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My PhD syllabus for Introduction to Quantitative Marketing Rotman School. Updated for 2025. Comments welcome. avigoldfarb.com/s/Syllabus_RSM…

🏆🏆 My favorite quant marketing papers of 2024 🏆🏆 1. Heterogeneous Treatment Effects and Optimal Targeting Policy Evaluation by Günter J. Hitsch, Sanjog Misra, and Walter W. Zhang in QME. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

For those attending #ASSA2025, come to our session on ML/AI + unstructured data (e.g., text and images). We'll have a couple of papers on the econometrics of it, and I'll talk about incorporating this type of data in demand estimation. It's Sunday Jan 5 at 10:15 AM.

EC 2025 will be held at Stanford from July 7-12. Itai Ashlagi and I are the chairs. The abstract deadline is February 3, and the paper deadline is February 10. The scope is inclusive of many topics across CS, economics, and operations research. Submit your best work!

🚨Closing out 2024 with new paper with Sylvia Hristakeva and Leo Feler: How GLP-1 medications like Ozempic are reshaping food demand and changing the rules of the game for the food industry.

2024 taught me again that ad effects are hard to measure, but kindness is easy to spot. Here’s to a 2025 full of progress and kindness. Happy New Year!

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP19861 Experiments on Social Media Guy Aridor Northwestern Kellogg School, Rafael Jiménez-Durán Rafael Jiménez Durán @Unibocconi@StiglerCenter, Ro'ee Levy Ro'ee Levy Tel Aviv University, Lena Song University of Illinois ow.ly/K5Zx50UKPLC #CEPR_PoE, #econtwitter

Now available online at #QME: "Measuring consumer sensitivity to audio advertising: a long-run field experiment on Pandora internet radio" by Ali Goli (Ali Goli), Jason Huang, David Reiley & Nickolai M. Riabov. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Hortense Fong and I are hiring a full-time predoc in Marketing at Columbia Business School. If you're strong in data science, NLP, and ML and interested in pursuing a PhD in business, apply here: business.columbia.edu/marketing-divi… #predoc #hiring #AcademicResearch

Here's a fascinating new paper on Generative AI use at work by Jon Hartley , Filip Jolevski, Vitor Melo and Brendan Moore. Over 30% of Americans use GenAI at work and they report big productivity gains.

Thank you Erfan Loghmani for an excellent TOPS presentation! 👏 Here is a summary of some of the key takeaways to today's presentation:

I just used color fill = 'skygray' in ggplot and got an error. I have lived in Seattle too long I guess...

Happy spring and persian new year everyone!

Submit or nominate TOPS-notch research for next season's lineup! TOPS offers presenters: ✅exposure among a diverse global audience (avg 164 attendees!) ✅helpful feedback from audience comments ✅opportunities to network 👉tobaccopolicy.org/call.html 🗓️Deadline: 4/7

Scalar Field (Scalar Field) is reinventing the trading terminal, one intelligent agent at a time. They let users test any market hypothesis instantly — and intelligently. ycombinator.com/launches/NSw-s… Congrats on the launch, Amandeep Singh and Ramakant!

More than 6.5% of borrowers are at least 60 days late on their car payments, the highest level ever recorded

Universal, Warner and Sony are negotiating with startups for compensation when music by artists the labels represent is used to train generative AI models and produce remixes on.wsj.com/4e4xfwZ

Can we align language models using observational data instead of costly experiments like A/B tests? In my latest research, we find that historical observational data *does* carry useful signals, but without causal care, models can learn the wrong things. Thread 🧵

We're hiring! academicplacement.ama.org/jobs/?keywords…

Thrilled to share that Scalar Field was named one of the top 11 startups in the Y Combinator Spring '25 batch by TechCrunch! And we haven't even gotten properly started yet 🤔 techcrunch.com/2025/06/13/11-…