Michael Ostrovsky
mostrovsky.bsky.social
Michael Ostrovsky
@mostrovsky.bsky.social
Professor of Economics at Stanford GSB
The New York City congestion pricing lawsuit. Very much worth following. Real-time updates at www.courtlistener.com/docket/69652...
February 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
NBER Market Design Working Group Report, talking about many exciting recent papers in all areas of market design/design of economic mechanisms. www.nber.org/reporter/202...
Working Group Report: Market Design
www.nber.org
January 30, 2025 at 6:11 AM
New Dean at Stanford GSB!
January 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
One would normally want to wait longer to evaluate the effects of major policy changes, but the results of the first three days of #CongestionPricing in New York City are so striking that it is already possible to make some (at least preliminary) conclusions.
January 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
January 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The final legal hurdle is over (link below), congestion pricing in New York City (first one in the US!) is starting on Sunday.
a man in a suit and tie with his arms in the air and the words it 's happening
ALT: a man in a suit and tie with his arms in the air and the words it 's happening
media.tenor.com
January 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Bumping this in case someone has new suggestions :) Would really appreciate any help/pointers
Empirical #econsky - what's the *easiest* way to *quickly* hire 40-50 people in the US at $20-25 per hour for a short period of time (~20 hours per week) to do some basic real-world data collection stuff (e.g., go to supermarket X and collect prices of Y and Z)? Is there some temp agency to contact?
November 18, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Empirical #econsky - what's the *easiest* way to *quickly* hire 40-50 people in the US at $20-25 per hour for a short period of time (~20 hours per week) to do some basic real-world data collection stuff (e.g., go to supermarket X and collect prices of Y and Z)? Is there some temp agency to contact?
November 18, 2024 at 7:04 AM
Unexpected achievement unlocked: Frank Yang and I wrote a paper that (admittedly pretty minimally) uses the notions of Manhattan distance and taxicab geometry to study .... taxicabs in Manhattan

"Effective and Equitable Congestion Pricing: New York City and Beyond": web.stanford.edu/~ost/papers/...
November 12, 2024 at 12:06 AM