It doesn’t matter which quadrant you find yourself in—you should oppose Santa

NBER Digital Economics and AI meeting at Stanford. Deadline December 16. nber.org/conferences/di…

While reading Labour's plan on AI I was wondering whether the UK government knows "Data-intensive Innovation and the State" by Martin Beraja, David Yang, Noam Yuchtman. Thought this might also be interesting for Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @wortmanncallejo theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

Writing a summary of my work on AI and governments. I asked ChatGPT to generate pictures to depict the content... "I couldn't generate the images because the requested content themes related to political surveillance and authoritarian regimes may intersect with content

Poincaré on the nature of science

1/10 In the blockbuster trial U.S.A. v. Google LLC, the D.C. federal court ruled Google violated antitrust law. Our team (Hunt Allcott, J.C. Castillo, M. Gentzkow, L. Musolff & I) investigates why Google has such high market share. nber.org/papers/w33410h…

Great conference and volume. Thank you Avi Goldfarb, Ajay, Catherine, Joshua Gans for inviting us to contribute. Gave us space to start thinking about how innovation happens when there are contested property rights over inputs (like data in the case of AI). One of my favorites

How quickly will workers adapt to AI-driven changes? New blog post: 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞: 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 by Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, Martin Beraja & Adao Link: sites.utexas.edu/macro/2025/03/…

A bit of speculation about the speed of the AI transition based on our work on technological transitions following recent ICT innovations and Manufacturing innovations early in the 20th century.

Emociona esta Selección 🇦🇷 Antonio Carlos & Jocafi - Você Abusou youtu.be/S29COaOxyH0?si… via YouTube

[Warning: this may offend some people!] I think economists have done society a disservice by elevating applied-micro studies that focus exclusively on the relative effects of trade across different groups of workers but are silent about the aggregate effects.

Excited to share that our paper ‘Sovereign CoCos and Debt Forgiveness’ has been finally accepted for publication at the Journal of Monetary Economics! Grateful to my co-authors and referees for their insights. Looking forward to seeing it in print!

A new workshop on the economic of AI organized at Collège de France on June 10th. Featuring keynote by Philippe Aghion and Chad Jones (remotely) and a set of wonderful speakers (program below). Entry is free and without registration. More information sites.google.com/view/rceaworld…

Jurassic Park Spielberg turned an entertaining, albeit dry novel into an emotional masterpiece. I will never forget how I felt at the movies when Sam Neil turns Laura Dern’s head… cut to the dinos, and theme song starts playing.

Son jugadores de nivel amateur, no están capacitados para jugar un Mundial de Clubes. Y lo del Auckland también es muy flojo.

The fact that there is not one but two Argentinean universities is on this list is impressive. Not surprised based on my years doing admissions. But still… hat tip to Economía UTDT and Universidad de San Andrés.

1/Epoch AI doubles down on preiction AI will drive 20%+ annual GDP growth. Economists remain skeptical. This is the defining debate of today: AI builders see infinite prosperity ahead. Economists see the same limits that constrained every technological revolution.🧵 1/13

Excelente historia. Estilo Eduardo Sacheri. Me transporto de nuevo a los partidos de futbol en el patio del colegio.