Avinash (Avi) Collis

Thrilled to share that our paper on measuring the disutility of ads on Facebook using a long running field experiment is out in AER: Insights!! 🎊🥳🎉🍾

I think this may be the longest continuously running field experiment ever. Here is a summary of the paper: www.heinz.cmu.edu/media/2024/A...

Check out this very timely work by @manuelacollis.bsky.social and @clemvaneff.bsky.social.

Yet another interesting paper 👏👏

The project started due to a chance encounter with Kevin and Erwin at the NBER CRIW summer institute in 2016. First draft was completed in 2018, and final version published in 2025! Happy to get this out.

This was a fun collaboration with @erikbryn.bsky.social, Erwin Diewert, @felixeggers.bsky.social and Kevin Fox (Author list: BCDEF :)).

otherwise, all we get is traditional goods leaving GDP (e.g. landline phone calls) as they're replaced by higher quality things that we value more but which don't appear in GDP because of having a zero price (e.g. free WhatsApp video calls).

Takeaway: Looking beyond traditional GDP is essential if we want to understand the impact of free digital goods on the economy,

Thrilled to share that our paper "GDP-B: Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods", is forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics!

🚨New Predoc Posting Alert!🚨

@koenig-felix.bsky.social and I are looking to hire a full-time predoctoral fellow to work with us on projects about the economics of labor markets and the future work at @carnegiemellon.bsky.social

Please share and/or apply!

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Agree with you, but I am very sad Jeremy Strong did not win and no one seems to have watched the Apprentice. My top 2 of 2024 were Anora and the Apprentice.

Hi Everyone!

We're hosting our Wharton AI and the Future of Work Conference on 5/21-22. Last year was a great event with some of the top papers on AI and work.

Paper submission deadline is 3/3. Come join us! Submit papers here: forms.gle/ozJ5xEaktXDE...

Nice, very cool paper!

Also, a football paper! I can see that you have fully integrated into Texas! 😀

I‘m thrilled to be part of this year‘s Empirical Management Conference and share my work on workplace hostility (joint w/ @clemvaneff.bsky.social) with this community!

Are there any movies/ TV shows involving this community? The only one I know of is Mississippi Masala, which is a great movie.

100% agree with this endorsement! Working with Erik has been the best decision of my career as well.

Working with Erik has been one of the best decisions of my young career. He's a top-notch role model. In an age where certain types of expertise are plentiful, having the chance to learn from someone who consistently skates to where the puck is going has been really valuable. Highly recommend!!!