In my opinion, this forum never really took off as one for deep research discussions. Lots of folks sharing calls for papers, etc, but I don’t think it has grown or shrunk from a few months ago.

"What are you working on?" seems the most natural thing I would want to be asked. It's perfectly fine to say you're in between projects or caught up teaching. Another option is "What are you thinking about these days?" or "What sessions are you excited for?" without getting existential about fields

This has also been my experience with econ research and professionally related posts in particular. LinkedIn is surprisingly effective for getting likes, but conditional on a reply I do think the discussion is better here instead of the series of exact "Congratulations, [name]!" replies on LinkedIn

Graeter's is a really great brand out of Cincinnati (in my personal opinion, bested only by Skyline if you're in the area). Black Raspberry is probably my favorite of their flavors.

I do. It's part of "participation" which is 20% of the grade (doubled after Gen-AI ruined other assignments). If it's obvious a student is unprepared, I make sure I call on them the next class and take off points only for (1) multiple unexcused absences or (2) consistent unpreparedness.

I switched to cold calls as my approach to encouraging interaction with readings back in 2022 and it's been going surprisingly well. Since it happens is in-class, cold calls are quite AI-proof and the students, advanced undergrads and MBAs, actually seem to like it when I thought they'd hate it

The musical kinds: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_(m...

Next up, I’ll be presenting “Who Labels and What's Priced? Evidence from Third-Party ESG Assessments in the Municipal Bond Market” where we explore environmental, social, and sustainability labels using an unexpected information release in 2023 through Bloomberg

(papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....)

Discussant @ivantivanov.bsky.social (Chicago Fed) focuses on the growth of “alternative trading systems” (ATS) that dealers have increasingly used since about 2010. Some questions remain about how ATS interacts with reciprocity

First paper: Casey Dougal (FSU) tells us about muni dealer networks in “Dealer Quid Pro Quo in the Municipal Bond Market.” The paper finds, on average, dealers that trade back and forth (reciprocal trades) have low execution costs, but effect flips on the periphery

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....