John Lourenze Poquiz
@johnlpoquiz.bsky.social
Researcher at @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk @uniofcam.bsky.social.
PhD @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social.
Interests: Economic Measurement, Productivity, & Innovation.
Opinions & rants are my own.
RT ≠ endorsements.
PhD @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social.
Interests: Economic Measurement, Productivity, & Innovation.
Opinions & rants are my own.
RT ≠ endorsements.
Attending the Annual Cambridge Public Policy lecture hosted by the @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Attending the Annual Cambridge Public Policy lecture hosted by the @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk
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How much would you need to be paid to give up social media for a month? 📱
Interesting reflections on screentime and productivity in this session with @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk's @johnlpoquiz.bsky.social
Interesting reflections on screentime and productivity in this session with @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk's @johnlpoquiz.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
How much would you need to be paid to give up social media for a month? 📱
Interesting reflections on screentime and productivity in this session with @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk's @johnlpoquiz.bsky.social
Interesting reflections on screentime and productivity in this session with @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk's @johnlpoquiz.bsky.social
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New work on AI and economic statistics from ESCoE Leadership Executive member @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social and ESCoE Research Associate @johnlpoquiz.bsky.social
Outlining how transformative AI challenges existing economic statistics and proposes ways to better measure its impact on productivity and output, from Diane Coyle and @johnlpoquiz.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34330
October 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
New work on AI and economic statistics from ESCoE Leadership Executive member @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social and ESCoE Research Associate @johnlpoquiz.bsky.social
New working paper with Diane Coyle. In this paper, we present some measurement challenges that we could face once AI becomes transformative.
Outlining how transformative AI challenges existing economic statistics and proposes ways to better measure its impact on productivity and output, from Diane Coyle and @johnlpoquiz.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34330
October 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
New working paper with Diane Coyle. In this paper, we present some measurement challenges that we could face once AI becomes transformative.
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Opportunity with ESCoE partner @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk at @cam.ac.uk ⬇️
📢 We're recruiting!
Come and join us at @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk.
We're looking for someone to support policy response and knowledge transfer activities & enhance our capacity to respond quickly and effectively to opportunities for policy engagement and impact.
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www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Come and join us at @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk.
We're looking for someone to support policy response and knowledge transfer activities & enhance our capacity to respond quickly and effectively to opportunities for policy engagement and impact.
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www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Research Assistant/Associate (Fixed Term)
Funding is available for three years in the first instance, with the possibility of a further two years funding. Applications are invited for a Research Associate at the new Bennett School of Public
www.cam.ac.uk
September 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Opportunity with ESCoE partner @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk at @cam.ac.uk ⬇️
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A great line-up of speakers for our parallel sessions on day 2 of the Productivity Research Conference, including:
- @ninajorden.bsky.social & @johnlpoquiz.bsky.social from @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk
- Jun Du from Aston University
- Iris Smiderle from Luiss Business School
#productivity #conference
- @ninajorden.bsky.social & @johnlpoquiz.bsky.social from @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk
- Jun Du from Aston University
- Iris Smiderle from Luiss Business School
#productivity #conference
September 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
A great line-up of speakers for our parallel sessions on day 2 of the Productivity Research Conference, including:
- @ninajorden.bsky.social & @johnlpoquiz.bsky.social from @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk
- Jun Du from Aston University
- Iris Smiderle from Luiss Business School
#productivity #conference
- @ninajorden.bsky.social & @johnlpoquiz.bsky.social from @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk
- Jun Du from Aston University
- Iris Smiderle from Luiss Business School
#productivity #conference
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🏭 The UK’s carbon 👣 is bigger than it looks.
Territorial emissions miss out flights, shipping & imported goods.
New ESCoE work with @universityofleeds.bsky.social & @unileiden.bsky.social explores how different data sources affect estimates of consumption-based emissions: tinyurl.com/mte7c8xe
Territorial emissions miss out flights, shipping & imported goods.
