News & Musings
News & Musings
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Granting agencies: when you give your most prestigious grants to people whose publication lists are padded with irrelevant—if not outright nonsensical—papers, and fund projects to produce more of them, you're not funding excellence; you are laundering mediocrity through prestige.
Aptitudini, atitudini etc...
Domnu Mugurel de la @bnr_ro, alte banci centrale sunt moarte după cercetarile astea, voi ni’ca? A, stai..
𝑀𝑖𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐷𝑢𝑚𝑚ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑡 𝑘𝑎̈𝑚𝑝𝑓𝑒𝑛 𝐺𝑜̈𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑏𝑠𝑡 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑠.
În mintea mea, verdictul e clar: amice, ești idiot… Dar, într-o dezbatere serioasă, prostia nu se combate. Se lasă să depună mărturie contra ei însăși.
(credit lui Schiller și Cipolla)
Had a great time & productive discussions with the @CBChileresearch folks yesterday: tnx again for having me! For those interested, here the slides for my 90-min talk:
(the draft accessible via arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07024 or IZA ).
This Wednesday, March 4th, Ioan-Sebastian Buhai from the Swedish Institute for Social Research & PUC Chile will join us to present his paper at our weekly seminar, titled: “Wage Dispersion, On-the-Job Search, and Stochastic Match Productivity: A Mean Field Game Approach”.
Every time I discuss the economic and social disruptions caused by the worldwide decline in fertility, I hear the same response: artificial intelligence (AI) and robots will make this issue irrelevant.
I find the answer deeply paradoxical because, despite being an economist, I
This is what @ShengwuLi calls “informed neutrality” between reasonable ethical principles in the following fantastic paper, a perspective also reflected in minimalist market design. Indeed, economists are in a unique position to formalize these issues.
Ethics and market design
Abstract. This paper examines the relationship between ethics and market design. It argues that market design should ...
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@ben_moll Very interesting read. I think there are two important gaps though:
First, this overstates how much the bottleneck was ever just writing the paper. In serious empirical work, the scarce inputs are still good questions, credible identification, access to data, institutional
Au Château de Chantilly, la crème n’est pas que dans l’assiette : elle est dans l’air, sur les toiles, au galop. Le Nôtre a tracé les jardins ; le Musée Condé garde les chefs-d’œuvre. Notre famille y a goûté l’histoire... et l’excédent du consommateur fut délicieux! Prix d’ombre.
Building off my announcement last week, I'm excited to share that we now have a Lean proof of the 24-dimensional case! This remarkable formalisation was completed with the help of @mathematics_inc's tool Gauss. Grateful to my collaborators and the community for all your support!
