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🔴 The 🇪🇺 Commission concludes that the social network X should not be designated as Gatekeeper under the #DigitalMarketsAct 🔓 🔍The Commission will continue to monitor the digital market and any changes that may arise. More information ⬇ 🔗europa.eu/!4qhY9f #DMA

Fall 2024 Journal of Economic Perspectives Free Online conversableeconomist.com/2024/11/06/fal…

What is behind Europe's productivity problem? A large productivity gap relative to the US in the tech sector & low business dynamism. Two factors driving this: smaller market size and lower access to finance relative to the US. The fix: Deepen the EU single market. Read more

New paper on how to fix #CongestionPricing in New York City. Basic idea: Uber/Lyft/taxi passengers and delivery services need to pay per-trip or per-mile tolls commensurate with those paid by the drivers of personal cars. The toll on the latter can then be lowered to $9 per day.

Crypto mining and data centers together accounted for 2 percent of world electricity demand in 2022. And that share is likely to climb to 3.5 percent in three years. That would be equivalent to current consumption of Japan, the world’s fifth largest electricity user. Read more

The Data Economy - a graduate textbook, complete with questions, answers and slides (on request) -- is now available on Amazon for pre-order. Release date is January 14. amazon.com/Data-Economy-T… or press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove… #econtwitter #dataecon #finance

1/9 A trillion-dollar EU company? The real blocker isn't lack of founders, culture or capital. European companies pay 10x more in restructuring costs than US firms when ventures fail. Changing direction (see Vokswagen!) is expensive. A Thread on today's Sillicon Continent post

📚 New JEL update on Generative AI for Economic Research: LLMs Learn to Collaborate and Reason * LLMs capable of sophisticated reasoning * Collaborative workspaces transform research * 3 dozen proven use cases Prepare for 2025 by leveling up your AI game! 🚀 #EconTwitter

Finally! Today is the official release date for The Data Economy. Order today at amazon.com/Data-Economy-T… or at press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…. If you would like to use this for a class, email me or Isaac for slides + solution manual. #EconTwitter #Data

Missed this week's webinar on the new National Academies Report on AI and the Future of Work? Watch Erik Brynjolfsson and Tom M Mitchell discuss key findings of the far-reaching report. digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/event/webinar-…

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Diffusion of New Technologies,” by Kalyani (aakash kalyani), Bloom (Nick Bloom), Carvalho (Marcela Carvalho), Hassan (Tarek Hassan), Lerner, and Tahoun (Tahoun) doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

CALL FOR PAPERS 12th Annual Platform Research Symposium Boston University Questrom School of Business July 14-15, 2025 Submissions Due: April 11, 2025 Submit your best platform research at platforms.bu.edu $1000 Alessandro di Fiore Best Paper prize #platforms #strategy

Great to see "Generative AI at Work", my paper with Lindsey Raymond and Danielle Li, published in the QJE. We find that the AI makes customer support agents 14% more productive, improves customer satisfaction and reduces employee turnover.

Today I informed staff FTC that the 2023 FTC and DOJ’s joint 2023 Merger Guidelines are in effect and will serve as the framework for our agency’s merger-review analysis. These guidelines build on previous guidelines and many decades of case law. That stability is important for

Working from home has stabilized at about 25 percent of all full worked days in the US according to a new analysis of 9 different US datasets, from Shelby Buckman, Jose Maria Barrero, Nick Bloom, and Steven J. Davis nber.org/papers/w33508

Will AI make learning foreign language less valuable? In our new study, we analyze job postings data and find that machine translation technologies have significantly reduced the demand for foreign language skills—including Spanish, German, French, Japanese, and Chinese. We

How might we curb misinformation with no censorship and no central authority judging truth? New talk at the U Cambridge Disinformation Summit youtube.com/watch?v=G2PieA…

I can't wait to see my friend and old MIT colleague David Autor next Monday. His research about technology and jobs is always insightful. Please join us!

Happy to share this survey paper with Adam Jaffe and Dimitris Papanikolaou: Natural Language Processing and Innovation Research. Hope that this could be useful if you want to have a better view of what can be done using text artefacts to track innovation Link: dropbox.com/scl/fi/1cfikn3…

*Call for papers for the 2025 Remote Work Conference* Stanford, October 22 to 24 2025. In person presentations, and streamed if folks want to watch remotely. Research papers on cause/effect of remote, WFH or hybrid please submit here: remoteworkconference.org/call-for-papers