Alexandre de Cornière
@adecorniere
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Toulouse-based economist. Tech, antitrust. Basketball coach in my spare time.
Joined April 2020
"Le million perdu du retraité" ➡️ Retrouvez l’édito éco de @OlivierBabeau chaque lundi et mercredi à 7h20 sur #Europe1
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If you want to get in early my next book, The Microeconomics of Artificial Intelligence will be published by MIT Press in December is available for pre-order. (Apologies regarding the price; individual chapters will be Open Access).
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It is well-recognized that recent advances in AI are exclusively advances in statistical techniques for prediction. While this may facilitate automation, this result is secondary to AI’s impact on...
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France just held a big AI summit. They want to build up their tech sector. Global prosperity would be enhanced by this. But I can't tell you how insane EU regulation is here, and how it inadvertently enhances market power of big US firms. Let's look at GDPR, for example. 1/x
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Avec David Le Bris, nous avons mené un petit exercice d'histoire contrefactuelle dans lequel la France aurait introduit une dose de capitalisation dans son système de retraite en 1982. Plus spécifiquement, nous imaginons le cas d'un salarié restant toute sa vie au salaire
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🚨PhD students working on digital economics: please submit your papers to the 8th doctoral workshop on the economics of digitization, in Toulouse on May 6&7. Deadline: February 14. More info: https://t.co/CmIHcEZiAA ( @mbourreau @AxelGautier1 )
digital-economics.org
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Program and papers here:
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17th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, January 9–10, 2025.
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Kicking off the 17th @TSEinfo Digital Economics conference with a keynote lecture by Julian Wright
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Only a few more days left to send us your papers (Sept 30)
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17th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, January 9–10, 2025.
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One of Brussels favorite pieces of legislation Is GDPR. In my new blog Silicon Continent (starting today!) I talk about how it is undermining innovation in Europe and how to fix it.
siliconcontinent.com
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was supposed to be Europe's big move to protect consumer privacy and reassert its technological relevance.
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Parents should get extra votes in elections.
Tell me your most radical position that cannot be placed on the left-right political spectrum
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Back from Sevilla for the Jornadas de Economía Industrial @AEEmedia. Lots of good papers, fun atmosphere. See u next year in Santander!
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My piece in @ConversationUK on the latest Google ruling, and where we stand in the game of cat-and-mouse between regulators and tech giants https://t.co/rzOgl4yXXV (there's a link to your papers, @Pape_econ @ErikHovenkamp )
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Google has a 90% market share of the market for general search engines.
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Our article, Third-Degree Price Discrimination in Two-Sided Markets, joint with @adecorniere and @ShivaShekhar_08, has just been published on Management Science, and is available open access at the following link https://t.co/fw7SdfUFWQ Perfect for reading at the beach 😉
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Less than week before the deadline, don't forget to send us your paper.
🚨 PhD students working on digital economics, your attention please: submit your papers to the 7th Doctoral Workshop on the Economics of Digitization, Warsaw, June 13-14. Always a fun workshop. Deadline February 28. More info here:
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TIL a PhD student in NL makes as much as a full professor in FR.
📢 Tilburg is looking for 3 PhD students in Information Systems to start next year. Enjoy a generous salary (€38K in the 1st year, €49K in the final year) and conduct cool IS research with our dedicated faculty. Please apply using the link: https://t.co/Pr3sG8pcYF
#ISTwitter 🎓
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NYT/OpenAI lawsuit completely misunderstands how LLMs work, and judges getting this wrong will do huge damage to AI. Basic point: LLMs DON'T "STORE" UNDERLYING TRAINING TEXT. It is impossible- the parameter size of GPT-3.5 or 4 is not enough to losslessly encode the training set.
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🚨 PhD students working on digital economics, your attention please: submit your papers to the 7th Doctoral Workshop on the Economics of Digitization, Warsaw, June 13-14. Always a fun workshop. Deadline February 28. More info here:
digital-economics.org
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[JOB MARKET ALERT] TSE proudly presents the 2023-2024 job market candidates! @ASSAMeeting @EEANews #EconTwitter Unroll this thread to discover their amazing profiles and research topics, or go to https://t.co/kmkPLyD8bs
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