Heski Bar-Isaac
@profeski.bsky.social
Dad, husband, Jew, Israeli, Canadian, Brit, economist, and occasional haiku-writer (though not always in that order)
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Today, I am excited to release a paper that has been five years in the making, titled “Endogenous Firm Ownership in General Equilibrium.” I think it is the best thing I have done. www.nber.org/papers/w34187
Endogenous Firm Ownership in General Equilibrium
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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September 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Today, I am excited to release a paper that has been five years in the making, titled “Endogenous Firm Ownership in General Equilibrium.” I think it is the best thing I have done. www.nber.org/papers/w34187
Very proud of this honour and to be in some great company.
📢 RES is delighted to announce the appointment of our new #Fellows. We warmly congratulate our Fellows and thank all those who submitted applications!
Read👉 bit.ly/3TOqHsZ
🗣️Third round of applications are open!
⏰8 Oct 🔗https://bit.ly/4eV1tAZ
#EconSky
Read👉 bit.ly/3TOqHsZ
🗣️Third round of applications are open!
⏰8 Oct 🔗https://bit.ly/4eV1tAZ
#EconSky
July 24, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Very proud of this honour and to be in some great company.
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I was thrilled to join Emanuele Tarantino, Susan Athey, Cristina Caffarra & others for CEPR’s webinar on “Updating Merger Control as an Economic Policy Tool for Europe?”
How can merger policy adapt to support innovation, growth & strategic autonomy?
📺: youtu.be/CO_IJhFczCk
How can merger policy adapt to support innovation, growth & strategic autonomy?
📺: youtu.be/CO_IJhFczCk
Updating Merger Control as an Economic Policy Tool for Europe?
YouTube video by CEPR & VideoVox Economics
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July 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I was thrilled to join Emanuele Tarantino, Susan Athey, Cristina Caffarra & others for CEPR’s webinar on “Updating Merger Control as an Economic Policy Tool for Europe?”
How can merger policy adapt to support innovation, growth & strategic autonomy?
📺: youtu.be/CO_IJhFczCk
How can merger policy adapt to support innovation, growth & strategic autonomy?
📺: youtu.be/CO_IJhFczCk
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📢 #CallForPapers To honour the memory of Ghazala Azmat, the Economics Department of SciencesPo is creating an award in her name. Junior researchers can submit a paper in economics of discrimination, gender, education & organizational #economics. Submit by 31 August.
cepr.org/events/ghaza...
#EconSky
cepr.org/events/ghaza...
#EconSky
July 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
📢 #CallForPapers To honour the memory of Ghazala Azmat, the Economics Department of SciencesPo is creating an award in her name. Junior researchers can submit a paper in economics of discrimination, gender, education & organizational #economics. Submit by 31 August.
cepr.org/events/ghaza...
#EconSky
cepr.org/events/ghaza...
#EconSky
Many thanks for including me. Great program, interesting people, and lots of food for thought.
🌞Summer is upon us, and it's Summer Institute time.
For this year's Summer Institute in Competition Policy, we went to Bad Homburg (June 2-6)
MaCCI researchers and invited scholars presented a diverse array of theoretical and empirical work in the field of competition economics.
For this year's Summer Institute in Competition Policy, we went to Bad Homburg (June 2-6)
MaCCI researchers and invited scholars presented a diverse array of theoretical and empirical work in the field of competition economics.
June 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Many thanks for including me. Great program, interesting people, and lots of food for thought.
This put it well for those not lucky enough to have known Ghazala www.eeassoc.org/news/memoria...
She made us all better.
Truly devastating.
She made us all better.
Truly devastating.
I am heartbroken by the passing of our colleague Ghazala Azmat. A wonderful economist and AEJ: Economic Policy Board member, she was generous with her time and a vital contributor to many areas within applied economics and economic policy. She will be sorely missed. My heart goes out to her family.
June 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This put it well for those not lucky enough to have known Ghazala www.eeassoc.org/news/memoria...
She made us all better.
Truly devastating.
She made us all better.
Truly devastating.
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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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Join the CMA Microeconomics Unit as a UKRI Policy Fellow for 18 months!
Awards buy out teaching/admin time to allow you to focus on a CMA-relevant research project, while embedded part-time in the Unit.
The call for fellowships is here: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
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Awards buy out teaching/admin time to allow you to focus on a CMA-relevant research project, while embedded part-time in the Unit.
