Spencer Barnes

Spencer Barnes

@spencerbarnes.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Finance @UTEP. https://sites.google.com/view/spencer-barnes

1,944 Followers 384 Following 35 Posts Joined Jul 2023
10 months ago

3 R&Rs in the spring semester; let’s go!

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11 months ago

Thanks to AI, I’m going back to the 1970s college experience.

Pencil and paper!

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11 months ago

Got nominated for a teaching award from my students! Woot woot

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11 months ago

Grad school: prove the existence of firm i’s epsilon ball.

Tenure track: the authors should consider moving table 3.

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11 months ago
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Today’s shitpost is tomorrow’s Beamer theme @spencerbarnes.bsky.social

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1 year ago

Thanks Brian! We appreciate the feedback. In the next iteration of the paper we will include more of this literature that is outside the American context.

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1 year ago
Under (financial) pressure This study examines how financial pressure influences rule enforcement by leveraging a novel setting---NFL officiating. Unlike traditional regulatory environmen

🚨 NEW WORKING PAPER ALERT 🚨

What if we told you that NFL officiating might not be as neutral as we all assume? That penalties in the postseason aren’t just random whistles, but instead, they tend to favor one team?

Read the paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.....

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1 year ago
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Employers would rather hire AI than Gen Z graduates: Report Roughly 37 percent of employers said they'd rather hire AI than a recent graduate, according to a new survey.

What a time to be a professor!

www.newsweek.com/employers-wo...

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1 year ago
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AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change The tech giants both report surges in greenhouse gas emissions as they double-down on adding artificial intelligence to all of their products.

LLMs are not great for the environment…

Wonder when this paper will pop up at an AFA ESG session.

www.npr.org/2024/07/12/g...

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1 year ago
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I had the distinct honor of being recognized (along with a select group of about ten outstanding faculty members across the university) at @UTEP's annual faculty endowment dinner!

And to cap it off @UTEP 's President @HeatherAnWilson shared inspiring words about us!

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1 year ago

Mid-tenure review packet is complete at a whopping 600 pages 🎊

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1 year ago

I created a Business Scholars Starter Pack (law profs, business-school profs, sociologists, economists, etc.). Let me know who I've missed and I'll add. go.bsky.app/TPJf9ts

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1 year ago
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Don’t mind if I do!

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1 year ago

Financial economics starter pack - Part 2!

go.bsky.app/PPiR5qP

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1 year ago
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Looking forward to this thing going vertical again in a few months!

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1 year ago

An awesome pack! 📈📉🤩

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1 year ago
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🙆‍♀️ Women end up getting higher payouts from discrimination filings than men. 🙋‍♂️

Why do you think that might be the case?

Still working on changes to this paper but I’m really happy with it!

Check it out here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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1 year ago
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Excited to have the opportunity to present at the Labor and Finance Group Conference today!

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1 year ago

Great pack!

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1 year ago

Had a conversation with industry friend yesterday.

A ton of IT workers are poised to leave the country because of immigration status.

According to his company, there’s going to be a LOT of ~very high paying ($300 an hour baseline) jobs available soon (with easy to get certs in Cloud etc.).

📈📉

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1 year ago
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a brown and white dog with a blue collar is sitting on a couch . ALT: a brown and white dog with a blue collar is sitting on a couch .
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1 year ago

Interesting to think about partial equilibrium effects.

This is essentially what MDs have done (only accepting US citizens).

Increasing wages, increasing at-home talent, and increasing costs?

Good or bad thing? Idk! Probably depends on who you ask.

“In this paper, we…”

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1 year ago

Covering a recently published paper in a reputable journal in my PhD Urban Econ class today. The paper has an AI hallucinated citation to a non-existent paper. 😲

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1 year ago

This year’s @econ5k.bsky.social should be a blast and the shirts are FIRE! 🏃🏻

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1 year ago
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a man with a beard is sitting in a crowd of people and making a face . ALT: a man with a beard is sitting in a crowd of people and making a face .

Every time I come back to this app I’ve somehow gained 20+ followers none of which I know

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1 year ago
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Bucky the beaver showed up to class for Halloween!

Yes, a little late, but hope to brighten up your vibes 📈📉

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1 year ago
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🚨Publication alert!🥳

A recent paper of mine has been published in the Journal of Financial Research!

Key takeaway: The EEOC's 1992 policy incentivized firms to limit employee numbers, resulting in a subsequent decline in growth.

Check out the full paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.....

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1 year ago
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Great to have Sylvain Catherine from Wharton visiting us at UTEP today!

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1 year ago
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Excitement intensifies! Presenting right before lunch🤗

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