Rick Evans
@RickEcon
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Senior Economist @abundanceinst; OG-Core, FiscalSim, @oselab, macro/computational/public economics, and outdoor aficionado
Provo, Utah
Joined October 2013
@MaxGhenis @jasondebacker @MattHJensen @kpomerleau @EconoWill @MarcGoldwein @coachbuckethead I will not be there, unfortunately.
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@MaxGhenis @jasondebacker @MattHJensen @kpomerleau @EconoWill @MarcGoldwein @coachbuckethead, or anyone else I have missed.
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To my #opensource/policy friends in DC on Monday, you should attend the lunchtime briefing (11a-noon, Rayburn) on the @abundanceinst's new #Alpaca open source #AI bot designed to help policy analysts with answering GAO, CBO, and CRS policy questions. DM me for the RSVP invite.
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RT @UncertainLars: While the U.S. has played a leading role in scientific advancement in recent decades, I am concerned that this leadershi….
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"Ambitious optimism is morally mandatory." @abundanceinst interview with @mattwridley, author of the Rational Optimist. "Innovation. more of a bottom-up. interaction among ordinary individuals. than through. top-down direction of clever geniuses.".
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RT @JesusFerna7026: We keep forgetting: the big fertility collapse of the past decade has happened mostly in middle- and low-income countri….
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RT @JesusFerna7026: 💻 If you’re serious about computation in economics, you eventually need to get serious about hardware. And that include….
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RT @KurtCouchman: The House plans to vote on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution before September 30!. The different BBAs shoul….
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All the results can be replicated with the code in the GitHub repository:.
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I just published an article that estimates the macroeconomic costs in #Florida of passing its own restrictive #AI #regulation policy. Summary: it could cost $38 billion annually in state GDP and 54,100 jobs annually.
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Yesterday, Ike Brannon and I updated our analysis of the full R&D expense deductibility component of the One Big Beautiful Bill. We removed the erroneously included behavioral response from businesses in the 2022-2024 period. We still get an investment pop in 2026 (due to 2025.
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RT @JesusFerna7026: Posting the slides for Lecture 2 of our PISM course on foundational thinkers in economics: Adam Smith (1723–1790) and t….
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RT @JesusFerna7026: Yesterday, I presented at the IMF-WIFPR Conference on the Evolving Global Financial Architecture. My slide deck on the….
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RT @JesusFerna7026: Crisis Cycle: Challenges, Evolution, and the Future of the Euro, by @JohnHCochrane, @lugaricano, and @masuch_klaus, jus….
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This study uses 2 #opensource models. OG-USA macroeconomic model of US fiscal policy and demographics ( and Cost-of-Capital-Calculator microsimulation model of business investment incentives (.
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“Market economies are likely to underprovide innovation, primarily due to knowledge spillovers between firms…. In the short run, research and development tax credits and direct public funding seem the most effective.” (@I_Am_NickBloom, @johnvanreenen, @heidilwilliams_, JEL,.
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RT @smithtjosh: Out today, a new analysis of the economic benefits of immediate depreciation for R&D by @RickEcon . Restoring full R&D expe….
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