Colleen Cunningham

SON: Can I have a cookie?
ME: Ask nicer.
SON: May I please have a cookie?
ME: Like a Canadian.
SON: So sorry, could I please trouble you for one of your delicious cookies, good sir, eh? It’s okay if you say no. There’s probably a more deserving child.
ME: *hands over cookie*

We are really excited to have one or more slots this year. I'm personally very aware of how much incredible talent is coming up on the market -- the fact that we can make one or more hires this round is great news for us. Juniors are what make a department exciting, relevant and good. Apply!

New WP (by me and others) on how disclosure mandates:

(1) increase disclosure (primarily of negative outcomes), and (2) how expectations of increased disclosure by others slows down innovation.

Link and more details in @florianederer.bsky.social's thread...

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Canada's Magdeleine Vallieres wins elite road race at cycling worlds Canadian Magdeleine Vallieres has won the women's elite road race at the 2025 UCI Road World Championships.

Canada may have come second in womens rugby today but first in cycling!

Canada's Magdeleine Vallieres gets the rainbow jersey in the elite road race at the UCI Road Cycling World Championships!
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📢 Conference announcement!

Paolo Surico and I are excited to be organizing this @cepr.org conference on Public Policies for Innovation.

If you work in the #Economics of #Innovation and #InnovationPolicy, please submit + spread the word. Non-presenting attendees also invited.

SEJ Special Issues - SMS SEJ Special Issues Special Issues are an important part of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (SEJ). Special Issues primarily focus on a single topic of relevance to the entrepreneurship field and...

🚨 Reminder!! Don’t miss this opportunity to shape the conversation on how entrepreneurs theorize, test, and adapt under uncertainty.

🗓️ SEJ Special Issue Deadline Approaching (October 1, 2025)!

Learn more about the Special Issue: www.strategicmanagement.net/publications...

🚨 We’re hiring at @NYUStern 🚨

Our Management & Organizations group is recruiting a TT Asst. Prof. (start: Fall 2026) who spans #OT + #OB.
I'm a newbie myself, but I can already tell this is a special place. Feel free to DM with Qs!

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➡️ Deadline approaching—only one month left to send in your papers and presentation proposals for #CDSM2025!

🚨 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 🚨
📅 𝗡𝗼𝘃 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 (𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹)
📥 Submission Deadline: 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

The call for papers for the annual CMA-Durham workshop on market power, dynamism and productivity is out!

This year we are particularly interested in submissions on industrial policy, market power in supply chains, and the economics of start-ups and scale-ups.

Submit by 25 September.

Looks like a super interesting and unique class for MBAs. I'd take it!

Research Policy, 10th online conference for Early Career Researchers. Submit your paper by Sun 31st August here: https://forms.gle/GdvPaEq4seZt4q266

📢📢Research Policy 10th online conference for Early Career Researchers!

Fri 3rd October 2025, 2-4pm (UK time)

Submit a 3 page abstract by Sun 31st August

Link for submitting:
forms.gle/GdvPaEq4seZt...

#EconSky

🤫Trade secrets are a widely used but understudied form of intellectual property. Our forthcoming Management Science paper investigates trade secret use at the project level & provides evidence that firms respond to trade secret legal protection by increasing use of secrets. lnkd.in/dJVScxJxhttp...

Graph depicts share of wells with any trade secret ingredient, comparing wells in high treatment states and those in low treatment states. Those in high treatment states become roughly equivalent to those in low treatment states post-federal policy (DTSA).

Graph depicts share of trade secret ingredients in wells, comparing wells in high treatment states and those in low treatment states. Those in high treatment states increase substantially post-federal policy (DTSA).

We identify effects by comparing trade secret ingredient use in response to the federal defend trade secrets act (DTSA) across states with lower state level protection (i.e., high treatment) and higher state level protection (low treatment).

🤐 While often impossible to study, we know firms protect their (often, most important) IP using trade secrets.

@aldona.bsky.social and I found a way to observe and study them. We find trade secret use & novelty increases following increased legal protection.

doi.org/10.1287/mnsc... (open access)

Welcome, Teppo!

Where is said playlist? Or at least, what is on it??

Canadian flag waving against a partly clouded blue sky

View of the sea through trees looking east from Vancouver Island

Sunset views west from Vancouver Island, off Long beach.

Missing my home, family, and friends this Canada Day!

I had the opportunity to speak with Brian Owens (@scibri.com) at Nature Index about why firms invest in scientific research and what drives their decisions to publish. Grateful for the thoughtful reporting: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A comic about a rat

Congratulations, Paul! 💐

Every street name in Vancouver, organized From trees to provinces to politicians, the background of every unique street name in the City of Vancouver.

for those new to my reporting, yes I’ve categorized every single street name in Vancouver, a perfectly normal thing to do, and you can read that feature here

newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/str...

🚀 Exciting news from the STR Division! 🚀
Join us in welcoming the newly elected STR Leadership Team for 2025–2026 — including our new STR Assistant Program Chair, Executive Committee members, and more.
👇 Announcement here: str.aom.org/discussion/a...
#STRDivision #STRongerTogether

Vancouver council is debating a giant permanent sign that says "VANCOUVER", and staff say an issue is putting the sign in a place that won't interfere with film shoots.

In other words, a giant "VANCOUVER" sign could interfere with vancouver's lucrative business of pretending to be any other city

The Returns to Physical Capital in Knowledge Production: Evidence from Lab Disasters (Forthcoming Article) - We investigate the nature and relevance of physical capital in knowledge production. Exploiting adverse events in research laboratories, we find that scientists experience a pe...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "The Returns to Physical Capital in Knowledge Production: Evidence from Lab Disasters" by Stefano Baruffaldi and Fabian Gaessler. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The Technology & Innovation Management (#TIM) Division elections are open!

We strongly encourage you to participate in this important governance process.

🚨 DIG elections will close on Tuesday, 10 June 2025.

You can vote in the election through the unique link sent to your email.

Increased ERC funding for top global researchers moving to Europe now confirmed The European Research Council (ERC) decision to increase its support for leading researchers moving to Europe has today been formally adopted. On top of its standard grants, the ERC offers additional ...

On top of its standard grants, the ERC now offers additional startup funding to help new grantees establish their laboratories or research team in Europe. This funding is now being doubled from up to €1 million to up to €2 million erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Just read this truly lovely history of the fixed effects estimator, a concept I've repeatedly taught and used but never knew the origins of.

(Also helps me justify never using random effects!)

Thanks to Marc Bellemare and @dlmillimet.bsky.social for writing it.

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Happy birthday, Mr. PG! Prince George's lumbering mascot turns 65 | CBC News Prince George, B.C.'s wooden mascot made his debut on May 8, 1960. The beloved icon has taken many forms through the years; he's been made of wood, fibreglass, metal, even a phone booth (Mr. PG Junior...

happy 65th birthday to british columbia's second favourite roadside attraction but first favourite burly giant log man

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