We are excited to share our department's 2024-25 Job Market Candidates! Check this thread throughout the day to view individual profiles. To see a full list of this year's candidates, visit: https://t.co/tuxvxHW2JW
@SamuelHigbee @ShanonHMHsu How much information should platforms give to sellers? @joshuadhigbee studies how new sellers learn to set reserve prices on eBay, estimates their beliefs about expected profit, and evaluates how information provision impacts optimal platform fees. Read: https://t.co/zYT1cNeh5M
.@camillaschneier's research focuses on Industrial Organization and Urban Economics. In her job market paper, she studies how retailers use their leases to restrict competition, and which retailers and consumers benefit and are harmed by such restrictions.
🚨New paper🚨
The Effects of "Buy American":
Electric Vehicles and the Inflation Reduction Act
💡Findings on IRA EV subsidies:
✅Environmental, firm benefits; not a home run!
✅Trade-offs: emissions decline, trade does also
✅Consumers get most incidence
https://t.co/0K5h1ywMmr
@economeager Highly recommend reading Into Thin Air back to back with The Climb! You might like it even better when everyone in both books is an unreliable narrator
Amazing how robust the left-digit bias is across various contexts. CPG products on the left, Lyft rides on the right.
Lyft result: Roughly half of the downward slope of the demand curve occurs discontinuously as the price of a ride drops below a dollar value ($14.00 to $13.99).