoing!

Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Aziendali "Marco Fanno" @dsea-unipd.bsky.social · Apr 28

📌Level Up Research: Replication in Action
Teams are hard at work at the Replication Games! Our participants are reproducing published results and testing their robustness, guided by Derek Mikola (@i4replication.bsky.social).
Great atmosphere at #dSEA University of Padua! unipd.link/replication-...

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Leonardo Madio @leonardomadio.bsky.social · Apr 28

Day 1 of our ‘Replication in Action’ at @dsea-unipd.bsky.social

Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Aziendali "Marco Fanno" @dsea-unipd.bsky.social · Apr 28

'Level Up Research: Replication in Action' is underway at #dSEA UniPD and continues tomorrow! Two days dedicated to research excellence, rigor & transparency in partnership with @i4replication.bsky.social and UniCredit Foundation.
📷Great discussions and turnout!
More info unipd.link/replication-...

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Leonardo Madio @leonardomadio.bsky.social · Apr 27

Tomorrow our @dsea-unipd.bsky.social will be hosting the replication games (with @i4replication.bsky.social )

Faculty, postdocs, and PhD students all involved in replicating papers in top Econ and Management journals

Looking forward to it!

Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Aziendali "Marco Fanno" @dsea-unipd.bsky.social · Feb 12

📢Save the date: Level Up Research: Replication in Action!
📅 28-29 April 2025

📍Organized by @dsea-unipd.bsky.social with @i4replication.bsky.social & UniCredit Foundation.

🔹Expert Talks on replication & pre-registration.
🔹Workshops with top scholars.

🔗Info & registration unipd.link/replication-...

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Leonardo Madio @leonardomadio.bsky.social · Apr 26

Thanks a lot! We’ll think about it as well!

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