Beautiful, fundamental paper. A simple characterization of the extreme points of the space of monotone functions sandwiched between a given pair of such functions.
Many fun applications—here’s a cool one: Which distributions of posterior *medians* can be induced by some signal?
@johnjhorton You can do this on Ethereum. A contract can record the the names of addresses each address trusts, and only allow messages to be sent from those addresses. Caveat is everything would be public. ZKP protocols could help with privacy
🛑JMP Thread🛑
Hello #EconTwitter! I'm an applied micro candidate on the 2023-24 #EconJobMarket!
My JMP (w/ Yeon-Koo Che and @YingHuaHe) studies how to infer applicants' true preferences from school-choice data when they may not truthfully report their preferences.
CHRISTOPH SCHLOM works in game theory and mechanism design, and his JMP studies a novel form of priced-based regulation accounting for endogenous product quality https://t.co/cByXk8Llly
@MDrelichman @ryancbriggs@ben_golub Shutdowns might've been harder on high school freshmen who didn't get to meet their classmates in person before moving online
I've been a theorist working on algorithms in the academic ivory tower for 17 years. Last summer I started part-time in industry 1 day per week (@Google); this is fairly common amongst my more applied colleagues in ML/systems, but less so for theorists. I highly recommend it. 🧵
I should have remembered this a little earlier 😩 but last year I wrote up a 20+ page guide on poli sci R1 job market how-to for my PhD institution. Not much on postdocs/LACs/industry. But hope this helps someone out there struggling: https://t.co/mOVjhGIJqG