Varun Bansal

Economics | Football | Manchester United | he/him. PhD student in Quantitative Economics at the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi.

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New Working Paper #EconTwitter

Available on my website:
https://t.co/nsnLNSRXA7

Jointly with Dinko Dimitrov, we look at the two sided matching problem in a different interesting framework.

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A Barcelona player scoring to knock Messi out. Me likey.

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@MoMohler Elsbeth is like that

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So the first woman on the Lord’s Test match honours board is a young’un from a small town in Madhya Pradesh, whose name means revolution. Extremely fun anecdote for the ages, that.

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@dubsgarnn Lol Virat was head and shoulders above everyone in the world at the u19 level and that was when he used to have chhole bhature for breakfast twice every week

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@kaushikcbasu Second mover gets the advantage, if the first guy cuts in a way to maximize his worst case scenario, i.e in a way such that both pieces are as good as each other. The other guy can get a piece which is strictly better part, not possible for the first guy.

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@josepsburner Only right answer

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Vishwaguru

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“This is about as close as you would get to Narendra Modi on his trip to Melbourne. He famously avoids unscripted news conferences, preferring instead more stage-managed appearances.”

- Australian TV

#ModiInAustralia

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Ronaldo: “I challenge that guy there, to ask a good question, since he doesn't like me.”

Media “What's the hardest thing about a World Cup at 41 years old?”

Cristiano: “Talking to those, who don't like me mainly, and you're one of them, I know.”

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@F1 Leicester winning the PL was more likely

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@freemaowtf Sounds cool tho

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I might eat California Burrito every day for the rest of my life.

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Genuine question: Can one drink Diet Coke during hunger strike?

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They just created five seasons of stellar TV with the Bear. No drop off. Every season has one incredible episode. A satisfying ending.

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@BhutaniRahul That would have been a medal at Paris, right?

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@monster_zero123 That is incredible

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The Neeraj Chopra Jan Zelezny fiasco will be perfect for that classic biopic trope when the athlete gets distracted by the prospect of a big name coach and loses his values all to realise that he had what he needed the entire time (the Desi coach with a different point of view).

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Had the chance to visit the Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics at the University of Bonn for a month of discussions and talks on “Advances in Mechanism Design”. It was a wonderful experience, meeting new and interesting people.

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@gauravsabnis Does Arsenal winning the PL count as a London title? Almost all of London apart from that particular subsection didn’t want them to

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@apparitionnow Yes, definitely. Paris is also romanticised a lot in movies like Delhi. Midnight in Paris is one of my favourites