“I have nothing against diversity, equity, and inclusion. But as Voltaire said about the Holy Roman Empire: it was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.”

I have the good fortune of co-advising two econ PhDs with Joel Mokyr right now. At 79, he still gives detailed comments on drafts and meets with his students regularly. He's an energetic advisor and is deeply committed to the next generation researchers. Very admirable

One paper that we replicated was written by none other than one of this year's Nobel Prize winner, Philippe Aghion, widely regarded as one of the finest growth economists of his generation, together with John van Reenen, of three coding errors in one regression fame.

In the paper, Aghion et al. had found that institutional ownership causes an increase in innovation using a difference-in-difference approach. One thing we noticed when reading the paper is that they merely "allowed" for firm fixed effects, rather than "included", which sounded

Thus, the first robustness test we tried "included" firm fixed effects. Unfortunately, the results flipped sign, although were only borderline significant.

Thus, I'm indebted to this year's Nobel Prize winners for helping me transition from academia to trading.

"Sources said governments and advisors underestimated how hard it would be to unpick, determining who holds it [private sovereign debt], on what terms and whether there was collateral which can put one borrower ahead in the queue ... " #WBGMeetings

I got back from honeymoon last summer and handed in my resignation at DeepMind. My wife thought I was crazy. AI has always been about prediction, but normally we predict small things: a token of text, or moves in chess. The ultimate challenge is to predict the world’s most

It's extraordinarily challenging to find high-value and well packaged information on the operational side of modern industrial manufacturing systems. One painful option is to pick up the average operational science book, manually decoupling the valuable bits of information from

“Interest Rate Uncertainty as a Policy Tool?” G. Kemal Ozhan summarizes our main results. #IRUPT #EconTwitter

What it's all about. 💜🥹 Prof. Joel Mokyr, winner of the The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, shares a lovely message from a former student.

"If you don't have a crisis, make one. You get people excited, motivated, and to drive the necessary change." —Michael Dell 🇺🇸

BREAKING: Los Angeles County has just declared a STATE OF EMERGENCY over the federal ICE raids. Think about that. The county is literally declaring an emergency over what the federal government is doing. This is Trump‘s America.

Wonderful to see that the just-released Chapter 1 of the IMF World Economic Outlook built on "Interest Rate Uncertainty as a Policy Tool?" to study the effects of tariff uncertainty! #IMF #WEO #EconTwitter cc G. Kemal Ozhan

Important: To study something does not mean to propose or advocate that something.

The German jurist Carl Schmitt “would have seen China’s illiberal rise as the force pulling the United States away from liberalism—ironically, in defense of a liberal international order,” writes Benn Steil. foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

Interesting paper on Germany's growth model based on a national income and financial accounting decomposition approach: "we find an extreme export-led mercantilist (ELM) regime during 1999-2009, a moderated ELM regime during 2010-2020, and a weakly export-led regime 2021-2024."

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Whatever your crypto web3 nft monkey degen trader friend is saying today, Larry Fink will be saying in 5 years.

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