What happens to communication flows within firms when the CEO changes? Using novel longitudinal email and meeting data on a sample of 102 firms, we (myself, Andrea Prat and Stephen Michael Impink) find the following:

Once more, a court says the visa ban that has left so many of our fellow academics stranded overseas or unable to visit their loved ones is patently illegal. Can someone explain why the Department of State has kept it for so long?

🚨Call for papers!🚨 Submit your best work to the CEPR Workshop on Media, Technology, Politics, and Society, June 24-25, 2022, held at EIEF and co-sponsored by Università di Roma Tor Vergata. The stellar scientific committee is headed by Andrea Prat. Deadline: Dec 10, 2021. Spread the word!

We are hiring one more Pre-Doc at Columbia Business School. Apply to do interesting work (mainly macro-labor with Chris Moser and partially with me), join a thriving community, have lots of mentoring, top PhD placements, and live in the best city of the world w/ competitive pay!

Complimenti Raffaella Sadun e grazie per tutto il lavoro che hai fatto e stai facendo!

That the package of "sanctions" put together yesterday by US and Europe is complete and utter bullshit is not open to dispute. Ask the markets! - Natural gas imports from Russia today near record levels - Moscow stock market: Up (ooops!!!) - Dow Jones: Up - Frankfurt: Up

We were excited to release this paper after many years of work, but of course now is a difficult time to be talking about academic research. One takeaway from our paper: allowing the people to freely replace their leaders, under any type of regime, really does make a difference

NBER Meeting on Megafirms Friday, April 22, Royal Sonesta/Zoom/YouTube nber.org/conferences/me… Very interesting program (ok, I am biased!) with a diverse set of papers by Maarten De Ridder, Jan Eeckhout, Andrea Prat, Tommaso Valletti, Alex MacKay, Nathan Miller & Bruno Pellegrino.

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP17178 Political Power and Market Power Andrea Prat Andrea Prat Columbia University, Tommaso Valletti Tommaso Valletti Imperial Business School, Bo Cowgill Columbia Business School Columbia Economics ow.ly/ljvO50IB3F9 #CEPR_FE, #CEPR_IO, #CEPR_OE, #CEPR_PoE

[Economics] Congratulations to Andrea Prat and Tommaso Valletti for their award-winning article "Attention Oligopoly". Discover the article here: awards.concurrences.com/en/awards/2022… #AntitrustWritingAwards

Nice piece about disinformation. It's time to put the phenomenon into the broader perspective of information inequality.

Hot off the press, with Andrea Prat: Organizational Capital, Corporate Leadership, and Firm Dynamics | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 130, No 6 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/71… 1/4

Thank you Jordi Blanes The Visible Hand Podcast for giving us a chance to discuss our research in a clever, fun and accessible format!

Call for papers for "The Non-Market Effects of Market Power" conference Columbia Business School April 13-14, 2023 Organized by Dana Foarta, Andrea Prat, Fiona Scott Morton & No Cowgill Submit by January 17, 2023 non-market.org

🚨Call for papers!🚨 Submit your work to the 2nd CEPR Workshop on Media, Technology, Politics, and Society, June 26-27, 2023, held at EIEF - Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance and co-sponsored by Università di Roma Tor Vergata. Keynote speakers: Matt Gentzkow and Katya Zhuravskaya. Deadline: Jan 15, 2023. Spread the word!

Interesting finding by Charles Angelucci and Andrea Prat: the ability to distinguish real from fake news is driven much more by demographics (age, education, gender, ethnicity,...) than party affiliation

Looking forward to reading rani_spiegler's new book. Economics can use more self-reflection. Kudos for making it open access.

Labor markets in higher-income countries are more meritocratic, meaning there is more skill-based sorting between workers and jobs. This matters for development in subtle ways, from @orianabandiera, Kotia, Lindenlaub, Chris Moser, and Andrea Prat nber.org/papers/w32375

Beyond unbounded beliefs, what information leads to social learning? In a general model, we characterize how that depends on society's preferences. For canonical prefs and info, learning obtains even when early agents are guaranteed to be wrong econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

Is there an information inequality in access to truth? This week #NotAnotherPoliticsPodcast welcomes Andrea Prat to explore of the "death of truth" narrative and the impact of political polarization on news consumption. har.rs/3KLMA8Z