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UNET @unet.bsky.social · 10h

The UNET seminars continue!
📅 Tuesday, Oct 14, 2–3 pm
📍 Room C43 + online
Our next speaker is Mehmet Mars Seven (@mehmetmars7.bsky.social, King’s), presenting “Elo performance in sports.”
🔗 kcl.ac.uk/people/mehmet-ismail

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Toomas Hinnosaar @toomas.hinnosaar.net · 4d

The first chance to see the presentation:
bsky.app/profile/unet...

UNET @unet.bsky.social · 6d

The UNET seminars are back!
📅 Tuesdays, 2–3 pm
📍 Room C43 + online
The first talk is "Collusion without Patience" on Oct 7 by Toomas Hinnosaar (@toomas.hinnosaar.net), joint with Jacopo Bizzotto.
toomas.hinnosaar.net

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Toomas Hinnosaar @toomas.hinnosaar.net · 4d

Trailer: Collusion without Patience

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UNET @unet.bsky.social · 6d

The UNET seminars are back!
📅 Tuesdays, 2–3 pm
📍 Room C43 + online
The first talk is "Collusion without Patience" on Oct 7 by Toomas Hinnosaar (@toomas.hinnosaar.net), joint with Jacopo Bizzotto.
toomas.hinnosaar.net

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 26d

After a repeal of North Dakota's Sunday morning retail ban, morning visits to Walmart stores rose sharply, reducing cross-border travel & shifting shopping to preferred times and stores.
J Donna, @marit.hinnosaar.net @toomas.hinnosaar.net @andre-trindade.bsky.social
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky

Map of Walmart Supercenter locations in North Dakota and neighbouring states.

Sunday morning store closures impose significant costs on consumers, but supporters of such ‘blue laws’ argue these rules protect workers, family life, and small retailers. This column uses GPS data to study the effects of lifting North Dakota’s strict Sunday morning retail ban in 2019. After the repeal, Sunday morning visits to Walmart stores rose sharply, reducing cross-border travel and shifting shopping to preferred times and stores. The consumer welfare loss from the ban was equivalent to an extra 1.4 miles (2.25 km) per shopping trip, highlighting a trade-off between a day of shared rest and consumer flexibility.

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · May 22

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "The Limits of Limited Commitment" by Jacopo Bizzotto, Toomas Hinnosaar, and Adrien Vigier. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The Limits of Limited Commitment

(Forthcoming Article) - We study limited strategic leadership. A collection of subsets covering the leader’s action space determines her commitment opportunities. We characterize the outcomes resultin...

www.aeaweb.org

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · Jul 25

Call for papers, 4th UK Workshop on Digital Economics, London 28 November 2025: competitionpolicy.ac.uk/events/4th-w... This is always a great event

Centre for Competition Policy

High quality independent research into competition policy and regulation

competitionpolicy.ac.uk

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SSRN @ssrn.bsky.social · Jul 22

This paper examines the effects of deregulating store opening hours, specifically focusing on North Dakota's repeal of its Sunday closing law in 2019.
spkl.io/63326A1iQu
@marit.hinnosaar.net @andre-trindade.bsky.social @toomas.hinnosaar.net

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Toomas Hinnosaar @toomas.hinnosaar.net · Jul 23

Summer 2025 reality check for those who rely on LLMs for help with math and logic: chatgpt.com/s/t_6880b52a...
I tested four models, all gave wrong answers (ChatGPT (4o), Gemini (2.5flash), Perplexity, DeepSeek). For some other numbers, the answers were correct.

Multiplication result

chatgpt.com

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UNET @unet.bsky.social · May 15

Our final UNET seminar of the year is on May 20th by Rossella Argenziano (University of Essex), and she will present "Data governance with vulnerable individuals" (with Francesco Squintani). As usual, it is from 3-4pm in C43 and on Teams.
sites.google.com/site/rargenz...

