Avi Goldfarb
@avigoldfarb.bsky.social
Professor at Rotman, University of Toronto. Economics of digital technology and AI.
Tell your PhD students: NBER Digital Economics and AI PhD workshop submission deadline is December 1. Apply here: www.nber.org/calls-papers...
Digital Economics and AI Tutorial
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November 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Tell your PhD students: NBER Digital Economics and AI PhD workshop submission deadline is December 1. Apply here: www.nber.org/calls-papers...
The NBER Digital Economics and AI conference submission deadline is coming up on December 1. Submit here: www.nber.org/conferences/...
Digital Economics and AI Meeting, Spring 2026
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November 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The NBER Digital Economics and AI conference submission deadline is coming up on December 1. Submit here: www.nber.org/conferences/...
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Abundant AI geniuses will be great, but only if we can work out what to use them for, from Ajay K. Agrawal, @joshgans.bsky.social, and Avi Goldfarb https://www.nber.org/papers/w34316
October 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Abundant AI geniuses will be great, but only if we can work out what to use them for, from Ajay K. Agrawal, @joshgans.bsky.social, and Avi Goldfarb https://www.nber.org/papers/w34316
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Details on how to access anonymized data from the Creative Destruction Lab, including a description of dataset construction and included variables, from Amir Sariri, Evgenia Gatov, Geneva Neal, Kyle Robinson, Sonia Sennik, Wei Yang Tham, Michael Vertolli, and Av... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34127
August 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Details on how to access anonymized data from the Creative Destruction Lab, including a description of dataset construction and included variables, from Amir Sariri, Evgenia Gatov, Geneva Neal, Kyle Robinson, Sonia Sennik, Wei Yang Tham, Michael Vertolli, and Av... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34127
The Economics of Bicycles for the Mind. Working paper with @joshgans.bsky.social and Ajay Agrawal. A bicycle amplifies human locomotion. Computers & AI amplify human intelligence. We model cognitive tools, showing when they affect productivity, inequality, & teams. www.nber.org/papers/w34034
July 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The Economics of Bicycles for the Mind. Working paper with @joshgans.bsky.social and Ajay Agrawal. A bicycle amplifies human locomotion. Computers & AI amplify human intelligence. We model cognitive tools, showing when they affect productivity, inequality, & teams. www.nber.org/papers/w34034
We find (1) personally receiving a false positive leads to a persistent decline in screening, (2) exposure to false positives through a co-worker decreases screening, (3) these effects are mitigated in workplaces that had recently experienced true positives. (2/2)
When Good Products Fail: How False Positives Affect Usage of Novel Screening Technologies
<p><span>We examine how idiosyncratic product failures in the form of false positive results affect the usage of novel screening technologies, both through dire
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July 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We find (1) personally receiving a false positive leads to a persistent decline in screening, (2) exposure to false positives through a co-worker decreases screening, (3) these effects are mitigated in workplaces that had recently experienced true positives. (2/2)
What happens when good products fail? Dinara Akchurina and I have a new paper looking at false positives in COVID rapid tests. Details here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... (1/2)
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July 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
What happens when good products fail? Dinara Akchurina and I have a new paper looking at false positives in COVID rapid tests. Details here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... (1/2)
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AI Can Strengthen Canada’s Economy — If We Let It - @avigoldfarb.bsky.social joined the Canada’s Economy, Explained podcast from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce chamber.ca/ai-can-stren...
AI Can Strengthen Canada's Economy — If We Let It - Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Avi Goldfarb joins host Marwa Abdou to explain why Canada’s early leadership in research hasn’t led to widespread adoption.
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June 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
AI Can Strengthen Canada’s Economy — If We Let It - @avigoldfarb.bsky.social joined the Canada’s Economy, Explained podcast from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce chamber.ca/ai-can-stren...
