Angelo Aspris

Think, learn, question, then repeat...

Anything said here is done so in a personal capacity and is a reflection of my own views.

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

I believe we now have evidence of FIFA's World Cup ticketing shell game: FIFA is colluding with third-party resale platforms for its own supply management.

Look at this SeatGeek map (secondary market!) for Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde. The circled areas are not random single resale tickets, but large, contiguous blocks of seats: entire rows and swaths in sections 101/102, 112/113, 119/120, 134–137, 139, ...

The blue circles appeared weeks ago, then the purple blocks suddenly showed up a day or two ago, and the red blocks seem to have appeared recently too.

That's not what ordinary fan or even commercial scalper resale looks like who resell pairs, fours, and scattered seats. Instead, this looks like inventory being dumped in bulk onto secondary markets, at prices below FIFA's official site.

Why doesn't FIFA just lower prices on its own site Probably because official price cuts could trigger refund demands, chargebacks, or consumer-protection headaches from fans who already bought at much higher prices.

Instead FIFA keeps official prices high, avoids openly admitting the market-clearing price is lower, and moves unsold inventory through third-party resale platforms instead.

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

Where should you send your paper first?

The monotone “aim high” strategy is optimal if journal rejections do not change the paper quality.

But if rejections (e.g., referee reports) ultimately improve paper quality the optimal order can change drastically.

[Angelo Aspris @Aspris07]

this is why sports people need financial advisers (i.e. time value of money, opportunity costs) https://t.co/IWFxCOH4tO @AntDavis23

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

Why do people work at HBS?

[Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon]

The fabricated paper on large positive productivity effects of AI already had a Revise&Resubmit at QJE; Acemoglu and David Autor had praised it.

Time to think about incentive structures in econ, when 2nd year PhD students fake papers to publish in a top-5 and gain visibility?!

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

There already exists an excellent economics paper by Dubois, @ashdgandhi and @shoshievass on this (disastrous) economic policy.

The equilibrium result will be only slightly lower prices in the US but much higher prices everywhere else.

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

“Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request.”

[ Q-Cap  @qcapital2020]

The JP Morgan analyst has had enough LOL

[Angelo Aspris @Aspris07]

Anybody that has ever used the word 'paradigm' in their work has consulted ChatGPT #LLM

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

this conversation will be on replay for many academics this Thanksgiving.

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

timeless

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Major party priorities:

✅ legislation to get themselves more taxpayer money

Not priorities:

❌ mandatory food & grocery code
❌ student debt relief
❌ scam protections
❌ gambling advertising reform
❌ new housing supply
❌ ensuring tradies get paid

[Lola del Rey🐇 @Lola_lmao7]

so true

[Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺 @AvidCommentator]

Since 2016 the relative size of government in Australia has expanded by almost 1/3 relative vs GDP.

And what do we have to show for it?

Chart: Westpac

[Dan Goldstein @dggoldst]

Nobel Prize 2030

Peace - Claude Xo.3
Literature - Gemini Prime'+
Physics - Copilot 15X Enterprise
Chemistry - PaLM 52.1 Fusion
Medicine - GPT7 UltraMax
Economics - Stata 19

[MATT GRAY @matt_gray_]

This is what great writing looks like:

[Ivan Werning @IvanWerning]

I tried Google's NotebookLM "radio conversation generator" on my paper about taxing robots (the irony!).
I was blown away by the results.

Are robots and AI coming for your jobs journalists? 😱

[Arieda Muço @arieda_muco]

Econs using Overleaf: If you learn few basic Git commands you won’t need to manually upload figures &tables every time there are updates. Git can sync everything automatically. Use git push to update Overleaf & track changes with a commit message. #EconResearch #Overleaf #git

[UF @UtdFaithfuls]

🚨🎥 - This has to be the BEST Roy Keane interview ever.

Insane mentality!