@drewfudenberg.bsky.social
Way to go Sally! links.mit.edu/nl3/N5Jy2cKq...
Regarding the Compact
links.mit.edu
October 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Way to go Sally! links.mit.edu/nl3/N5Jy2cKq...
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The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.
October 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.
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Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody.
42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...
42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...
Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia
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September 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody.
42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...
42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...
Is there currently a program that can determine whether a given matrix is completely positive? ChatGPT 4o can’t seem to do it even when asked to explain its reasoning.
July 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Is there currently a program that can determine whether a given matrix is completely positive? ChatGPT 4o can’t seem to do it even when asked to explain its reasoning.
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I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on.
Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts.
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Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts.
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July 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on.
Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts.
1/
Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts.
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June 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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I somehow missed this open letter from Lech Walesa when it first came out, following the Trump-Zelensky meeting in the White House... It's worth a read.
www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/co...
www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/co...
From the ukraine community on Reddit: Former President of Poland Lech Wałęsa wrote the following letter to Trump
Explore this post and more from the ukraine community
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May 31, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I somehow missed this open letter from Lech Walesa when it first came out, following the Trump-Zelensky meeting in the White House... It's worth a read.
www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/co...
www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/co...
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My new substack column on implicit subsidies in insurance markets.
open.substack.com/pub/matthewe...
open.substack.com/pub/matthewe...
The Gains from Deregulating the California Residential Real Estate Insurance Market
California should deregulate residential real estate insurance and allow insurers to offer any policy to anyone at any price.
open.substack.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
My new substack column on implicit subsidies in insurance markets.
open.substack.com/pub/matthewe...
open.substack.com/pub/matthewe...
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One award is admirably early, one distressingly late, all well deserved. #Econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/04/nati...
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/04/nati...
National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members (4 economists: Steve Berry, Parag Pathak, Ed Leamer, and Sergiu Hart)
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April 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
One award is admirably early, one distressingly late, all well deserved. #Econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/04/nati...
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/04/nati...
“ the state of Israel will promote the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; will be based on precepts of liberty justice in peace top by the Hebrew prophets; will the full social and political equality of its citizens….”
May that come to be true. Happy Passover!
April 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
“ the state of Israel will promote the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; will be based on precepts of liberty justice in peace top by the Hebrew prophets; will the full social and political equality of its citizens….”
May that come to be true. Happy Passover!
Read National Academy of Sciences (NAS) members -- economist Chuck Manski, astrophysicist Ray Weyman, & climate scientist Ben Santer -- calling for NAS to more pro-actively defend & advance American science & American interests broadly.
#econsky
www.scientificamerican.com/article/stro...
#econsky
www.scientificamerican.com/article/stro...
March 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Nicole Immorlica talks about her prizewinning work in #econcs and its origins (including a course and a poem)
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2024/12/nico...
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2024/12/nico...
Nicole Immorlica celebrated (and interviewed) in a Microsoft Resarch podcast
marketdesigner.blogspot.com
December 23, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Nicole Immorlica talks about her prizewinning work in #econcs and its origins (including a course and a poem)
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2024/12/nico...
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2024/12/nico...
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Michael Kearns is here! @mkearnsphilly.bsky.social
bsky.app
December 12, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Michael Kearns is here! @mkearnsphilly.bsky.social
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How can Democrats hope to build a coalition for all America when 12 states have no voice in Democratic congressional caucuses? If @housedemocrats.bsky.social can include a nonvoting representative of Virgin Isles, why not Utah & Iowa, where Dems got >million votes?
home.uchicago.edu/~rmyerson/nd...
home.uchicago.edu/~rmyerson/nd...
home.uchicago.edu
December 2, 2024 at 5:45 AM
How can Democrats hope to build a coalition for all America when 12 states have no voice in Democratic congressional caucuses? If @housedemocrats.bsky.social can include a nonvoting representative of Virgin Isles, why not Utah & Iowa, where Dems got >million votes?
home.uchicago.edu/~rmyerson/nd...
home.uchicago.edu/~rmyerson/nd...
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What to make of this? To me, the take-away is we need a much better understanding how the information environment maps onto people's mental representation of the decision problem.
Attention/memory has a huge role to play, as they will interact with context to determine this representation.
fin.
Attention/memory has a huge role to play, as they will interact with context to determine this representation.
fin.
November 29, 2024 at 11:37 PM
What to make of this? To me, the take-away is we need a much better understanding how the information environment maps onto people's mental representation of the decision problem.
Attention/memory has a huge role to play, as they will interact with context to determine this representation.
fin.
Attention/memory has a huge role to play, as they will interact with context to determine this representation.
fin.
November 25, 2024 at 11:40 AM
I’ve been doing some work related to conformal inference so I found this monograph useful: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.11824
arxiv.org
November 20, 2024 at 12:50 PM
I’ve been doing some work related to conformal inference so I found this monograph useful: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.11824
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Budget announcements that negatively affect poor people = "difficult decisions"
Budget announcements that negatively affect rich people = "class war"
Budget announcements that negatively affect rich people = "class war"
October 27, 2024 at 9:26 AM
Budget announcements that negatively affect poor people = "difficult decisions"
Budget announcements that negatively affect rich people = "class war"
Budget announcements that negatively affect rich people = "class war"
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very excited to post this new working paper
October 1, 2024 at 10:47 PM
very excited to post this new working paper