Daniel Ershov

wrote a little thing for general consumption about llms and the likely overblown risk of cognitive offloading: www.mgmt.ucl.ac.uk/news/long-re...

Ronin Institute - Wikipedia

incredible stuff down this wiki rabbithole. If I were an independent scholar, would 1000% join this institute. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronin_I...

Gentleman scholar

Call for papers, 4th UK Workshop on Digital Economics, London 28 November 2025: competitionpolicy.ac.uk/events/4th-w... This is always a great event

Modeling computers and AI as cognitive tools provides a lens to interpret evidence on inequality, workflows, and teams, from Ajay K. Agrawal, @joshgans.bsky.social, and Avi Goldfarb https://www.nber.org/papers/w34034

🚨Free data alert!! 🚨 Please share.

Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*.

I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind.

github.com/bretthollenb...

Not that I always love AI everywhere, but the moral of Green Eggs and Ham is that they’re actually good once you try them…

A.I. Might Take Your Job. Here Are 22 New Ones It Could Give You.

A.I. Might Take Your Job. Here Are 22 New Ones It Could Give You.

@robcapps.bsky.social wrote an excellent article
@nytimes.com with views from yours truly, @emollick.bsky.social, @erikbryn.bsky.social and others.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/m...

2/2 Perhaps the bigger issue is “econ culture” as a whole - which rewards/incentivizes “complete” papers that give iron-clad answers with perfect methodology and data, over more incremental/imperfect research.

1/2 System as a whole (ie, academia) worked, but more narrow Econ ref process didn’t. Unfortunately, seems very hard to pick up, aside from the unrealistic (in retrospect) amount of work for a 2nd yr PhD.

Graph of the distribution of annual brand-level non-disclosure rates. Social media influencers have become a powerful advertising channel, but social media advertising is still little regulated, with limited enforcement of disclosure regulations. This column analyses over 100 million tweets from 2014 to 2021 for disclosure rates. The findings suggest that the vast majority of commercial content on social media is not appropriately disclosed by the influencers who post it. Consumers are not able to distinguish commercial and non-commercial content absent disclosure labels. These results indicate the need for additional regulatory scrutiny of undisclosed advertising online.

@ershovd.bsky.social, Yanting He, & Stephan Seiler analyse over 100 million tweets from 2014 to 2021 and find that the vast majority of commercial content on social media is not appropriately disclosed by the influencers who post it.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A DOMINANT PLATFORM SUDDENLY MODERATES A LARGE SHARE OF ITS CONTENT?

🚨 With Matt Mitchell, Martin Quinn & @mikybartoli.bsky.social, we study one of the largest moderation shocks ever: Pornhub’s 2020 purge of 10M+ non-verified videos (80% of content).

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Pornhub's removal of all non-verified content led to a 41% drop in traffic within 1 month.

Much of the displaced traffic was absorbed by competing platforms, including less regulated fringe websites (+55% visits) and mainstream competitors (+10%).
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Remembering Patrick L. Bajari (1969-2025) Patrick L. Bajari was a pioneer spanning the academic and business worlds.

Pat Bajari was one of the most influential economists of the past 30 years, and an amazing person

cla.umn.edu/economics/ne...

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Or almost finish asking a question at a seminar... "this is more of a comment than a question..."

Possibly the dumbest of the many dumb plagiarism claims
nationalpost.com/news/mark-ca...

Our edited volume, The Hashtag Hustle: Law and Policy Perspectives on Working in the Influencer Economy (with @cgoanta.bsky.social @dasfiesch.bsky.social & Isabelle Wildhaber) is available, open access www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook-o...

Self preferencing by LLMs…

How the United States Learned to Love Internet Censorship America was once seen as the home of the free internet. That era is now over.

To be slightly blunter than The Atlantic allowed me to be: the tiktok ban is a protectionist subsidy to Meta and Google worth hundreds of billions of dollars: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

How low has Pitchfork fallen? C. 2004 P4K would have given this a -20 with a picture of a monkey in a wig giving the finger.

Read all Adam Smiths’ work

Adam N. Smith ‪Assistant Professor of Marketing, University College London‬ - ‪‪Cited by 102‬‬ - ‪marketing‬ - ‪econometrics‬ - ‪bayesian statistics‬

You can find more of Adam Smith's excellent papers here: scholar.google.com/citations?hl...

I strongly believe in reading ALL of Adam Smith's work. Please start from this recent paper on identifying/measuring dynamic complementarity: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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I've gotten a flurry of requests to access my slides on "Models, Measurement, and Language in Economics" (presumably thanks to the great new year's reading list from @rohitlamba.bsky.social). The file is publicly available via my web page, but here is the link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ntgkb...

Hi, #EconSky! I’m Anderson, a 6th year PhD candidate at the University of Virginia. For those going to ASSA this week, I’ll be presenting my job market paper, The Effects of Privacy Regulation on the Supply of Stolen Data, during the CSMGEP session tomorrow at 8AM. Here’s a short thread about it

YouTube video by Norah Jones This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) feat. Norah Jones by BADBADNOTGOOD

Unrelated but great track: youtu.be/rEhb2-ji7sc?...

Great score for P4K - I listen to anything above 6.3…

#1 contemporary jazz album for 22 yrs running!