The call for papers for the next NBER Organizational Economics Working Group is up! We will meet in Cambridge, MA on Dec 5 and 6 2024. Cc Andrea Prat conference.nber.org/confsubmit/bac…

100% this, I am really worried that the importance of firm culture (and strategy/org structure) is completely overlooked in industrial policy discussions.

Call for papers for the NBER International Trade and Investment meeting at Stanford, Nov 22-23, 2024. Submission deadline midnight EST, Sept 20, 2024, and submission link below: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/bac…

Inspired by more data heavy, recent pieces from Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 and Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 apricitas.io/p/americas-man… noahpinion.blog/p/why-has-us-m…

The gains from agglomeration are believed to be highly localized. New research shows that large industrial plant openings not only raise the productivity of local incumbent plants but also of distant plants hundreds of miles away econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

It's well known that enjoyment of a thing often co-occurs with being skilled at said thing. But why? Does enjoyment come first, leading to experience and skill? Or is enjoyment downstream from being good in the first place? Several studies have tested this in the context of

Is this what the future of manufacturing will look like look like? At this semiconductor plant in Taiwan, the main factory floor is all automated. In a separate room, a team of 70-90 people monitor operations through 50,000 sensors generating up to 30 petabytes of data per day.

Health facilities need consistent support for sustained improvements. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11… Evidence out of Nigeria by Felipe Alexander Dunsch, Eze-Ajoku, Mario Macis, and me

This has major institutional implications! It might even play a huge role in China's tendency to be a large, unified regime and ultimately why it fell behind Europe technologically. To learn more, go check out my latest article: cremieux.xyz/p/from-caveman…

Archeology, history, economics, technology adoption and decay, state capacity, decentralizatio, corruption Rome and Mesopotamian myths… this article is a real tour de force, very interesting read.

L’acquisizione di ZT Systems da parte di AMD, per quasi 5 miliardi di dollari, è una buona occasione per parlare di una delle manager più interessanti al mondo, Lisa Su. Chi è? (1/10)

🚨SAVE THE DATE SIOE 2025 will take place August 24-26, 2025, hosted by UNSW in Sydney, Australia! Keynotes by Andrea Prat (Columbia), Rosalind Dixon (UNSW Law), and Scott Gehlbach (UChicago Harris)! sioe.org/news/sioe-2025…

Please, RT: FBK-IRVAPP in Trento welcomes experienced researchers at academic institutions or #research centers working on public #policy or related fields as #visiting research fellows irvapp.fbk.eu/visiting-resea… #sabbatical

Scholarships for doing an Econ PhD please help share the opportunity

It's an incredible success that US labor productivity has officially now grown FASTER post-COVID than in the four years leading up to COVID

Thinking about PhD programs in health policy? Harvard's is having an info session in two weeks (Sep 19, 12-1 ET). This could be especially useful if you don't know how the different "tracks" work, or which one is the best fit for you. harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Re-upping this, deadline approaching soon (Sept 19)!

Highly recommend David’s podcast, linked below. Great overview of his work on management training in developing countries.