Howard Smith

Economist, Industrial Org, @OxfordEconDept @CEPR_org @TheIFS & sometimes @CMAgovUK (Photo: Smith & Co Ltd, family bakery/grocery business, Ballymena c. 1900).

[David Thompson @NewsLetter_Pols]

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

[Howard Smith @howardwsmith]

@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?

[CEPR @cepr_org]

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

[Institute for Fiscal Studies @TheIFS]

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

[Jakob Schneebacher @j_schneebacher]

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!

[Jakob Schneebacher @j_schneebacher]

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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[Competition & Markets Authority @CMAgovUK]

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

[Howard Smith @howardwsmith]

@joelreland I appreciated your work on NI Protocol issues, Joel.

[Howard Smith @howardwsmith]

@Conor_Devine @England Reigns?

[Howard Smith @howardwsmith]

@IPR_NickP Is the RC model too slow/costly, Nick?

[Howard Smith @howardwsmith]

Thank you, Flavio. Was great you were able to come.

[Flavio Toxværd ⭐️⭐️⭐️ @toxvaerd1]

In beautiful Oxford for a lovely workshop on Competition, Concentration, and Mark-Ups (note the Oxford comma).

[Howard Smith @howardwsmith]

@dunloy1 Sending you my love, desperately sad.

[Department of Economics, Oxford @OxfordEconDept]

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

[Howard Smith @howardwsmith]

@straightedge @juhreka13 @SloanFoundation Congratulations, Nathan!

[Howard Smith @howardwsmith]

Opportunity to apply for these excellent post-doc positions at in any area of economics.

[Martin Weidner @WeidnerEcon]

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

[Howard Smith @howardwsmith]

@katy_milkman @RoehitK @Devin_G_Pope @R_Thaler I think that it @katy_milkman . The 8s are from a batch they bought at a lower price and they will up the price when the new stocks are added.

[Howard Smith @howardwsmith]

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

[Howard Smith @howardwsmith]

Well done Sam @AltmannM

[Department of Economics, Oxford @OxfordEconDept]

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'.

[Jakob Schneebacher @j_schneebacher]

#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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https://t.co/qiTtLkJVTn

[Howard Smith @howardwsmith]

👏👏👏

[Michael Raith @MRaith]

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!