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How conflicts of interest — defined as financial, professional, or ideological stakes held by authors — affect perceived credibility in economics research, from John M Barrios🇨🇺🇺🇦, Filippo Lancieri, Joshua Levy, Shashank Singh, Tommaso Valletti, and Zingales nber.org/papers/w33645

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Congratulations to Frank Verboven (Frank Verboven) for being appointed as AER coeditor, handling papers in empirical IO and related fields. His term starts on July 1. I’m delighted to have him on our team. AEA Journals

It’s absolutely necessary to read, again and again, this passage from Edward Said “Representations of the Intellectual” (1994)

Our new paper, “The Conflict-of-Interest Discount in the Marketplace of Ideas,” is out on the NBER homepage.Zingales Tommaso Valletti Disclosed conflicts lead to a 28–39% drop in trust—and 95% of economists trust their own disclosures, but only 2% trust others’. See link ⬇️

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Farewell to one of the greatest pianists – Alfred Brendel has died aged 94. The Czech-born pianist was one of the great musicians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, renowned for his interpretations of the keyboard works of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Liszt and

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

‘Glastonbury is not the story here. Genocide is the story.’ Zack Polanski weighs in on the Bob Vylan performance at Glastonbury and its fallout.