Tim Bresnahan
timobres.bsky.social
Tim Bresnahan
@timobres.bsky.social
Economist, old guy. Interested in competition and innovation econs.

https://tbres.su.domains/
New Working Paper! Lucky to work with Shane Greenstein @shanegreenstein.bsky.social and Pai-Ling Yin on "New Economic Forces Behind the Value Distribution of Innovation." Abstract and link follow.

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August 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Mike Scherer, a leader in industrial organization economics, in the study of innovation, and in many other topics since the 1960s, has died at 92. Strikingly eclectic, he wrote (inter alia) about weapons procurement and the commercialization of classical music. More than anything /1
June 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Literary cat predicts Pulitzer.
May 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Zvi Griliches!
March 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I just added my BlueSky contact to my RePEc profile. Easy to do, login, go to contacts page (see pic) and fill it in. #EconSky Thanks to @czimm-economist.bsky.social

For civilians, RePEc is a valuable sharing site for research papers in economics.
November 17, 2024 at 6:10 PM
The NBER Innovation Information Initiative will award five or more fellowships of $1500 each to graduate students in economics, innovation, entrepreneurship, or related fields. Applications open at link below. Full deets in picture. "Outsiders" encouraged to apply.
November 13, 2024 at 6:54 PM
NBER Fellowship applications list -- Graduate students, postdocs, etc. Need not be NBER affiliate to apply. Some deadlines looming. #EconSky
October 29, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Submit a paper about new data or methods re: innovation, science, entrepreneurship etc. Mtg Dec 6/7 in Cambridge. Non-NBER affiliates with assets encouraged to apply. DM and I will forward you full email.
www.nber.org/confsubmit/b...
September 20, 2024 at 3:48 PM
NBER is coming to BlueSky. AEA, SIEPR, others soon too. Write your friendly AEA ad hoc Social Media Committee about other content you would like to see and we will lobby for it. social_media_committee@aeapubs.org
September 6, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Delighted to welcome @siepr.bsky.social! Hoping to see many more important economics institutions here.
September 4, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Submit to NBER winter IO Meeting (deets in pic)
September 3, 2024 at 5:33 PM
September 2, 2024 at 4:40 PM
NBER WP weekly announcement will likely come to #EconSky soon. For now, my limited snipping skills
September 2, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Two fawns across the street (mama nearby, eating trees). Have a happy labor day, everyone.
September 1, 2024 at 11:37 PM
Updating in light of events.
August 31, 2024 at 7:51 PM
My cat, Roscoe.
August 24, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy.
August 16, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Basic training in Econ for budding journalists, in 4 easy lessons.
Freshman: explain why the headline and the graph caption are error.
Sophomore: The NYT fixed those overnight. Find an error in the fix.
Junior: Explain why the premise of the story is silly.
Senior: Sorry, no 4th year errors.
February 21, 2024 at 11:30 PM