Tim de Silva
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Economist @StanfordGSB @SIEPR | Avid Racer
Palo Alto, CA
Joined July 2009
As someone who's missed my fair share of flights, this provides nice ex-post rationalization.
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What's the consensus interpretation of this chart? Loss of convenience yields?
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RT @nberpubs: Using excel to determine what percent of a portfolio should be in stocks, from James J. Choi, Canyao Liu, and Pengcheng Liu h….
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RT @JesusFerna7026: 📚 If I had time this Fall semester, I would take this course on Progress by Kevin Bryan (@Afinetheorem). This is the m….
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RT @brian_jabarian: AI-generated text is everywhere: hard for orgs to assess human performance. Can we detect it while min false accusation….
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RT @nhendren82: Come work with me @policyimpacts at @MITEcon! We're hiring pre-doctoral fellows to start next summer. Work closely with me….
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Nathaniel Hendren is hiring multiple Predoctoral Researchers to work closely with him at Policy Impacts starting next summer at MIT. Apply by October 5, 2025 to meet the priority deadline.
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RT @Hugo_Lhu: 🚨 New working paper 🚨. In large cities, wages are higher. But so are inequalities. In fact, low-wage workers earn lower real….
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RT @jbsteinberg: Listened to @Noahpinion debate @oren_cass about the effects of tariffs on manufacturing on the a16z podcast while walking….
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RT @captgouda24: Measuring misallocation is difficult because we can’t tell if firms face different production functions or different costs….
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RT @TahaChoukhmane: 🧵1/11 My paper "Default Options and Retirement Saving Dynamics" is forthcoming in the AER!. Auto-enrollment is often ha….
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RT @EmilVerner: Extremely rigorous and highly policy-relevant paper on the impact of auto-enrollment on retirement savings.
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RT @Noahpinion: Obesity is a harmful medical condition, but trying to stop medicine from treating obesity is a brain disease. https://t.co….
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Doctors and many patients say GLP-1 drugs can help solve the growing problem of obesity. But some bristle at the thought that obesity is a problem at all.
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RT @evavivalt: Hi, new followers from The Argument's piece on cash transfers. One of the papers discussed is pinned to my profile. Another….
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RT @nberpubs: Carbon price shocks have significant welfare consequences, with larger impacts on younger, poorer, and less educated househol….
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Data centers seem pretty unique in terms of their tangibility yet massive uncertainty about what they'll be worth in a few years.
The spending required to build the data centres needed to power the AI era will be one of the biggest movements of capital in modern history. Who will pay for the $3tn AI building boom? We take a look here:
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RT @ProfJAParker: The main cause of the 2007 financial crisis was banks funding (long-term) houses w/ short-term debt financing (subprime m….
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RT @DanielDiMartino: Some of you won't like this take but cresting subscription housing is a cool option that would allow people to move be….
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Seems like tariffs are disliked more than bank bailouts? Not sure I would have expected that!.
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RT @arpitrage: The UK is considering swapping a stamp duty tax for property tax. Our paper finds a rationale for this kind of swap: less l….
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