Nageeb Ali

With past and current advisees: Ce Liu, @ece_teoman, @VasundharaMall2, @aislinnbohren, @xiaolin_econ, and @Wenhao19921. Couldn’t be prouder of this group, and grateful for all that they have taught (and continue to teach) me.

Do partners always benefit from a more profitable partnership? Not necessarily. This paper shows that higher profitability can prompt strategic exits by partners, leaving all partners strictly worse off econtheory.org/ojs/index.php/…

New paper, with @AgranovMarina , Doug Bernheim, and Tom Palfrey: we show theoretically and experimentally that egalitarianism can be a strategic response to complex bargaining situations. Link: sites.psu.edu/nageebali/file…

Very proud of Gonzalo!

Recently accepted to #REStud, "Overconfidence and Prejudice," from Heidhues, Kőszegi and Strack: restud.com/overconfidence… #econtwitter

I often work with young researchers who don't convert R&Rs to publications. I definitely don’t do everything well! But I put a lot of effort into this and have a 24/24 conversion rate. So I am passing along six tips based upon my experience as an author and editor. #Econtwitter

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20340 Economic Models of Cultural Transmission Alberto Bisin @albertobisin @nyuniversity, Thierry Verdier @PSEinfo @EcoledesPonts ow.ly/bJIt50W6kTH #CEPR_DE #CEPR_EH #CEPR_PoE #EconTwitter

The zero-sum mindset is no mystery... timharford.com/2025/06/the-ze…

You can trust a theorist to write a self-referential ChatGPT acknowledgement.

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

The United States has had a tremendous advantage in science and technology because it has been the consensus gathering point: the best students worldwide want to study and work in the US because that is where the best students are studying and working. 1/

Recently accepted to #REStud, "Pareto Improvements in the Contest for College Admissions," from Krishna, Lychagin, Olszewski, Siegel, and Tergiman: restud.com/pareto-improve… #EconTwitter #CollegeAdmissions #Contests

Such a cool book

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.

This is an excellent conference that gets theorists and IO economists talking to each other; we need more like it.

Why are voters and parties so divided on cultural issues? Why do low-income voters support the right? This paper shows that economic change raising the salience of the educational divide can shift voters' social identities, explaining these phenomena. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

TE congratulates founding member and first Editor Martin Osborne for being awarded the 2025 Sonnenschein Service Prize in recognition of outstanding service to the profession and the Society in the tradition of Hugo Sonnenschein. Read more here econometricsociety.org/prizes/sonnens…

I accepted long ago that my work as Managing Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives would happen behind the scenes. Thus, I am astonished and very, very pleased to have been named a 2025 Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association. aeaweb.org/about-aea/hono…

Congratulations to ⁦⁦@TimothyTTaylor⁩ for this well deserved honor. He has made cutting edge research in economics accessible to broad audiences! ⁦@AEAjournals⁩

Congratulations to @S_Stantcheva! Beyond the work cited by the AEA, her research on zero-sum thinking deserves attention: it shows support for redistribution, protectionism, and anti-immigration often is a consequence of past life experiences—not today’s economic conditions.

We are back next week!!! Here is our current program for spring 2025. Details and updates at sites.google.com/view/vset