The call for fellowships is here: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
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UKRI policy fellowships 2025
Spend 18 months as a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) core policy fellow, Natural Hazards and Resilience policy fellow or What Works Innovation fellow to inform policy to address pressing national an...
www.ukri.org
April 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Join the CMA Microeconomics Unit as a UKRI Policy Fellow for 18 months!
Awards buy out teaching/admin time to allow you to focus on a CMA-relevant research project, while embedded part-time in the Unit.
The call for fellowships is here: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
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Awards buy out teaching/admin time to allow you to focus on a CMA-relevant research project, while embedded part-time in the Unit.
The call for fellowships is here: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
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I love the Economic Journal referees ❤️
Revised version of a paper received on April 15. Sent out to original reviewers on the same day. All four referees have come back to me in less than 10 days.
Paper is now conditionally accepted, subject to checks by the EJ Data Editor 🚀 @resmedia.bsky.social
Revised version of a paper received on April 15. Sent out to original reviewers on the same day. All four referees have come back to me in less than 10 days.
Paper is now conditionally accepted, subject to checks by the EJ Data Editor 🚀 @resmedia.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I love the Economic Journal referees ❤️
Revised version of a paper received on April 15. Sent out to original reviewers on the same day. All four referees have come back to me in less than 10 days.
Paper is now conditionally accepted, subject to checks by the EJ Data Editor 🚀 @resmedia.bsky.social
Revised version of a paper received on April 15. Sent out to original reviewers on the same day. All four referees have come back to me in less than 10 days.
Paper is now conditionally accepted, subject to checks by the EJ Data Editor 🚀 @resmedia.bsky.social
TSE is putting together an IO and Finance conference in October, submissions now open and details at www.tse-fr.eu/conferences/...
TSE Industrial Organization & Finance Conference
TSE Industrial Organization & Finance Conference, October 16–17, 2025, room Auditorium 4.
www.tse-fr.eu
April 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
TSE is putting together an IO and Finance conference in October, submissions now open and details at www.tse-fr.eu/conferences/...
Time to first decisions at The Economic Journal academic.oup.com/ej?login=true. Thanks to all the hard work and efforts of the referees, AEs and other editors. Please submit your excellent papers and expect an efficient and thoughtful response.
March 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Time to first decisions at The Economic Journal academic.oup.com/ej?login=true. Thanks to all the hard work and efforts of the referees, AEs and other editors. Please submit your excellent papers and expect an efficient and thoughtful response.
What is the market failure? why do we think the solution is centralized committee and coordinated behaviour? What do we think the friction is that gets in the way of competition?
New AEA-EEA-ES-RES joint report on publication process in economics is extremely useful + thoughtful, a short 🧵. (Link at end, if you haven't seen the report). #econtwitter #econsky Starts with principle: journals may play 3 roles: dissemination, editing and certification.
February 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
What is the market failure? why do we think the solution is centralized committee and coordinated behaviour? What do we think the friction is that gets in the way of competition?
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Hey #EconSky 📉📈 and #EvoSky, check it out: @omermoav.bsky.social is here!
Omer should be a day-one follow for Econ and Evolution theorists, macro folks, and anyone who cares about integrity in the profession or in Science generally.
Omer should be a day-one follow for Econ and Evolution theorists, macro folks, and anyone who cares about integrity in the profession or in Science generally.
January 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Hey #EconSky 📉📈 and #EvoSky, check it out: @omermoav.bsky.social is here!
Omer should be a day-one follow for Econ and Evolution theorists, macro folks, and anyone who cares about integrity in the profession or in Science generally.
Omer should be a day-one follow for Econ and Evolution theorists, macro folks, and anyone who cares about integrity in the profession or in Science generally.
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The promised second book on the economics of platforms is still in the making, but the first one continues to be available:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
The Economics of Platforms
Cambridge Core - Industrial Economics - The Economics of Platforms
www.cambridge.org
January 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The promised second book on the economics of platforms is still in the making, but the first one continues to be available:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
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Call for papers for this excellent IO/competition workshop 2-3 June in Cambridge, organised by my colleagues Flavio Toxvaerd & @cgenakos.bsky.social oligoworkshop2025.econ.cam.ac.uk
Oligo Workshop 2025
oligoworkshop2025.econ.cam.ac.uk
January 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Call for papers for this excellent IO/competition workshop 2-3 June in Cambridge, organised by my colleagues Flavio Toxvaerd & @cgenakos.bsky.social oligoworkshop2025.econ.cam.ac.uk
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My colleague Martin Peitz @martin-peitz.bsky.social of IO textbook, platforms, everything-digital-markets fame is on the sky now. Give him a warm welcome!
