So is Internet regulation impossible due to wack a mole displacement effects and we should just do more general Internet taxes instead?

📌Level Up Research: Replication in Action Teams are hard at work at the Replication Games! Our participants are reproducing published results and testing their robustness, guided by Derek Mikola from I4R. Great atmosphere at #DSEA Università di Padova! unipd.link/replication-ga…

If we have learned ONE thing from all the issues with social media, it's exactly to avoid engagement-maximizing business models

📌Level Up Research: Replication in Action Replication Games – Part II Final stretch this morning at the Replication Games! Teams are completing projects with Derek Mikola & I4R. Focused work and great collaboration today at #DSEA Università di Padova. 🔗unipd.link/replication-ga…

The 1st day of the The Review of Economic Studies Tour at dSEA Unipd has officially started!

#REStud_Tour 2025 started today in Padova. Check out the excellent JMPs of this year's tourists! economia.unipd.it/en/restud-tour…

First day of talks by Lea Nagel, Rebekah Dix, Tishara Garg at the @RevEconStudiesTour 2025 in Padua dSEA Unipd Outstanding presentations!

That’s a wrap for the #REStud Tour 2025 in Padua! Two inspiring days of research, discussion, and networking. A big thank you to all the speakers and participants! 🔗Full programme and upcoming stops Stockholm University & University of Bristol: sites.google.com/view/restudtou… #EconTwitter

Day 1 of our Padova IO Workshop Greats talks and cool crowd!

2nd Day of our Padova IO workshop with a timely keynote speech by Massimo Motta (UPF) on industrial policy in the presence of supply chain disruption. See you at the next year's edition!!

What are the welfare effects of surge pricing? Using Uber data, I develop an empirical model of spatial equilibrium composed of demand, supply, and matching. I find that surge pricing raises total welfare, benefitting riders but hurting drivers. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

FTC has dropped its Robinson-Patman Act case against Pepsi. It’s probably the first significant shift in policy from the previous administration. ftc.gov/news-events/ne…

We look forward to hosting Özlem Bedre Defolie for a timely talk on startup acquisitions and innovation

Public funds to Italian firms in disadvantaged areas (ex. Law 488/92) permanently increased employment, but allocation matters: Firms selected by objective rules create more jobs per € than those favored by local politicians. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

New paper on “Algorithmic Coercion”: We find that a single firm using a pricing algorithm can induce its rivals to set substantially higher prices, even when rivals maximize short-run profits and cannot collude.

Claude Code can verify the accuracy of statements in your paper, by checking your code!!!😱 This is going to be a beautiful thing for replication.🥲

📢"Making Subsidies Work: Rules vs. Discretion", di Enrico Rettore (#dSEA Università di Padova), F. Cingano, F. Palomba e P. Pinotti, pubblicato su Econometrica (Econometrica), è stato rilanciato dalla stampa. 📉+42% costo lavoro se decide la politica. ansa.it/veneto/notizie… #EconTwitter

Cool new paper by Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright. They study "Platform Traps" -- situations where many users voluntarily join a platform even though almost all of them would've been better off without it. It's a dynamic collective action problem fueled by network effects. 1/n

Have a look at the video interviews of the The Review of Economic Studies Tourists in the amazing venue of Palazzo Bo’ Università di Padova dSEA Unipd

CURRENT ISSUE | TABLE OF CONTENTS Check out the table of contents for JEMS Volume 34, Issue 2 - Summer 2025.  🔎Take a look right here! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15309134/2…