The Economics of Rent Controls
I appear on Ryan Bourne’s excellent new podcast, The Economics of It. We discuss The Economics of Rent Controls drawing on my essay, Rent Control: The Ceiling Trap. It’s a…
I appear on Ryan Bourne’s excellent new podcast, The Economics of It. We discuss The Economics of Rent Controls drawing on my essay, Rent Control: The Ceiling Trap. It’s a…
Of course as an economist I am always wondering what the equilibrium is. And, in this case, what is the scarce factor? It seems that in the case under current…
Tipping is large and growing, but we know little about its consequences for workers and firms. We link point-of-sale and payroll records at 20,000 U.S. firms, which lets us observe…
I use LLMs to forecast treatment effects of research studies pre-registered on the AEA RCT Registry and the Open Science Framework. I focus on studies whose results were first publicly…
That’s all, folks! Thanks for all the thought-provoking questions, what a great way to round off our budget coverage! – Heather Thanks for all of your questions. Sorry we couldn’t…
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The threat of an AI share price crash rippling out across global markets is putting world financial stability at risk, the International Monetary fund has warned. In its twice-yearly Global…
Nobel Prize for Economics awarded to Hall and Woodford Newsflash: The Nobel Prize for economics has been awarded to Robert E Hall and Michael Woodford, for their work on the…
From Patrick Collison: Assorted things I’ve been mulling over regarding agents in the economy: • Companies are in some sense the original superintelligence. It’s often the case that they can…
From Ingar Haaland: With math essentially being delegated to OpenAI, here’s what I predict for economics and the social sciences more generally: The top tier of research will just become…