#EconSky
#EconSky
January 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
My colleague Martin Peitz @martin-peitz.bsky.social of IO textbook, platforms, everything-digital-markets fame is on the sky now. Give him a warm welcome!
#EconSky
#EconSky
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I strongly believe in reading ALL of Adam Smith's work. Please start from this recent paper on identifying/measuring dynamic complementarity: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
January 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I strongly believe in reading ALL of Adam Smith's work. Please start from this recent paper on identifying/measuring dynamic complementarity: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Tfw a former student from 15 years ago recognizes you when you’re on holiday and tells your kids you were an awesome prof.
January 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Tfw a former student from 15 years ago recognizes you when you’re on holiday and tells your kids you were an awesome prof.
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It's February at The Economic Journal ❤️
Lots of great papers, long (9) and short (2). Enjoy!
academic.oup.com/ej/issue/135...
Lots of great papers, long (9) and short (2). Enjoy!
academic.oup.com/ej/issue/135...
Volume 135 Issue 666 | The Economic Journal | Oxford Academic
The Economic Journal is the Royal Economic Society's flagship title, and is one of the founding journals of modern economics. The journal provides a platform for and imaginative economic research for ...
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January 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
It's February at The Economic Journal ❤️
Lots of great papers, long (9) and short (2). Enjoy!
academic.oup.com/ej/issue/135...
Lots of great papers, long (9) and short (2). Enjoy!
academic.oup.com/ej/issue/135...
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Episode 86: Dan Gross on Labour Market Responses to Automation. #EconSky. Listen here at: www.thevisiblehand.uk/episodes/epi...
Episode 86: Dan Gross on Labour Market Responses to Automation — The Visible Hand
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December 16, 2024 at 10:18 AM
Episode 86: Dan Gross on Labour Market Responses to Automation. #EconSky. Listen here at: www.thevisiblehand.uk/episodes/epi...
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Our call for papers has been posted! Get ready for #IIOC2025 May 2-4 in Philadelpha. Submission deadline 1/31.
www.indorgsociety.org/conference
www.indorgsociety.org/conference
International Industrial Organization Conference | Industrial Organization Society
www.indorgsociety.org
December 13, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Our call for papers has been posted! Get ready for #IIOC2025 May 2-4 in Philadelpha. Submission deadline 1/31.
www.indorgsociety.org/conference
www.indorgsociety.org/conference
The vast majority of people I reach out to repsond quickly and helpfully; but the few that don't are frustrating and enough to make me really appreciate that large majority and that the community functions surprisingly well.
If you receive a ref request and can't finish in the allotted time, you have options:
- Decline the review.
- Ask editor for more time. Then turn in report close to your new proposed deadline.
Don't do:
- Ghost the request
- Agree to request then go months past the due date w/no communication
- Decline the review.
- Ask editor for more time. Then turn in report close to your new proposed deadline.
Don't do:
- Ghost the request
- Agree to request then go months past the due date w/no communication
December 13, 2024 at 9:41 PM
The vast majority of people I reach out to repsond quickly and helpfully; but the few that don't are frustrating and enough to make me really appreciate that large majority and that the community functions surprisingly well.
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If you receive a ref request and can't finish in the allotted time, you have options:
- Decline the review.
- Ask editor for more time. Then turn in report close to your new proposed deadline.
Don't do:
- Ghost the request
- Agree to request then go months past the due date w/no communication
- Decline the review.
- Ask editor for more time. Then turn in report close to your new proposed deadline.
Don't do:
- Ghost the request
- Agree to request then go months past the due date w/no communication
December 13, 2024 at 8:16 PM
If you receive a ref request and can't finish in the allotted time, you have options:
- Decline the review.
- Ask editor for more time. Then turn in report close to your new proposed deadline.
Don't do:
- Ghost the request
- Agree to request then go months past the due date w/no communication
- Decline the review.
- Ask editor for more time. Then turn in report close to your new proposed deadline.
Don't do:
- Ghost the request
- Agree to request then go months past the due date w/no communication
Been on sabbatical but looking forward to trying this out in the spring.
So excited to tell you about my new venture with @afinetheorem.bsky.social called All Day TA (@alldayta.bsky.social) open.substack.com/pub/joshuaga...
Introducing All Day TA
My new venture designed to bring AI responsibly into college education
open.substack.com
December 13, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Been on sabbatical but looking forward to trying this out in the spring.