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Toomas Hinnosaar @toomas.hinnosaar.net · May 9

I think people don’t yet realize that the new Pope might prefer Chicago-style pizza over Italian pizza.

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UNET @unet.bsky.social · Apr 30

The speaker for the next week's UNET seminar on Tuesday (May 6) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams is Gianni De Fraja (Nottingham). He presents "Discrimination spillovers, glass ceilings and pay gaps" (with Jozsef Sakovics)
sites.google.com/site/giannid...

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UNET @unet.bsky.social · Apr 24

The speaker for the next UNET seminar on Tuesday (April 29) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams is Martin Cripps (UCL). He presents a paper, "The asymptotic cost of complexity".
sites.google.com/site/mwcripp...

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UNET @unet.bsky.social · Apr 11

The speaker for the next UNET seminar on Tuesday (April 15) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams is Larry Samuelson (Yale). He presents a paper, "Delegated Bidding".
sites.google.com/site/larryat...

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Toomas Hinnosaar @toomas.hinnosaar.net · Apr 3

"For every economist, there is an equal and opposite economist." - John N Kennedy
Has anybody met my equal and opposite economist? What about yours?
youtu.be/zJepmdxrf7Q?...

Trump Risks Historic Economic Damage | Musk Crushed In Wisconsin | Sen. Booker's Marathon Speech

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Toomas Hinnosaar @toomas.hinnosaar.net · Apr 2

Congratulations to @marit.hinnosaar.net and @aggraziano.bsky.social on their promotion to Associate Professors! Well done, @uniofnottingham.bsky.social !

Alejandro G. Graziano @aggraziano.bsky.social · Apr 1

The University of Nottingham promoted me to associate professor!

This would have been impossible without fantastic coauthors, advisors, colleagues and the invaluable support from my family and friends.

THANK YOU!

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UNET @unet.bsky.social · Mar 19

Our next UNET seminar is on Tuesday (March 25) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams. @fgiovannoni.bsky.social (Bristol) presents "Pricing Novel Goods" (with @toomas.hinnosaar.net ). sites.google.com/site/frances...

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UNET @unet.bsky.social · Mar 12

Our next UNET seminar is on Tuesday (March 18) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams. Mikhail Safronov from @Cambridge_Uni presents "Strategic renegotiation in repeated games" (with Bruno Strulovici).
www.caths.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr...

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UNET @unet.bsky.social · Mar 1

Our first UNET seminar in 2025 is on Tuesday (March 4) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams. Jack Fanning (Brown University) presents "Searching for surplus"
sites.google.com/a/brown.edu/...

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Toomas Hinnosaar @toomas.hinnosaar.net · Jan 28

A deep joke by DeepSeek?

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Toomas Hinnosaar @toomas.hinnosaar.net · Jan 28

The result? All three could solve Gemini’s and DeepSeek’s problems, but only DeepSeek solved ChatGPT’s! Impressive.

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Toomas Hinnosaar @toomas.hinnosaar.net · Jan 28

I did a simple test to check the math capabilities of three AI models: ChatGPT (model o1), Gemini (2.0 experimental), and DeepSeek (DeepThink R1). I asked each to create a math problem they could solve but the other AI tools would struggle with.

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Toomas Hinnosaar @toomas.hinnosaar.net · Jan 28

Those email footers should be updated:
Sent from my mobile device. My sincerest and most heartfelt apologies for all of the autocorrections, as well as the semantically optimized yet contextually irrelevant phrasing that has been generously introduced by AI without my explicit intention or approval.

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Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social · Jan 24

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣
NICEP Conference
What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics
📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd
📍 Nottingham, UK
Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton
sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh...
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Kevin A. Bryan @afinetheorem.bsky.social · Dec 13

Super excited to publicly launch "All Day TA" (http://www.alldayta.com), a product @joshgans.bsky.social and I have been working on with our team over the last year. Short version: if you teach in spring, you will want to use this! It's the future of higher education. A short thread: 1/x

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