Economist, Industrial Org, @OxfordEconDept @CEPR_org @TheIFS & sometimes @CMAgovUK (Photo: Smith & Co Ltd, family bakery/grocery business, Ballymena c. 1900).
Stormont car freebie: Assembly says MLAs 'should not profit from public funds'
The Executive parties have dodged questions about travel allowances for MLAs with electric cars.
Those with petrol or diesel vehicles pay at forecourts like the rest of us
https://t.co/JfqxqhMIen
@JP_Biz So this is good news for the Aurbus part i guess. It would be interesting to know how the Boeing part of the Belfast cluster is doing, any news there?
New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20568
The Rise of Discounters and its Impact on Concentration, Market Power and Welfare
Martin O'Connell @UWMadison@TheIFS, @howardwsmith, Oyvind Thomassen @NHHnor
https://t.co/et3UB6KRpu
#CEPR_IO#EconTwitter
NEW: #IFSWorkingPaper: The rise of discounters and its impact on concentration, market power and welfare
📗 Read Martin O'Connell, @howardwsmith and Øyvind Thomassen's new paper here: https://t.co/WEIhwMSt28
Just a reminder that applications for our funded, joint @OxfordEconDept-@CMAgovUK PhD are due in less than a month.
Please drop me or @howardwsmith a message if you have any questions!
Want to do a funded, joint @OxfordEconDept-@CMAgovUK PhD on market power?
@howardwsmith and the CMA Microeconomics Unit are looking for promising candidates interested in working on "Beyond markups: understanding changes to competition, concentration, and market power".
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We’ve launched our new #Microeconomics Unit Growth Programme to support the government’s #growth mission + Industrial Strategy.
This follows our third State of Competition report, published today, which looks at how well competition is working in the UK.
https://t.co/UVixTA3En9
Our associates at the Oxford Economic Papers Association and @OxUniPress invite applications for the position of Editor(s) of Oxford Economic Papers. We encourage qualified candidates to apply before the deadline on the 19th January 2024. Find out more: https://t.co/QNXl6OZ0r1
Attention junior job market candidates: @OxfordEconDept & @NuffieldCollege are seeking postdoctoral fellows in Economics. Join the ranks of recent fellows like Claudia Noack & Christophe Gaillac. https://t.co/hnlWGPf7KQ
This exciting antitrust book is out today. It covers the economic issues in a wide range of recent cases in the US and Europe. I contributed the chapter "Upward Pricing Pressure in Supermarket Mergers: The UK’s Asda/Sainsbury Case." https://t.co/kOVKHsb3Vs
Congratulations to @AltmannM, who has been awarded the Sir Alec Cairncross prize by @ScotEconSoc at the joint conference with @RoyalEconSoc!🎉
Sam won for the job market paper 'Choice, Welfare, and Market Design: An Empirical Investigation of Feeding America’s Choice System'.
#EconTwitter, come join us at the @CMAgovUK Microeconomics Unit! We are recruiting for up to three permanent full-time research posts. These would be ideal for someone coming from a postdoc, or straight from a PhD with some prior work experience.
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Well said Paul. So great to run into many friends and acquaintances from different stages of life to celebrate John Sutton. Wonderful tributes by @timobres and @JeanTirole. Thank you @volker_nocke@TomValletti and others for making this happen!