Jason Abaluck and I are organizing the Cowles Labor and Public Economics Conference at Yale, June 2-3. Submit your papers by March 24: cowles.yale.edu/conferences/fo… Yale Department of Economics, Cowles Foundation, Tobin Center for Economic Policy Jason Abaluck

🚨 FINAL REMINDER: Submit your abstract for ITEA 2025 by Feb 28! Join top transportation economists at Northwestern this June for the conference (June 25-27) and annual school (June 23-25). Keynote by MIT's Dave Donaldson. Student discounts available!

🚀 Introducing ChronoBERT: A Chronologically Consistent Language Model ⏳📜 Excited to share ChronoBERT, a joint work with Linying Lv , Asaf Manela , and Jimmy Wu ! Our new pre-trained language model ensures no lookahead bias and strong language understanding! 🧠✨

NEW: Chicago Booth's Zingales invites guest contributors to the Washington Post’s oped pages to boycott the opinion section in response to the recent decision by its owner Jeff Bezos to restrict certain ideas from the publication. promarket.org/2025/03/05/tea…

.Zingales confronts the reality of a press owned by a billionaire, as he elaborates on his call to boycott the Washington Post’s op-ed section in response to owner Jeff Bezos decision to restrict what’s published. Learn more about his invitation to boycott:

Featured in the latest Digest: "The Price of Consolidation: Evidence from Anesthesia Practice Rollups" nber.org/digest/202503/…

Understanding causality vs. correlation is genuinely hard especially on complex topics like inflation. Our research finds that 60% of Americans think high interest rates cause high inflation & support rate cuts to fight it. But high rates usually respond to inflation,not cause it

Are you PhD student interested in AI/ML & economics? Apply to the Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute at Chicago Booth, Aug 7-13. Two-part program includes lectures from experts + 2-day conference on cutting-edge research. Deadline March 28, plz RT. Link in reply.

Defensive hiring of researchers by incumbent firms with monopsony power reduced creative destruction leading to the simultaneous rise in R&D spending and decline in TFP growth in the US economy over recent decades. Killing innovation by hiring!

New Working Paper: Perfect time to discuss conflict of interest and research credibility 👍🏻

📢 New NBER working paper! Why are well-managed firms more dynamic? They open, close, buy, and sell more plants—and boost productivity along the way. We show how management spreads like a technology within firms. 👇Thread 👇 📄 nber.org/papers/w33765

A recent paper co-authored by several Stigler Center-affiliated scholars, including @BarriosEcon, Joshua Levy, Shashank Singh, Tommaso Valletti, and Zingales discussed how conflicts of interest impact the trustworthiness of economics research. Together with UCL Centre for Law, Economics & Society (CLES),

NEW: In a new NBER working paper, John M Barrios🇨🇺🇺🇦, Filippo Lancieri, Joshua Levy, Shashank Singh, Tommaso Valletti, and Zingales explore the impact of various conflicts of interest on readers’ trust in academic research findings, uncovering significant nuances and implications

A number of competition authorities have expressed concerns about how conflicts of interest impact antitrust academia and policy. Watch: youtu.be/HTopLZdclWo And read the paper co-authored by several Stigler-affiliated scholars, including John M Barrios🇨🇺🇺🇦, Joshua Levy,

The call for papers for the next Organizational Economics Working Group is up! We will meet in Cambridge, MA on November 13 and 14 2025. Please submit your paper by September 1st 2025 at: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/bac…