Howard Smith
@howardwsmith
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Economist, Industrial Org, @OxfordEconDept @CEPR_org @TheIFS & sometimes @CMAgovUK (Photo: Smith & Co Ltd, family bakery/grocery business, Ballymena c. 1900).
Economics Department, Oxford
Joined September 2009
RT @cepr_org: New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20568.The Rise of Discounters and its Impact on Concentration, Market Power and Welfare.Martin….
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RT @TheIFS: NEW: #IFSWorkingPaper: The rise of discounters and its impact on concentration, market power and welfare. 📗 Read Martin O'Conne….
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RT @j_schneebacher: Just a reminder that applications for our funded, joint @OxfordEconDept-@CMAgovUK PhD are due in less than a month. Pl….
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RT @j_schneebacher: Want to do a funded, joint @OxfordEconDept-@CMAgovUK PhD on market power?. @howardwsmith and the CMA Microeconomics Uni….
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RT @CMAgovUK: We’ve launched our new #Microeconomics Unit Growth Programme to support the government’s #growth mission + Industrial Strateg….
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Thank you, Flavio. Was great you were able to come.
In beautiful Oxford for a lovely workshop on Competition, Concentration, and Mark-Ups (note the Oxford comma).
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RT @OxfordEconDept: Our associates at the Oxford Economic Papers Association and @OxUniPress invite applications for the position of Editor….
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Opportunity to apply for these excellent post-doc positions at in any area of economics.
Attention junior job market candidates: @OxfordEconDept & @NuffieldCollege are seeking postdoctoral fellows in Economics. Join the ranks of recent fellows like Claudia Noack & Christophe Gaillac.
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This exciting antitrust book is out today. It covers the economic issues in a wide range of recent cases in the US and Europe. I contributed the chapter "Upward Pricing Pressure in Supermarket Mergers: The UK’s Asda/Sainsbury Case."
competitionpolicyinternational.com
Antitrust Economics at a Time of Upheaval: Recent Competition Policy Cases on Two Continents. John Kwoka, Tommaso Valletti & Lawrence White.
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Well done Sam @AltmannM.
Congratulations to @AltmannM, who has been awarded the Sir Alec Cairncross prize by @ScotEconSoc at the joint conference with @RoyalEconSoc!🎉. Sam won for the job market paper 'Choice, Welfare, and Market Design: An Empirical Investigation of Feeding America’s Choice System'.
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RT @j_schneebacher: #EconTwitter, come join us at the @CMAgovUK Microeconomics Unit! We are recruiting for up to three permanent full-time….
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👏👏👏.
Well said Paul. So great to run into many friends and acquaintances from different stages of life to celebrate John Sutton. Wonderful tributes by @timobres and @JeanTirole. Thank you @volker_nocke @TomValletti and others for making this happen!
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RT @eizenb_alon: Reminder: our IO day takes place on December 28 2023. Excited to have a keynote lecture by @PhilHaile! .Submissions are fl….
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RT @UofGAsbs: 📢CALL FOR PAPERS - The RES PhD conference 2023 will take place on 9 June at the University of Glasgow @UofGlasgow @RoyalEconS….
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RT @cepr_org: New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP17941.A two sample size estimator for large data sets.Martin O'Connell @WIeconomics @TheIFS, @h….
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RT @sophiemaynard: If you've never thought about monopolies/oligopolies and antitrust, it's time to get reading. We have some good intervie….
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The problem of market concentration is one of the biggest challenges facing societies, but it's little talked about. Books to bring you up to speed
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RT @OxfordEconDept: We're delighted to introduce our Job Market Candidates for 2022-23! Over the coming days we'll be introducing each of t….
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Antitrust has been very interesting lately. I had a chat with @five_books about five recent books on the topic that I'd recommend. (In fact, I cheated and squeezed in a sixth).
NEW: The best books on #antitrust, recommended by @howardwsmith @OxfordEconDept:.Books by @jan_eeckhout, @ThomasPHI2, @MichMeagher, @jbbecon, Eric Posner (@UChicagoLaw).
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RT @StiglerCenter: One of the hottest discussions in the #antitrust community right now is whether competition policy has neglected the imp….
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