alex cardazzi

econ phd; assistant prof @ odu

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

The New York Knicks win the 2026 NBA championship over the San Antonio Spurs, snapping a 53-year title drought.

A champion constructed with a series of moves over several years; notably Jalen Brunson, OG Anunoby, Josh Hart, Mikal Bridges and Karl-Anthony Towns, then hiring of Mike Brown.

[Zach Porreca @zachporreca]

"Murder in the Marketplace" with @ACardazzi and @VictoriaBi74104 is online today in @_PublicChoice. We look at the spatial concentration of violence around physical marketplaces in medieval and Georgian London

https://t.co/DQY7QM3w0V

[Lev Akabas @LevAkabas]

The New York Knicks just played the most dominant 10-game stretch in NBA history, and it's not even remotely close

[María Montoya Aguirre @algunamariaa]

This is my JMP! Stay tuned for the public draft in the next months

[alex cardazzi @ACardazzi]

Terrorism doesn't just hurt wellbeing in the short-run. It costs people their livelihoods. And so, long-term victim services matter.

Feedback / comments welcome: https://t.co/4otrK68pl2

[alex cardazzi @ACardazzi]

12 years ago yesterday, there was an explosion at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon, changing the race forever. We (@zach_et_al) studied how directly experiencing this terrorist attack affected future competitive performance.

https://t.co/4otrK68pl2

[alex cardazzi @ACardazzi]

We also find that diverted runners were less likely to participate in future Boston Marathons. However, given how their experience in Boston impacted their performances outside of Boston, it is likely that these runners were pushed out of qualifying rather than stepping away.

[alex cardazzi @ACardazzi]

@VincentGeloso @mitchISPE I believe Pyun (2019) does this (SC in reverse) as well: https://t.co/ssCBvBbKo9

[Jason Kerwin @jt_kerwin]

If you're going to plot means and CIs to show your results, they should be 83% CIs (not 95% CIs). Why? Because then when people look at whether they overlap, the implicit statistical test has the correct size.

[Dr. Jon Slotkin @slotkinjr]

I have a guest essay in @nytimes today about autonomous vehicle safety. I wrote it because I’m tired of seeing children die. Done right, we can eliminate car crashes as a leading cause of death in the United States

@Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million driverless miles. I spent weeks analyzing it because the results seemed too good to be true. 91% fewer serious-injury crashes. 92% less pedestrians hit. 96% fewer injury crashes at intersections. The list goes on.

39,000 Americans died in crashes last year. More than homicide, plane crashes, and natural disasters combined. The #2 killer of children and young adults. The #1 cause of spinal cord injury. We’ve accepted this as the price of mobility.

We don’t have to.

In medicine, when a treatment shows this level of benefit, we stop the trial early. Continuing to give patients the placebo becomes unethical. When an intervention works this clearly, you change what you do.

In driving, we’re all the control group.

Cities like DC and Boston are blocking deployment. And cities are not the only forces mobilizing to slow this progress.

It’s time we stop treating this like a tech moonshot and start treating it like a public health intervention that will save lives.

Link to article below.

👀 this video of Waymo cars evading crashes with people and vehicles. I especially note the ones that require it having a 360° view.

My sincere thanks to Alex Ellerbeck and @acsifferlin for their wisdom and sure hand in editing this piece.

[NAASE @NAASEcon]

We are excited to announce the creation of the Coates-Humphreys NAASE Distinguished Research Award, with Dennis Coates and Brad Humphreys as the inaugural winners. It will be given in odd-numbered years (the Hadley Award is given in even-numbered years). Congrats Brad & Dennis!

[NBER @nberpubs]

Replacing the US federal gas tax with a mileage-based tax would benefit rural, central, and Republican areas, but increase taxes in urban and coastal regions, from @KnittelMIT, @gibmetcalf, and Shereein Saraf https://t.co/ygCkQ1kmZc

[alex cardazzi @ACardazzi]

Free exogenous variation: https://t.co/CutfNK54cl

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

GAME 1 ✅

[Mike Beuoy @inpredict]

Final regular season results for Clippers opponents shooting free throws against "The Wall":

Opponent Wall FT%: 73.8%
Opponent non-Wall FT%: 75.9%

Here are the results for just the games where opponents shot against The Wall in the 2nd half:

Wall FT%: 67.7%
non-Wall FT%: 77.3%

[Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs]

I think my takeaway from this is that current LLMs are compliments not substitutes for expertise