Hi all - How much computing/storage space do you get these days from your university?

March 19 event: Women in STEM—Integrated Vision: Broader Applications of STEM. With Penn Carey Law prof Cynthia Dahl and Pinar Yildirim, assoc. prof at Wharton. Registration info below. University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Cynthia Dahl Pinar Yildirim

Hidden cost of $ in politics (already bad for other reasons of course):

Crowds out real charitable donations 😑
pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.128…
Cool paper by Pinar Yildirim et al, h/t tylercowen

Why may negative advertising not work well for consumer brands but fare better in politics?

We wrote an op-ed on the topic in The Wall Street Journal with Penn Economics Department grad & University of British Columbia economics professor Gorkem Bostanci based on a recent research paper.

#negativeadvertising #consumerbrands

Another reminder for our pre-doc position at Penn & The Wharton School with Juan Camilo Castillo. Please share with your best students who may be interested in.

We have a pre-doc position with Juan Camilo Castillo from Penn Economics Department and The Wharton School.

Field(s) of Research: Industrial organization and digital economy.

Apply by Feb 15th: drive.google.com/file/d/1EBdv_P…

NBER Digital Economics and AI winter/spring conference deadline January 4.

Here is the second version of my monograph on 'minimalist market design,' now with a new chapter on liver exchange and an expanded one on kidney exchange. It can be useful for researchers who aspire to influence policy as outsider critics.
arxiv.org/pdf/2401.00307…

Only in Germany:

“The weather was great two weeks ago…It was snowing!”

#BackinBerlin #Weizenbaum
Weizenbaum-Institut

There it goes #DSA

We are now accepting applications for internships on our team. If you are interested in Bayesian optimization + active learning, learning with human feedback, or applications of transformers to probabilistic modeling and causal inference please consider this opportunity!

Are you a PhD student working on a topic related to innovation? Do you have some work you'd like to share amidst a group of other awesome PhD students?

If so, check out the 7th Annual WINDS PhD Conference:

What do we know about the political impact of social media? At this point, plenty more than we used to… This volume (edited by me, Ruben Durante and Andrea Tesei) showcases some of what economists have uncovered — and it’s free!

Everything you always wanted to know about “The Political Economy of Social Media”. New CEPR ebook out and freely available: tinyurl.com/3bcjxzhh, edited by Filipe Campante, Ruben Durante and myself. Thank you very much to all contributors and to CEPR!

Very happy to share that our CEPR Ebook on 'The Political Economy of Social Media', with Filipe Campante & Andrea Tesei, is finally out and freely available! A big thank you to all the authors for their contribution and to the @CEPR staff for their help.
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Looking at the table of contents, this CEPR ebook edited by Filipe Campante, Ruben Durante and Andrea Tesei, would make a great source for a PhD course on social media and political economy.

Glad to be part of it with Maria Petrova and Ananya Sen.

#EconTwitter #JMCs , please share: My employer, Institut Mines-Télécom Business School, opens a full-time position in #digitalecon ! We are looking  for ambitious candidates eager to shape our research agenda and to build something new. Click here for the job ad: bit.ly/3G6RGJj

This is indeed an interesting paper focusing on workplace romantic relationships. Paper reports some short term gains (earnings/workplace attachment) & costs post breakup (earnings/ employment) for subordinates dating bosses.

Presented by Emily Nix at NBER Org Econ

Learn more about the research 'Automation, Career Values, and Political Preferences' by Pinar Yildirim, Maria Petrova, Gregor Schubert & Bledi Taska in the program of #HECmarketing 2023, an #academicconference by #HECprofs Klaus Miller Anastasia Buyalskaya: hec.edu/en/hec-paris-m…

TODAY: in person info session re the Wharton Marketing PhD program - come join us!