"You’re supposed to campaign in poetry and govern in prose [...] I’m going to govern in econometrics" Mark Carney 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

This is a pretty important trend for post-secondary education. The evolution ahead, among things, involves training and testing students to be able to do things AI can’t do, which includes collating, processing, and synthesizing wide swaths of information in many domains.

Don't forget to submit your applied micro papers to the one-and-only Labour Econometrics Workshop! The workshop takes place on 14 & 15 August, and the submission deadline is in two weeks ✌️ Hope to see you in Melbourne! 🌈🏙️ melbourneinstitute.unimelb.edu.au/conferences/la…

Democracy sausages for the win!

#IOTwitter - 2025 Asia-Pacific IO Conference: Dec 12-14 in Brisbane, Australia apios.org.au. Call for papers in mid-July. Keynotes by #PaulHeidhues & #GingerZheJin and great invited speakers. It's 10 years of APIOC, and we couldn't pick a better place. Please share! 🙏

At National Press Club, Brian Schmidt and Richard Holden make the case for investment in basic research, noting that ideas are fundamental to productivity #ausecon

Excited to announce the publication of my new book Game Theory for Applied Econometricians: Data analytics with R: sites.google.com/view/empirical… #rstats #econtwitter

Great resource for teaching, research and practice for IO economists. If anything get it for the incredible front cover!

Great list of suggestions in navigating the editorial process here.

Encouraging to see a push for red tape-cutting #Abundance agenda from Andrew Leigh, especially in tandem with current national reforms to competition policy with ACCC and how we identify and pursue productivity gains with Productivity Commission.

🌐 Online event 🌐 Online, Wednesday July 2, 2025, 6:00 pm Beyond the Breadwinner What does it mean to be a man, and what has that got to do with the economy? To attend online, register via Zoom here: utas.zoom.us/webinar/regist… #ESA #Economics #PublicLecture #Gender

Recently accepted for publication in the CJE: "e-Globalization and Trade Agreements" by Phillip McCalman (Phil McCalman). Full text of the submitted version is available at economics.ca/cje-journal-co….

Same for Australia: being a smart second mover.

Great synthesis of recent work on digital information sharing and pricing algorithms by Alex MacKay ACCC Productivity Commission

It's going to be a good one!

In Seoul for the The Econometric Society #WorldCongress. What a city, what a venue, and what a week.

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/

#APIOC2025 submissions deadline today. Details for the conference, Dec 12-14 in Brisbane, are in the thread below. Submit your papers via Editorial Express: editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/confer…

We have just posted our job ad for a faculty position in econometrics. Application deadline is November 23, 2025. econjobmarket.org/positions?show…

Very happy to share the 2025 Melbourne IO Workshop, December 4-5, in the CBD, hosted by Business & Economics UniMelb and Monash Business School . Colleagues from industry and government are particularly welcome to participate in any or all sessions. Please DM if you would like to register.