Ran Shorrer
@ranshorrer.bsky.social
Associate Professor @PennStateEcon. Views are my own.
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When admissions are correlated, diversifying your college applications is the optimal strategy. We spoke with Nageeb Ali and Ran Shorrer of Penn State about why the standard advice to apply to reach, match, and safety schools is sound. www.aeaweb.org/research/app...
Diversifying college applications
Nageeb Ali and Ran Shorrer discuss the optimal strategy for applying to college.
www.aeaweb.org
January 14, 2026 at 1:05 PM
When admissions are correlated, diversifying your college applications is the optimal strategy. We spoke with Nageeb Ali and Ran Shorrer of Penn State about why the standard advice to apply to reach, match, and safety schools is sound. www.aeaweb.org/research/app...
Amazing workshop at @laws.ucl.ac.uk yesterday. Presented work w/@sarafish.bsky.social @yannaigonch.bsky.social in panel w/speakers from the European Commission, CMA, AdlC, & HCC. So gratifying to see our research making positive impact in the world. Thanks much @ilianos.bsky.social for inviting us!
Computational Competition Law and Public Policy Workshop
CLES@UCL Second Workshop - Organised and chaired by Ioannis Lianos (UCL)
www.ucl.ac.uk
June 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Amazing workshop at @laws.ucl.ac.uk yesterday. Presented work w/@sarafish.bsky.social @yannaigonch.bsky.social in panel w/speakers from the European Commission, CMA, AdlC, & HCC. So gratifying to see our research making positive impact in the world. Thanks much @ilianos.bsky.social for inviting us!
Looking forward to this!
Tomorrow at 17:00 Paris time, @ranshorrer.bsky.social presents "Consistent Indices" for the Normative Economics & Economic Policy webinar series.
To join, send us an email: see sites.google.com/view/normati....
To join, send us an email: see sites.google.com/view/normati....
February 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Looking forward to this!
Looking forward to our #ASSA2025 session, Friday 10:15 in Parc 55.
I’ll be presenting this paper⤵️
I’ll be presenting this paper⤵️
🚨Major new version🚨
Algorithmic Collusion by Large Language Models
Joint w/ @sarafish.bsky.social & @ranshorrer.bsky.social
LLMs are automating many business decisions. Pricing might be next (or is already).
What if multiple firms, in good faith, to use off-the-shelf-LLMs for pricing? 1/3
#EconSky
Algorithmic Collusion by Large Language Models
Joint w/ @sarafish.bsky.social & @ranshorrer.bsky.social
LLMs are automating many business decisions. Pricing might be next (or is already).
What if multiple firms, in good faith, to use off-the-shelf-LLMs for pricing? 1/3
#EconSky
January 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Looking forward to our #ASSA2025 session, Friday 10:15 in Parc 55.
I’ll be presenting this paper⤵️
I’ll be presenting this paper⤵️
Reposted by Ran Shorrer
An academic paper has excellent empirical evidence & hypotheses that perfectly match the patterns in the data.
One catch: AI wrote the hypotheses after seeing the results.
Should this matter?
New paper w/ Robert Novy-Marx on AI-Powered (Finance) Scholarship🧵
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
One catch: AI wrote the hypotheses after seeing the results.
Should this matter?
New paper w/ Robert Novy-Marx on AI-Powered (Finance) Scholarship🧵
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 17, 2024 at 3:02 AM
An academic paper has excellent empirical evidence & hypotheses that perfectly match the patterns in the data.
One catch: AI wrote the hypotheses after seeing the results.
Should this matter?
New paper w/ Robert Novy-Marx on AI-Powered (Finance) Scholarship🧵
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
One catch: AI wrote the hypotheses after seeing the results.
Should this matter?
New paper w/ Robert Novy-Marx on AI-Powered (Finance) Scholarship🧵
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Very excited to release a major revision to our paper on algorithmic collusion by large language models.
#EconSky
#EconSky
🚨Major new version🚨
Algorithmic Collusion by Large Language Models
Joint w/ @sarafish.bsky.social & @ranshorrer.bsky.social
LLMs are automating many business decisions. Pricing might be next (or is already).
What if multiple firms, in good faith, to use off-the-shelf-LLMs for pricing? 1/3
#EconSky
Algorithmic Collusion by Large Language Models
Joint w/ @sarafish.bsky.social & @ranshorrer.bsky.social
LLMs are automating many business decisions. Pricing might be next (or is already).
What if multiple firms, in good faith, to use off-the-shelf-LLMs for pricing? 1/3
#EconSky
November 28, 2024 at 2:30 AM
Very excited to release a major revision to our paper on algorithmic collusion by large language models.
#EconSky
#EconSky
Reposted by Ran Shorrer
I made a theory starter pack. It includes some CS/Econ, pol-econ, and behavioral types as well... Lmk if you'd like to be added (or removed!) and I'll do my best - the edit functionality is a bit wonky atm
go.bsky.app/KAGmZH4
go.bsky.app/KAGmZH4
November 12, 2024 at 10:53 PM
I made a theory starter pack. It includes some CS/Econ, pol-econ, and behavioral types as well... Lmk if you'd like to be added (or removed!) and I'll do my best - the edit functionality is a bit wonky atm
go.bsky.app/KAGmZH4
go.bsky.app/KAGmZH4