Nathan Yang

Associate Professor and C.W. Park Faculty Fellow… was on a billboard… born and raised in #Saskatchewan… married to @chifeng49… @UofIllinois household

[Nathan Yang @nccyang]

@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)

[Nathan Yang @nccyang]

@dwarkesh_sp @DrNathanNunn: https://t.co/z0sFv973te

[Nathan Yang @nccyang]

For more info about this new work with @chifeng49 (UIUC Econ):

Paper (https://t.co/nOPRAYVRfu)

Interactive companion (https://t.co/Mwhn0oZuxx).

@giesbusiness @UofIllinois

[Nathan Yang @nccyang]

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…

[Nathan Yang @nccyang]

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…

[Scott Armstrong @scottnarmstrong]

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?

[Richard Sutton @RichardSSutton]

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.

[Nathan Yang @nccyang]

Here's an artifact that summarizes the key points of the paper: https://t.co/EUg4cVBlCx

Tagging my amazing coauthors @jiangykyk @Chanman_ECON

@giesbusiness @YaleSOM @PurdueBusiness

[Marketing Science @Mrktng_Science]

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

[Ben Golub @ben_golub]

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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[Abhishek Nagaraj @abhishekn]

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)

[The Review of Economic Studies @RevEconStudies]

New paper by Kalouptsidi, Kitamura, Lima, and Souza-Rodrigues:

https://t.co/FHf8vzHePk

#REStud
#EconX
#EconTwitter

[Nathan Yang @nccyang]

@AlexFinn @michaelgofman @Kaitlin_Woolley

[Gies Business @giesbusiness]

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

[BullsMuse @BullsMuse_]

There is currently a Bull on the loose on the University of Illinois campus.

(video via my friends)