Very pleased that my paper w/ Clayton Nall & Stan Oklobdzija (🦋stano.bksy.social), "The Folk Economics of Housing," has been published in the excellent new JEP symposium on housing markets. ⤵️ 🧵/10.

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "Self-Enforced Job Matching" by Ce Liu, Ziwei Wang, and Hanzhe Zhang. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Come join us Penn State Econ for the Midwest Trade & Theory Conference in mid-November. Submission deadline is September 6. Details here: sites.google.com/view/midwesttr…

UQ Economics will host the 2025 Asia-Pacific Industrial Organization Conference (APIOC) from December 12 to 14. The deadline for submissions is September 1. For more information, please see the link below. We hope to see you in Brisbane! apios.org.au/apioc-2025/

📚 If I had time this Fall semester, I would take this course on Progress by Kevin Bryan (Kevin A. Bryan). This is the most amazingly creative syllabus I’ve seen in a long time. I’m going to shamelessly “borrow” from it next year for my own teaching and fold it into my current

Why you should check arXiv.org econ theory: interesting papers drop there all the time, like this one on how public information *can* cause Bayesians to polarize… arxiv.org/abs/2509.02513

Join us in October for the next season of VSET. We have a fantastic line-up this Fall 👇👇👇 Qingmin Liu, Alessandro Bonatti, Suraj Malladi, Takuo Sugaya, Hulya Eraslan, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, Giacomo Lanzani, Marina Halac, Alex Frankel, Niko Matouschek.

How does information shape monopoly outcomes under interdependent values? We characterize payoff sets across three classes of information structures. With no restrictions, buyers can obtain the entire surplus even though the seller chooses a price econtheory.org/ojs/index.php/…

Forthcoming in the AER: "Strategic Voting in Two-Party Legislative Elections" by Niall Hughes. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

An inspiring and lovely read: sfu.ca/economics/comm…

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "Voter Information and Distributive Politics" by Benjamin Blumenthal. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

An interesting blog post by Christopher Sandmann on the state of economics in economic theory theholdupproblem.com/2025/06/12/in-…

WE ARE BACK! Our 1st seminar this academic year is next Thursday, Oct/2, 2025. We are extremely pleased to host Qingmin Liu (Columbia), who will present "A Cooperative Analysis of Incomplete Information". Our panellists are Doron Ravid & Roberto Serrano.

My three favourite papers on the political economy of zero-sum politics x.com/S_Stantcheva/s…

Forthcoming in the AER: "Sequential Learning Under Informational Ambiguity" by Jaden Yang Chen. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

For those who still need to hear the news: UNSW Economics is hiring on the 25/26 junior market!

Cool paper on arXiv.org arxiv.org/abs/2510.16608

Happy and honored to receive this award, and even better with Avinatan and Ran. Looking forward to many more years of joint work in market design. Thanks to the award committee, to our awesome collaborators, and to the administrators who trusted their markets with us.

A proud day for Penn State Econ!

Let me explain why I believe modern economics is such a powerful tool for understanding the world. I’ll do this by discussing a great paper by Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, Lars Peter Hansen, Fabio Maccheroni, and Massimo Marinacci, “Making Decisions Under Model Misspecification,”