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The official account of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, @Stanford's home for addressing economic policy challenges around the globe.
Stanford, CA
Joined August 2015
Mark Lemley, SIEPR senior fellow and @StanfordLaw professor, suggests a new game plan for #BigTech's #antitrust enforcers.
SLS Professor Mark Lemley critiques the current limitations of antitrust action against tech giants in his latest opinion essay for @FT. Despite legal victories, meaningful change remains elusive. How can we pave the way for genuine market competition?
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đź“Ł Applications are open for the 2026 SIEPR Predoctoral Research Fellows Program! This is a great opportunity for college grads to learn how the economy works and to explore careers in economic policy research @Stanford. Fellowships are full-time for 1 or 2 years. Please apply
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CNN’s @smerconish zeroes in on rising pessimism around the American Dream and talks to SIEPR director @Nealemahoney about why we need to flip that.
It was a kick to join @smerconish to talk about gloomy economic sentiment, the American Dream, and how we can get our groove back
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A perfect weekend read, for economists and non-economists alike: @IMFNews profiles @guido_imbens, SIEPR senior fellow, @StanfordGSB professor and 2021 @NobelPrize winner. Link 👇
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Updated our numbers on how healthcare jobs are propping up the labor market - Health care jobs were 133% of non-farm payrolls growth over last 3 months. That is, non-health care was negative. - Healthcare jobs were 49% of NFP over last 6 months
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Frustrated by slow internet speeds? Consider this: Parts of the U.S. still don’t have broadband. Our latest policy brief, from @grosston and @scottwallsten @techpolicyinst, examines a $42B government program aimed at fixing that. https://t.co/EN56TjvCM8
#BEADProgram #Broadband
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Exhibit A for how #AI is advancing economics research: New research from @JacksonmMatt, SIEPR senior fellow and @StanfordEcon, leverages AI to shed new light on the motivations behind human behavior. #EconTwitter #LLMs #LargeLanguageModel
How well can LLMs mimic human behavior in playing games? What is revealed by the prompts needed to generate different behaviors? They reveal quite a lot: https://t.co/KekZ9hqUdB just published open access with @yutxie @meiqzh @walteryuan
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(6/6) “It sort of saddens me,” Mahoney tells the WSJ. “I think one of our superpowers as a country is our relentless optimism…It is the fuel for entrepreneurship and other exceptional achievements.”
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(5/6) The third, explaining the mismatch between consumer sentiment and economic measures:
briefingbook.info
The impact of inflation on consumer sentiment decays at a rate of about 50 percent per year
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(4/6) The second, explaining how American sentiment is now driven by fears about the future:
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(3/6) WSJ cites 3 Mahoney analyses, including one with SIEPR's Ryan Cummings @weakinstrument and the @BrookingsInst's @econ_harris on how Americans’ views of the economy versus what the data show have diverged since the #Covid19 pandemic:
milkenreview.org
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🧵Is the American dream a mirage? A shocking new @WSJ poll finds that 70 percent of Americans now think so. In exploring this and other findings, the WSJ begins with a quote from SIEPR director @nealemahoney, lamenting the loss of Americans' "relentless optimism." Links 👇
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The end of the U.S. tariff exemption for small orders is going to fuel inflation and worsen an already harmful trade agenda. SIEPR Director @nealemahoney and Adam Shaw explain what should be done instead in @TIME. https://t.co/q6xdZWS5zu
#EconTwitter #TrumpTariffs #Inflation
time.com
Economists from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research explain the impact of Trump's tariff policy.
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