Dimitrios Diamantaras

YouTube video by CORE Econ Students taught using CORE perform better in all subjects

📈 Students taught with CORE do better in every subject.
New research from @latrobeuni.bsky.social shows CORE texts boost performance across the board. Watch Associate Professor Buly Cardak explain the findings, now published in Southern Economic Journal.
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What’s new in NotebookLM: Video Overviews and an upgraded Studio NotebookLM launches Video Overviews and upgrades to the Studio panel.

New capabilities for NotebookLM just before I really have to prep for my fall teaching blog.google/technology/g...

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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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… which was intentionally incomplete to be used in class with me solving the problem (a KKT optimization example) live for the students. Claude finished the solution so well I was left stunned.

I have given a PDF of a handwritten note I made on my Remarkable tablet to Claude 4 Sonnet and asked it for a LaTeX version. There were many equations in the note. Claude did a perfect job. Then I asked it to finish the solution of the problem in the note … 1/2

Subjects who play the risky but efficient action in a simple coordination game are more likely to cooperate in repeated games: susceptibility to strategic uncertainty matters for cooperation, from Pedro Dal Bó and Guillaume Fréchette https://www.nber.org/papers/w33980

A 17-year-old teen refutes a mathematical conjecture proposed 40 years ago Hannah Cairo has solved the so-called Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a problem in harmonic analysis closely linked to other central results in the field. This fall, she will begin her doctoral studies ...

This summer she begins her doctoral studies...
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What’s the return on government support for R&D?

To try to get a credible answer, Open Philanthropy and the Sloan Foundation are committing up to $1 million to trying something new: we call it a Pop-Up Journal.

Degrowth in material use, growth in the overall economy

US Steel has effectively been nationalized (by the political party supposedly fighting American socialism)
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/b...

Same

RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.

BREAKING: RFK Jr. removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on vaccine use, pledging to replace them with his own picks.

How to Allocate Money? (Forthcoming Article) - I study a simple equity-efficiency problem: A designer allocates a fixed amount of money to a population of agents differing in privately observed marginal values for money. Sh...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "How to Allocate Money?" by Piotr Dworczak. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Now that we don't want colleges to do science anymore, the courts have cleared the way for them to concentrate on sports.
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Also bad news for the market generally and the U.S. dollar.

Once data is untrustworthy, America is a risky investment. The global economic community will take note.

🚨New Paper🚨

Would people support global redistributive policies?
Surveys in 20 countries (🇪🇺, 🇺🇸, 🇨🇳, 🇮🇳, 🇯🇵, 🇧🇷, 🇿🇦...) show strong majority support for:
✅global climate policies
✅a global wealth tax
✅a global democratic assembly
✅more foreign aid

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Very bad indeed

Extremely bad news is right. And I worry the same forces are coming for federal health care data.

Diane Coyle's The Measure of Progress (PUP 2025) makes this point and starts building a framework for the system of national accounts to be changed to center on time. I read the book with interest, and I wish building the new framework can move fast.

Ok, joking time is over. This here’s the winner.

Hmmmm

a man in a suit and tie is eating popcorn while sitting at a desk . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is eating popcorn while sitting at a desk .

Me: I have to wake up early tomorrow, I should go to sleep

Also me:

Very mad world

Gotta go make popcorn

@mikeleeds55.bsky.social welcome to Bluesky! M likes to pronounce it “blueskie”, btw, as in “brewskie”

Our work now published showing how better AI can improve both accuracy and diversity in hiring relative to supervised learning tools and status-quo human hiring.

small pert bird perches on wire fencing, black eye and bill, with feathers in shades of blue, purple, yellow & orange

Forget all the annoying stuff in the world for a few seconds and enjoy the natural beauty of Brazil’s Seven-coloured Tanager (Tangara fastuosa) Photo: Luiz Cavalcanti Damasceno

Volvo suspends production at SC plant citing parts shortages • SC Daily Gazette Volvo Cars has halted production at its Lowcountry plant because of a parts shortage. It's unclear which parts are involved.

Volvo suspends production at SC plant citing parts shortages scdailygazette.com/2025/05/30/v...

Congratulations @leoiacovone.bsky.social @economeager.bsky.social and @dmackenzie.bsky.social !