Alberto Bisin

From forthcoming EJ Special Issue on Polarization in Field Experiments: ‘Reality Bites: Partisan Beliefs as Enforced Norms’ by Andrea Robbett, Peter Hans Matthews doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaf062 @andrearobbett.bsky.social ‬
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📣The Call for Papers for EJ special issue ‘AI Measurement in Applied Economics’ is now open.

⏰Deadline: 15 January 2026

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cultural transmission (see @albertobisin.bsky.social and Verdier's papers) literatures to identify four mechanism that can produce persistence
– Selection (migration): who moved and who stayed after 1989.
Think of what happens if those most likely to benefit from open
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How Do Restrictions on High-Skilled Immigration Affect Offshoring? Evidence from the H-1B Program Britta Glennon WORKING PAPER 27538 DOI 10.3386/w27538 ISSUE DATE July 2020 REVISION DATE February 2023 Highly-skilled workers are not only a crucial and relatively scarce inputs into firms' productive and innovative processes, but are also a critical resource determining competitive advantage. An increasingly high proportion of these workers in the US were born abroad and permitted to work on skilled worker visas. How do multinational firms respond when artificial constraints, namely policies restricting skilled immigration, are placed on their ability to hire scarce human capital? This paper combines visa microdata and comprehensive data on US multinational firm activity to demonstrate that firms respond to restrictions on H-1B immigration by increasing foreign affiliate employment at the intensive and extensive margins, particularly in China, India, and Canada. The most impacted jobs were R&D-intensive ones, but there is some evidence that non-R&D employment was also affected. The paper highlights a means by which firms can circumvent constraining policies and mitigate country-level risk, but it also suggests that, for the average MNC, this means is imperfect; for every visa rejection, they hire 0.4 employees abroad. The most globalized MNCs are the most likely to respond to these restrictions by offshoring, highlighting that firm capabilities—in the form of prior internationalization-shape the decision and ability to offshore in response to skilled immigration restrictions; indeed, these firms hire 0.9 employees abroad for every visa rejection. More broadly, the paper provides evidence of a push factor for internationalizing knowledge activity: artificial constraints on resources result in firms circumventing restrictive policies in ways that may not be anticipated by policy makers.

Restricting visas doesn’t lead to hiring non-immigrants—it leads to hiring foreigners. For every H-1B visa rejection, multinationals add ~0.4–0.9 foreign employees, especially in R&D hubs like India, China, and Canada.

via @florianederer.bsky.social

Any IO papers on the impact of funding $ on academic research (e.g. published papers, weighted by citations or anything similar) in the sciences?

Fuhito Kojima’s Walras Bowley Lecture has just been uploaded to arxiv. It considers that administrative boundaries cause many markets to be fragmented, and how some of the resulting efficiency loss can be recovered.
#econsky
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Sam Altman Says ChatGPT Is on Track to Out-Talk Humanity BY ZOË SCHIFFER AND WILL KNIGHT | 2-MINUTE READ

I’m old enough to remember when it was on pace to out-think humanity.

Check out if you’re interested in international trade or know someone who might be interested in pursuing a PhD! Can absolutely vouch for @petereppinger.com

Proud of being at CESifo! Looking forward to contribute to the network!

A survey of advances in modeling cultural transmission in economics and how these models differ conceptually from those employed in evolutionary anthropology, from @albertobisin.bsky.social and Thierry Verdier https://www.nber.org/papers/w33928

Second keynote by @albertobisin.bsky.social 🎉

Very cool conference … on the sleepy lagune - far from fancy weddings and tourist-masses

Poverty, Persistence and Policy: Comparative Development and the Deep Roots of Prosperity | Venice Summer Institute | ifo | CESifo ifo.de/en/cesifo/even…

I know this take will probably be unpopular on Bluesky, but I think as educators we should be thinking about how to productively incorporate LLMs into our teaching.

I think that if done thoughtfully, it has the potential to boost learning.

The main figure from the voter turnout paper -- no effect of any nudge intervention on voter turnout.

A *null* result I'm very proud of!

Led by Rustam Romaniuc, 35 coauthors from all over France tested nudge interventions to boost voter turnout.

None worked, and we are possibly not surprised -- but a well-powered null result *is* a result!

Paper:

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We all do 😂

Very interesting paper!

This recent fraud case is also a cautionary tale for any research based on proprietary data source.

This is great - congratulations.

Introducing the Anthropic Economic Advisory Council Today, we’re announcing the formation of the Anthropic Economic Advisory Council, a group of distinguished economists who will provide Anthropic with expert guidance on the economic implications of AI...

I’m excited to join @Anthropic.com’s Advisory Council, to provide guidance on the economic implications of #AI. I’m thrilled to be part of this illustrious group, including @johnjhorton.bsky.social @akorinek.bsky.social @johnlist.bsky.social. #EconSky www.anthropic.com/news/introdu...

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Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Dapper academics and their desks:
Richard Bellman and David Blackwell

Chuck Schumer was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. Eventually the wheel of karma will turn again in the favor of sensible people, but God, am I tired of waiting.

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1st Multidisciplinary Research Grant on Education – Call for one grant supporting multidisciplinary research programs on education- €250,000 – deadline March 31, 2025

3rd Education Research Grant – Call for 2 grants for a 3-year research project on education – € 200,000 each– deadline April 1, 2025

UniCredit Foundation launched new contests for research grants that are expiring in the next few weeks:

3rd Marco Fanno PhD Research Grant - Open to Economics and Finance Departments of Italian Universities for 2 grants in support of PhD students activities - € 40,000 each- deadline March 15, 2025

Proud of this paper!

Last paper out in JEBO!

We propose an epi-economic model to understand how individuals change their behavior to adapt during an ongoing epidemic.

Big thanks to @albertobisin.bsky.social Lorenzo Nemati Fard e @mstarnini.bsky.social!

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In memory of Ed Leamer’s passing, check out his wonderful monograph