Diversifying college applications
Nageeb Ali and Ran Shorrer discuss the optimal strategy for applying to college.
When admissions are correlated, diversifying your college applications is the optimal strategy. We spoke with Nageeb Ali and Ran Shorrer of Penn State about why the standard advice to apply to reach, match, and safety schools is sound. www.aeaweb.org/research/app...
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And on a more serious note: @snageebali.bsky.social and i have a recent paper in @aeajournals.bsky.social that shows that application portfolios become more aggressive when beliefs are more optimistic:
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References:
Goodman, Allen C., et al. "A Few Goodmen: Surname‐Sharing Economist Coauthors." Economic Inquiry 53.2 (2015): 1392-1395.
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#econsky @ec.europa.eu @competitionandmarkets.blog.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @autoritedelaconcurrence.fr
20.06.2025 21:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Computational Competition Law and Public Policy Workshop
CLES@UCL Second Workshop - Organised and chaired by Ioannis Lianos (UCL)
Amazing workshop at @laws.ucl.ac.uk yesterday. Presented work w/@sarafish.bsky.social @yannaigonch.bsky.social in panel w/speakers from the European Commission, CMA, AdlC, & HCC. So gratifying to see our research making positive impact in the world. Thanks much @ilianos.bsky.social for inviting us!
20.06.2025 21:31 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Then you're not keeping up with the Eagles...
10.02.2025 01:46 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I guess everyone is done with bidding
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Looking forward to this!
03.02.2025 13:23 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Looking forward to our #ASSA2025 session, Friday 10:15 in Parc 55.
I’ll be presenting this paper⤵️
03.01.2025 04:39 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
An academic paper has excellent empirical evidence & hypotheses that perfectly match the patterns in the data.
One catch: AI wrote the hypotheses after seeing the results.
Should this matter?
New paper w/ Robert Novy-Marx on AI-Powered (Finance) Scholarship🧵
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Very excited to release a major revision to our paper on algorithmic collusion by large language models.
#EconSky
28.11.2024 02:30 — 👍 28 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
I made a theory starter pack. It includes some CS/Econ, pol-econ, and behavioral types as well... Lmk if you'd like to be added (or removed!) and I'll do my best - the edit functionality is a bit wonky atm
go.bsky.app/KAGmZH4
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Lecturer @kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Game Theory, Econ & CS, Pol-Econ, Sport
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Studied in Istanbul -> Paris -> Bielefeld -> Maastricht
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Professor of Economics, Baruch College
Human Purpose, Collective Intelligence,
Leadership Development
At Towards People, we see AI not as a replacement for human strengths, but as a catalyst for them. We guide organizations to blend advanced technology with a sense of purpose.
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economics of best of both worlds: experiments + structural modeling; education, human capital.
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Associate Prof of Economics at Iowa State, working on Market Design, BJK fan, from Istanbul.
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Assistant Professor LMU Munich. Labor, econometrics.
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Econ PhD Student @bseberlin.bsky.social & @humboldtuni.bsky.social. Previously at LMU Munich and UC Berkeley. Interested in Micro Theory for real world problems.
https://paulrosmer.github.io
Charles W. Eliot Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard, former Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton
Algorithms for Toddlers (https://youtu.be/nnLOi3ia210) | Algorithms for Teenagers (https://tinyurl.com/2cnp39cf) | Algorithms for Grown Ups (http://dblp.org/pid/11/10308)
Associate Professor of Economics @ Boston University. empirical IO
https://sites.google.com/site/gaurabaryal/
ACM SIGecom encourages research and advanced applications at the interface between economics and computer science. See you at EC'26 #ACMEC26!
Economist at Northwestern Kellogg. Organization economics and contract theory (performance pay).
Webpage: https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/georgiadis/index.html
Orgs Insights LLM: https://bit.ly/orgs-insights
Econ prof at University of Amsterdam. Primarily interested in economics of education. oosterbeek.economists.nl
Professor in Economics at Lund University. Theoretical economist, market designer, policy advisor, author.
Webb: https://sites.google.com/site/tommyanderssonlunduniversity/home
Econ prof @HarvardHBS; PhD @Stanford; ex-Fortune 5 Healthcare SVP; ex-@McKinsey; 🐈⬛, 🍀 and 🚂 enthusiast