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Mike Scherer, a leader in industrial organization economics, in the study of innovation, and in many other topics since the 1960s, has died at 92. Strikingly eclectic, he wrote (inter alia) about weapons procurement and the commercialization of classical music. More than anything /1
June 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Mike Scherer, a leader in industrial organization economics, in the study of innovation, and in many other topics since the 1960s, has died at 92. Strikingly eclectic, he wrote (inter alia) about weapons procurement and the commercialization of classical music. More than anything /1
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Our work now published showing how better AI can improve both accuracy and diversity in hiring relative to supervised learning tools and status-quo human hiring.
Li, @lindseyraymond.bsky.social & @peterbergman.bsky.social show that incorporating exploration into an interview screening algorithm improves demographic diversity & hiring efficiency, while traditional supervised learning-only tools improve hiring rates at the expense of minority applicants.
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June 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Our work now published showing how better AI can improve both accuracy and diversity in hiring relative to supervised learning tools and status-quo human hiring.
Thanks to the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social for support!
February 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Thanks to the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social for support!
Maria Petrova Gregor Schubert Bledi Taska Pinar Yildirim, Italo Colantone, Jordan Mansell Alex Beyer Ori Freiman John McAndrews & Clifton van der Linden, @dacemoglumit.bsky.social Asuman Ozdaglar James Siderius, and Joshua Tucker. Coeditors Catherine Tucker, Ajay Agrawal, and @joshgans.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Maria Petrova Gregor Schubert Bledi Taska Pinar Yildirim, Italo Colantone, Jordan Mansell Alex Beyer Ori Freiman John McAndrews & Clifton van der Linden, @dacemoglumit.bsky.social Asuman Ozdaglar James Siderius, and Joshua Tucker. Coeditors Catherine Tucker, Ajay Agrawal, and @joshgans.bsky.social
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& Noam Yuchtman, Chiara Farronato, Steven Callandar, Talia Gillis Scott Nelson & Jann Spiess,
@joshgans, @jasonfurman.bsky.social, Paul Scharre, Dan Gross, Jon Lindsay, Vasiliki Fouka & Bryony Reich,
Martin Beraja
& Noam Yuchtman, Chiara Farronato, Steven Callandar, Talia Gillis Scott Nelson & Jann Spiess,
@joshgans, @jasonfurman.bsky.social, Paul Scharre, Dan Gross, Jon Lindsay, Vasiliki Fouka & Bryony Reich,
February 27, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Entries by
Martin Beraja
& Noam Yuchtman, Chiara Farronato, Steven Callandar, Talia Gillis Scott Nelson & Jann Spiess,
@joshgans, @jasonfurman.bsky.social, Paul Scharre, Dan Gross, Jon Lindsay, Vasiliki Fouka & Bryony Reich,
Martin Beraja
& Noam Yuchtman, Chiara Farronato, Steven Callandar, Talia Gillis Scott Nelson & Jann Spiess,
@joshgans, @jasonfurman.bsky.social, Paul Scharre, Dan Gross, Jon Lindsay, Vasiliki Fouka & Bryony Reich,
Forthcoming NBER Economics of AI & Political Economy volume. Draft chapters here: www.nber.org/books-and-ch...
The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Political Economy
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February 27, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Forthcoming NBER Economics of AI & Political Economy volume. Draft chapters here: www.nber.org/books-and-ch...
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'Ajay Agrawal (University of Toronto), Erik Brynjolfsson (Stanford University) and Anton Korinek (University of Virginia and CEPR) jointly present "The Economics of Transformative AI: A Research Agenda".'
@cepr.org @akorinek.bsky.social
#ai #EconSky
@cepr.org @akorinek.bsky.social
#ai #EconSky
CEPR Webinar Series on the Economics of Artificial Intelligence - 1
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January 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
'Ajay Agrawal (University of Toronto), Erik Brynjolfsson (Stanford University) and Anton Korinek (University of Virginia and CEPR) jointly present "The Economics of Transformative AI: A Research Agenda".'
@cepr.org @akorinek.bsky.social
#ai #EconSky
@cepr.org @akorinek.bsky.social
#ai #EconSky
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Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.
