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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

2 months

I've got a better idea!

Khamenei.ir

@khamenei_ir

2 months

Dear university students in the US, my advice to you is to become familiar with the Quran.

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Jon Williams

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3 months

The first letter that I've ever signed as a faculty member. If academia wants to continue to function, we can't selectively enforce laws and rules of conduct. Everyone deserves to be welcome and safe on our campus, and that requires mutual respect for one another.

Steve McGuire

@sfmcguire79

3 months

NEW: Faculty, students, parents, alumni, and citizens have signed an open letter supporting University of North Carolina leadership’s response to protests on campus. The letter lists a number of laws and policies that were violated by protestors:

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

8 months

@florianederer Having a brilliant person out pushing the virtues of capitalism as communism reigned in much of the world doesn't seem like a "fruitless debate." And if we'd had someone with Friedman's prominence speaking up in 2020, it wouldn't have been wasted effort either.

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

16 days

JD Vance's story hits home for a lot of folks in the Midwest. I was born in Akron. My hometown, just up interstate 77, had a Chrysler plant that permanently closed in the early 2000s after cutting jobs for decades. Unemployment and despair leaves a vacuum for a lot of bad things,

Melissa Chen

@MsMelChen

16 days

The accusation of JD Vance as a faux anti-elite populist either because he went to Yale or is now deeply entrenched in elite media and political circles rings so hollow to me. I suspect that his life trajectory annoys progressives for many reasons, but chief of which is that

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

4 months

Quick brag on my amazing oldest daughter that got accepted to @NCSSM yesterday. 😱 It really is one of the coolest things that I've seen going on in public education. Automatically admitted to any public NC university w/ waived tuition after graduating.

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

5 months

I'll be organizing the Industrial Organization Society sessions again at the SEA conference this November. Typically ~10 IO sessions and a great time. If you're interested, please DM or email me, and I'll share link to sign up. @IIOC_IO @SouthernEconJ Please share #EconTwitter !

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

5 months

There is no publication or job worth giving up the opportunity to create your own little human beings. Have your kids when it's right for you, you'll never regret anything. Many people and places will celebrate your decision to do it early.

John Cochrane

@JohnHCochrane

5 months

With trepidation, some thoughts on how to increase the number of women in economics

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

1 month

This also happened very openly in economics, and it shouldn't ever again. We need to encourage our best and brightest to serve, especially when the queue to do so isn't as long.

Jay Bhattacharya

@DrJBhattacharya

1 month

Between 2016 and 2020, I watched with shock as scientists I once respected viciously attacked junior scientists whose only crime was to accept a low level position in the Trump era federal bureaucracy. Their vicious self righteousness and close mindedness stifled progress.

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

9 months

Lot of really great IO research this year in our Industrial Organization Society sessions at 2023 SEA Conference. Last session had a full house plus. Big thanks to all the folks that contributed. #Econtwitter #SEA23

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

6 months

I guess once you reach a certain status, abstract length is more a suggestion than a rule.😲

AEA Journals

@AEAjournals

6 months

Forthcoming in the AER: "Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice" by Peter Bergman, Raj Chetty, Stefanie DeLuca, Nathaniel Hendren, Lawrence F. Katz, and Christopher Palmer.

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

3 months

This was the beginning of it, and what I saw when I walked out of Gardner hall. Soon after, students were surrounded and assaulted. I am so proud of these kids that stood up for themselves!!! 🇺🇸💪🐏

Steve McGuire

@sfmcguire79

3 months

The mob at UNC pelts a student holding an Israeli flag with trash while other students protect the American flag: 🎥 @BryanRAnderson

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

3 months

I hope the 20 predominently Jewish American students that restored and protected the flag for 30 minutes, while getting assaulted and threatened, are recognized by @UNC . Embarrassed that faculty members ran and tucked their tails after classes were canceled rather than helping

Steve McGuire

@sfmcguire79

3 months

HERO: Interim UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts personally restored the American flag at UNC: (Credit: @dailytarheel )

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

5 months

🚨NEW🚨 "Does Pricing of Internet Usage Steer Consumers or Meter Usage? Evidence from a Pricing Experiment" w/ Brian McManus, Aviv Nevo, and Zach Nolan. Finding: UBP is primarily for metering usage, not steering consumers to away from OTT. #EconTwitter

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

9 months

Had a great time presenting at the Research Institute for Industrial Economics in Stockholm. Really lively group of fantastic economists. One of the more comical moments, among many per usual with me, "awful" sounds like "often" with a Swedish accent.😂

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

5 months

This tweet demonstrates an ignorance of the economics of price discrimination. It can be progressive in many situations. I hope @crampell keeps writing truths rather than what is popular with Matt. Readership and dollars will follow.

Matt Stoller

@matthewstoller

5 months

Just totally baffling the Washington Post is bleeding readership and dollars when they have such awesome columnists.

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

3 months

Boston and @IIOC_IO delivered again with a few great days of fun and fantastic talks.

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

3 months

Triangle Micro Conference is underway with Alexander Wolitzky presenting “Moral Hazard and Repeated Games with Many Agents” w/ Takuo Sugaya. #EconTwitter

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

5 months

If you posted about this in 20/21, it got you ridiculed to no end. Many economists were complicit: either cowered away from confronting absurd policies, embraced the fanaticism, or kept politically inconvenient research from being published. Need more economics, less politics.

Gustavo Ventura

@King_ofSweden

5 months

The legacy of school clousures during Covid. 2/3 of a year lost on average in poorer districts.

