John Lourenze Poquiz

How can we measure healthcare productivity?

Catch up on this keynote interview with Catherine de Fontenay (@pc.gov.au) after her talk at the UNSW-ESCoE Conference on Economic Measurement 2025: youtu.be/UyI47si9rKs

@kevinfoxecon.bsky.social

Mapping the Landscape of the Economics of AI Literature: Gaps and Opportunities for Research and Policy This paper investigates the evolving landscape of research on the economics of artificial intelligence (AI). Using topic modeling on a corpus of over 4,600 academic papers, we identify the dominant t...

Link to the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Because of the size of the literature, we use an LLM to help us sort out relevant papers. We also use topic modeling to identify themes in the literature.

New paper out! In this work with @lucyjh.bsky.social, we dove deep into the Economics of AI Literature. We identified the research questions that have been explored extensively and discussed the research questions needed to support current policy questions.

Great discussion at today’s Bennett School lunchtime seminar👏

@johnlpoquiz.bsky.social & Nghi Nguyen shared early findings on why AI adoption is stalling in parts of the real economy—and what firms need to make it work.

Look out for their research paper on firms' AI adoption coming out in March.

ESCoE Research Associate @johnlpoquiz.bsky.social presenting AI work.

Delighted to be working with @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk & @productivity.bsky.social on how productivity & economic considerations can help develop & deploy AI from an ethical & legal standpoint, thanks to a Responsible AI grant.

Is competition always the hero? - Bennett School of Public Policy Much of our life involves constant competition with other humans – from school admissions to job applications – while economists celebrate competition between businesses for giving us better, more div...

Economists often celebrate competition for delivering better, cheaper, more diverse choices—but is it always the hero?

Using SHEIN, Palantir, Samsung, & Boeing as examples, Nghi Nguyen explores when market competition may do more harm than good.

Blog: bit.ly/4qmvHTa

Is competition always the hero?

We compete for schools & jobs, while economists praise market competition for better choices.

But cases like SHEIN, Palantir, Samsung, & Boeing suggest competition can sometimes do more harm than good.

Nghi Nguyen explains in this latest blog: bit.ly/4rmChKq

State Pension Triple Lock is Unsustainable and Must Go - NIESR The coalition government introduced the triple lock in 2011. It ensures the state pension rises each year by CPI inflation, average earnings growth, or 2.5 per cent, whichever is the highest. On…

October - #NIESRHighlights2025⚡

Our Ben Caswell piece for The Times about the pensions #triplelock, why has become unsustainable for the UK public finances, and how to modify it going forward 🔒🔒🔓
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Attending the Annual Cambridge Public Policy lecture hosted by the @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk

Photo shows John presenting at the event

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

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.

Opportunity with ESCoE partner @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk at @cam.ac.uk ⬇️

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

The UK’s hidden carbon footprint - ESCoE Accounting for environmental impacts in trade By Anne Owen, Lena Killian and Rutger Hoekstra When […]

🏭 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

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.

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...

Interesting read.

Apparently, people with difficult-to-pronounce names are disadvantage in labor markets:

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Train disruptions so early in the week.

🧵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 👇

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.

It's bring your wife to work day.

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...

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..

C + I + G + NX - G

FT headline saying record number of Americans applying for UK citizenship

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? 🤔

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...

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...

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