Manuel Hoffmann
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HBS Postdoctoral Researcher @Harvard
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http://www.manuelhoffmann.org 10-05-2009 18:13:48
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🚨New paper🚨
Algorithmic Collusion by Large Language Models
Joint w/Sara Fish& Ran Shorrer
LLM use is automating many business decisions. Pricing might be next (or is already).
What if multiple firms decide in good faith to use off-the-shelf-LLMs for pricing? 1/3
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🚀 **Exploring the Hidden $9 Trillion Resource in Open Source Software**
A great new piece (hbswk.hbs.edu/item/open-sour…) from Working Knowledge by Rachel Layne on Threads as @layniaclayniac details our research (w/ Manuel Hoffmann & Yanuo Zhou) delving into the often underappreciated realm of open source software (OSS),
Bank policies allowing bank customers to share their financial data from their bank with fintechs lead to more financial innovation and improve outcomes for consumers and SMEs, from Tania Babina 🇺🇸 🇺🇦, Bahaj, Buchak, De Marco, Foulis, Gornall, Mazzola, and Yu nber.org/papers/w32089
Open source is worth $9 Trillion and 📈
Check out the recent paper by Frank Nagle and Manuel Hoffmann that does this calculation.
or watch my summary:
cc: Hugging Face
Out now - new WP w/ Manuel Hoffmann & Yanuo Zhou. We measure the value open source software contributes to the world's economy w/ data on the most widely used OSS packages at millions of global companies. TLDR: If OSS didn't exist, companies would spend 3.5 times more on software
Happy Holidays #EconTwitter . I just published my Structural Estimation lectures (with text, code, and exercises) from my time @uchicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics, and UChicago Computational Social Science MA as section of my new online jupyterbook Executable Books entitled, 'Computational Methods for Economists
🚨 Tips for writing a POSITIVE referee report.
As an author and an editor, I’ve noticed some reviewers are better than others at writing a positive referee report. So, I decided to share 3 simple tips in the thread below. 👇
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