Jonathan Libgober (same handle on other places)

New working paper!!! Optimal Scoring for Dynamic Information Acquisition yingkai-li.github.io/homepage/Optim… Joint with Yingkai Li. Yingkai is on the job market this year, so if you want to hear about this paper more you should fly him out.

A revision of my paper with Kfir Eliaz :Wasonian Persuasion" is downloadable from my homepage (see the first comment)

✨Did markets make Americans more cooperative❓🔍 ✅YES‼️ Between 1850 and 1920, the US became the largest and most integrated economy in the world 📶🌎 We show that this shift didn’t just move goods and affect prices—it fundamentally changed culture and behavior 🧵 👇 1/17

If I could change one thing about myself, it would be to be able to wake up as quickly and aggressively as my dog faintly hearing another dog barking three blocks away.

Forthcoming in the AER: "Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development" by Francesco Amodio, Pamela Medina, and Monica Morlacco. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Do you prepare yourself to a Phd\Master Microeconomics course? The 2025 version of my book "Lecture Notes in Microeconomic Theory: The Economic Agent" is available for FREE downloading. See first comment to the URL.

Our paper on modeling and measuring systemic discrimination is out in the @QJEHarvard this month! Check it out (ungated): academic.oup.com/qje/article/14…

The modern economic case for public provision is not about public goods or market failures or externalities. It is about what can and can't be achieved by contracting.

Happy USC economists! (Not an oxymoron!!) Some great members of @USC_Econ are participating in @The_IGC events in Uganda.

Will he come by Kap?

I know I promised not to care about the NY Mayoral election. But..... Why hasn't Brad Lander gotten more traction? 15 years in city government, seems very left-leaning but not with some of the crazy policies... Maybe this arrest gives him a bump to put him on top?

Dear friends in academia, If you have Iranian or Israeli students in your graduate program please reach out to them. The past few days have been very tough. They may need support or guidance on resources that can help them navigate the stress of these days. 🙏 #econtwitter

Our inaugural DC Economics Alumni networking event was well attended last night - this chapter is officially launched! We also networked with some Economics Alumni-to-be as our DC campus Economic Policy class students celebrated the end of their Maymester in the same restaurant!

I know there are probably many good reasons I should not hold this position, but I am ideologically opposed to caring about local New York politics.

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "How to Allocate Money?" by Piotr Dworczak. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Forthcoming in the AER: "Robustness Measures for Welfare Analysis" by Zi Yang Kang and Shoshana Vasserman. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Lots of heavy hitters in this issue

Forthcoming in the AER: "Cursed Sequential Equilibrium" by Meng-Jhang Fong, Po-Hsuan Lin, and Thomas R. Palfrey. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Bravo! We're so proud that the job market paper of 2024 PhD alumn, Dario Laudati , "Inequality and the Rise of Finance", has been awarded a special commendation by the jury of the 2025 Research Prize in Historical Finance Honoring the Memory of Professor Georges Gallais-Hamonno!

Heard about this paper a week ago, really looking forward to reading

The Hausdorff Center at Bonn will host the Trimester Program on “Advances in Mechanism Design” next summer. Students and postdocs are invited to apply for extended stays during the program or summer school participation. Funding for travel and accommodation is available.