Vincent Mastantuno

Suffolk University Assistant Professor of Economics

[Mostafa Bushehri @MostafaBushehri]

Apparently, Woodford went straight to @Columbia’s Uris Hall to give his students an exam in Cognitive Mechanisms and Economic Behavior.
I bet a lot of his students thought they wouldn’t have to see those blue books today! 😂

[Miles Kimball @mileskimball]

The cube is the only Platonic solid that can fill space. A truncated octahedron is the Archimedean solid that can fill space. Here is my demonstration with magnetic building sticks of how octahedra can fill space.

[Vincent Mastantuno @mastantuno]

@mileskimball @GautiEggertsson @Claudia_Sahm @IvanWerning @ojblanchard1 Thanks for the shout-out miles. It’s always great to see other people passionate about pricing and markups!

[sean @seanstrunk]

I worked as a Rapporteur for a @theNASEM workshop on Innovation, Global Value Chains, and Globalization Measurement. The link to the full report can be found here: https://t.co/RRmnPxwxTZ #econtwitter #globalization #GVC #innovation

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

NYT: “no one wants to work anymore”

Labor market data: employment share is back to March 2018 levels and still increasing rapidly 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Doggonomics (hacked) @doggonomics]

Research update: I have built a theoretical model of where for snuggles (s):
U'(s)>0
U''(s)>=0.

I am currently testing these hypotheses by collecting firsthand experience data to find the optimal amount of snuggles.

[Vincent Mastantuno @mastantuno]

don’t ruin Christmas by telling me the calvo fairy isn’t real

[Jessica Ferringer @JessFerringer]

Checking out a new restaurant tonight called Market Exchange. Beer prices fluctuate every 10 mins based on demand.

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

Real photo of me trying to get LaTeX to compile my Beamer slides right before a presentation

[Doggonomics (hacked) @doggonomics]

Teaching Econ, you have to know how to frame things.

B/c I gobble all my food immediately (beta=0), so “consumption smoothing” never made any sense.

instructor finally explained it as me on a walk not peeing all at once- but reserving pee for late-walk markings.

Then I got it.

[Doggonomics (hacked) @doggonomics]

Hands-down, my favorite analytical software package is matLAB.

because lab.

[Secretary Janet Yellen (Archived) @SecYellen]

As an economist— and an American— I applaud the House’s favorable vote on the American Rescue Plan.

There’s a broad consensus among economists: People need more help putting food on the table & keeping a roof over their head until the virus is under control. This plan does that.