Miao Ben Zhang

Economist. Assistant professor of finance and business economics @usc.

[Kurate.org @KurateOrg]

@gregorschub @rainozhang https://t.co/50Qj0ZWhoB

[Kurate.org @KurateOrg]

🥇 Congrats to Michael Blank, @gregorschub & @rainozhang for ranking #1 Gold in https://t.co/UNCJcVTXKl Preprints (April 2026) on https://t.co/P25tb78o1h!

[Miao Ben Zhang @rainozhang]

SSRN: https://t.co/BCgEWYmP0R

WSJ coverage: https://t.co/Tm6ASZ96Kr

[Miao Ben Zhang @rainozhang]

New paper: “The Household Impact of Generative AI.” While most existing research focuses on AI’s impact “at work”, our joint work with Michael Blank and @gregorschub suggests the effects may be even larger “at home”, based on billions of internet browsing visits.

[Gregor Schubert @gregorschub]

🚨 New Working Paper! 🚨

Time to talk about "The Household Impact of GenAI", covered by the @WSJ !

In this paper, we ask what GenAI is doing to productivity outside of work - and find evidence of large impacts.

https://t.co/MVqqgCcDK1
(w/ @rainozhang, Michael Blank)

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[Gregor Schubert @gregorschub]

🚨 New Working Paper! 🚨

Time to talk about "The Household Impact of GenAI", covered by the @WSJ !

In this paper, we ask what GenAI is doing to productivity outside of work - and find evidence of large impacts.

https://t.co/MVqqgCcDK1
(w/ @rainozhang, Michael Blank)

🧵(1/n)

[Gregor Schubert @gregorschub]

What happens when we encourage AI use for research and use AI to review papers?

We are running an experiment to find out: the UCLA Human × AI Finance conference!

Write a finance paper with AI in 4 weeks (by 3/18). AI agents review the submissions:
https://t.co/YnhxS3wzRS
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[NBER @nberpubs]

Trade raises workers' efficiency, ss globalized employers reorganize tasks, but also increases pay disparity within occupations at these employers, from Sascha O. Becker, Hartmut Egger, Michael Koch, and Marc-Andreas Muendler https://t.co/AfwhniU9dv

[Lin Peng @LinPengFin]

Excited to share a new paper on how social interactions trigger and amplify lottery stock mania. Looking forward to your comments!

[Matteo Maggiori @m_maggiori]

I hope that this will become a standard open-source for research in (international) macro and finance on portfolio holdings. The data can be downloaded here: https://t.co/9G7CZBkXZe

[NBER @nberpubs]

Open call for papers, AI and Economic Measurement. Conference to be held in Stanford, CA on May 7, 2026. Submit applications by 11:59pm EDT on February 2, 2025. More information: https://t.co/hKly4QESDE

[John Cochrane @JohnHCochrane]

NBER Asset Pricing Lessons. Conference review
https://t.co/KF5C0Fw1Qm

[Miao Ben Zhang @rainozhang]

Had a fantastic workshop day at @OpenAI in SF! Huge thanks to OpenAI's Economic Research Team for the invitation. We had a blast presenting our upcoming paper on “Household Impact of Generative AI” (joint with @SchubertGregor & Michael Blank). Lots of fun and great job, Gregor!

[NBER @nberpubs]

Outlining a research agenda and nine grand challenges for studying the economic impacts of transformative artificial intelligence, from @erikbryn, @akorinek, and @professor_ajay https://t.co/ITUc5fzn9F

[Lars A. Kuehn @ProfLarsKuehn]

We are hosting the 14th Advances in Macro-Finance Conference in Santa Barbara on Oct 17 and 18. Please submit your paper at https://t.co/SbioFya26B

[VoxEU @voxeu]

How is #AI changing #jobs?
1st episode of our live podcast series from the @PSEinfo CEPR Policy Forum, w/ @davidautor @MIT explaining to @timsvengali why #automation could increase the value of human expertise in some roles and reduce it in others
Listen: https://t.co/tWTX0vRJsk

[MIT Stone Center on Inequality & Shaping Work @MITshapingwork]

(1/4) When some job tasks are automated, do the tasks that remain become more or less valuable? 🧵👇

In a new working paper, @davidautor and @ProfNeilT argue the answer depends on how much expertise is required for the tasks still done by humans.

[NBER @nberpubs]

An overview of the arsenal of tools that large US corporations use to influence policy and politics, from @m_bombardini and @xftrebbi https://t.co/QJES5xV60d

[QJE @QJEHarvard]

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Diffusion of New Technologies,” by Kalyani (@AakashKalyani), Bloom (@I_Am_NickBloom), Carvalho (@marcela_cfmello), Hassan (@t_a_hassan), Lerner, and Tahoun (@tahoun100) https://t.co/HWq1Ysx0U7

[John Cochrane @JohnHCochrane]

Conceptualizing Regulation. A grumpy economist review of "Commandeering Regulation," a new basic parable suggested by Carl Danner at Cato Review. Links in the first reply.

[ProMarket @ProMarket_org]

NEW: This research note uses the quantitative approach developed by @xftrebbi (@BerkeleyHaas), @rainozhang (@usc) & @mikesimkovic to provide a descriptive overview of the main differences in costs of regulatory compliance across U.S. states.

https://t.co/pcObkdS34y