Max Kwiek

Double yellow

Join us on Thursday, 30 Oct, for a talk by
💥Hülya Eraslan💥 (Rice) on "Reputation and disagreement in bargaining with imperfect commitment" with Kirill Evdokimov and Mingzi Niu. Panellists: Deepal Basak and Jack Fanning.

NOTE: The US and UK are on different daylight savings schedules this week!

fair

🤔 How does a firm actually know the demand for its product?

Join us today for this talk by Suraj Malladi 👇

well, half

Our next talk is on Thursday, 16 Oct 2025.
👉Suraj Malladi👈 from Northwestern/Kellogg will present "Guarantees in Price Experimentation". The session will feature panellists In-Koo Cho and Karl Schlag.

Nostalgia is such a turn-off

POLECONUK Webinars return soon! On Monday, Oct 20, we open the new academic term with Elaine Yao (University of Washington), presenting “Tactical Choice in Repeated Protests.”

WE ARE BACK!
Our 1st seminar this academic year is next Thursday, Oct/2, 2025. We are extremely pleased to host Qingmin Liu (Columbia), who will present "A Cooperative Analysis of Incomplete Information". Our panellists are Doron Ravid & Roberto Serrano.

✨ Great energy at our department away day! A great start to the year — planning, laughter & well-earned prizes for our colleagues! 👏

Late September update after the summer hiatus. I ponder what "won't last" can mean? A few weeks ago, T disappeared for a few days and people started to speculate... Would this count as "not lasting". I suspect a GOP rebellion or internal war at a certain point. Still 2/3 L and 1/3 M

VSET is back!
Our first talk of the academic year will be held next month, on the first Thursday in October. The full program will be announced soon.

Sorry, this is strawmanning yimby. In what universe does "yes in MY back yard" imply giving decisions to government technocrats?

Yes, except supercharging investment by gov is not what yimby proposes. (And by the way, the quality of the UK housing stock is so appalling, that a huge investment is needed - not by government decree, but happening endogenously thru freeing up planning laws)

With the caveat that the differences within the UK are mostly demand-driven, due to the same planning regime. In the US, these differences are regulation-driven due to different zoning rules across locations.

Yimby should not be viewed as a demand for government investment, which could be distortionary. It is primarily a call for regulatory reform, which, properly done, is not distortionary, almost by definition.

People in the middle of these shouting matches imagine only they take part. But there is also a huge demand, completely invisible, from bystanders searching for answers for their own consumption. I know, we are free riders.

I can’t believe it’s not une pipe!

Give me your favorite Treachery of Images derivative meme. I’ll start.

I assume you assume things will get back to normal in 3-4 years.

yet, there is no c in sea

You can take the man out of EE, but you can't take the EE out of the man

Even though it has its moments, the colour scheme is still garbage, and the y-axis is all wrong. I don't like it

What is this garbage?

Warsaw in June

OUR LAST TALK OF THE TERM is on Thursday, 12 June 2025.
👉Tommaso Denti (NYU)👈 will present "Understanding information acquisition through f-informativity and duality," with Alex Bloedel and Luciano Pomatto. Guest Panellists: Weijie Zhong and Annie Liang.

Early June 2025 update. Big Musk-Trump fallout. Maybe less obvious is that Trump's project is running out of "intellectual" steam. From now on, it's more of the same but with less and less capacity to shock. Ok, I'll keep it at 2/3 L and 1/3 M.

The recording of the talk by Dean Yang "Ancient Epics in the Television Age: Mass Media, Identity, and the Rise of Hindu Nationalism in India" (with @pbrimble.bsky.social, @resuf.bsky.social, Akhila Kovvuri & Alessandro Saia) is now available at our YouTube channel: sites.google.com/view/polecon...

Not the only possible conclusion. The evidence is also consistent with Bigfoot preying on bears, or the other way around.

is there a technical term for a "own the libs coalition"?