Paolo G. Piacquadio
@pgpiacquadio.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at Uni. St. Gallen. Interested in normative views and their policy implications.
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WP alert (with @frikknesje.bsky.social): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

How to evaluate policies affecting future generations?

Time and inequality attitudes are essential.

By disentangling these attitudes, we better understand tradeoffs and unveil plenty of tractable criteria.

#econsky
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juemos.bsky.social
My department is hiring an assistant professor of environmental behavioral sciences. The research area is open but we are particularly interested in people with research on collective action or computational social sciences.

Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.
Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Social Sciences (Environmental Behavioral Sciences)
facultypositions.stanford.edu
pgpiacquadio.bsky.social
I very much look forward to presenting this paper next Monday Sept 8th at 5pm Paris time for the NE&EP webinar series.

For registering and/or link, write to [email protected].
pgpiacquadio.bsky.social
Working paper alert!

I generalize discounted utilitarianism to endogenous population settings and avoid most drawbacks of existing welfare criteria.

Read more here: www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo....

Comments are welcome!
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moritzdrupp.bsky.social
🌍📈 Paper “The Economics of Inequality and the Environment” out today in the Journal of Economic Literature @aeajournals.bsky.social, joint with Jasper Meya, Lutz Sager & Ulrike Kornek.

See short summary and PM by PIK linked below, and the paper here
👉 pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
pgpiacquadio.bsky.social
Working paper alert!

I generalize discounted utilitarianism to endogenous population settings and avoid most drawbacks of existing welfare criteria.

Read more here: www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo....

Comments are welcome!
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cepr.org
Final reminder to junior researchers to submit a paper for the new award from the Sciences Po Department of Economics honouring the memory of Ghazala Azmat.
cepr.org/events/ghaza...
#CallForPapers #EconSky
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jackbrusco.bsky.social
Very happy to see this in print!
jpube.bsky.social
Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:

"VAT incidence in real VAT systems"

By Giacomo Brusco & Tejaswi Velayudhan

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#econsky #publiceconomics
pgpiacquadio.bsky.social
Great paper by @brianjabarian.bsky.social and @luca-henkel.bsky.social on automated job interviews.

Is AI better at recruiting?

Based on 70.000+ real job interviews:
- 12% more job offers;
- 18% more hires;
- 17% higher retention...

- and 78% of applicants choose AI if given the choice.
Voice AI in Firms: A Natural Field Experiment on Automated Job Interviews
We study the impact of replacing human recruiters with AI voice agents to conduct job interviews. Partnering with a recruitment firm, we conducted a natural fie
papers.ssrn.com
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Looking for 2 PhD students to join our lab at the Institute of Behavioral Science and Technology @unisg.ch! We study how people interact with AI and automation at the intersection of marketing, psychology, and technology.
Fully-funded positions available. Please share! 🙏
HSG: 2 PhD Positions in Consumer Behavior and Technology (m/f/d)
A passion for behavioral science and new technologies. An excellent master's degree (or equivalent) in marketing, psychology, behavioral economics, or a related field. Outstanding English communicatio...
jobs.unisg.ch
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thebjps.bsky.social
Just accepted:

‘The Impossibility of Non-manipulable Probability Aggregation’
– Franz Dietrich & Christian List

Abstract in alt text or read the full paper here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

#philsci #philsky
ABSTRACT. A probability aggregation rule assigns to each profile of probability functions across a group of individuals (representing their individual probability assignments to some propositions) a collective probability function (representing the group’s probability assignment). The rule is ‘non-manipulable’ if no group member can manipulate the collective probability for any proposition in the direction of his or her own probability by misrepresenting his or her probability function (‘strategic voting’). We show that, except in trivial cases, no probability aggregation rule satisfying two very mild conditions (non-dictatorship and consensus preservation) is non-manipulable.
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frikknesje.bsky.social
Our approach makes it possible to reflect the values that people actually hold – and not just those that are easy to calculate. #Economics #Philosophy

Pretty big, right? News item in the comments.
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mhaslberger.bsky.social
Our article (with @madselk.bsky.social, @jacobnyrup.bsky.social, @benansell.bsky.social, @aslicansunar.bsky.social, and Laure Bokobza) on why it is so hard to counteract wealth inequality through inheritance taxation is out in @worldpolitics.bsky.social!
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Do we change who we are when #AI is watching?
New paper in @pnas.org: Job applicants emphasize analytical traits and hide intuition when assessed by AI—believing that's what algorithms want.
Result? Companies may hire people good at "performing for algorithms" rather than the best candidates.
AI assessment changes human behavior | PNAS
AI is increasingly replacing human decision-makers across domains. AI-based tools have become particularly common in assessment decisions, such as ...
pnas.org
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sorentsvendsen.bsky.social
Provokerende (ment godt) perspektiv i Frikks og @pgpiacquadio.bsky.social forskning.

