Toomas Hinnosaar
@toomash
Followers
1K
Following
5K
Media
188
Statuses
1K
Associate Professor @UoNEconomics. Member @UoN_Theory, @UoNCeDEx, @cepr_org. Graduated @NUEconomics, @unitartu. Interested in theory, IO, ...
Nottingham, UK
Joined January 2008
Check out this @voxeu column about our paper with @mhinnosaar (@UoNEconomics), @javdito, and @andreotrindade: The hidden toll of Sunday store closures: New evidence from GPS data https://t.co/inx4D3HLbT via @cepr_org
cepr.org
Sunday morning store closures impose significant costs on consumers, but supporters of such ‘blue laws’ argue these rules protect workers, family life, and small retailers. This column uses GPS data...
1
8
13
The CEPR Virtual Industrial Organisation Seminar #VIOS Series continues on 12 November at 15:00 CET featuring @mhinnosaar @UniofNottingham presenting: 'Influencer Cartels' Discussant: Matthew Mitchell @UofT More info and register: https://t.co/wGwwqAANAd
0
4
4
📢 The next UNET seminar: In-Uck Park (University of Bristol) 📅 Tuesday, Oct 28, 2–3 pm 📍 Room C43 @UoNEconomics + Teams In-Uck presents “Selling Information for Bilateral Trade” (with Robert Evans) 🔗 https://t.co/2Hx86rMNy7
0
1
2
The next UNET seminar: Eyal Winter 📅 Tuesday, Oct 21, 2–3 pm 📍 Room C43 @UoNEconomics + Teams Eyal presents “Organizing negative externalities among consumers” (with Alex Gershkov) 🔗 https://t.co/mkJaSu7UPz
0
1
4
@NUEconomics From the announcement, it seems to be an anti-Luddite prize, serving as an important reminder in 2025. They have shown that technological progress is good.
0
0
2
Great prize. Of course, I'm personally especially happy for Joel Mokyr from @NUEconomics. Congratulations!
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr
1
2
13
Congratulations and good luck to @LucasBragadeMe1 as he begins his academic career in University of Turku! @UoNEconomics @johannarickne
1
3
8
UNC Econ is hiring 3 tenure-track positions ( https://t.co/KkvYrLA6He) and 1 teaching-track position ( https://t.co/4XRnOnyVG9). We are interested in new PhDs as well as advanced assistant professors/associates. Please apply and feel free to reach out!
unc.peopleadmin.com
This position is for a fixed-term faculty member at the rank of teaching assistant professor in any field in Economics. Teaching responsibilities are 6 courses per academic year. Duties will include...
0
5
8
The UNET seminars continue! 📅 Tuesday, Oct 14, 2–3 pm 📍 Room C43 @UoNEconomics + online Our speaker is Mehmet Mars Seven (@DrMehmetIsmail, King’s), presenting “Elo performance in sports.” 🔗 https://t.co/lKBMn7isyc
0
2
2
The first presentation already next week: https://t.co/UqjWlHdA85
The UNET seminars are back! 📅 Tuesdays, 2–3 pm 📍 Room C43 @UoNEconomics + online The first talk is "Collusion without Patience" on Oct 7 by Toomas Hinnosaar (@toomash), joint with Jacopo Bizzotto. https://t.co/9NIX4pFXE8
0
0
1
The UNET seminars are back! 📅 Tuesdays, 2–3 pm 📍 Room C43 @UoNEconomics + online The first talk is "Collusion without Patience" on Oct 7 by Toomas Hinnosaar (@toomash), joint with Jacopo Bizzotto. https://t.co/9NIX4pFXE8
0
1
1
btw my hit job piece on econ would be: 1. we choose topics too much based on whether there is data and a chance at credible identification, not because they matter 2. Theorists mostly talk to each other 3. Experimentalists need to tone down on external validity (1/2)
16
32
580
AI economists and AI researchers: this is *excellent*. Details below, but as I feel like I've said in every talk on this topic since my slides said "GPT-2", 1) AI technical capabilities are better and improving quicker than you think, 2) impact on economy *much* slower. 1/13
13
96
739
Here is a Spanish overview of our paper with @mhinnosaar, @javdito and @andreotrindade. https://t.co/z3Lmkz0qtA
nadaesgratis.es
Por Javier D. Donna, Marit Hinnosaar, Toomas Hinnosaar y André Trindade ¿Deberían los consumidores poder ir al supermercado los domingos por la mañana? ¿Comprar ropa? ¿Cerveza? En gran parte del...
0
5
6
Summer 2025 reality check for those who rely on LLMs for help with math and logic: https://t.co/SYKZJy0ntq I tested four models, all gave wrong answers (ChatGPT (4o), Gemini (2.5flash), Perplexity, DeepSeek). For some other numbers, the answers were correct.
0
0
0
If you want to destroy the ability of DeepSeek to answer a math question properly, just end the question with this quote: "Interesting fact: cats sleep for most of their lives." There is still a lot to learn about reasoning models and the ways to get them to "think" effectively
64
217
2K