The Collapse of Ego Depletion
Science's Biggest Self-Control Failure
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January 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.
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NBER Innovation Boot Camp is back this summer for a 4th run (thanks open_phil!)! Lectures by Heidi Williams, Pierre Azoulay, Ina Ganguli, Ben Jones, Chad Jones, Kyle Myers, and me, a great policy panel and keynotes, plus attendance at Summer Institute innovation session. www.nber.org/calls-papers...
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January 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
NBER Innovation Boot Camp is back this summer for a 4th run (thanks open_phil!)! Lectures by Heidi Williams, Pierre Azoulay, Ina Ganguli, Ben Jones, Chad Jones, Kyle Myers, and me, a great policy panel and keynotes, plus attendance at Summer Institute innovation session. www.nber.org/calls-papers...
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⏰ Deadline approaching ⏰ -- send us your best work on Behavioral IO and Marketing by 12/15 #econsky
CALL FOR PAPERS 📈📉
The Behavioral IO and Marketing Symposium (biomsymposium.org) will be held on 5/15-16 at UMichigan. This is an opportunity for IO and Quantitative Marketing researchers working on behavioral economics topics to interact.
Submit to biom-symposium@umich.edu by *December 15, 2024*.
The Behavioral IO and Marketing Symposium (biomsymposium.org) will be held on 5/15-16 at UMichigan. This is an opportunity for IO and Quantitative Marketing researchers working on behavioral economics topics to interact.
Submit to biom-symposium@umich.edu by *December 15, 2024*.
Home - Behavioral IO and Marketing
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December 4, 2024 at 4:14 PM
⏰ Deadline approaching ⏰ -- send us your best work on Behavioral IO and Marketing by 12/15 #econsky
Ah. Good idea. The classic paper.
December 15, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Ah. Good idea. The classic paper.
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#econsky Economists: If you ever wondered what is “quantitative marketing” about, @avigoldfarb.bsky.social’s syllabus is a great place to fill in the gap.
If you never wondered about it - you can learn about it nonetheless.
If you never wondered about it - you can learn about it nonetheless.
My PhD syllabus for Introduction to Quantitative Marketing @rotmanschool. Updated for 2025. Comments welcome.
Feel free to suggest additional papers. Self promotion encouraged! All University of Toronto PhD students welcome to audit. Please get in touch.
Feel free to suggest additional papers. Self promotion encouraged! All University of Toronto PhD students welcome to audit. Please get in touch.
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December 15, 2024 at 2:39 PM
#econsky Economists: If you ever wondered what is “quantitative marketing” about, @avigoldfarb.bsky.social’s syllabus is a great place to fill in the gap.
If you never wondered about it - you can learn about it nonetheless.
If you never wondered about it - you can learn about it nonetheless.
My PhD syllabus for Introduction to Quantitative Marketing @rotmanschool. Updated for 2025. Comments welcome.
Feel free to suggest additional papers. Self promotion encouraged! All University of Toronto PhD students welcome to audit. Please get in touch.
Feel free to suggest additional papers. Self promotion encouraged! All University of Toronto PhD students welcome to audit. Please get in touch.
avigoldfarb.com
December 15, 2024 at 2:22 PM
My PhD syllabus for Introduction to Quantitative Marketing @rotmanschool. Updated for 2025. Comments welcome.
Feel free to suggest additional papers. Self promotion encouraged! All University of Toronto PhD students welcome to audit. Please get in touch.
Feel free to suggest additional papers. Self promotion encouraged! All University of Toronto PhD students welcome to audit. Please get in touch.
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Super excited to publicly launch "All Day TA" (http://www.alldayta.com), a product @joshgans.bsky.social and I have been working on with our team over the last year. Short version: if you teach in spring, you will want to use this! It's the future of higher education. A short thread: 1/x
December 13, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Super excited to publicly launch "All Day TA" (http://www.alldayta.com), a product @joshgans.bsky.social and I have been working on with our team over the last year. Short version: if you teach in spring, you will want to use this! It's the future of higher education. A short thread: 1/x