@captgouda24 In Walton's autobiography, he also alluded to something akin to deterrence motives that drove him to saturate markets at the cost of cannibalization... here's a nice Economist article on related topic (https://t.co/5FaBtnOimI)
For more info about this new work with @chifeng49 (UIUC Econ):
Paper (https://t.co/nOPRAYVRfu)
Interactive companion (https://t.co/Mwhn0oZuxx).
@giesbusiness@UofIllinois
Retail firms used to send scouts to do site selection. But now, thanks to companies like https://t.co/eInDh5Onrr, Buxton and others, they have access to shared intelligence. More data and better (more precise) predictive analytics, but…
A case study of the decision support ecosystem suggests that even if the number of intelligence vendors increases, back of the envelope welfare costs unlikely to be eliminated…
A modest proposal: authors who submit math papers to arxiv containing obvious human-written errors that Opus 4.6 or GPT 5.5 would flag should receive a 1-year arxiv ban.
Why should I read your paper if you haven't even taken basic steps to ensure its accuracy?
The bitter lesson in 26 words:
Don’t be distracted by human knowledge, as AI has been historically.
Instead focus on methods for creating knowledge that scale with computation, like search and learning.
Newly Accepted Articles 04/26 (1 of 4)
"Does Premium Version Adoption in mHealth Improve User Engagement and Health-Related Outcomes?" by
Jiang, Yikun; Uetake, Kosuke; Yang, Nathan @jiangykyk@Chanman_ECON@nccyang
Thrilled that @RefineDotInk won the top prize in the Harvard President's Innovation Challenge startup competition (Student Open track).
CEO @yanncalvolopez made our pitch: that obsessive verification is essential for good research, and the time to scale it is now.
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Very nice new project using AI to measure American zoning laws at high resolution
https://t.co/vyO6UxBb21
by @AlexBartik@arpitrage@DMilo75
(paper: https://t.co/VgobATowrA)
Congratulations to Gies assistant professor Unnati Narang on being named a 2025 MSI Young Scholar!
Narang joins a global cohort of experts at the leading edge of marketing research. Discover her research and more about the award: https://t.co/8nLrtqis9i