For hvordan laver vi bedst økonom-modeller (egentlig også relevant ift. debatten omkring FM's regnemodel).

Læs artiklen Frikk Nesje linkter til for mere information og link til forskningsartiklen.

#dkpol #dkøko
Hvad er den samfundsøkonomiske diskonteringsrate?
Den samfundsøkonomiske diskonteringsrate bestemmer, hvor meget mindre vi vægter fremtidige gevinster eller tab sammenlignet med dem, vi oplever i dag.

Fordi vi som regel foretrækker at få noget godt nu frem for senere, nedskriver økonomer værdien af fremtidige konsekvenser – f.eks. fra klimaindsatser – med en rentesats. Det kaldes tidsdiskontering.

En anden begrundelse er ulighedsaversion. Hvis fremtidige generationer forventes at være rigere end os, nedskriver økonomer værdien af fremtidige konsekvenser.

Metoden bruges i cost-benefit-analyser til at afgøre, hvor meget det er værd at investere i dag for at opnå fordele langt ude i fremtiden.
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🚨 We’re hiring! A post-doc opportunity in an international team working on a life course microsimulation modelling of multi-dimensional well-being for five European countries

Apply here 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/347427
#EconSky #EconJobs #AcademicJobs #JobAlert #Microsimulation #WellBeing
Assistant Professor
Project title: A life course microsimulation perspective on multi-dimensional well-being for five European countries (WELLSIM) CHANSE "Enhancing well-being for the future"
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
pgpiacquadio.bsky.social
We start in about 30 minutes!

You can still register and get the zoom link!!!
pgpiacquadio.bsky.social
Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd at @unisg.ch and online:

PhD minicourse on Minimalistic Market Design

with @tayfunsonmez.bsky.social !!!

Pls share and register for online or onsite attendance!

#econsky #econ #academicsky #marketdesign
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pgpiacquadio.bsky.social
Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd at @unisg.ch and online:

PhD minicourse on Minimalistic Market Design

with @tayfunsonmez.bsky.social !!!

Pls share and register for online or onsite attendance!

#econsky #econ #academicsky #marketdesign
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tayfunsonmez.bsky.social
Please join us for the 4-lecture mini course I will give on minimalist market design at University of StGallen this week. The course is open to all and available both in person and via zoom. See below for the registration info and the link in the next comment for the course slides.
pgpiacquadio.bsky.social
Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd at @unisg.ch and online:

PhD minicourse on Minimalistic Market Design

with @tayfunsonmez.bsky.social !!!

Pls share and register for online or onsite attendance!

#econsky #econ #academicsky #marketdesign
pgpiacquadio.bsky.social
Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd at @unisg.ch and online:

PhD minicourse on Minimalistic Market Design

with @tayfunsonmez.bsky.social !!!

Pls share and register for online or onsite attendance!

#econsky #econ #academicsky #marketdesign
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ingridvandijk.bsky.social
Apply before May 15th for the doctoral positions at the Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University with my colleagues Martin Dribe, Jeanne Cilliers or with me! These are externally funded, 4-year positions in fascinating projects. We're a highly international department in a cute small city 🌞
ingridvandijk.bsky.social
I'm looking for 1-2 doctoral candidates in my ERC-funded project "Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations". These are 4-year, fully funded positions at Lund University. More info: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Doctoral student in Economic History – Inequalities in health and survival
The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a l
lu.varbi.com
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econ.uzh.ch
What makes one economic outcome fairer than another – and who decides? ⚖️ Should cheap groceries come at the cost of underpaid workers? What IS fair?

In a powerful lecture at @uzh_ch, Maya Eden lays out an ethical framework for economic policy.

📺 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI8C...
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undercoverhist.bsky.social
From the archives: how much was history of economics still taught in US economics graduate programs in 1989.

Are your students more creative and reflexive now that close to 0% of them are offered a class in history of economics?

#econsky