New ESCoE work with @universityofleeds.bsky.social & @unileiden.bsky.social explores how different data sources affect estimates of consumption-based emissions: tinyurl.com/mte7c8xe
The UK’s hidden carbon footprint - ESCoE
Accounting for environmental impacts in trade By Anne Owen, Lena Killian and Rutger Hoekstra When […]
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August 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
🏭 The UK’s carbon 👣 is bigger than it looks.
Territorial emissions miss out flights, shipping & imported goods.
New ESCoE work with @universityofleeds.bsky.social & @unileiden.bsky.social explores how different data sources affect estimates of consumption-based emissions: tinyurl.com/mte7c8xe
Territorial emissions miss out flights, shipping & imported goods.
New ESCoE work with @universityofleeds.bsky.social & @unileiden.bsky.social explores how different data sources affect estimates of consumption-based emissions: tinyurl.com/mte7c8xe
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Connect with our leading team: go.bsky.app/UX4T67L
August 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Connect with our leading team: go.bsky.app/UX4T67L
I did my PhD graduation ceremony the other day. Happy to see my friends, my better half, my parents, and both my supervisors offer their support. A big thank you to you all. I couldn't have done it without you guys. Now back to work.
August 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I did my PhD graduation ceremony the other day. Happy to see my friends, my better half, my parents, and both my supervisors offer their support. A big thank you to you all. I couldn't have done it without you guys. Now back to work.
Interesting read.
Apparently, people with difficult-to-pronounce names are disadvantage in labor markets:
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Apparently, people with difficult-to-pronounce names are disadvantage in labor markets:
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
How Do You Say Your Name? Difficult-to-Pronounce Names and Labor Market Outcomes
(November 2024) - We test for labor market discrimination based on an understudied characteristic: name fluency. Analysis of recent economics PhD job candidates indicates that name difficulty is negat...
www.aeaweb.org
June 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Interesting read.
Apparently, people with difficult-to-pronounce names are disadvantage in labor markets:
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Apparently, people with difficult-to-pronounce names are disadvantage in labor markets:
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Train disruptions so early in the week.
May 27, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Train disruptions so early in the week.
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🧵The US leads the G7 in GDP growth. But what if we strip out the top 1%? Is the picture still the same?
@johnlpoquiz.bsky.social & Nghi Nguyen analyse the data by excluding the income & spending of the top earners to reveal a more realistic picture 👇
@johnlpoquiz.bsky.social & Nghi Nguyen analyse the data by excluding the income & spending of the top earners to reveal a more realistic picture 👇
May 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
🧵The US leads the G7 in GDP growth. But what if we strip out the top 1%? Is the picture still the same?
@johnlpoquiz.bsky.social & Nghi Nguyen analyse the data by excluding the income & spending of the top earners to reveal a more realistic picture 👇
@johnlpoquiz.bsky.social & Nghi Nguyen analyse the data by excluding the income & spending of the top earners to reveal a more realistic picture 👇
What happens to economic growth if we take out income from the top earners?
In this blog post, we examine what happens when we adjust GDP by removing income from the top 1% and top 10%. Our estimates paint a different story of growth.
In this blog post, we examine what happens when we adjust GDP by removing income from the top 1% and top 10%. Our estimates paint a different story of growth.
New research by @johnlpoquiz.bsky.social & Nghi Nguyen shows that excluding top earners from real GDP per capita greatly reduces the perceived US growth advantage, despite high earners benefiting most in other advanced economies too.
bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/whose-e...
bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/whose-e...
May 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
What happens to economic growth if we take out income from the top earners?
In this blog post, we examine what happens when we adjust GDP by removing income from the top 1% and top 10%. Our estimates paint a different story of growth.
In this blog post, we examine what happens when we adjust GDP by removing income from the top 1% and top 10%. Our estimates paint a different story of growth.
It's bring your wife to work day.
March 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
It's bring your wife to work day.
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The forthcoming Bennett School of Public Policy will launch a new Masters course in Digital Policy, & deliver Cambridge’s well-established Masters in Public Policy, to help foster a generation of tech-savvy & socially aware policymakers.
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/bennett...
