The Brussels effect, DMA edition.

I have been tasked with promoting and spreading all the new and exciting things that are coming out of the Finance Theory Group Group (FTG). I'd ask my friends here on X (some tagged below) to give a quick re-tweet to make the econ/finance twitter-verse aware of this account. Thanks!

Hurry up - the submissions to the first #EPSIconference are closing tomorrow! Excellent keynote lectures by Raffaella Sadun and Jan Eeckhout. We welcome submissions on topics related to public economics and institutions. More details👇🏻

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How to undress with style...

I spent a week as a Deliveroo rider. And learnt a lot.
First up, Deliveroo likes to claim you should earn at least the minimum wage of £11.44 while working. Me?
I worked for 22hrs 50mins, rode 105 miles, did 27 drop offs and earned £120.38.
That works out at £5.28 an hour🧵

No idea why the US Social Security servers need a rest...

Is it an implicit robot tax the administration imposes on itself?

The Minnesota Macro conference deadline is this Friday 4/26. Submit your papers and come join us for lots of economics fun! 🤩
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Great video. In the 1980s, Steve Jobs argues that monopolies like Xerox and IBM are run by marketing people, not by product people; once you have market share, product innovation no longer generates profits

Now that Apple is a monopoly, is it run by marketing people?

Supply of rental units in Buenos Aires is up ~130% since January, after the nullification of the previous law governing rental contracts.

Rental prices down 30% in real terms.

This is a natural experiment at a macro scale.

cronista.com/negocios/murio…

Interesting finding by Charles Angelucci and Andrea Prat:

the ability to distinguish real from fake news is driven much more by demographics (age, education, gender, ethnicity,...) than party affiliation

Thank you Sevin Kaytan and Manuel Arellano for organizing this Women in Economics Panel today at CEMFI. Looking forward to sharing this day with Nagore Iriberri, judit vall castello 🇺🇦, Manuel Bagues and you all!

And special thanks to the EEA for let me present the results from the survey questions included in the registration of the 2023 meeting in Barcelona!

Are you a PhD student working on Inequality and related topics?

Apply by April 15 to the Stone Centre at UCL PhD Conference and come present your research at UCL Economics!

UPDATE: we’ll be able to offer funding for a limited number of presenters

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We asked a number of European economists why we all should fill in the European Professional Climate Survey in Economics!
Listen to their important message
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A bit more than 24 hours to compliance day... a quick peek at how #DMA will work 😊⬇️

Thanks Oliver Crook Bloomberg TV 🙏

📢 #CallForPapers #BankOfItaly
📌 1st Banca d'Italia #EPSI (Economics of the Public Sector and Institutions) Conference, #Rome 9-10 September 2024
🗓️ Proposals should be submitted by April 30, 2024
Keynote lectures by Raffaella Sadun and Jan Eeckhout
All details are available here…

The feud between Apple and Spotify shows how complex digital markets are: a platform with network externalities (Spotify) sues a platform with network externalities that restricts access to push its competing product (Apple Music)

wired.com/story/apple-sp…

Photographs taken in the right place at the right time, intentionally or by chance - a thread 🧵

1. Wilma Hurskainen