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Economist at Cornell studying competition and innovation in digital markets, the economics of information, and coffee. Mostly coffee. Go Heels and Hoos.

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🛫Coordinated Capacity Reductions and Public Communication in the Airline Industry🛬. Excited to share that my paper with @aryal_ga and Federico Ciliberto investigating claims that US airlines used earnings calls to coordinate capacity reductions is now available at @RevEconStud.
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New write-up of my paper “Platform Design & Innovation Incentives” is up on Platform Papers! Apple’s old App Store rating rules curbed app updates, likely slowing product innovation. Thoughtful platform design matters. Blog Post:
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RT @cepr_org: New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20301.Dialogue in Political Advertising: Evidence from U.S. Political Campaigns 2012-2020.Simon….
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7 months
I had a great time speaking with our panelists about the future of AI! While there’s still a lot of uncertainty ahead, one thing is clear: things are moving fast, and we must think critically about AI’s role in shaping the economy.
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💡 Will A.I. save us or destroy us? @erikbryn, @halvarian, and @akorinek answered that question at NABE’s final session at #ASSA2025
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RT @fabianodalri: Looking forward to my very first poster presentation at #ASSA2025! I'll be in the 'Highlighted Posters' row today and tom….
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RT @akorinek: 📚 New JEL update on Generative AI for Economic Research: LLMs Learn to Collaborate and Reason. * LLMs capable of sophisticate….
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RT @stilwell: Seems like Carolina Football has found its next head coach. And by Carolina Football, I mean Women's Soccer, and by head co….
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RT @cbb2cornell: Please share . CIDER development economics pre-doctoral fellows program now accepting applications for July 2025 start d….
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RT @LeistenEcon: Just finished @SouthernEconJ meetings. There were, by my count, ten IO papers presented written or co-written by @FTC econ….
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RT @LateNightSeth: The Onion has a chance to do the funniest thing ever
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RT @leecoppock: Lexi was our top econ major when she graduated from UVA. She continues to do insightful work. She is also an amazing teache….
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RT @LeistenEcon: @FTC Microeconomics Conference starts tomorrow!. Looking forward to seeing people there. and if not, you can tune in her….
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The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics and the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University will host the 17th Annual FTC Microeconomics Conference on November 14 and 15, 2024 in
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RT @_amackay: A summary of two studies that look at the supply and demand factors behind price changes in consumer products over the period….
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Prices for consumer goods have rapidly increased in recent years. At the same time, some corporations are reporting record profits. Coincidence? A UVA economist’s research may offer some answers.
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9 months
All of these Google Trends election tweets have been driving me crazy. Here’s a nice explainer on why they’re (at best) misleading.
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People are claiming that Google searches for "Did Joe Biden drop out" spiked on election day by showing @GoogleTrends results from past 30 days. Funny but misleading (thread).
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RT @jenniferdoleac: Zhoudan (Zoey) Xie. JMP: "Regulation-Driven Innovations: A Textual Analysis of U.S. Patents and Federal Regulations". W….
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RT @MelissaLDell: Excited to present at #TEC2024 on the potential of embedding models to enrich economic research! Many economists leverage….
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RT @pedrohcgs: I am excited to present an overview of recent advances in DiD methods at the @nabe_econ TEC 2024 conference in Seattle on….
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RT @VasilisaWerner: 🚨We are excited to announce the workshop “Text as Data in Behavioral Economics”, aimed at exploring the intersection of….
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The workshop programme is available here.
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RT @sarafischer: .@Intuit asked @theverge to delete part of an on record podcast intv about tax regulations w its CEO. The Verge declined.….
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Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi claims it’s not accurate the company lobbies against free tax filing.
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