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/bennett...
March 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The forthcoming Bennett School of Public Policy will launch a new Masters course in Digital Policy, & deliver Cambridge’s well-established Masters in Public Policy, to help foster a generation of tech-savvy & socially aware policymakers.
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/bennett...
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/bennett...
C + I + G + NX - G
Trump Advisers Want to Strip Public Spending From GDP Tally. Why It Makes No Sense.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggests removing government spending from the overall calculation of inflation-adjusted GDP..
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March 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
C + I + G + NX - G
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Waiting for Reform to complain about unfettered immigration
And Birbalsingh to ask if "Americans can ever truly be English?"
Wonder what it is about Americans they don't object to? 🤔
And Birbalsingh to ask if "Americans can ever truly be English?"
Wonder what it is about Americans they don't object to? 🤔
March 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Waiting for Reform to complain about unfettered immigration
And Birbalsingh to ask if "Americans can ever truly be English?"
Wonder what it is about Americans they don't object to? 🤔
And Birbalsingh to ask if "Americans can ever truly be English?"
Wonder what it is about Americans they don't object to? 🤔
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We're pleased to announce the Bennett School of Public Policy opening this autumn.
It will be a flagship, multi-disciplinary policy school, that will integrate & expand the teaching, research & engagement activities of the Bennett Institute.
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/bennett...
It will be a flagship, multi-disciplinary policy school, that will integrate & expand the teaching, research & engagement activities of the Bennett Institute.
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/bennett...
March 3, 2025 at 7:39 AM
We're pleased to announce the Bennett School of Public Policy opening this autumn.
It will be a flagship, multi-disciplinary policy school, that will integrate & expand the teaching, research & engagement activities of the Bennett Institute.
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/bennett...
It will be a flagship, multi-disciplinary policy school, that will integrate & expand the teaching, research & engagement activities of the Bennett Institute.
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/bennett...
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Today, artists are calling on Government to protect Britain’s creative industries from AI.
It aligns with our latest research with @mctd.bsky.social & @ai.cam.ac.uk which urges caution against an opt-out approach to copyright and Generative AI.
➡️ www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/publications...
It aligns with our latest research with @mctd.bsky.social & @ai.cam.ac.uk which urges caution against an opt-out approach to copyright and Generative AI.
➡️ www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/publications...
February 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Today, artists are calling on Government to protect Britain’s creative industries from AI.
It aligns with our latest research with @mctd.bsky.social & @ai.cam.ac.uk which urges caution against an opt-out approach to copyright and Generative AI.
➡️ www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/publications...
It aligns with our latest research with @mctd.bsky.social & @ai.cam.ac.uk which urges caution against an opt-out approach to copyright and Generative AI.
➡️ www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/publications...
New working paper! Sharing with you my paper on measuring the depreciation of intangibles. In this
@escoeorg.bsky.social study, we used Google Trends as an indicator of obsolescence for certain intangible assets such as software and movies.
Link to the paper and accompanying blog post below
@escoeorg.bsky.social study, we used Google Trends as an indicator of obsolescence for certain intangible assets such as software and movies.
Link to the paper and accompanying blog post below
A new ESCoE discussion paper from @omnipogi.bsky.social ( @kingsbschool.bsky.social / @bennettinstitute.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social ) looks at measuring the depreciation of intangibles using Google Trends. tinyurl.com/2uvdy3y8
#Research #Intangibles
#Research #Intangibles
Measuring the depreciation of intangibles assets: A new approach using Google Trends - ESCoE
A new ESCoE discussion paper from John Lourenze Poquiz looks at measuring the depreciation of intangibles using Google Trends.
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February 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
New working paper! Sharing with you my paper on measuring the depreciation of intangibles. In this
@escoeorg.bsky.social study, we used Google Trends as an indicator of obsolescence for certain intangible assets such as software and movies.
Link to the paper and accompanying blog post below
@escoeorg.bsky.social study, we used Google Trends as an indicator of obsolescence for certain intangible assets such as software and movies.
Link to the paper and accompanying blog post below