🎉🥂Congratulations to @AntonKolotilin, ARC Future Fellow!
Anton's project develops new tools to unify and generalize classic results and add new insights into a rich set of economic problems, including the design of disclosure rules, regulatory policies, and decision processes.
‼️Your loss is that my @UNSWEcon colleague Hasin Yousaf, a truly wonderful man and scholar, is not on twitter!
But he’s just got tenure and I’ll let him know of your likes and retweets 😉
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Yeah yeah yeah ok official announcement I'm moving back to Australia to take up a job as an associate professor at @UNSWEcon this september, and I literally could not be more excited about it.
My paper with Pauline Grosjean and Hasin Yousaf is now accepted at @QJEHarvard 🎉🎉
We show how political campaigns can affect racial bias in policing.
A short summary of the results 🧵
@TimHarcourt@1petermartin I'm so sorry for your loss Tim. I enjoyed and learned something after every interaction I had with him. He was incredibly smart and kind. The School will deeply miss him.
Do you want to join our team research on democratic stability and resilience at the @UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab?
We definitely have a spot for a new brilliant PhD student! @masera_federico@bartonelee2@ChrisBurnitt@lehanzhang2
https://t.co/tiN20WNb3o
Here is a sample of what our students graduating this year have been working on. Do you want to follow them? Join our PhD program in Economics @UNSW!
https://t.co/YyrIqW95Qv
A brutal thread documenting the Swedish COVID-19 failure. A nation putting much too power in the hands of a small group of experts + the experts getting it all wrong = a disaster, a tragedy that could have been avoided.
Four years ago, CNN compiled this anthology of presidential-election concession speeches from 1960 onward. Poignant to watch, but a reminder of better times, better leaders past - and a promise of better times and better leaders ahead https://t.co/c1magq4Ru9
President Trump just spoke at the White House, as key states continue to count votes.
Shep has the facts: “What the President of the United States is saying, in large part, is absolutely untrue.” #Election2020 https://t.co/E6DBt6OodD
Rochester professor of economics Srihari Govindan’s collaborations with Robert Wilson—one of this year’s Nobel laureates—go back 25 years and typically focus on other areas of game theory. https://t.co/gesLoChQzL
Our new Master of Applied Economics:
Flexible, 1-2 years program
Face-to-face and online
Hands-on experience
Become a professional economist
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@UNSWbusiness
Doing a prisoner’s dilemma game with my 9yo and 7yo, but with mini marshmallows
Both cooperate, +3 each.
If one defects, +5 for the defector, +0 for the other.
If they both defect, +1 each.
Their reasoning is hilarious
Come and find out more about @unsw during our first virtual #UNSWOpenDay. It's a great place to study in fields ranging from science, engineering & economics to law, business & humanities. Check out @UNSWbusiness if you're interested in a rigorous yet practical business degree.
We economists know how difficult it is to design policies that works as intended, but we know about this: Do you know to reduce the gender gap? - Invest in child care.
https://t.co/L4sj9EmI0k
SO good. I know from my own experience the impact that the availability of excellent early childhood education has had for my productivity, but so great to see the economic data on this! Thanks @gpimienta!💪🏻
#SaveEarlyYears#WomenInSTEMM@UNSW @WomenSciAUST @DrCFord@gemcarey