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Vitali Gretschko @vitalig.bsky.social · Nov 27

"Is it true that the proofs in my papers are correct?"

"In principle, yes, because no referee has ever ventured into the appendix."

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Vitali Gretschko @vitalig.bsky.social · Nov 26

Maybe Referee 2 wanted to reject the other referees‘ opinion.

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Vitali Gretschko @vitalig.bsky.social · Nov 25

Question at Radio Cambridgestan:
“Is it true that my proof lacks elegance?”
Answer:
“In principle, yes, but only because the referee expected it to rhyme.”

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Vitali Gretschko @vitalig.bsky.social · Nov 25

“Reviewer: ‘The paper needs more clarity.’
Me: ‘What specifically?’
Reviewer: ‘Yes.’”

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Vitali Gretschko @vitalig.bsky.social · Nov 22

This is sooo true. I will put it in my email signature.

Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Nov 20

When I will respond to your email

Histogram peaked at 3 minutes and 2 weeks since sent

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Vitali Gretschko @vitalig.bsky.social · Nov 22

„Give me a place to stand (and theory) and I will move the world“ Archimedes after reading a book on game theory.

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Vitali Gretschko @vitalig.bsky.social · Nov 20

Brilliant idea, explained simply. Will definitely read the paper and think about how to use it in my work.

Shani Cohen @shanicn.bsky.social · Nov 20

I am on the job market, which seems like a great opportunity for my first post on here! My job market paper is about failures of contingent thinking -- the act of reasoning about hypothetical events. 1/

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Shani Cohen @shanicn.bsky.social · Nov 20

I am on the job market, which seems like a great opportunity for my first post on here! My job market paper is about failures of contingent thinking -- the act of reasoning about hypothetical events. 1/

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Vitali Gretschko @vitalig.bsky.social · Nov 20

Never thought of that. Thanks for the advice…

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Vitali Gretschko @vitalig.bsky.social · Nov 19

That seems hard to copy. Even with the right advisor. Best anti mid-life crisis advice: keep on having small children. There will be no time for a mid-life crisis.

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Vitali Gretschko @vitalig.bsky.social · Nov 19

Yes, please!

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · Nov 18

A small but non-trivial hill I am willing to die on:

The abstract of every empirical paper should include the core empirical findings--numbers included!

Not "we find police reduce crime," but "we find that a 1% increase in police yields a 0.4% drop in crime."

The abstract isn't clickbait.

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Elliot Lipnowski @elliotlip.bsky.social · Nov 19

Today's edition of "📈📉 papers you should know" is Amanda Friedenberg's @econometric.bsky.social paper, "Bargaining Under Strategic Uncertainty: The Role of Second-Order Optimism". It's a wonderful example of a paper that delivers new insights from studying an old game.

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Shengwu Li @shengwuli.bsky.social · Nov 16

I wrote an intro to the literature on simple mechanisms. Out now in the JEP.

It’s a short (14-page) plain-language summary, designed to get students to the research frontier. 📈📉

pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

pubs.aeaweb.org

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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · Nov 17

found claude fun to chat with about this

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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · Nov 17

Here's Bryan Caplan writing about math in economics.

Seems very wrong to me. I wonder what the quickest refutation is that would make sense to most practicing economists.

www.betonit.ai/p/economath_...

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Nageeb Ali @snageebali.bsky.social · Nov 16

Paper worth reading: "The Optimality of Majority Rule" by Nina Bobkova.

It offers a new perspective on why simple majority-rule may be best: it not only aggregates information but it also motivates voters to learn about what really matters.

Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1pVVE...

#polecon

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Virtual Market Design Seminar @vmdseminar.bsky.social · Nov 15

Monday's great talk by Alexey Kushnir (Carnegie Mellon University), 'Undergraduate Course Allocation through Competitive Markets' with. Daniel Kornbluth is now available on our YouTube channel.

➡️ Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eoI... 📉📈

Alexey Kushnir: Undergraduate Course Allocation through Competitive Markets

YouTube video by Virtual Market Design Seminar

www.youtube.com

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Elliot Lipnowski @elliotlip.bsky.social · Nov 15

Did you know you can make BLOCKLISTs on bluesky?! Marciano even took the time to make one for QJE's use.

Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · Nov 12

I made a theory starter pack. It includes some CS/Econ, pol-econ, and behavioral types as well... Lmk if you'd like to be added (or removed!) and I'll do my best - the edit functionality is a bit wonky atm

go.bsky.app/KAGmZH4

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Vitali Gretschko @vitalig.bsky.social · Nov 13

I just do not get it. How can figures in the end be optimal in any way?

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Vitali Gretschko @vitalig.bsky.social · Nov 13

Keynote to rule them all!

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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · Nov 12

there's a view that this place is unbearably lefty and less valuable/less promising because of that. i don't think it's true

but it WOULD be great for econsky to form a norm of not piling on when people say something against the prevailing orthodoxy

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