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Toomas Hinnosaar
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Associate Professor @uoneconomics.bsky.social. Member @unet.bsky.social, @uoncedex.bsky.social, @cepr.org.
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📢 Next UNET Seminar already on Monday!
Bhaskar Dutta (University of Warwick)
📅 Monday, 17 Nov 2025, 14:00–15:00
📍 Room C43, Sir Clive Granger
@UoNEconomics + MS Teams

The paper is on "Peer Selection with Friends and Enemies"
🔗 profiles.warwick.ac.uk/ecsfd-bhaska...
November 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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📢 The next UNET seminar: In-Uck Park (University of Bristol)
📅 Tuesday, Oct 28, 2–3 pm
📍 Room C43 @uoneconomics.bsky.social + Teams
In-Uck presents “Selling Information for Bilateral Trade” (with Robert Evans)
🔗 inuck-park.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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uoneconomics.bsky.social
It's the first day of the new term at the University of Nottingham and the first post on Bluesky from the School of Economics 🎓

Wishing all those that are joining us today a fantastic year ahead on what we hope you will come to agree is a beautiful campus 🍂

#WeAreUoN #Economics #Autumnvibes
September 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Well done to @lucasdemelo93.bsky.social for passing his PhD viva!

Congratulations from all of us in @uoneconomics.bsky.social 🍾
October 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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The next UNET seminar: Eyal Winter
📅 Tuesday, Oct 21, 2–3 pm
📍 Room C43 @UoNEconomics + Teams
Eyal presents “Organizing negative externalities among consumers” (with Alex Gershkov)
🔗 www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/people/...
October 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Great prize. Of course, I'm personally especially happy for Joel Mokyr from @NUEconomics. Congratulations!
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...
October 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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The UNET seminars continue!
📅 Tuesday, Oct 14, 2–3 pm
📍 Room C43 + online
Our next speaker is Mehmet Mars Seven (@mehmetmars7.bsky.social, King’s), presenting “Elo performance in sports.”
🔗 kcl.ac.uk/people/mehmet-ismail
October 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Trailer: Collusion without Patience
October 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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The UNET seminars are back!
📅 Tuesdays, 2–3 pm
📍 Room C43 + online
The first talk is "Collusion without Patience" on Oct 7 by Toomas Hinnosaar (@toomas.hinnosaar.net), joint with Jacopo Bizzotto.
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October 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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After a repeal of North Dakota's Sunday morning retail ban, morning visits to Walmart stores rose sharply, reducing cross-border travel & shifting shopping to preferred times and stores.
J Donna, @marit.hinnosaar.net @toomas.hinnosaar.net @andre-trindade.bsky.social
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Map of Walmart Supercenter locations in North Dakota and neighbouring states. Sunday morning store closures impose significant costs on consumers, but supporters of such ‘blue laws’ argue these rules protect workers, family life, and small retailers. This column uses GPS data to study the effects of lifting North Dakota’s strict Sunday morning retail ban in 2019. After the repeal, Sunday morning visits to Walmart stores rose sharply, reducing cross-border travel and shifting shopping to preferred times and stores. The consumer welfare loss from the ban was equivalent to an extra 1.4 miles (2.25 km) per shopping trip, highlighting a trade-off between a day of shared rest and consumer flexibility.
September 12, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "The Limits of Limited Commitment" by Jacopo Bizzotto, Toomas Hinnosaar, and Adrien Vigier. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
The Limits of Limited Commitment
(Forthcoming Article) - We study limited strategic leadership. A collection of subsets covering the leader’s action space determines her commitment opportunities. We characterize the outcomes resultin...
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May 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Call for papers, 4th UK Workshop on Digital Economics, London 28 November 2025: competitionpolicy.ac.uk/events/4th-w... This is always a great event
Centre for Competition Policy
High quality independent research into competition policy and regulation
competitionpolicy.ac.uk
July 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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This paper examines the effects of deregulating store opening hours, specifically focusing on North Dakota's repeal of its Sunday closing law in 2019.
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Shop open sign
July 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Summer 2025 reality check for those who rely on LLMs for help with math and logic: chatgpt.com/s/t_6880b52a...
I tested four models, all gave wrong answers (ChatGPT (4o), Gemini (2.5flash), Perplexity, DeepSeek). For some other numbers, the answers were correct.
Multiplication result
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July 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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unet.bsky.social
Our final UNET seminar of the year is on May 20th by Rossella Argenziano (University of Essex), and she will present "Data governance with vulnerable individuals" (with Francesco Squintani). As usual, it is from 3-4pm in C43 and on Teams.
sites.google.com/site/rargenz...
May 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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I think people don’t yet realize that the new Pope might prefer Chicago-style pizza over Italian pizza.
May 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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The speaker for the next week's UNET seminar on Tuesday (May 6) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams is Gianni De Fraja (Nottingham). He presents "Discrimination spillovers, glass ceilings and pay gaps" (with Jozsef Sakovics)
sites.google.com/site/giannid...
April 30, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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The speaker for the next UNET seminar on Tuesday (April 29) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams is Martin Cripps (UCL). He presents a paper, "The asymptotic cost of complexity".
sites.google.com/site/mwcripp...
April 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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The speaker for the next UNET seminar on Tuesday (April 15) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams is Larry Samuelson (Yale). He presents a paper, "Delegated Bidding".
sites.google.com/site/larryat...
April 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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"For every economist, there is an equal and opposite economist." - John N Kennedy
Has anybody met my equal and opposite economist? What about yours?
youtu.be/zJepmdxrf7Q?...
Trump Risks Historic Economic Damage | Musk Crushed In Wisconsin | Sen. Booker's Marathon Speech
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April 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Congratulations to @marit.hinnosaar.net and @aggraziano.bsky.social on their promotion to Associate Professors! Well done, @uniofnottingham.bsky.social !
aggraziano.bsky.social Alejandro G. Graziano @aggraziano.bsky.social · Apr 1
The University of Nottingham promoted me to associate professor!

This would have been impossible without fantastic coauthors, advisors, colleagues and the invaluable support from my family and friends.

THANK YOU!
April 2, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Our next UNET seminar is on Tuesday (March 25) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams. @fgiovannoni.bsky.social (Bristol) presents "Pricing Novel Goods" (with @toomas.hinnosaar.net ). sites.google.com/site/frances...
March 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Our next UNET seminar is on Tuesday (March 18) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams. Mikhail Safronov from @Cambridge_Uni presents "Strategic renegotiation in repeated games" (with Bruno Strulovici).
www.caths.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr...
March 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Our first UNET seminar in 2025 is on Tuesday (March 4) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams. Jack Fanning (Brown University) presents "Searching for surplus"
sites.google.com/a/brown.edu/...
March 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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A deep joke by DeepSeek?
January 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM