Utku Ünver (M. Utku Ünver) and I are very happy to circulate two surveys, the most comprehensive ones we have ever written, prepared for the Handbook of Economics of Matching. Here is the second one focusing on applications of matching. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Together with M. Utku Ünver, I am very happy to circulate two surveys, most comprehensive ones we have ever written, prepared for the Handbook of Economics of Matching. The first one is on theory of matching under non-transferable utility.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Today at the Networks conference: Matthew Jackson presenting on supply chain disruptions, and Ben Golub 🇺🇦 presenting on multiplexing and diffusion

you guys ever do cover versions? just roll up at the talk and present someone else's paper from a few years back?

...was just around the corner. (I recall saying that every theory of inflation that I teach predicted that inflation would rise soon and fast.)
This was in *April 2021*. Ivory-tower academics agreed and gave many arguments against the twitter/media/policy consensus of the time..

One of the highlights of the academic macro season is starting in a few hours, and anyone can listen in.

One memory: 3 years ago, at this conference, a panel with myself, Carmen Reinhart , Lawrence H. Summers, and Raghuram Rajan on public debt (!) led to a discussion on how inflation...

Last week I had the strange but very positive experience of attending a conference in celebration of my 60th birthday (which was a few months ago). The talks were wonderful but slightly hard to find on YouTube, so I've made a playlist of most of them. 🧵

youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Amazing network economics workshop is coming up in the Twin Cities Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering sites.google.com/umn.edu/nse202… with Davide Viviano Ben Golub 🇺🇦 Matt Jackson, and many more. sites.google.com/umn.edu/nse202…

And, Miklos Koren will present our paper on collaboration in open-source software.

I'm hiring two Research Assistants based Busara Center in Nairobi! We will work on a number of exciting topics in development and behavioral economics. This two-year position is good preparation for a PhD in Economics. Details here: povertyactionlab.org/careers/resear…
Please RT and apply!

REMINDER: Gregor Jarosch, Benjamin Schoefer , Isaac Sorkin and I are organizing a Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) session on the Micro and Macro of Labor Markets on 8/6-8/7 August 6 at Stanford.

Submission due 5/15 here: economics.stanford.edu/site/paper-sub… (scroll down)

Every time I see a long format tweet on here

Much more about the properties of eigenvalues and eigenvectors when a matrix is perturbed by noise in each entry.

Just accepted at RFS. Thanks to co-authors, editor and referees! #DataEconomy Maryam Farboodi

🚨MATCH-UP (9-11 Sept, Oxford) submission portal is OPEN🚪:
easychair.org/conferences/?c…. Deadline extended to 8 May 🥳. Page limit is now 18 pages 🤯 in line with ACM SIGecom and SAGT. Keynotes🔑🎵: Tommy Andersson and Kavitha Telikepalli. Look forward to your submissions! 👇👇👇👇

The Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) closed down yesterday.

New Brookings article argues that we should face differential prices for transactions, based on whether we share data or not. This is how to induce competition on data pricing, so that consumers can reap gains. brookings.edu/articles/the-p… #DataEconomy #DataPrivacy

#econtwitter is there a good primer/guide to having chatgpt or claude (or some AI) convert very basic stata code into something that will generate latex tables? cc John Horton

Great thread.

The US gov't sets a very high effective price for perhaps the most essential input into high-quality policy work

And then people earnestly wonder why there isn't enough such work!