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📢📢Final lineup of the AI + Economics Workshop organized together with Elliott Ash ETH Center for Law & Economics 📢📢 October 14/15 in-person presentation in Zurich and streamed online (to register --> docs.google.com/forms/d/1gHmef… )

Insightful discussions on how to think about regulating AI at the #AIPolicySummit2022 - key issues are uncertainty, creating space for experimentation and the digital divide Elliott Ash Antonella Zarra Dr. Amar Patnaik Jan Kleijssen Prof (Dr) Avinash Dadhich

Forthcoming IJIO article by Alexandra Gibbon & Jan Philip Schain Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf "Markups, Common Ownership, and Technological Capacities" doi.org/10.1016/j.ijin… ScienceDirect

I can highly recommend the Department of Firms and Markets at DIW - great colleagues and Berlin is a very cool city!

Heterogenous treatment effect estimation was the topic today at the econstat lecture in Innsbruck given by Jeffrey Wooldridge- fantastic talk & thank you EconStat at Uni Innsbruck & Marica Valente for organizing!

#Econometrics is better in hiking boots.

TOMORROW 4/25 1-5pm- opportunity to learn about data sources from AHRQ - including inpatient admissions and health insurance plan details - register to get link; livestream only!

The FTC complaint mentions effects of the merger on foreclosure of potential rivals. Horizon’s main drugs currently face little direct competition, which is why it is important that other companies are incentivized to innovate and launch competing drugs in these markets.

1. Today FTC took action against Premom, an ovulation tracking app, for disclosing highly sensitive personal data to third parties and violating the Health Breach Notification Rule. ftc.gov/news-events/ne…

Recently posted at CEPR: "Text Algorithms in Economics" with Stephen Hansen (forthcoming in ARE Annual Reviews). Ungated version: elliottash.com/wp-content/upl… Companion code notebooks: github.com/sekhansen/text… & now a 🧵 on the highlights...

Haven't read the paper yet, but probably going to be an important piece in the broader literature on manufacturer payments and physician decision making.

Flattered, so why not making it official: Our new working paper "The Cost of Influence: How Gifts to Physicians Shape Prescription and Drug Costs" is out 🤓 Melissa Newham #healthcare #pharma #gifts #MachineLearning #EconTwitter

Thanks to the organizers of the Swiss Society of Health Economics Conference in Bern for an insightful two day program and fantastic keynote on the economics of disability by Nicole Maestas - sggoe.ch/conference-202…

New working paper on #commonownership out! We show that common ownership might be a bigger problem than what believed so far. Link here: diposit.ub.edu/dspace/bitstre… A short thread [1/6] UB School of Economics BEAT #EconTwitter

📢 UZH Market Power Workshop 📢 On October 6 and 7 2023, the UZH Market Power Workshop will take place. We have an exciting program with excellent speakers and discussants. For the full program + link to register, follow: sites.google.com/view/marketpow… (1/7)

Delighted that our paper on gifts to physicians with Marica Valente has received the Young Economists’ Award! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

It was a pleasure to chat with @andrewkjennings.com on Bluesky on the Business Scholarship Podcast podcast about our paper “The Cost of Influence: How Gifts to Physicians Shape Prescriptions and Drug Costs” joint work with Marica Valente Take a listen: youtube.com/watch?v=c39L-Q… (also available on Spotify and Apple)

Our paper on payments to physicians is published in Journal of Health Economics! Thanks Marica Valente for being an awesome coauthor and a great support in many ways.

NEW: Melissa Newham (D-MTEC ETH Zurich) reviews how investors can alter the incentives and behavior of pharmaceutical companies to reduce competition and consumer welfare through common ownership and “rollup” deals. ms.spr.ly/6011SwPTJ