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

6 months

This is troubling, but completely unsurprising. PS: Having 8 full-time RAs for a year, then hiring 8 more full-time for another year to check the findings. 😵

The Free Press

@TheFP

6 months

“We didn’t find any racial bias in police shootings.” Economist Roland Fryer tells @bariweiss at @uaustinorg about the 2016 paper on policing bias that led to his need for an “armed guard” for over a month and the academics who told him not to publish.

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

2 months

Only one thing missing, the economics. 😅

Khoa Vu

@KhoaVuUmn

2 months

Applied micro paper intro be like

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

5 months

The economics of Elizabeth Warren would be a fun course to teach.

Elizabeth Warren

@SenWarren

5 months

. @Wendys is planning to try out “surge pricing” — that means you could pay more for your lunch, even if the cost to Wendy’s stays exactly the same. It’s price gouging plain and simple, and American families have had enough.

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

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@LeistenEcon That sucks. I'm sorry. Editors should do more to reign that crap in. I got my nastiest ever review on my job market paper at Restud as an AP (after 16 months). I never resubmitted the paper and almost quit academia. I think about that experience a lot when I write a report.

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

6 months

Wake up this morning and get news that Amazon has monopolized video streaming. Certainly a creative market definition.🫠 Reality, Netflix alone has 50 million more US subscribers than Prime, and together YouTube and Netflix are 75% of all streaming hours.

Top Streaming Statistics In 2024

In an era where digital media consumption has become a significant part of our daily lives, understanding streaming trends is more crucial than ever. As we continue to embrace the convenience and...

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

5 months

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help." - Ronnie R.

Lee Hepner

@LeeHepner

5 months

The path to profitability for Uber and Lyft has always been about depressing wages for gig workers. If a company can’t afford to pay their drivers a livable wage, maybe that company doesn’t deserve to exist.

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

5 months

I asked this same question regarding Amazon. What is the superior counterfactual outcome for consumers that they hope to achieve?

Joshua Gans

@joshgans

5 months

You know I am on the more aggressive side of antitrust enforcement. But what is the picture of a more innovative smartphone market that the DOJ is envisaging? I mean, just no green bubbles. At the moment, you can play Fortnite on Android but not iPhone. Is that the issue?

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

16 days

Good things happening for IO at NYU.

NYU Stern Economics

@NYUSternEcon

16 days

NYU IO/Innovation at @nberpubs ! Front: Audrey Tiew, Angela Crema (PhD 24), Thi Mai Anh Nguyen. Back: Mike Dickstein, Petra Moser, Chris Conlon, Giulia Brancaccio, Paul Scott, Pierre Bodere (PhD 23). (Missing in the pic: Dan Waldinger.)

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

4 months

Regressive progressivism strikes again: 750k people making $300k+ getting their debt passed on to taxpayers. 🫠

Phil Kerpen

@kerpen

4 months

Penn-Wharton: Biden's new student loan plan will cost taxpayers another $84B, bringing total to $559B. The biggest winners are 750,000 people with 20 years in repayment. Their average debt relief is $25,500+ and average household income is $312,000+.

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Jon Williams

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4 months

Pretty cool. 😎

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

3 months

So wish I'd read more posts from academics like this for the last 5 years. It was a lonely existence. That said, glad the dam has broken and people are speaking up.

Melissa S. Kearney

@kearney_melissa

3 months

Having to assert allegiance to a viewpoint and describe how you have advanced it and will continue to do so really is insulting to the whole enterprise of higher ed. Not to mention the performative aspect of the required essays…

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

4 months

Literally nobody is asking for this... The @FCC is completely ignoring reality and the empirical evidence on the topic.

The FCC

@FCC

4 months

This month, we vote on Net Neutrality at our April Open Meeting. Need a refresher on the journey of #NetNeutrality ? We've got you.

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

4 months

That Carolina blue spring sky is popping today from Gardner. 🐏😍

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

3 months

Encampment is gone. Looks like almost none of them are students. UNC did this very well. Brought trucks and offered people option to pack stuff up and leave peacefully. They did.

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

6 months

This doesn't seem surprising. 3 of our IO students went directly from internships to great economic consulting jobs in last 2 years. Totally skipped the market, which seems good for both sides.

John Cawley

@cawley_john

8 months

The # of job openings on JOE for full-time nonacademic jobs (in any country) is 26.8% lower than at this point in 2022, 30.0% lower than at this point in 2021, and even 18.2% lower than at this point in 2020, which was the worst COVID year for the Econ job mkt. 4/5

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

3 months

My favorite conference is this weekend. Another great group of speakers and lovely NC spring weather. Big thanks to @DukeEcon for co-sponsoring, @kenanflagler for hosting, and the @UNC_econ students that help us pull off the logistics. Full program:

Center for Regulatory and Industrial Studies

@cris_uncecon

6 months

Program for the 2024 Triangle Micro Conference with @UNC_econ and @DukeEcon , hosted by @kenanflagler , is set for April 26/27: If you're interested in attending, please register here: Please share #EconTwitter

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

2 months

If people knew just how hard personalized pricing was in practice, they'd not fear monger so much. I'll have a paper on this soon.

David Dayen

@ddayen

2 months

Personalized pricing—a tailored price based on each individual's willingness to pay—has been an economist's dream. Comprehensive data collection and customer isolation brings it closer to a disturbing reality, as I write for our special pricing issue:

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Jon Williams

@J2dubyas

3 months

Jetblue and Spirit struggling and dropping marginal routes. Definitely a simple economies of scale story for how this merger would have benefitted consumers.

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